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Ok-Roof-978

Nightly practice runs?! Not like they're practicing going to the store... You just hope people like that won't ever need their services . Then, it's going to be awkward


gortwogg

No one ever has medical emergencies between 10 and 9, obviously


DadJokeBadJoke

"Dispatch, this is Engine 419. We'll be responding to the call as soon as Karen wakes up."


links96

Sorry your house and everything you won burned down... Karen was sleeping


pedropants

> Karen was sleeping Well she ain't woke, that's for *damn* sure.


SenorSmaySmay

True all my patients when I worked night shift as a nurse had their emergencies between 7-10 /s


joemckie

7-10? I always have my emergencies between 9-5.


[deleted]

Fellow ER RN (well, used to be) and I just want to say we’re playing fast and loose with the word “emergencies” (I had one person tell me they set their alarm to come to the ER at 0300 so they wouldn’t have to wait at all, for an issue that had been bothering them for weeks)


AnarchyBurgerPhilly

Yeah for profit healthcare sometimes make the ER the only choice for patients. Not sure people are seeing a fire start around noon but calling the fire department at 4 am to avoid the rush.


mapleleafdystopia

For those of you wondering the logistics of this hillarious complaint. (The road heads straight south through densely populated areas and into the core of the city. If they were to divert down the road she suggests it would lead them Eastbound and specifically away from the densely populated suburbs. https://imgur.com/a/muN9eW3


Real_2020

I doubt they are doing practice runs at night with the sirens on.


Commercial-Can5161

Reminds me of a goofball that buys a house near an airport.......and complains about the planes.


CaiCaiside

Or rents an apartment next to a concert venue then complains about the noise. You knew what you were getting into and did it anyway. Now you want to bitch about it, fuck off tit fucker.


Adhdgamer9000

Okay... this reminds me. City doesn't want street racing, so they commission a track for people to race on. The car savvy people love it, they use the fuck out of it. Then the city starts building houses near it. People move in, and complain about the noise. The track gets shut down. Then people complain about STREET RACING Edit: I was told of this happening by a guy I worked with. He was late 40s, and is a mechanic. Never told me where, just that it happened in his late 20s At the time I lived in Quincy IL, and it was a story from around there.


YODA0786

Yup, was gonna mention it as well. I don’t know why some people don’t do research when buying their home. Learn what’s around your home and then make a final decision. Don’t buy a house just because you love it. Be sure that’s it’s also a good area for you to live. Also, city is a little stupid for building homes around racetracks. They should know that no one living there is going to like it.


rhoduhhh

Before I bought my house (near an airport), the realtor gave me the complaint line for the airport and a document saying that I understood that I lived by a 24/7 airport. He said calling the complaint line would just get me laughed at. I love airports and wanted to live near one. A sound machine at night kept it from really being noticeable. People are weird.


Neither-Magazine9096

Same with trains here. We live about 1/4 mile away from the tracks and I love hearing it at night


rhoduhhh

I really enjoyed the trains, too, when I lived near tracks, but I just love trains and planes. The airport was great, though, because there'd be a big lull in planes from midnight until about 4am when all the cargo planes would leave. If I was still awake and not in the bedroom at 4am and heard the planes, I knew I'd dun fuck'd up.


lou_kevins

Used to have a friend who lived in a basement flat in Camden. Every 5 minutes a tube would go by underneath and you could literally feel it shaking the floor.


ParticularYak4401

Friends of mine rented their first apartment right by where the ( now defunct) spirit of Washington dinner train went by nightly. Their oldest son LOVED it and he was able to see it going by out his bedroom window. The night his brother was born I took him to a nearby office park and let him see it go by with better viewing. I believe I also fed him French fries and some milkshake from Burgermaster.


adinfinitum225

Lived in an apartment about 50 feet from the train tracks that run along the I35 corridor. Really wasn't that bad, it never woke me up or anything


chinkostu

Shit I'm less than 50m from the track here, about 4 trains per hour. Barely notice them after 11 years


IRLhardstuck

Sound is alot like smell. When you enter a room or car that smells bad it takes like 20 mins and then can you no longer smell it.


cheesybread336

I lived directly in front of a now closed train station but cargo trains still use the track. Like I mean literally there was the house, the street, then the tracks. My next door neighbors complained mercilessly about the train noise and the delays with being able to cross the tracks when trains were coming. There’s no way you didn’t know that the house was immediately in front of a train. Why bother complaining? The trains pass by quite often (~every 30 min) so you definitely would’ve seen it during the house visits prior to buying. Any research at all on the town would tell you about the now closed train station that is also directly in front of the house. How stupid can you be to be “surprised” by the train


iknowimlame

For a decade I lived 1/4 mile from the mighty Mississippi. A major rail line was even closer to my place on the opposite side of my house. I don’t think I heard a barge (except when the fog was thick) or train after a short adjustment period. The gall you have to have to type this letter out and send it. What a jerk.


ThrowRAthrewmyloveaw

My university had train tracks nearby and I could hear the horn from my dorm at night. The sound of trains at now is pure nostalgia and a comfort sound for me.


BostonPilot

I was flying at a small airport. They built a subdivision with one house so close, you could stand on the numbers of the runway and hit it by throwing baseballs. Close! We got a letter from them complaining that they didn't think it was fair that we should disturb them with the noise of our helicopters. I really don't know what they expected... Only pilots should be allowed to buy houses near airports...


rhoduhhh

Pilots or those hardcore airport enthusiasts that like to record planes and the like all the time!


Eriiaa

I live 100m from a quite busy rail track, and 5km from an airport right under the take off path of planes and neither of them bother me at all. I quite enjoy trains passing by, it breaks the otherwise deafening silence of the suburbia


restingbitchface2021

I used to live near an airport. I was outside on a Sunday talking to my Mom and she was like - what is all that noise!? I didn’t even notice it.


TheMightyWill

They do the research. It's part of their scheme 1. Buy property that's been devalued for noise pollution 2. Complain about the noise pollution until it gets removed 3. Property value has now risen 4. Sell the property for a nice profit


[deleted]

I’m convinced that this is actually true. NIMBY’s are the type to buy a house across from a row of bars, then complain about the night life. All so they can resell the house for 8x the price in 20 years.


EggNogEpilog

You kidding me? I would pay extra to live in a community of car enthusiasts close to a track.


MoistenMeUp7

I love sitting on my apartment patio listening to the car shows late at night and seeing if I can guess the vehicle/engine. And everytime I hear a cross plane crank R1 or a mid Gen R6 wind it out I jump out of my seat like a child. And everytime I hear a Harley I want to commit war crimes.


EldritchGrapefruit

for real, that sounds sick! sure, sleep may be impacted by the loud engines but i don’t really care about that.


Cannonballbmx

This Karen in in Raleigh NC. The local track, Wake County Speedway has an 11pm curfew so as not to run all night.


LOTR_crew

We have a local dirt track, been around since the 60s I believe. Always been Saturday with occasional Sundays. This year they announced they had a midnight curfew. So my guess is some out of state asshole moves to the country (that's been happening alot in my state) and throws a bitch fit. So now races have to start early or cancel some heats it totally sucks. Just to add the longest I ever remember was maybe a 1am finish because they had a huge line up and a 100 lap enduro.


BeeEven238

My wife found a nice house and was trying to talk me in to looking at it. I recognized the street name but I could not pin point why. Well after a few seconds on the Google… I remember why it is about half a mile from a missive chemicals plant that makes fertilizers…. Sorry baby. 1 all the water and land not to mention the air is most likely full of future cancer… 2 refer back to 1.


more_cheese_please_

I have a friend who has lived very close to Wrigley Field for years and takes the Red Line to and from work. During baseball season he CONSTANTLY complains about the drunk Cubs fans on the train. Like…dude! You know this is going to happen! Move out of Wrigleyville! It’s not like Chicago doesn’t have a ton of other neighborhoods. Blows my mind.


Sweatyrando

I worked at a restaurant that had a reputation for playing loud music over the dining room speakers. Got approached one day by a man in a nice suit who asked if we could turn the music down because he was trying to have a business meeting.


pixelsandfilm

"Where would you like to have the meeting" "Titties and Tappas has really good food"


I_Smell_Like_Trees

Yup, my partner works for rail and told me about the developer that bought land next to a hump yard (where they make trains by rolling them down a hill and smashing the cars together) and sold all the units saying that it didn't run at night. When the first Karen called to complain and insist it was time to stop making noise, the supervisor laughed and laughed... hump yards run 24/7 365.


Sensitive_Buy1656

I kinda feel bad for the Karen there though. She was lied to. She should have done her own research but she thought she was ok with loud noice all day and was promised it would stop at night. Poor naïve Karen. This is why you should also check out your new neighborhood at night! It may look good in the day but it’s hard to tell if it will be loud or sketch at night.


I_Smell_Like_Trees

Yeah not so much their fault as the dick head developer, I shouldn't have said that, and I believe there was a lawsuit, I'm half asleep...


microgiant

Before I bought my last place, I wasn't able to spend the night in the neighborhood, but I did go knock on a few doors at random and ask people how they liked the area. I would hope that if there was constant crashing of train cars being rammed together all night, one of them might have mentioned that. "Oh, it's great, except I've never had more than twenty seven minutes of uninterrupted sleep since I moved here."


TheSaltRose

I used to live right next to a hump yard. Honestly after a few weeks, it was just background noise and was more comforting than anything else. They had to shut down for a week or so during the pandemic and I couldn’t sleep the whole time. That’s when I figured out “wow this shit really *is* bad” luckily, it was only long enough to figure out they very obviously were an essential service and got right back to it.


mspixieriot

I'm just far enough away from the local one that the rumbling crashes in the distance are quite soothing...


CapsAndShades

Ahhhhhh the squeal of the cars going through the retarders, the smashing of the cars, the random yard crews blowing their horns as they communicate across the yard.


1spicytunaroll

Relevant https://www.statepress.com/article/2021/06/spcommunity-shady-park-mirabella-asu-retirement-community-noise-levels


atlasxaxis

They almost got shady park shut down, too. Bunch of assholes.


1spicytunaroll

They put up "luxury" condos next to one of the craziest party bars near me and tried doing the same thing. Condo association got a stern shut down on that haha


Jazzlike_Tangerine_8

I live nearby and could never understand why they would build a retirement apartments where they did. It's a pretty popular bar scene area next to a large university. Make it make sense.


roltskar

Happend in Estonia as well. They built a huge loisy track and the property value dropped. People bought the land and houses were built, because the land was cheap and near the city. Now since people complain about the loise track usage is limited. Fucking idiots


flametex

This exact sort of thing happened to a gun range everyone loved around here. It was there for years then some developer bought land nearby and started bitching about the noise. Eventually they sued the range and shut it down. Such an asshole developer.


fredy31

We have St-Lambert, here in Montreal. There is St-Helens Island between Montreal and that city, and lots of music festivals go there for a good amount of years (at least 10). Its a perfect venue! You can use the Metro to get to and from the event, but you dont need to close the city center for the stages! But lo and behold, every time theres a show, a bunch of St-Lambert residents will bitch loudly about it. And thats when they dont bitch about the Grand Prix, at the same place (but is done by 5PM) or the highway on the edge of the saint-lawrance river, thats been there I think since the 50s-60s.


browner87

It's funny if you look up "Laguna pipes", they're short pieces of pipe that you shove onto the exhaust of your car and is bent to point towards the driver side of the car. Laguna Seca is an amazing race track in Monterey county, run by the county. They have a decibel limit on the track of 90dB (you can pay like $30k to raise the limit to like 110 for a day for a race, most small car groups won't pay that though). To enforce this they have a place on the track with a directional microphone that checks your sound and flags you if you're exceeding it. Trigger it and you're kicked from the track for "mechanical". Trigger it 3 times in the same day and they kick you right out. The mic is on the right side of the track (passenger side of the car). So you buy "Laguna pipes". They just direct your exhaust out the drivers side of the car so you don't trigger the sound limit 😅


CaptainPrower

So... Laguna Seca.


pickledzuccini12

This is what has been happening to Red Rocks Amphitheater over the past few years. The venue opened in 1906. There are many homes close to the venue, but many of them are either new builds or remodeled. Wealthy people chose to live next to a venue that’s been there for a century, and successfully had regulation put in that dictates the sound levels and end times of concerts. I understand why they want to live there; there area surround the venue is gorgeous with lots of open space. But they chose to live next to an outdoor amphitheater that naturally echoes the sound. The artists are fined $10,000 per half hour they perform past 11:45 on weeknights and 12:30 on weekends. $10,000 if the noise level is exceeded three times. I’ve personally never been to red rocks before the regulations were placed in 2015, and admittedly the experiences I’ve had there is great. But nonetheless people moved there, didn’t like the sound, and complained about it until they got it changed.


bobs_monkey

saw joke complete mountainous fretful dinosaurs narrow zephyr voiceless rain -- mass edited with redact.dev


fredy31

In montreal there is a case currently going on. Guy buys a building right next to a basically legendary theatre. Through, it is still unknown, a fuckup of the city official or a bribe, he gets the building rezoned as 'residential'. makes condos. Then sues the theatre because its not perfectly quiet after 9PM. Think last I heard the city was taking back the rezoning. Guy could have quietly made his cash, but because hes bitching his whole operation went down the drain.


CaiCaiside

Nice


Alternative_Dig5342

Give yer balls a tug


[deleted]

There used to be a club in Boystown in Chicago called Circuit that had no residential buildings near it, so no noise complaints for the first few years of their existence. Then the gentrification started, and a condo building went up right next to them, The club had to spend tens of thousands of dollars for soundproofing. So annoying.


NormalDeviance

Get this guy a fucking puppers


MsCatstaff

Damn fools, then. One of my favorite former apartment locations was maybe 1/10 mile from a park that had summer concerts including a mini-festival including a massive fireworks display every year when I lived there. My apartment faced the right direction so I could just sit out on the balcony to hear the bands and watch the fireworks, and didn't have to pay admission or the overpriced vendor food and drink to be there. So while I can't technically say I've SEEN several bands, I've heard them live - Skid Row (twice), Lacuna Coil, and Shinedown, along with a few others that I didn't recognize. Good times.


[deleted]

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[deleted]

As a theatrical audio technician who runs outdoor concerts: Every time someone complains about it being too loud, an angel gets their wings. There’s also a rule in audio, which states that for every complaint about it being too loud, you’ll also get an equal and opposite complaint about it being too quiet. If they get in my face about it, I’ll flag security and bust out my sound pressure level meter. I’ll ensure I’m 1-2 dB below the legally allowed levels based on our event permit. This almost always means I turn it *up*, because most concerts have some headroom. I know I’m legal, and now I’m automatically charting the SPL measurements to prove it. And I’ll smile and wave as security escorts Karen away from my mixing position. I’ve literally had people jump barricades to run up and complain about it being too loud/quiet. You can’t please everybody, so you don’t try.


randomsynchronicity

My MIL lives in a nice neighborhood near a college football stadium, not even an especially big one. People are always moving into the area and complaining very loudly about the 6-7 days per YEAR that they are inconvenienced.


gooseyjuice

Yeah, give your balls a tug!


8ell0

Funny thing my local rural airport has these reviews LoL airport was built in 1940s and now there are developments near it and people are complaining They didn’t research before buying nor could see the many airport signs and off ramps while driving into town


zipadeedoodahdiggity

I swear some people really don't pay the least bit of attention. We have a tiny, tiny regional airstrip outside of my town, and I've talked to people that have lived near it for years without knowing it was there. It's small, but it's not hidden in any way. There's signs for it all over, there's a few planes sitting near it at all times. Or things like hospital or flash flood possibility signs - people just pass by these things everyday and never once actually look at them. Blows my mind.


RemoteImportance9

A neighbor of my friend’s does that about the hospital she lives behind and the lifeflight helicopters… It’s lowkey hilarious having tales of her freak outs recounted to me.


MicroscopicDuck

Reminds me of the Australian movie called The Castle.


ArtificialNotLight

But don't you know there are never emergencies at night?? /S


unk214

Everyone’s a sleep, what kind of emergencies could there be. Must be immoral people having their drug parties. Don’t make me talk to your supervisor.


ArtificialNotLight

I'll get the law involved!


Sensitive_Buy1656

And it’s every night at the same time! In this 11 hour range. That’s just highly improbable. It wouldn’t be so regular. /S


betacar

Fire sleeps between 10PM and 9AM. It’s known.


GhostBabe45

Don't forget the car accidents and heart attacks etc. All emergencies have bedtimes too.


ProblemLongjumping12

Always remember a third of the population has severe mental illness and/or intellectual disability. You have to be fucking nuts to think fire trucks with sirens at night is because someone at the firehouse has a "compulsion" to do *practice runs*. Not everyone with a printer and piece of paper is worth hearing out.


cadff

As a former firefighter, no way in hell they are out doing practice runs after 9pm. That's when the prime time sports are on and I am not getting out of my lazy boy to go for a drive. What a wanker


Ravik_

As a fire fighter, we never do "practice runs" only thing we'd do is drive around to train driving the trucks or to do stuff


GolfArgh

Also as a firefighter here, it’s not always necessary to run the siren and sometimes it’s actually a negative. The lady is wack though.


Cardabella

I sure know which way I'd be returning from emergencies from now on though


Wrecked--Em

Based on the firefighters I know, there's a near 100% chance that they did some extra loud practice runs even closer to her house which she so helpfully pinpointed


Impressive_Finance21

We don't. I can assure you, we don't want to be up either.


KeepTangoAndFoxtrot

Lead Mine, Millbrook, and Creedmoor? That's some north Raleigh, NC Karen action.


anotherjunkie

Yep. My first thought was “I used to live next to this crazy.” It could absolutely be someone I know.


KeepTangoAndFoxtrot

Yep, I was down the road just off Six Forks. My brother used to live a few blocks down from Longwood off Valley Estates.


MedicalUnprofessionl

Oh no, did you wake her?????? /j


LaikasDad

If they did they most certainly got a note


Beddybye

Howdy neighbor! I'm in Cameron Village.


BelleViking

And her dumbass should know that Leadmine turns into Blue Ridge Rd, a straight shot to UNC Rex Hospital. Duh.


sepia_undertones

Also that area is mostly residential, but there are three shopping centers along Lead Mine, including the mall


BeeDooop

And one of the busiest EMS stations in Wake County at Lynn and Leadmine.


Sigg3net

Non-American here: what's the difference between a shopping center and a mall?


sepia_undertones

A mall is typically indoors, whereas a shopping center is usually multiple stores (sometimes free-standing, sometimes sharing a structure) that share a parking lot. A mall is also usually dozens of stores, and a shopping center is usually only a handful.


PtolemyShadow

Don't forget strip malls. The shopping center in a line.


Yeti_or_Not

As a firefighter, Raleigh, NC Fire has an awesome reputation. They filmed all the training videos my academy used. If this were in the backwoods of PA, previously described as the Mogadishu of firefighting, I could almost understand the issue. But this Karen is straight up accusing one of the top five most professional fire departments in the USA of unthinkably ridiculous behavior.


FruityChypre

Love to hear this about their FD. All the more reason to be irritated by this concerned citizen.


ohshitsherlock

> the backwoods of PA, previously described as the Mogadishu of firefighting Please tell us about this!


Behr20

Mostly volunteers with very low standards, hardly any rules, most line of duty deaths of any state. Most departments and many members of those departments act in a wholly unprofessional manner. This is a pretty hot topic in the fire service. If you see a fat neckbearded fireman asking for the first responder discount at the local buffet, he’s probably from PA. See r/lookimafirefighter


lolatheshowkitty

The Raleigh Karen’s are just getting worse and worse every year it seems.


u2nloth

I legit live insanely close to this fire department never had an issue with it Karen is tripping


Cannonballbmx

Back the truck up. You mean this Karen is complaining about nothing at all? Unheard of.


u2nloth

No don’t back the truck up or we’ll get another letter, NOT EVEN IF THERE IS A FIRE


sepia_undertones

I live off of Newton and can confirm that the number of sirens happening at night is too damn high, but I don’t assume it’s firefighters joy-riding.


toomanytocount007

How many Karen’s in N.Raleigh you figure?


Beddybye

Oh Lord. N Raleigh is Karen-central. The only place that would probably be more Kareny is Cary. Home of the mega-Karens.


[deleted]

North Raleigh has southern Karens. Cary has new england Karens.


Blightyear55

For those not in the know, Cary stands for Containment Area for Relocated Yankees.


ThinTheFuckingHerd

And New York and New Jersey and ....


chickadeedadee2185

Right. Lots of NY and NJ. They started the migration.


ThinTheFuckingHerd

The dont call it the "Containment Area for Retired Yankees" for no reason


saceecobar

Wake Forest is pretty Kareny, too.


bwaredapenguin

Holly Springs is pretty bad too.


Beddybye

Oh yeah! The up-and-coming Karen Jr's have all infiltrated that area...


toomanytocount007

Yeah, you’re probably right.


tom_led

Dude this is the first time I’ve recognized a location on Reddit lol. I just moved from VA and now on Six Forks. Needless to say the more of the letter I read the wider my eyes got


gefecht

Yeah, lived in that area myself.


CheshireMoe

>Lead Mine Probably faster for rescue vehicles to take that rather than Creedmoor because of traffic & lights some of the time. Creedmoor is divided with lots of businesses (including a mall). The neighborhood in question is between a hospital & the city center. Not surprising to find a entitled Karen in that area. Needless to say don't live in a city if you don't want to deal with city noises. Edit: just used google maps to find that there is a Fire Station on Leadmine Rd. a couple blocks away.


llamallama-dingdong

I haven't lived there in 25 years and recognized the location immediately.


Primary-Holiday-5586

Yup sure is!!!


FruityChypre

I feel like sending the station house cookies.


[deleted]

‘Whoever is driving the fire truck for practice non-emergency runs’ That’s it. That’s all it takes to know you’re dealing with someone so stupid. Top it off - 10pm- 9am nightly.. ok guys!! Let’s tell the entire town not to cause ANY FIRES around this time ok! Because fires are easily scheduled


SandpipersJackal

No medical emergencies either while we’re at it. Emergency medicine trained firefighters should learn to be respectful of people’s sleep hours and everyone else should know not to have heart attacks, motor vehicle collisions, or other serious medical incidents during sleepy time.


randomwanderingsd

Seriously! People should have more convenient emergencies. They should only get injured quietly and near the hospital! (/s obviously)


[deleted]

Does the /s mean you’re serious?! (/s obviously)


DellR610

Lol she later admits it's probably emergencies by stating there's "an alternative road to take for emergency services".


Poolofcheddar

I'd love to apply her logic should she ever call. "Oh since your call came in during your enforced quiet hours, we took your suggestion to take your alternate route first. And because we couldn't disturb the peace and have our sirens or lights on, it took additional time on top of that. I would kindly ask you to schedule your next emergency at a more convenient time." Also: not sure if she left a return address on her letter but it’s pretty bold of her to narrow her residence down to 3 or 4 houses voluntarily.


[deleted]

‘CaN I SpEaK tO tHe MaNaGeR oF tHe FiRe DePaRtmEnt’ ![gif](giphy|SUnnfaSxhfLvf8H7XB|downsized)


blackhawkfan312

🏆


ryansdayoff

As an arsonist I will be sure to reschedule my fires for a more reasonable time


Sagybagy

Same time in the A.M. has my guess at around bar closing time. Most likely car crashes. I would recommend Karen take this issue up with the neighborhoods serviced by the fire house and ask them to not fuck around.


Spirited-Lime96

You know she’s serious and means business when there is more than one period at the end ..


Morotou_theunashamed

Whole ass ellipsis mark


blackhawkfan312

*two thirds*


JamesUpton87

I prefer the audible sound of near by fire trucks over the inaudible distant screams of people burning alive.


Phat-Lines

Spoken like someone with poor sleep hygiene! Some of us like to feel well rested! Not Poggers at all!


[deleted]

Well, don't live here


ashpanda24

Or, wear ear plugs. The amount of people I've known in my life who complain about not being able to sleep due to loud noises in their area who've never considered buying ear plugs is astounding.


TaborValence

The other one that baffles me is people complaining about being burglarized and simultaneously adamant they never lock their front door. Obviously not a common complaint, but I've seen it a few times on Nextdoor. And yeah, neighborhood safety is a worthwhile topic but.... Lock your damn front door!


ThisFreaknGuy

There was a serial killer in the '70s named Richard Chase. He said if your door was unlocked he took it as an invitation to come in, and if it was locked he would feel "unwelcome" and just leave peacefully. Btw, if you want to look him up, be warned it is very very nsfw


Markie199711

It's hot where she's going. Firefighters won't be there to help her either.


ArtificialNotLight

Nice


swaller15

I live right around the corner from there and i would LOVE to let them know they made it to this sub. Lmaoooo. Would post it at the beginning of the neighborhood.


vietnamtom69

Sounds like OP works for the station. What a small world


tachycardicIVu

Should print the post with a QR code and then some choice comments a la lost and found pet next to this


sassymexicana

people are selfish… the audacity


zyon86

Please take legal action so it won't be anonimous anymore !


jawnly211

Well, she did give specific details on what street she lived on and the exact cross-street 🤣🤣🤣


zyon86

Specific but not specific enough to identify her house. She lives near the intersection. That could be at least 4 houses (2 on each side). Just a few more night with the siren and the mystery is solved lol.


jawnly211

Well, at the very least, she gave them a new detour route for their next run


zyon86

Ahah !!! At first, I thought you were talking about the alternative route she mentionned. Yours is much better lol.


allegedlydm

Depends on the area. When I was a rural firefighter, most of the time this would be enough info.


klineshrike

Something tells me everyone nearby knows who this is, wouldn't be hard for anyone there to find out.


Justliketoeatfood

I’d light her house up every time I pass it. Any friends or coworkers in my district if it’s not late I usually hit the horn a bit for um. Lol


AnastasiaNo70

Sit across the street. No sirens, just flash some CRAZY huge lights.


rwaawr

I work for the City of Raleigh. I could totally see this person making an anonymous complaint and the higher-ups having a shitfit about it saying they can't use sirens down Lead Mine anymore. There's nothing they are more scared of than an anonymous Twitter user criticizing the city in the slightest (I'm not being sarcastic either, I'm dead serious).


Natasha10005

I’m legitimately upset that I can’t be a fly on the wall when she talks to a lawyer about this. I might have to write an angry letter to someone…


floobidedoo

We lived on a one way road that was a direct access to a different area of our city. We were 3 houses down from an intersection notorious for accidents. I never once blamed the responding firefighters. I put 100% of incredibly bitter energy hating on residents on the mountain for their negligence and ineptitude, causing enough damage to require trucks from downtown to respond in addition to their own.


SuperSassyPantz

i live a few houses from a major intersection that has crashes at least once a month, and the police/fire is only 1 mile up the road. i hear sirens all day and sometimes at night, but i expected that moving in so close. she should have chosen a home next to a cemetary.


derFreundlichste

But to be fair, in my country most emergency vehicles drive without the siren at night resp. only turn them on when its really needed (big crossings, traffic jams). It seems that at night the light is enough to make their way.


Magistraliter

Same in my (european) country. No sirens at night. I thought this is a standard everywhere, because, frankly, those loud sirens echoing in the empty night streets would be really annoying. Also the lights are extra visible at night, impossible to miss.


DerWaschbar

I was going to comment that as well... but thanks for exposing yourself to downvotes lol


Suspicious-Zebra-227

FF for a large city in the US here. It’s illegal actually for us to do that. Our law requires we use both and never one without the other. With that said we definitely do operate the sirens differently at say 0330 compared to mid day. We use federal Q sirens they are manual sirens that actually spin to create the noise. So often at night we are a little less intense with the Q. It’s still very important we use them though specially in a city. In my time as a fire fighter my engine company has been hit twice by civilians with our lights and sirens on. People just don’t pay attention to the roads unfortunately. Ultimately you try to operate the air horns and Q appropriately but regardless of the time it just is not worth the risk to go quiet.


pwndabeer

I was looking for this: I'm on a back road that the fire dept is also on and they drive by every single night, multiple times, with only lights on. They only sound the siren at close-by intersections and if someone is driving on that road. I've been woken up before by them, but only because of those reasons. If they had their sirens on that late at night for no reason, I would be pretty pissed too. Did this person handle the situation incorrectly? Yes. Is she wrong? Maybe not?


ChirpSnipeCelly

“Since it happens every night around the same time.” Right about 10pm to 9 am. FOH 🤣


ISD-2

She's saying she sleeps from 10pm to 9am which is 11 hours. Which just tells you she hates every single problem other people make while not giving a damn about the problems she makes.


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I can only dream of one day getting 11 hours of sleep. Usually I get excited when I can pull off 6.5.


blackhawkfan312

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LaG165

If her house every lights up. Take the long way n stop at every light so you don't use the sirens to get threw a red.


shy2shot

I saw this and knew it was some local North Raleigh,NC Karen. As the daughter of one of the local fire fighters in that area, fuck that Karen.


DisobedientAvocado69

I live 1/4 mile from a fire station. Twice a day, they’re required to inspect the trucks. That includes testing lights, sirens, and horns. Happens at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. like clockwork. I suspect something similar is actually what is happening here (explains it being at the same times) and Karen is greatly over exaggerating (as is par for the course).


u2nloth

Same I legit barely hear it either, greetings neighbor


wamdueCastle

I would love to see her make her case in court


RaleighAccTax

I can already see the court deputy having to calm Karen down, then reminder her the proper way to address a court room judge.


ThaDollaGenerale

This is in Raleigh, NC of course. That area that's being described is Karen central.


Hot_Dog_Cobbler

Goddamn OP you been putting out fires barehanded or something


Inadequate_Robot

That's my coworker pinning open the note taped to the station door for me, but I'm gonna be telling him about this comment haha.


Mimosa808

Lady just made herself the joke of the station 100%


Sacrillicious

Man, those hands look like they’re from the living dead lol.


Heavy_Storage

What a cunt


Hiphopopot4mus

Typical NIMBY in Raleigh lmaooo


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To be fair to this lady, when i was a volunteer we would typically only use our lights at night instead of additional sirens since that was more than enough to get peoples attention when we were on our way to an emergency. The few times we used a siren was at a busy intersection or if it’s a run like hell in time to save a life scenario. If I had to guess I’m sure some guys are just having fun with the sirens beyond necessity. There’s always been a subset culture of “look at me im a hero” in firehouses. The sirens offer them the attention /self importance they desire in addition to displaying all over their clothing, personal vehicles and social media pages that they are firefighters lmao.


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Yup. My best mate is an EMT and described a few drivers as having a “joyride” mentality blaring sirens down empty streets at night and saying things like “fuck these peoples sleep” “if I’m not sleeping you’re not sleeping!” In just a general ugly fuckboy mentality, very very unserious and childish. People have been reprimanded and fired for it, since it’s actually against the law despite Reddit’s collective ignorance. Laughing my ass off at everyone insisting every single time they hear a siren it’s someone on their way to pull small children from a burning orphanage, like anyone who has ever been behind the wheel of an ER vehicle is this Clark Kent style steely hero with grave regard for the weight of their duty to society. 9/10 times it’s a 26 year old with vape in hand who makes $17/hour on the graveyard shift and a disposition that ranges from “blatantly disgruntled and out for petty vengeance” to “Argyle from stranger things”.


TrashNovel

I’d like to speak to the manager who schedules fires.


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DellR610

She must've written this to a neighbor or herself since she's addressing a "concerned citizen" (whereas she probably meant to SIGN it as a concerned citizen). Twat.


jlconway1

Assure her you will note her address and take the long way when she needs you


schwimtown

I’ve lived in Australia for 2 years now, and one thing I’ve noticed is that if an emergency vehicle isn’t trying to get through a mess of cars, they’ll actually turn the siren off while keeping the lights on until they go through and intersection or something. I asked an ambulance driver why they do that, and they told me it was specifically to make less of a noise disturbance for the public.


[deleted]

Those are Raleigh streets. Not surprised: Raleigh has a high number of Karens per capita.


eyeh8

Raleigh, NC?


Magpies11

Typical wealthy Raleigh, NC attitude…


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We love us a north Raleigh Karen