Sono solo io, o questi camion stanno sfuggendo completamente di mano?
Ogni giorno ce n’è uno che guida lentamente per le strade residenziali suonando il clacson a un volume folle come se fosse un veicolo di emergenza. Non un segnale acustico veloce. Non un normale avvisatore acustico. Solo suoni di clacson costanti e aggressivi attraverso le strette strade del quartiere dove le persone lavorano da casa, i bambini dormono, gli anziani riposano e tutti gli altri cercano solo di esistere in pace.
Mi risulta che stiano fornendo dei servizi e che le persone abbiano bisogno della consegna delle bombole di gas. Bene. Ma sicuramente nel 2026 non abbiamo bisogno di un camion che urla per la strada come un banditore medievale su ruote. Usa gli ordini WhatsApp, le consegne programmate, un campanello, un’app, letteralmente qualsiasi cosa che non sia assordare l’intero quartiere ogni volta che passi.
La parte peggiore è che non è nemmeno una breve visita. Girano intorno, si fermano, ripartono, suonano di nuovo il clacson, fanno 20 metri, suonano di nuovo il clacson. È come un inquinamento acustico forzato senza alcuna considerazione per i residenti.
Esiste effettivamente qualche regola contro questo a Malta, o accettiamo semplicemente che le strade residenziali possano essere trasformate in un percorso mobile di sirene da nebbia ogni volta che qualcuno vende bombole?
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di CatalinaMendez
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What I don’t get, he passes by my house, honks and keeps going, doesn’t even stop, does he just like making noise or smth. Mind you, the street is very long so it’s not like he stops round the corner… I see him keep going…
The gas guy, the lampuki guy, the vegetable guy. It is all part of the nature. Embrace.
“everyone else is just trying to exist in peace.”
not in malta, especially close to streets.
I feel that this is sort of a Maltese tradition, it has been like this since before I was before and I always remember it like this. Annoying when it wakes you up, but its ingrained in our daily lives
These trucks exist in other countries as well get over it !
Apparently there is some regulations. Some years ago mine posted a letter from an authority that threatened to fine him for having a modified horn. And the brain-dead people on Facebook were on his site and complained how else they should know he is in their street.
Culture bro
This system is highly outdated. There should be a number or app that people use to book gas cylinders. Better than having these trucks blasting their horns loudly around town. And another thing, god forbid one of these explodes.
There should be other ways of facilitating this:
Consumer sticks a Gas Bottle flag or card in their window…
Truck driver broadcasts his location on WhatsApp
Or people book with a text message
The UK has the ice cream van. Japan has the warabi-mochi van. Malta, apparently, has the gas van.
Inbreeding also used to be part of Maltese culture, but then people stopped doing it (I think) once they realised it wasn’t such a great idea.
What most people don’t know is that it’s perfectly legal to throw fruit peel and / or water on them from the balcony when they do their noise.
Mine comes once a week, where do you live that he comes every day?
One day, sooner or later, someone will make the extreme act make of those truck explode. It’s not an if, it’s a when. /s
Jokes aside, I am quite sure in 2026 we can come up with something more clever than just a truck running around the island
I love Malta since my march visit, but using of horn only in emergency is one good sign of a civilization.