The car horn beeped twice to let me know that the juice was flowing, and I went in to the house to do some work.

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Suddenly there's a sharp honk from our car horn.

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His group has also chased down trucks and buses that ignore a government ban on musical pressurized horns, which can be almost twice the decibel level of a car horn, anti-honking activists say.

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Long after the World Cup final is played on July 11, the sound of the vuvuzela will remain instantly evocative of South Africa -- as the didjeridoo is to Australia, the bagpipe is to Scotland or the car horn is to New York City.

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In February, Reid was spoken to by a police officer after beeping his car-horn at a woman on the street.

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And in May a team of researchers at the Universities of Washington and San Diego showed that the software that controls many cars could be easily compromised to allow a hacker to turn off brakes, shut down an engine or even control a car's horn, windshield wipers and doors.

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One time a grimacing woman leaned on her horn the whole way as she inched her car across a crowded intersection.

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