If you drive regularly you probably listen to the radio from time to time, and in my case BBC Radio 2 is my station of choice, I do like a bit of the Jeremy Vine show.
But what annoys me is when songs with sirens or horns are played on the radio. How many times have you been trundling along and suddenly hear what you believe to be a police car or ambulance. You check your mirrors, look in your blind spot, trying to work out if you need to pull over. Unable to locate said vehicle, and slightly confused you assume it was in the distance and continue your drive. But alas, yonder sound does alight in your ears once more (I don't know why I went all Elizabethan either), and again you can't locate the source of the siren. Then it dawns on you, it was on the radio, some idiot decided to put the sound of a police car on the song, and some bigger idiot chose that song for the play-list
Everybody knows (yes mum, I put in the Cohen reference) that 99.99999% of all radio listening occurs in a motor vehicle, so it doesn't take a genius to realise broadcasting such sounds can be incredibly dangerous. Imagine if each of the ~8million drive time audience simultaneously started checking their mirrors, how many thousands would perish in the 'Great blind-spot check of 2011'
Therefore I call on the UK government, no the ECJ to legislate that any song containing a siren, alarm or horn should be banned from radio broadcast.
I'm a public service you know.
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