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  • Hurricane conditions are expected to hit New York in the early hours of Sunday, with the eye of the storm brushing over the city at about 10am EDT.Police patrolled Zone A with loud hailers on Saturday evening, and volunteers knocked on doors in public housing areas with offers of transport, but many residents were refusing to leave.

    Hurricane Irene: Michael Bloomberg makes last-ditch evacuation plea 2011

  • People used to say rude things about him over loud hailers during street demonstrations so he banned those as well.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » God bless you, big insurance company. 2009

  • Occupy Wall Street protesters have been swelled with union activists: there are loud hailers, printed placards and a crowd that's somewhat older than the usual OWS lot.

    Occupy Wall Street day of action – live coverage 2011

  • Police imposed a shutdown of the village yesterday morning, ordering residents to lock their doors and stay inside while armed officers in body armour and helmets patrolled the streets using loud-hailers to try to reassure them.

    Raoul Moat: Police scour woodland around Rothbury for fugitive gunman 2010

  • If not my card would be cancelled, my bank account immobilised, the Banque de France notified, and helicopters would be dispatched to hover outside my apartment window so that men in uniforms could shout at me over their loud hailers and/or airbourne snipers could get me in their sights.

    fraud 2008

  • If not my card would be cancelled, my bank account immobilised, the Banque de France notified, and helicopters would be dispatched to hover outside my apartment window so that men in uniforms could shout at me over their loud hailers and/or airbourne snipers could get me in their sights.

    fraud 2008

  • A new viral video on YouTube features a cyclist riding through New York City, high-fiving oblivious taxicab-hailers as he passes.

    Guy on Bike High-Fives Cab Hailers in NYC 2009

  • Is it my imagination, or do New York cab drivers pick me and my St. John over other hailers during rush hour?

    The Suit That Turns Me Into a VIP 2008

  • It blows like a fog through the streets of Beirut these days, creeping down the laneways where policemen – who may or may not work for the forces of law and order – shout their instructions through loud-hailers. '

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Robert Fisk: Dinner in Beirut, and a lesson in courage 2007

  • It blows like a fog through the streets of Beirut these days, creeping down the laneways where policemen – who may or may not work for the forces of law and order – shout their instructions through loud-hailers.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Robert Fisk: Dinner in Beirut, and a lesson in courage 2007

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