For the last few months, every single (weekday) morning in Braddon there is the strangest sound at around 6.30am – it sounds like a dodgey car horn (like when your battery is going flat) but it goes for about 15 seconds, then stops, then goes again. i thought it was some moron honking their horn to alert their carpool buddy to get their ass downstairs or something – but it is too loud for that.
It can be heard from different parts of braddon (I hear it from my apartment and when out walking at that hour)
Anyone know what it is? It is sooooooo very annoying!!! Suspect it is coming from one of the many nearby building sites… maybe some sort of ‘start work’ siren or safety thing?
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It’s the call of the female drop bear.
yea its the stupid alarm thing on the telstra building
There is an extremely loud car at the end of my street in Braddon that starts up about that time every morning, he warms it up for a few minutes then flogs it down Torrens Street. I’m not a car enthusiast but it sounds tough. Used to wake me up each morning but I’ve gotten used to it.
I’ve heard this too. It sounded exactly like a car horn with the battery running right out. After a while it would stop and then start up again. From what I know about car horns it seems very unlikely its that. If I was you I would pursue memmum21’s bird call idea.
For the record, it was well over a year ago (since moved to beautiful Brisbane) and I lived right at the Northbourne end of Condamine Street in Turner. I just assumed that it was another of the strange goings on at northbourne flats.
I’d say it’s a dodgy siren connected to the reverse gear of a vehicle
Exception said :
I saw her at Moosheads last week, although she was squealing from 2.30am
An unwell rooster?
Darkfalz said :
Or the gutter cleaning truck (tech term)?
Ben_Dover said :
+1
Though its a bit early for the denizens of Ainslie village to be up. Pubs aren’t open at that time…
thanks all… hmmm Bacon from Braddon… tasty…
the noise is defintely mechanical… and the same time every morning (and no it’s not my alarm clock) 😉
Braddon always has strange noises – my next door neighbours have a massive pig in their backyard and it starts squealing from about 5:30am onwards……bacon anyone???
….. have you checked your alarm clock 🙂
EvanJames said :
Gold!!
When I read the title I thought it was going to be a hot air balloon. But if it has been happening for months, probably not.
Perhaps an air compressor on one of the building sites?
A garbage truck with a dodgy reversing beeper?
My brother was telling me about a sound he was repeatedly hearing in his neighbourhood and we finally solved the mystery. It was the mating call of a male Koel bird. If you go to the following link check out if it the horn sound is the same as this bird??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvzzsItJ9D8&feature=related
I hear sounds all the time at night around Braddon. Sounds like a generator running or something, a low, loud hum from an indeterminable place – maybe Merici college. Could be their air conditioner systems firing up.
Feeding time at Ainslie Village.
Bunyip.
No doubt flushed downstream by recent rains.
Hydraulics on one of the tower cranes?