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Might I inquire as to what this means? Nerd emoticon
It's a notation I borrowed from Patrick. It is my ratio of working scooters to non-working scooters.
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It's a notation I borrowed from Patrick. It is my ratio of working scooters to non-working scooters.
Actually, that includes two motorcycles.
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All jokes aside, could there be any sane explanation for what happened to us today? I could understand if just one of us heard the radio noise, but we BOTH heard it. Both of us can't be nuts, can we? Goofy emoticon
The voices in my head said to tell you not to worry about it. Everything is just as it should be.
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Did you know that at this moment in Italy it is five ( and twenty-two minutes) in the morning and it is still night?
And I'm with the phone in my hand talking to you ... Wonders of progress ...
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It's a notation I borrowed from Patrick. It is my ratio of working scooters to non-working scooters.
You have eight non-opps? No bueno.
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You have eight non-opps? No bueno.
Yeah, seriously. Some of them were never going to run -- parts bikes, etc. But the rest of them have, at minimum, dead batteries and old gas.

Trying to remedy the situation. Will reduce the second number as a starting point.
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Yeah, seriously. Some of them were never going to run -- parts bikes, etc. But the rest of them have, at minimum, dead batteries and old gas.

Trying to remedy the situation. Will reduce the second number as a starting point.
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I have too many scooters. And too many possessions in general. Enough that I've become a slave to what I own.

Time for a change.
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I have too many scooters. And too many possessions in general. Enough that I've become a slave to what I own.

Time for a change.
I know the feeling, all too well.
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I have too many scooters. And too many possessions in general. Enough that I've become a slave to what I own.

Time for a change.
I don't have too many scooters but I sometimes feel like I live in a storage unit bursting at the seams. Facepalm emoticon I try to slip stuff into the garbage or donation pile occasionally, but something always comes along to replace it.
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Yeah its been a time to recognize what's really important. If I may, I would suggest holding on to your absolute favorite before getting rid of everything. Hope you find your peace.
Hope we all do real soon! Scooter emoticon
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Yeah, seriously. Some of them were never going to run -- parts bikes, etc. But the rest of them have, at minimum, dead batteries and old gas.

Trying to remedy the situation. Will reduce the second number as a starting point.
Here’s to helping you get that number down in the very near future!

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(I’d post my own number, but it’s down right embarrassing)
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I still really want to know the answer to this. Specifically, if it sounded like classical music. Not kidding at all.

And what specific intersection it occurred at, too, if you can.
So classical means Pfizer and Moderna means hiphop?
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You own & ride a Vespa, you are the outlier in this country (U.S.) therefore you are crazy, thus you hear things & ask other crazy folks to diagnose what those sounds could be, do ya really believe we can give you an reasonable explanation as to why you heard them sounds .
I think you should revisit the place a few times, once at the same time as when you first heard it possibly even the same day and then go back at different time and see if you hear the same sounds, if you don't then you can assume it to be a one off event and contemplate about it over wine.
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Long shot - Is there any chance someone put a speaker near the stop sign? Either to spread musical joy, as an art installation, to f*%$ with passers-by, or some other crazy ass reason? I have an old battery powered boombox that I’m going to go put by a stop sign right now (see reason #3 above)…Thanks for the inspiration!
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The wife and I were out riding our Vespas today in a predominately rural area in Virginia. We came to a stop at a stop sign and then we both heard a radio playing. Now, other than our iphones (that were turned off), we had no other streaming devices on either of us, or on our bikes. Neither of our helmets is equipped with bluetooth headsets. There were no houses or cars in the immediate vicinity. The radio noise stopped as soon as we pulled away from the stop sign and neither of us heard it again. It literally sounded like it was coming off my GT 200. WTF? Are we BOTH crazy? Any ideas what could be going on?
So, you've just abandoned this thread?
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In the early 1980's my brother had a record player with an aux amp and we used to pick up the signal from a radioham that lived a couple of houses down the road. Based on his replies to us mucking around as kids, he could hear us too.

Hopefully we didn't mess with his head too much.
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this may sound equally as crazy, but I get a resonance from time to time as well.

granted, my hearing is compromised from years of loud ass mechanical work (and maybe some concerts here and there) but I'll pick up the same from time to time.

there's something when running the AC and the fan or running the fan in the kitchen and living room that straight up sounds like either music playing or the radio is broadcasting the dodger game.

and not faintly. like, me getting out of bed and unplugging the radio because I thought it was still on. and, straight up play by play calls or full tilt songs start to finish. no snippets or anything. like broadcasts...

I know I'm crazy but it makes me feel *crazierer*
This happens to me as well. We have an air purifier we run at night and if I lay in a certain position I hear either music (classical or oddly bluegrass) or what sounds like an animated conversation. It is convincing enough that I will sit up certain the TV is on in the living room an and it instantly stops.
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Best thread ever. Well, unless the OP was actually abducted by aliens / government. In which case just posting here is probably a bad idea.

It all reminded me of this.

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Hi-Fi Gilligan is the tenth episode of the second season of Gilligan's Island. It first aired November 25, 1965.

Synopsis
Through the Radio, the Professor is tracking a typhoon about to hit the Island, and the Skipper and Gilligan are stocking supplies to ride it out in a cave. The Skipper, however, accidentally strikes Gilligan in the jaw with a crate, causing one of the fillings in his mouth to act as a receiver. This is an ideal solution for the Castaways as the Professor is using the radio. Ginger and Mary Ann use Gilligan to listen to their exercise program, but at night, the Skipper can't sleep with all the noise. Gilligan wanders the Island disturbing everyone else trying to sleep. He eventually crosses over where the Professor is trying to track the storm, stumbling and fixing his teeth but breaking the radio. Unable to track the storm, the Professor is desperate to fix the radio. Gilligan, meanwhile, offers to have the Skipper re-smack his tooth into a receiver to help the Professor, eventually smacking himself in the head and resetting the tooth. With Gilligan's tooth acting as a receiver again, the Professor realizes the storm is coming right at them and everyone takes refuge in the cave, which contains the supplies, but it isn't big enough to hold all of them. They draw straws to determine who will have to leave the cave. Gilligan secretly shortens his straw to spare the others, but eventually, everyone leaves the cave to stick it out with him. With everyone out of the cave, a lightning bolt strikes it, caving it in as Gilligan effectively saves their lives.
In my wife's last house we used to pick up a nearby ham radio operator through her computer speaker wiring. Never knew when it was going to happen.
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This happens to me as well. We have an air purifier we run at night and if I lay in a certain position I hear either music (classical or oddly bluegrass) or what sounds like an animated conversation. It is convincing enough that I will sit up certain the TV is on in the living room an and it instantly stops.
glad I'm not the only one!

I'll get bluegrass or older country, ska or oddly 80's classic rock? and they're full songs too! but it's the dodger game being called so clearly that it made get out of bed and go to the kitchen and unplug the radio. and the wild part? it was a game from the past!

for animated conversation, I have my neighbors... that's a whole 'nother thread...
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Bluegrass in Indiana I can understand, but in SoCal? You guys listening to Bill Monroe?
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I still really want to know the answer to this. Specifically, if it sounded like classical music. Not kidding at all.

And what specific intersection it occurred at, too, if you can.
I don't believe music was mentioned, just a radio?
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I don't believe music was mentioned, just a radio?
Fair point.
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Our site: https://www.centroufologiconazionale.net/

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The case series * includes 12,432 reports from 1900 to 2015.
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Bluegrass in Indiana I can understand, but in SoCal? You guys listening to Bill Monroe?
Funny you said that. A few nights ago I could of sworn I was hearing "Casey Jones." Garcia would be proud of the circle back.
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Funny you said that. A few nights ago I could of sworn I was hearing "Casey Jones." Garcia would be proud of the circle back.
I have several of his ties.
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Bluegrass in Indiana I can understand, but in SoCal? You guys listening to Bill Monroe?
yes. yes we are. and we may or may not make some moonshine out here too. it ain't mountain dew, but more like valley turbo. and maybe a bit of hi-test vodka.

there's a crazy thriving country/bluegrass scene out here.

personally I'm a fan of the later open hand banjo. but I'll get down with anything from a washboard and jug to later Waylon. let's party.
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Jess,

I think Jess has the answer. There is a large Radio Broadcasting Tower on the edge of
the metro area in Minneapolis. If you drive close to it, their rock and roll music will
over ride your current radio station being played in your car. I have even heard their
music when the radio was turned off. Further, when you pick up your (Land Line Phone)
the dial tone is over taken by the rock music from this tower.

Also, there is atmospheric skip. Under clear night weather conditions, a radio signal
can bounce off the upper atmosphere and show up clear across the country. I
was driving in the middle of the night in Wyoming with my radio on to a local soft
rock radio station. All of a sudden my soft rock station was over taken by a talk
radio show WCCO from Minneapolis. I knew WCCO because I am from Minneapolis.

So, Jess has it. No one is crazy. They got zapped by a +1000 Watt Radio Signal. There
are some religious radio stations in the South that transmit at 50,000 Wats.

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Bluegrass in Indiana I can understand, but in SoCal? You guys listening to Bill Monroe?
Syd, I've been buying Bluegrass LPs since the late 70's ... and if we hear it here in Italy, hearing it in the US should be as common as accordion music here. I like "Bluegrass revival".
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yes. yes we are. and we may or may not make some moonshine out here too. it ain't mountain dew, but more like valley turbo. and maybe a bit of hi-test vodka.

there's a crazy thriving country/bluegrass scene out here.

personally I'm a fan of the later open hand banjo. but I'll get down with anything from a washboard and jug to later Waylon. let's party.
Since Los Angeles has been settled by people from ... just about everywhere, you can probably find just about anything you're looking for. There are mini malls all over the San Fernando Valley (where I live) that will have four different little eating places from four different parts of the world.

I once taught in a public elementary school where the kids - not just their families, but the kids themselves - were born in 45 different countries.

I live on a little private street with four houses on it. My wife and I are white/Jewish, the next house has a Japanese family. The next family are from the Philippines. And the fourth house is occupied by an Indian family with a Black son-in-law.

My son-in-law moved here from Appalachia.

One of the historical centers of country music is 90 miles north in Bakersfield, which is technically in Southern California (but not really).

So, bluegrass? No surprise.
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Since Los Angeles has been settled by people from ... just about everywhere, you can probably find just about anything you're looking for. There are mini malls all over the San Fernando Valley (where I live) that will have four different little eating places from four different parts of the world.

I once taught in a public elementary school where the kids - not just their families, but the kids themselves - were born in 45 different countries.

I live on a little private street with four houses on it. My wife and I are white/Jewish, the next house has a Japanese family. The next family are from the Philippines. And the fourth house is occupied by an Indian family with a Black son-in-law.

My son-in-law moved here from Appalachia.

One of the historical centers of country music is 90 miles north in Bakersfield, which is technically in Southern California (but not really).

So, bluegrass? No surprise.
when you hear Buck or Merle, you place your hand over your heart and face the south. south Bakersfield.

but frank hit it on the head. the SFV is like the wild Wild West. every intersection has a strip mall, gas station, used car lot and liquor store. you have the Indian guy at the gas station with the giant parrot who likes yelling at his sons, he listens to classical music. James, who is Korean runs the liquor store, he likes 80's butt rock. the king kabob is skaf who's Lebanese, it's all 60's garage and fuzz. the water/smoke shop is a Armenian drug front, they play euro death metal on like, 11. the asian nail salon plays mellow yoga music. the donut shop, run by a Cambodian guy plays old school country.

go two blocks in any direction and it's entirely the same in its own crazy wacky hodge-podge way of having exactly the same businesses and totally different owners.
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I’d definitely go back to that spot and spend some time there and try to make sense of it
Or at least, you know, come back to the thread.
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