Montreal snow removal - tow truck warning siren

I just moved to the city, and when I first heard this at 8AM I thought my neighbor was ignoring their alarm clock. But apparently it is the warning siren telling people to move their cars for snow removal or else they will get towed.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Montreal
• Montréal
• snow removal
• tow truck
• siren
• horn
• déneigement

[Farricelli]

How much time between the warning and the towing?

[shzzztodanizz]

@Farricelli they will drive around as a warning an hour or so before, but as the plow gets closer to your street they will do one or two final passes where the truck stops at your car and turns on the siren. At that point you have about 15 minutes before you get towed.

[Audinos]

It's like a Martinshorn on crack.

[raakone]

@Coolsim450 I wonder, was there more compliance back when they had the special no-parking lights. The problem is, the city got a raw deal for powering them from HQ, so they replaced them with those clip on signs....that lots of people seem to treat as some kind of decoration. Meaning others get that alarm clock they don't want!

[coreysteele09]

This horn shit makes me want to jump off the roof!!! What an annoying freaking noise. Too bad if people don't move their cars...I parked mine on Sherbrooke and saw the temporary No Parking signs that said no parking from 1900 to 700. I went out at 6:30 and moved my car to a spot where I could park. If no one else does that...then to damned bad. Why should the whole neighborhood suffer?? The first time they did this was like 3am to 5am was awake for the whole night!!!!!! FML!!!!

[AVaneDew]

@Farricelli Sometimes they don't even blow the horns at all. Really irritates the hell out of me when they don't...

[MsMarinaTan]

sounds like my pokemon gonna faint from getting hurt by poison

[youarenotallboring]

I think they should just tow all the cars and dump them in a lake somewhere. Fuck this worthless city.

[nick06111226]

not an ideal alarm clock

[Laudrien]

I´m glad they don´t do that around here. I would not want to wake up to that...

[tordenmann]

I woke up 7 AM to this shit sound today, ruining my 3 hours of sleep. This is the most retarded shit i've ever come across anywhere. Whatever idiot in the quebec/montreal whatever fucking government who decided this would be OK is a fucking prick.