{"id":7770,"date":"2013-04-27T20:25:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T00:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=7770"},"modified":"2013-04-27T20:25:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T00:25:02","slug":"annual-hog-migration-roars-into-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/04\/27\/annual-hog-migration-roars-into-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual hog migration roars into North Country"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A proud (and noisy) Harley rider (Photo: Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

I know, I know, I’ve written this blog post before.<\/p>\n

But until I’ve won over every Harley owner in America, I’m going to keep muttering about you guys and your ridiculous, raucous imposition on the rest of us.<\/p>\n

So here goes:<\/p>\n

Your hobby is too damned loud!\u00a0 Wait.\u00a0 Hold on a second, let me get my megaphone so you can hear me over your absurdly engineered toys:\u00a0 YOUR HOBBY IS TOO DAMNED LOUD!!!!!<\/em><\/p>\n

This morning I was working in my garden, minding my daffodils and my own darn business, when a caravan of big trucks went rumbling past.<\/p>\n

A logging truck, a milk truck, a fuel truck.\u00a0 None of them exactly sneaking by on slippered feet.\u00a0 But hey, no problem.\u00a0 Those guys are earning their living, doing their jobs, providing important services.<\/p>\n

I’m grumpy, and prefer not to have my coffee cup rattled out of my hand, but I’m not irrational.<\/p>\n

But then the motorcycles turned up, like the swallows returning to Capistrano, and I swear to the Ear Drum gods, these things were three times louder than the logging truck.<\/p>\n

Great brapping gouts of noise, all produced by a few middle aged guys, out for a Saturday drive, blithely invading my air (and ear) space.<\/p>\n

I know there’s no cure for this mania.\u00a0 Dudes who want to roar up and down the North Country on the mechanical equivalent of giant kazoos will cling to their hogs until someone pries the handlebars out of their cold, dead fingers.<\/p>\n

(Which, if you read the safety statistics for these goofy overgrown Bigwheels, isn’t exactly out of the question…)<\/p>\n

But I can still complain can’t I? \u00a0 I can point out how utterly, absurdly silly you sound, like a kid on a bicycle with playing cards rattling in the spokes.<\/p>\n

I can still stand at the edge of the road and shake my fistful of daffodils, shouting Curse you William Harley, and a pox on your house Arthur Davidson!<\/em><\/p>\n

Not that anyone can hear me over the unholy din.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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