Used to have a friend, lived in [CITY REDACTED FOR HIS SAFETY].
He bought a house lot at the end of the cul-de-sac, when they were first developing the area. He also bought, oh, about 4 or 5 lots on each side of the road, counting from the end. The back of the cul-de-sac was up against the mountains, and a federal preserve. So, there's nobody behind him - and never will be - and there's nobody coming up the road toward him, and never will be.
His yard is an interesting place. There's a lot of stuff out there, all stored neatly. Everything from (and this is just stuff that I've found out there) the propeller from a Sopwith Camel, the complete drivetrain from an early 70's Porsche, an ACES II ejection seat, tools, miscellaneous gadgets and such of all sorts.
And some locomotive parts.
And a big fucking air tank.
Well, down at the end of the street, they built a Mosque and a Muslim school. It's been about 30-35 years since he retired, and that area of the city has built up a lot.
They started playing prayers every day on their
PA system. My friend isn't a big fan of the towel, and the prayers got real old, real quick.
So he went out in the back yard and fired up the forklift and moved the air tank to his front yard. He set some stacks of railroad ties up to build about a 20-foot tower. Then he scavenged in the pile of locomotive parts and came up with some horns. And some pipe. This went between the horns and the air tank, and the horns went on top of the air tank.
The length of time required for the horns to use all the air in the tank is, coincidentally, about the same as the length of prayers. The length of time required for his compressor to refill the tank is about the same, coincidentally, as the length of time between prayers.
After a couple days the ragheads decided to stop playing prayers over the speakers.
(incidentally, this guy has more Class III hardware than I've ever seen before in my life. He has a habit of surprising people in his living room with full mag dumps from an M4 with a blank firing adapter.)
