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Can someone in the UK please tell me what the hell this noise is?

aphex

aphex

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I heard it down in London... Now i hear it all the time here from my dorm in Oxford...

I wish i could record it, but its random, so i can never tell when its coming...

It sounds almost like a car horn, but its two tones (high and low), that play in succession...

Almost sounds comical..... Waaaaaaaaaaa (high) Waaaaaaaaaaa (low) - think of a cartoon

Is it a car horn for some strange car? a train? a strange grotesquely large pigeon?
 
Ambulance?
Police car?
Fire engine?

Of course it could be one of the new "craze" ring-tones - who knows what crap people have on their phones now-a-days!


Try to record it...!


Edit: Is it just once it goes, or is it repeated? If it's once, it could quite possibly be a train if you've got a train line near you.
 
Originally posted by: Confused
Ambulance?
Police car?
Fire engine?

Of course it could be one of the new "craze" ring-tones - who knows what crap people have on their phones now-a-days!


Try to record it...!


Edit: Is it just once it goes, or is it repeated? If it's once, it could quite possibly be a train if you've got a train line near you.
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I don't think the train is all too close, but the noise sounds fairly far away... Its pretty loud, and echos a tad around the buildings here...

It just goes once, but randomly all times of the day.
 
No, its not a cop car, it only sounds like once and hour, just like one waaaa waaaaaa. then nothing.
 
Originally posted by: richardycc
isnt oxford right near the train station?
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Its not all that far, but what english town isnt? It's a good 20 minute walk from where i am.
 
It IS a train, I heard that all the time when I stayed at Worcester College at Oxford in 2002!!!

Worcester is the college nearest the train station.

I had the damndest time figuring that out too.
 
Originally posted by: jndietz
how much does it cost to go to oxford. are you rich?
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I did a study abroad for one semester in 2002. We had instructors from my school (in Atlanta), so I wasn't really GOING to Oxford, just staying in the dorm really while attending class.

 
Originally posted by: jndietz
how much does it cost to go to oxford. are you rich?
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Same as taggart, but mine is through OSU Law School.... It was $2000 cheaper than spending the summer at my home university, Stetson law. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Taggart
It IS a train, I heard that all the time when I stayed at Worcester College at Oxford in 2002!!!

Worcester is the college nearest the train station.

I had the damndest time figuring that out too.
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Now you come to mention it, a train horn would sound quite like what aphex is describing 🙂
 
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