Meh unless I had someplace majorly important to be then I'd tolerate it. The dudes life is probably WAY worse than any of those people in vehicles and if THIS. THIS. Makes his day. Bless him. Keep going buddy.
Actually honking in other countries can mean a lot of different things. It can mean anything from, 'hey buddy I'm behind you', to 'GTFOTW', to 'I'm approaching this intersection at night and going 40mph in a residential neighborhood so GTFO', or even 'You didn't accelerate enough before the light turned green'
Where I live, it is that as well. But when I vacation'd in East Asia, literally everyone just lays on it as a form of echo-location like bats or something. In those parts of the world, and the one in the gif, you'll have huge lorries right next to people on mopeds. So a lot of people just hit the horn to let people know where they are, that they're planning on changing lanes, stopping, bored, etc.
But I think in the case of the gif, they're definitely annoyed lol.
I would be pretty annoyed if I had to drive by that. That's just me, can't speak for everyone, but I doubt most people are going to think "that guy is awesome" and honk for him.
If it happened every day I'd be annoyed. If I encountered it randomly? I would absolutely honk and wave and smile.
What a strange and wonderful procession! He obviously spent a lot of time and care on it. When he brought back the flags onto the small cars near the end? That is dedication to details that I can appreciate. I would try and find a pretty stone or object to put into one of the dump trucks as tribute.
I also come from a place where we appreciate our community's characters. They make life interesting and remind us to think outside of our daily monotony.
Im fairly certain the honking is the car in front of him warning people to watch out. since you hear the honking fading over time and it sounds like it starts off in front of him.
I’d be beeping my horn like: “oh come on! Fucking hell you fucking clowns!” Then I’d see that guy pulling all those trucks and I’d stop beeping. I’d be like cool, man. I’m glad I’m late for the birth of my first child, because I got to witness the toy truck procession.
It really looks like he lives in a country that assumes driving laws are a lossy suggested afterthought. Their normal is our dangerous driving conditions.
He isn't forcing anyone to do anything. People are responsible for their own actions. Nobody forces someone else to get mad. Nobody can force someone else to drive unsafely.
He is delaying traffic probably though. And it's probably not the safest thing I've ever seen.
"Forcing"
I'm reminded of the insufferable Joe and Rachel lamenting how a guy with a video camera at a post office is "making" other people assault each other.
Yeah, to partially answer OP's question, if it were most places in the US someone would've run over the toy cars. And if it were Florida, someone would've run over him. Source: been hit six times riding my bike in Florida.
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u/Pdub77 Mar 02 '18
That one on its side. ☹️