# Is this against the law? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 13, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048 "2011-12-13T17:19:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/21 "2011-12-13T19:17:11Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > What I think about this response can’t be shared outside the pit. People are entitled to their sleep. Hmmm… To Pit, or not Pit. _ **That** _ is the question. FWIW, I vote ‘Flame _ **on** _’! (Apologies to the ‘Bard’) ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/22 "2011-12-13T19:28:45Z")
Where do you live? Houston’s [noise ordinance](http://www.nonoise.org/lawlib/cities/houston.htm) sounds like your friends idiocy might break the law. But some angry Texan with a gun might get to him before HPD… ---
**Author:** ![Lubricious\_Integument](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@Lubricious\_Integument](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lubricious_Integument)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/23 "2011-12-13T19:32:27Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > He doesn’t find this an issue because HE’S up early in the morning. And working too. He thinks if he can tough it out, others can too. And he thinks people should be up by then cooking breakfast…it’s like an alarm clock. Your coworker is Bubb Rubb? ETA: Whoo Whoo! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/24 "2011-12-13T19:36:56Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > … He doesn’t find this an issue because HE’S up early in the morning. And working too. He thinks if he can tough it out, others can too. And he thinks people should be up by then cooking breakfast…it’s like an alarm clock… I hope your friend’s next job is the graveyard shift (11 p.m. - 7 a.m. last time I did it). I also hope he gets a raging case of long-term insomnia. Also, if he thinks people “should” be up on his own personal schedule, then I think he “should” get a few swift kicks to the teeth. Do you really, honestly, truly NOT see what’s wrong with his behavior, even setting aside the potential illegality of it? There are plenty of reasons not to do something even if it’s not technically illegal. ---
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/25 "2011-12-13T19:39:01Z")
I’m from KC. Yeah, my friend is being an idiot, I hope he stops this. Sorry, if I find this funny, though. Lub, I’m glad someone got that reference 😉 ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/26 "2011-12-13T19:49:07Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#): > > Hmmm… To Pit, or not Pit. _ **That** _ is the question. > > FWIW, I vote ‘Flame _ **on** _’! > > (Apologies to the ‘Bard’) [Come join in on the pile-up in the pit thread for Diamonds02.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14561441#post14561441) I started the flame, but we need more fuel. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/27 "2011-12-13T20:03:39Z")
> [@Lubricious\_Integument](#): > > Your coworker is Bubb Rubb? > > ETA: Whoo Whoo! God damn it, I was going to say the same thing. [Bubb Rubb,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnzw_i4YmKk) including his commentary on breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/28 "2011-12-13T21:20:46Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > He doesn’t find this an issue because HE’S up early in the morning. And working too. He thinks if he can tough it out, others can too. And he thinks people should be up by then cooking breakfast…it’s like an alarm clock. We don’t all work day shift. Your friend is an inconsiderate dolt. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/29 "2011-12-13T22:22:18Z")
I think driving while unable to stay awake and you have to honk your horn to do so is not such a hot idea and maybe be illegal too. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/30 "2011-12-13T23:54:58Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > I think driving while unable to stay awake and you have to honk your horn to do so is not such a hot idea and maybe be illegal too. So’s DUI. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/31 "2011-12-14T00:37:11Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > We deliver during the early morning hours. You’re doing this while delivering something? And you think that’s going to keep you anonymous? Uh. Well, you go right along thinking that, you smarty. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/32 "2011-12-14T13:10:18Z")
> [@mrklutz](#): > > You and your co-worker are both unmitigated assholes. > [@Kaio](#): > > And yes, you are also an asshole for finding it funny. As has been mentioned,there is a pit thread, which is where these type comments belong. Don’t insult people here; there are plenty of other ways of getting your point across. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/33 "2012-05-09T13:11:53Z")
There’s this thing called “caffeine”. It’s even legal. You and your friend might have heard of it. That’s how _some_ of us handle being sleepy in the morning but having to drive. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/34 "2012-05-09T14:00:46Z")
Sure **Anne** YOU think this thread should wake up but it worked hard all last year and deserves it’s sleep! ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/35 "2012-05-09T14:05:45Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > Sure **Anne** YOU think this thread should wake up but it worked hard all last year and deserves it’s sleep! I need some more caffeine. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/36 "2012-05-09T14:25:47Z")
Everything you’re ever going to be, you’re currently in the process of ‘becoming’. And what you’re training yourself to be is jerkish, to put it mildly. The muscle you exercise is the one that grows stronger. Saying, ‘well, he hasn’t actually fallen asleep yet, that I know of’, is pretty poor reasoning, for an adult, when addressing the, ‘he could kill someone,’ facts. You can see that much, right? I’m a big fan of the laws of karma, so I can just view you both as sad, sad creatures. You were gifted enough intellect to see how jerkish this is, how dangerous, yet you choose to get a giggle and ignore the rest. Yeah, the life lessons you and your friend are begging, to have rain down on you, are pretty harsh, but, hey, y’know, keep on doin’ what you’re doin’ I’m sure it will all work out somehow. Tell us, you gonna find it amusing, have a laugh, when he kills someone with his car? Can we count on you to ‘find the humour’, when you could have seen this coming a mile away? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/37 "2012-05-09T14:32:35Z")
We had this clown of a tradesman who would drive to work at 5 am every morning with his dogs in his truck barking their heads off. I guess he found it funny as hell. He was an arsehole. ---
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048/38 "2012-05-25T13:27:44Z")
God, yes. There is some moron who drives by my house frequently, honking at his friends who live across the street. I find this very annoying and this is in the afternoon when I’m wide awake. I was under the impression that car horns are to be used only in emergency situations. Using it to salute your friends is not an emergency situation. It can also be dangerous as it’s the equivalent of sneaking up behind someone and screaming “Boo!!!” I’ve just about jumped out of my chair many times so I can imagine how someone with a heart condition feels about it… :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-against-the-law/606048.md?page=1)