I live on a rural highway and at night the semi trucks loaded with cattle always park right outside my bedroom window to do some kind of inspection. Sometimes 3 at a time. I’ve tried putting a light on outside, and going up to talk to them to ask them to park somewhere else. They just ignore me and pretend that they can’t hear me over the sound of the idling truck. Basically acting like npcs, it’s quite bizarre. I’m not willing to get into legal trouble but I need to find a creative way to stop this because it’s messing with my sleep. I live off a us highway so there aren’t any laws against them being there. Is there something I can put in the road, or a device I can build to shine lights at them when a semi truck is detected?
No, you can't put shit on the highway to make people not use it.
True, but you could accidentally drop something heavy on the parking spot creating a crack and then watch it form into a giant pothole as winter takes its toll.
How much weight would I need for road sabotage? I was wondering about this.
Give me your address. I’ll take care of the “problem”
Ever considered moving out of you shitkicker dwelling?
Plants Bushes and Trees, regular irrigation. Beautification changes expected patterns. french drains slopping towards a dry well at your window. I would leave a few plants in large disposable 5 gallon containers make it look like a slow city project.
After a few months then i would til the land. turning over the soil will bring up the nitrogen and burry the oil and grease from cars unfortunately is can kill by making a muddy soft dirt.
wood ash/carbon will hold water give the plants a better chance. Hair/honey will absorb oil making for better soil.
I can not stress enough tilling the land can kill. You need to make it look like a beautification project for a few months before you loosen the soil.
>I can not stress enough tilling the land can kill.
Did a bot write this trainwreck.
Perma culture not irrigation, french drains stubbed at the highway from your property to the road, people like beauty and a loath to damage it. hold over from the victorian and medici eras
Cattle can hear up to 40,000 Hz, while humans can hear only up to 20,000 Hz. Use the standard dog noise makers, greatly amplified, to upset the cattle. Yes, it sucks for the cattle but life sucks for them anyway. It won't take long for the truckers to figure out that it's a bad place for them to stop to do their inspections.
You'll need something like pic related pointed to where they do their inspections. Given the darkness and general tendency for rural properties to have random shit on them, unless you go out there and tell them what you're up to, they'll probably never know what caused the cattle to act irritated at that location.
Very smart. I’m going to try this. May also throw a few traffic cones in the meantime and make it look like a roadside maintenance thing is going on.
Hilariously my property is zoned commercially so I could do this, but I have no interest and it’s literally just the same 3 cattle trucks every other night. There’s more traffic in the day but they’re always heading somewhere else.
I have a house on the outskirts of a town and the highway is us67. I might move sooner or later but I need a solution in the meantime.
The trucks are parking on the highway shoulder in front of my house.
>I sleep on a commercial property and then complain about noise.
How close is your house to the road that this is bothering you this badly? They're probably just checking tires and whatnot before they get too far into the trip.
If it really bothers you, then run out there naked and confront them every single time until you can confirm whether they like seeing you naked or not... If they move on then your naked body is disgusting to them. If they keep coming around then maybe you could go on a date with them?
Could you ask them to pick a spot a bit further down? Like, what is ideal about your spot.
You could also get a bunch of massive spot lights, and turn those frickers on when they park. Don’t get shot tho
>it’s literally just the same 3 cattle trucks every other night
unironically you are being gangstalked
maximum comfy small town vibes
>Very smart. I’m going to try this
Not as smart as you think.
Although you cannot hear them, ultrasounds can damage your inner ear. Permanently
OP probably doesn't sleep outside and the system would only be on during the middle of the night when the trucks are around. Maybe if he slept with his windows open and got really unlucky with a signal bounce it could maybe, possibly be an issue, but really, no.
>implying the truckers give a frick about the cargo
lol. lmao even.
Completely unrelated question, but you guys recon a silenced .22 can pop a truck tire?
not only are silenced guns not silent, popping a semi's tire will sound like a stick of dynamite
Suppressed .22s are actually pretty dang near silent.
Doubt anon cares about the tire noise and just doesn't want to give away the location of the rapid decompression machine when putting it into operation.
you can likely do it, once, the trucker might write it off as a freack accident, im a trucker and Ive never heard of a tire just exploding at random, and yes it will sound like a stick of dynamite.
the trucker may not hear the direction of the rifle or think of it all given the idle engine is so loud, along with the boomstick shotgun blast of a tire exploding. however, someone else may hear it and report it. the first time you may get away with it, but if you were a police officer and you had 2/3 reports of a silenced rifle shooting truck tires, you better believe they will show up on your doorstep with a warrant. County won't like you shooting at parked vehicles, and you won't like county.
your best bet is to convince and maybe commission the city to put up those yellow bars that stick out of the ground along with some "no parking signs". I don't ever back into or drive over the yellow bars as metal isnt too fun drive over.
Have you considered opening a truck stop? Seems like you already have customers showing up
>I live on a rural highway
There's your first problem. Highways are for moving things, not for living on.
I suggest taking your tent and moving it a few hundred feet back from the road.
Do Americans really live on highways?
OP was too scared of the woods to move further back in.
So noise abatement by growing things inbetween? That's what it sounds like. A trucker isn't going to care what's growing in a property adjacent to a rural highway. It's not in his actual path.
This.
Yes, we have lots of highways and not all of them are high volume. Most have the majority of their length in rural areas. Pic related is the highway OP lives on though highly likely a very different segment of it since it's over 2500 km long.
Also in legal terms "highway" applies to nearly any road with public access; its the blanket term used in vehicle codes to differentiate between private property/offroad use and all other operations that fall under the code ("highway use").
In common usage "highway" is mostly applied to roads that connect towns, often with higher speed limits than surface streets which are all 25 mph unless marked.
Lots of people only use "highway" to describe large multi lane high speed limited access roadways with no stop signals or cross traffic, but terms like "freeway" and "expressway" exist to better differentiate those types of highways from the rest.
this is really rich if coming from a europoor...when i was in germany you could reach into people's homes sitting in your car in the street
nta but those aren’t highways, just the street you live on. I can pretty much reach into my house from my street but it only sees local traffic. Our highways are asphalt, 4-10 lanes wide and with 60mph+ limits. Calling
a highway is the real poverty
see
>LeClaire
I live near there and I hate the buttholes for voting in whoever was responsible for all the damn speed cameras.
Yes 70+mph highways just have peoples driveways dumping into them it's maddening.
Checkout Malibu california, the whole town, one of the richest innthe country is built on pacific coast highway.
are europeans really this incapable of understanding how big the US is? we actually have space between cities and towns
why not use trains then ?
Trains are used. The US has the best cargo freight rail system in the world but it doesn't go to every single town. Those trucks could be headed to a rail depot and still would need to travel on a road to get there. Part of setting intermodal standards was opening up more options for locating various industrial and agricultural processing centers than just those that a rail spur could be built to. In OP's case, those trucks might be headed to offload to a rail line or they might be traveling the entire distance to the destination. It's even possible they're headed to a seaport.
Without looking at picrel, go ahead and take a guess which country tops the list of rail transport network size based on International Union of Railways data that ranks countries by length of rail lines...?
OK, you can look now...while you absurd the data, consider that that figure is only based on *active* rail lines and doesn't count the many thousands of miles of dormant but still functional track in existence all over the USA.
Put that in your cargo bike and pedal it.
Because we actually have space between cities and towns.
America didn't fully urbanize until after people had gotten used to owning their own transportation. The car was seen as the sequel to the horse and before urbanization this made sense. It was only after everyone started living at greater density that cars stopped being functionally ideal. Combination parking towers/transit terminals at the edges of cities would allow for more transit friendly redevelopment and let people who don't want the urban lifestyle to still be able to transition between moving around in and out of town.
>just use trains!
>to get between one spot with very low traffic to a spot that has more traffic, but nowhere near enough to warrant a mass transit route
You people really don't get america, do you? There's more to the country than NYC.
>are europeans
only the netherlands and luxemburg have basically no nature
>Netherlands has no nature
Lies. The Attached picture clearly shows we still have some trees.
It’s not an inspection. Most certainly after they get loaded the drivers are getting the cattle to swallow sealed bags of fentanyl for transport to another state. They just pick them out in a day or two.
It’s more literally close to the term “mule”
Park your car every night perpenducular to the highway right in the middle of the turnout area
drive it away every morning
I can think of many things you can do to try and discourage them, but I think you're better off putting that energy into your end of things. Can you sleep with a white noise machine on? Can you improve the soundproofing of your home?
This anon gets it, just develop a better appreciation for the sacrifices these Heroes Of The Highway make to maintain the flow of the products that let little Aiden and Olivia eat all beef hot dogs and wear leather pumps to ballet class.
You should put on a leopard print bikini and heels and go offer those drivers a knobber, OP, not complain that their tireless efforts disturb the same sleep they are deprived of.
just go out in a dress and tell them youre the local lot lizard...only if youre ugly though
Rural? I'd shoot varmints at night with something loud. Ask /k/ for the most obnoxious option. I have one neighbor who night hunts on his land and I told him keep at it as no Wakandans are likely to cross his property to mine. We get along great.
.30 caliber SBR w/ a fat muzzle break. Not responsible for any hearing damage caused by repeatedly flashbanging yourself.
t. /k/ommando
Going to go out on a limb and say that OP doesn't want to go to prison even though it would solve his problem, provided there's no prison nearby he might get sentenced to and have to hear those trucks for 7-10 years from his cell.
I imagine the idea is to make huge amount of noise while doing something perfectly legal on his property.
This thread is annoying. Its just OP having an attitude problem.
OP lives on a commercial property, not residential.
People, legally doing their job in a manner completely in line with all local laws on public right of way in an area zoned for commercial use are booooothering him.
You have no reasonable basis to ask them to move, and the whole point of residential and commercial zoning is laid out incredibly clearly hear.
Id say a bunch of flags and stuff they politically cant stand would be your only hope. But you are the frickin problem.
The property is quite obviously a residential house. It just happens to have the commercial zoning because there was a lawyers office in it at some point. I have no legal basis to ask them to leave but I have a reasonable one because there’s a (
) long empty strip of pavement right up the street in front of a business that’s closed at night.
Floodlights is an interesting idea but I almost feel like it would help them do the work on the trucks lol.
Currently I’m thinking I might set up a Halloween dummy wearing a construction vest with cones around and stage a fake construction site blocking the shoulder of the road that could plausibly be interpreted as a Halloween decoration.
Do you know who runs the business they're parking in front of? If so, ask them to tell the trucks to move along. If the business owner isn't an ass, he should want to help out his neighbor rather than the guys whose actions probably makes the area smell like cow shit.
Sounds like the property is quite obviously a building in a commercial area, but not a warehouse.
The kinda thing that is usually a dentist office, salon, or say lawyers office.
That is being used as a house by you.
And you want that world to revolve around you.
But it doesnt.
You just arent really relevant here. They arent doing anything wrong. You gotta learn to live with that.
I mean, imagine thinking being passive aggressive with frickin overnight livestock haulers is gonna get you anywhere.
Maybe stop harassing people who are at work.
I was going to start a new thread but this seems like a good place to ask this question.
I found a cheap place to live but it's cheap because it's right near a busy airport. How do I get rid of the planes? It affects my feeling of serenity in my own house.
Make noise complaints. You won't beat the airport but you could possibly get a ban on air traffic between 10pm and 6am.
You're probably trolling me but we are in clown world.
Seems pretty obvious that he's mocking OP, not really trolling anyone. That or it's really fricking weak bait. The only person stupid enough not to realize that is probably OP
If they are part of a trucking company you can call their boss and tell him they're being dicks.
buy no parking signs, put up.
also they are not doing an inpspection, they are waiting for their delivery window at the slaughter house. and that spot is attractive to them. make it so its not.
Buy a shitbox and park it there.
Contact Peta and let them know where the trucks hang out. They're usually unable to access livestock trucks because they're either in transit or on private property. That strip of pavement sounds like public property but not a travel lane. You can send them an anonymous letter if you don't want to be involved. Take some photos, include them in the latter and say the cows are being abused.
Frick Peta and frick you for seriously suggesting them
The thing about useful idiots is that even though they're always idiots, they are sometimes useful. Make use of the resources available.
the funny thing is that you can buy beef and dairy from raw milk farms and avoid all of this vegan guilt
pasteurization ONLY exists so that happy merchant farmers can mistreat their cows all they want
Unfortunately, PETA is actually a pro meat industry counterorganization... They don't give a shit about animals and they kill hundreds of thousands of them for no good reason each year.
The only time that PETA comes to town is to stage publicity shots that will completely alienate and marginalize what was otherwise a common sense animal welfare movement.
It's the equivalent of having neonazis show up to support a moderate conservative---- it completely btfo's any possible public support by making things too extreme for the common mans tastes.
Cover the surface in nails. It's just a matter of time.
you should put something in your yard that will really make them angry at the mere sight of it and make them drive away.. maybe like some animatronic robot gays having a gangbang? Or maybe you should just let em know your a hard working trump loving merican tryin to sleep after a long 12 hour shift slingin dogs at 7-11 and then go put a biden sign next to some guys house down the road and they'lll go bother them instead.
>go down to trailer park
>find dirtiest craigslist hooker you can
>pay her to go down there and give them syphilis
>porblem solverd
They stop to do a animal welfare check.
They may have been stopping there for longer than you live there.
Stopped trucks bother you, but trucks rolling into and out of town don't?
That truck in pic looks like a dry van not cattle wagon.
If it's a problem, don't sleep in a bedroom next to a hwy. or maybe you will get use to it.
I doubt it's malicious.
Become a truck driver. Park outside your house for one of your mandatory sleep breaks. Enjoy sleeping in your bed.
Go up road a ways and pit up a detour/roadwork sign so ppl go around a different way forever
>On 31 May 2003, a group of UK researchers held a mass experiment, where they exposed some 700 people to music laced with soft 17 Hz sine waves played at a level described as "near the edge of hearing", produced by an extra-long-stroke subwoofer mounted two-thirds of the way from the end of a seven-meter-long plastic sewer pipe. The experimental concert (entitled Infrasonic) took place in the Purcell Room over the course of two performances, each consisting of four musical pieces. Two of the pieces in each concert had 17 Hz tones played underneath.
>In the second concert, the pieces that were to carry a 17 Hz undertone were swapped so that test results would not focus on any specific musical piece. The participants were not told which pieces included the low-level 17 Hz near-infrasonic tone. The presence of the tone resulted in a significant number (22%) of respondents reporting feeling uneasy or sorrowful, getting chills down the spine or nervous feelings of revulsion or fear.
That's very close to a C sharp. Did they check to see if C sharp was minor or major in relation the test music?
The researchers used Java and Perl.
Have sex with the cattle to show your dominance.
just park whatever cars and bicycles you can where they are parking
>I’ve tried putting a light on outside, and going up to talk to them to ask them to park somewhere else. They just ignore me and pretend that they can’t hear me over the sound of the idling truck. Basically acting like npcs, it’s quite bizarre.
What would you think if someone, assuming you're not paying attention, just walked up to your vehicle and started knocking on the doors and windows. In the middle of the night.
Would you open the window and ask what they wanted?
Yes because I live in a still somewhat intact society. Fricking yanks I swear.
Bruh just park your car there
Super soaker full of rotten meat juice.
Try soundproof curtains and you can try layering them also try shutters (that good against noise) indoor and outdoor