I don’t know what they’re called but you’ve heard ’em. Those loud base woofers in the trunks of car’s that blast the base so loud you can hear them a city block away.
I say city block because I’m in Chicago and it’s true, I can hear them a block (1/8 mile) away. I think it’s obnoxious and annoying, especially in a place that already has too much noise pollution.
IMHO, it should be outlawed. Any sound that can be heard 100 feet from the vehicle spewing it out should call for an immediate drivers license suspension and 10 days in a box with the same music(?) playing at full volume and no switch to turn it off.
Okay, that’s pretty extreme. But what do you think? should there be a law against it? Noise pollution, maybe?
– WebTrooper –
“booooom buboooboooom booom bubooobooooom booooooooooooooooooooom”
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There probably is a law against it already, if the sound is coming from a residence. I dont think there is in a moving vehicle violaton here to music , but you could check.
Tim Mooney
absolutely , there needs to a law , we have as much right to quiet as anyone playing a boom box has to play it, it's like hollywood and everything else thats gone corrupt the world has become a place of every man for himself with no respect for what other people might think or feel.
you started a great topic lets see what others think about it .
just maybe we can jumpstart people into being a little more considerate of there neighbor
Oops - me and my big mouth.
I just posed the question because as I'm sitting here on a Sunday afternoon, working(?) on my computer, a beat up old Caprice pulled up right in front of my open window. Boom box shaking the rust off his car, he starts blowing his horn in liew of learning how to use a doorbell. He was there only a minute, fortunately, before my juvenile delinquent neighbor kids come running out and jumped in the car, and off they went. I'm tellin ya - I'm getting real tired of this city.
- WebTrooper -
Edited 7/7/2002 3:40:16 PM ET by WEBTROOPER
That's a good idea. I can't imagine someone playing that in the closed quarters of their car and not eventually suffering some sort of inner ear damage. It will also affect their passengers. I've even seen (heard) cars with their children in the back seat while making that noise.
It's also a distraction to the other drivers. Safety issue!
- WebTrooper -
Not only those things, but what about these loud freakin motorcycles? Do they REALLY need to be so freakin loud? So much for a nice, quiet Sunday. Hmmmm, maybe they'll hear my 12 gauge.
Right on Dave...
$15K Harley, can't afford a $50 muffler. Same idiot who buys the motorboat with the open pipe.
Loud Pipes Saves Lives. Bet you cagers see me when I ride by on my Harley, even if you don't like it. Bet you didn't see that garbage truck Honda Gold Wing till he glided by and you nearly (or did) hit him. As for the loud stereos, there are laws on the books. However, most Police Dept.s are overwhelmed w/ emergency calls to deal with it frequently. Try some creative problem solving. If it is a neighbor that stays up late, get up early and play the bagpipes under his window. You don't know how to play you say, not a problem just try hard, learning is half the fun. OR try getting some spanish learning tapes and play them loud at the same time of day when he is trying to sleep. Lobby for speed bumps or rumple strips or lots of stop signs or one way designation for your street. Make it hard for them and they will follow the path of least resistance. I could care less about a boat w/o mufflers, sound downright dumb. Most of the loud car stereo stuff is for attention, unless they park and keep me awake, I don't mind them just driving around. I don't sit and blast my pipes or tune my bike at 3am, I try to be somewhat considerate. If it bothers you alot, move to the country. Its better out here anyway. Kids will be stupid, thats one of their job duties. Live to ride, Ride to live. If I have to explain, you wouldn't understand.
The base is bad, no question about that, but what I find even more offensive is the idiots who play "music" (Mostly rap) that is full of language and explicit descriptions of sex and violence while I am sitting in the next car with my five year old daughter. Yesterday we were at the beach and a guy brings down a boombox and starts playing his crap. we packed up and moved off, but it was already too late. My daughter asked when we reached the new spot to set up. "Daddy, why would someone want to lick a ####?"
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If you can get the police to come out to catch a boombox car, you're either living in a really really small town or your brother-in-law is a cop. Richard James Tolzman
What if we all reported the license plate numbersof the offenders. Wouldn't some plates tend to get reported a lot. Then they could at least recieve a notice in the mail that they are receiving a lot of complaints. That may cut down on it at least a little.
I know around here a cop will pull them over "If the cop hears it". If they already have a bunch of called in complaints that might qualify them for a DL suspension. Driving, after all, is a privelage. Not a right.
I think that police for the most part are not going to come out for a loud boombox vehicle. They hardly want to come out for more serious offenses. They have their priorities.
This is a long way around to the solution, but the answer is for people to have consideration for one another. Music is the pulse of a young generation and they don't want to listen to anything else, and they don't want anyone else to listen to anything else.
I don't have the answer to your problem. Richard James Tolzman
"Loud Pipes Saves Lives. "
...and keeps my 10-month-old up when you decide to rev your POS harley every 10 minutes while it's parked in your buddies driveway as you tell him how your day went down at the junk yard.
A harley can be a beautiful thing. When you have to crank it that loud though, it just shows shows your insecure little ego.
Read my post, I am considerate of my neighbors. I don't ride late at night, I don't crack the pipes for no reason. Most Harleys are no louder than a semi downshifting or sirens. My ego is fine, its other peoples crappy driving that sucks. Another rider died just the other day here in SE Ohio when some darn fool tried to turn left onto the highway in front of a bike. Bet they may have seen them if they could have heard them. By the way, if you sit and idle a Harley in a driveway for any length of time you are a fool. Harleys are air cooled, you do that and you will have a dead, or very poorly running Harley soon, the engine will seize. My 2 month old daughter has no problem sleeping when I ride out/in. I agree that there are some idiots out there, sounds like your neighbor is one, sorry, but not all of us Harley riders are. Oh and I don't work at a junk yard. I think they are called automobile reclamation centers or some such nonsense now.
"Read my post, I am considerate of my neighbors."
Ah Ralph, I didn't mean to sound like I was yapping at you...I was just venting about the trashy neighbors across the street...
(And I DO look like Harleys...)
Most Harleys are no louder than a semi downshifting or sirens.
Such a deal! Ever been to europe dude? They got bikes everywhere, can hardly hear them, why is that?
"...it just shows shows your insecure little ego."
Are you sure its a little ego that they are trying to compensate for?Yes, I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.
I see the point on the loud pipes. Some are excessive though.
BUT... this stereo stuff goes beyond attention getting. It is aggressive assault... pure and simple.
Paying attention and using your brains saves lives.
I've driven plenty of bikes that have been designed with social decency in mind and not some loser looking for attention in mind.
Ride with respect and get respect. Ride like a jerk and the whole world knows your a jerk.
Ralph,
If it bothers you alot, move to the country
Dude, I did just that, live out in the freekin sticks, got my own 40, house sits 600 ft off the road behind trees. All went well, nice quiet neighbors until the last lot, 1/2 mile away, was purchased by some Detroit a#####e who decided to bring all his atv crap with him. He's bad enough but now the dirt bag bought dirt bikes for his grandkids. Nothing like passing on the love obnoxious noise to your children. His closest neighbor is an ex navy seal, moved here for the same reason I did, he is not taking this lying down. I got my bets on Dan the demolition man.
Most of you readers don't have to deal with it but up here in snow country we get blasted with snowmobiles all winter. Its a sport that caters to alcohol and speed, namely racing form bar to bar and getting drunk on your #### while traveling 80mph through the dark. This is one of the few places left where they are still allowed to ride on the county roads, our local hospital almost closed up several years back for lack of business now they do quite well during the winter. During the summer the foliage muffels some of the sound, winter gets a double dossage, no leaves and the cold air carries sound a longer distance. The cops have started cracking down on the problem and had great success in increasing revenues to the county, at $100 a ticket it's became kind of a windfall. I opposed the ticket program wanting instead that the names of the offenders be posted on a billboard in the center of town, complete with home address and sleeping hours. Thus when the locals go on vacation they could scan the billboard and see if any of these badasses are within driving distance. Payback time, if you get the picture.
You're all gonna love this one. It happened a year ago but it's worth telling.
I was waiting at a red light on a four lane (2 each way) inside lane. A car with some young punks pulled up next to me in a new corvette. Now get this - I'm driving my rust bucket, old beater work van. The driver sits back looking cool and all and starts looking over at me. Well, up at me. Anyway, he starts reving his engin like he wants to race. Now, sto laughing. That's not the funny part.
Up ahead I could see a cop car in front of the semi that was parked just up past the light. The Vette driver couldn't see it from his angle. So I gave him a sort of a "kiss my ####" look and put her in neutral. Soon as the light changed I floored it. Lots of noise but I'm still sitting there. He, on the other hand, burned rubber right up to the squad car then screeched to a stop when he realized it. I made sure he saw me laughing my #### of when I cruized by him, just as the cop was walking up to his door.
- WebTrooper -
"One more for the road"
Yea I forgot about that aspect. One of my neighbors kids does the same thing. Because of the lay of the land, I dont hear or see it for the most part, but the kid has been using my other neighbors property as a racetrack with a fourwheeler without permisssion. This neighbor is a perfectionist and spent a lot of money on his yard and landscaping. I think it will be an interesting little war. I would put my money on the SEAL too. Overall though I like living in the country better. A different neighbor of mine likes to ride his son's little 50cc minitrail bike up the 2lane highway on the wrong side and around a blind turn. Lots of concrete trucks and rigs. Big man, little bike. I think that "Vehicular Darwinism" will solve that problem soon enough. Just remember there does not seem to be a good way to regulate stupidity. Every time you think you have solved it, someone fools you by being even dumber.
Yeah, those damn bass boomers can be very obnoxious and distracting. You know, they run industry-sponsored competitions for them to see who's car stereo installation is the loudest. The big winners have rigs that are operated by remote control, because, to be inside the vehicle or to have the windows open would do serious bodily harm.
Ken Hill
Edited 7/9/2002 2:40:00 AM ET by Ken Hill
Edited 7/9/2002 2:40:18 AM ET by Ken Hill
It just warms my heart when I see (hear) some nice young man sharing his music with the whole nieghborhood. And everyone says that todays children do not know how to share, and only think of themselves....
Now where did I put my geritol....
what were we talking about.....
is it time for bingo already...
Do not try this at home!
I am a trained professional!
I consider it a distinct form of assault.
I'm going to report the license number of the car it's comming from every time I hear it. Are you folks with me on this?
BTW Don't use your portable phone while driving. 2 wrongs you know.
While a cell phone might make driving more dangerous it is not an intentional aggressive assault like these idiots are doing with their sound systems.
No, but it can be. ;)
I beleieve some towns already have noise ordinances on the books on car stereo noise.
I know of one Chicago suburb, Glenview (Glenview Naval Training Base) that has it on the books. they enforce it too. I don't know the specifics but I think if you can hear it from another car, such as a police car, you're eligible for a fine. probable $50 or $100.
We need that in all public areas - Especially the cities.
- WebTrooper -
Edited 7/7/2002 5:07:31 PM ET by WEBTROOPER
Take a metal trash can outside, put it over the moron's head and bang it with a , mallet. He'll soon see how much money he could have saved...
I feel for you. I moved out of a great downtown neighborhood after it became a 'cruise zone' for these losers.
Last week my new neighbor put one in his car. Now he has to sit outback and annoy everybody he can. His wife's got one in the oven so I can appreciate he is not getting any, but do we all have to listen to him jerk off?
It already IS illegal. Just about everywhere.
If your radio or anything else is playing too
loud for you to hear emergency vehicles or for
you to concentrate on driving, you're violating
the law. No headphones allowed for the same reason.
I think they should just ask a few extra questions on the
license test. Answer wrong and you never ever get a license.
1) Are you a complete idiot?
2) Is your car stereo wattage greater than your IQ?
3) Its OK to drive drunk when it's more convenient.
4) If I don't use my turn signals, I don't have to pay
attention to yours.
I'm sure you can think of a hundred more.
good now we're on a roll stand up and take notice, if you can only get across to a few people and those few people get across to afew more, well you get my point, we just might get this country back in shape.
one kind act can bring on another.
I also hate these loud, obnoxious stereos. But getting something done about them is another matter.
We have a guy at work who has one of those cars. He pulls up outside my office, and the windows rattle. But the manager refuses to do anything about it.
Has a similar guy back when I was in the Army - Just across the hall with a real loud stereo. Complaining didn't seem to do anything. So one night when he was gone I broke into his room and cut up his stereo speaker wires. Not a real bright thing to do in retrospect - Probably could've gotten arrested for breaking and entering or something like that. And it really didn't help - He just got new wires.
Then my car was mysteriously broken into a couple of days later. Surely it wasn't the same guy?
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