# Are you getting fire truck birthday drive-bys in your area?

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
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**Created:** [May 9, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-getting-fire-truck-birthday-drive-bys-in-your-area/853476 "2020-05-09T16:18:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-getting-fire-truck-birthday-drive-bys-in-your-area/853476/1 "2020-05-09T16:18:50Z")

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[Fire trucks driving past the house of kids on their burthdays blasting their sirens and horns](https://www.google.com/search?q=fire+truck+drive+by+for+birthday&oq=Fire+truck+drive&gs_l=mobile-heirloom-hp.1.1.0l5.2103.8044.0.10585.17.15.0.2.2.1.1012.5370.1j5j1j2j3j1j1j1.15.0....0...1c.1.34.mobile-heirloom-hp..6.11.2064.2RjvMvBI_zc). There was one about a half-mile from me a couple of weeks ago, I thought there was some major accident on the highway in that direction/distance. There was another one around a quarter mile from me just now–sounded like I was in the middle of 9/11, but at least this time I knew what was going on.

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**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-getting-fire-truck-birthday-drive-bys-in-your-area/853476/2 "2020-05-09T20:17:12Z")

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No kids in my mountain-forest neighborhood and fire trucks only dare our rough dirt track for dire necessities. It looks like the county seat’s fire dept. ran an Easter procession but I see nothing about birthday drive-byes.

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**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-getting-fire-truck-birthday-drive-bys-in-your-area/853476/3 "2020-05-09T20:52:29Z")

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Yes, and also ‘car parades’ for various things.

And people pasting a lot of messages in their windows like “we love you Beth” and hearts and flowers.

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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-getting-fire-truck-birthday-drive-bys-in-your-area/853476/4 "2020-05-10T05:16:28Z")

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No, and not surprising given the demographics of my neighborhood. That could work in suburbs, definitely not in high density population areas of Chicago

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-getting-fire-truck-birthday-drive-bys-in-your-area/853476/5 "2020-05-10T18:39:58Z")

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Had a biker gang celebration of some kind. Nothing like ear-shattering engine noise dragging on for fifteen minutes on a Sunday afternoon.