my homeboy in brooklyn found this blog page & sent it to me.  :laugh:

 

 

 

Cops Smash Boom Car Equipment in Lorain, Ohio

 

What a Fine Example

 

Be Inspired, Victims of Noise Torture

 

Make This Happen All Over America !

 

 

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High compliments to the police, city council, and citizens of Lorain, Ohio.

 

You are setting a good example, for the entire nation, of how to deal with the obnoxious boom car menace.

 

Boom car boys, this is your future !

 

Decent people, for help in eliminating the boom car menace from your community:

 

Enter Michael Wright's Noise Pollution Website.

 

Michael Wright is proud to say: "Boom car jerks hate me with a deep passion."

 

 

http://members.aol.com/mpwright9/boomcar.html

 

Lorain has the right idea.  Maybe the cops can let some upstanding citizens who are fed up with this noize stuff take the hammer, too.

 

 

 

 

I can see it now, I see a resurgence in boom boxes, Kangol hats, chunky addidas sneakers and track suits. lol

Next thing you know the lorain police will put your mutt in the slammer when it barks, or confiscate your 50inch LCD/and Stereo for listening to the superbowl too loud. Or gasp...the hammering of grandest of all suburban noise makers, your coveted leaf blower. :-o

^Ann Arbor banned leaf blowers. Good Riddance! Personally, I find all urban applications of motorized lawn care implements to be pointless hearing loss.

 

Boom cars? Coming from a person who lived in a wood frame house along a well-traveled street, the boom cars can be absolutely friggin' ridiculous. Way WAY beyond reasonable. I'm all for people having their hobbies, and I think organized car audio competitions are way cool, but when you're effing with innocent bystanders (and bysleepers and byhaving a simple conversation in my own living room and having to wait for you to go by for half a block so I can finish my sentences), well, you deserve whatever publicity stunt the local police department can dream up.

 

Respect, people. That's all I ask.

I think this is going a little too far. The proper way to deal with this is to give citations and make these people pay money just like any other traffic violation. Next thing you know they will be ripping people's ground effects and spoilers off their cars. I can think of a lot more things for police to worry about than wasting resources by destroying equipment. At the least, sell the equipment and apply it towards the community.

^I'll bet dollars to subwoofers this stereo equipment was from an unclaimed impound vehicle. This is purely a stunt. Without a noise citation to back it up, Lorain would have a noisy little lawsuit on their hands.

I'm not so sure. Back in the day when I was in car clubs and big back window stickers were the thing, we were hanging out at Taco Bell in Vandalia when the police pulled in and forced us all to peel the stickers off our vehicles or else we would get tickets for having our back windows blocked. It was really stupid the police would waste their time with us like that.

 

A. We were on private property when they approached us.

B. Our vision was not obstructed. The lettering was spaced far enough apart and we could see plain as day out our back window.

 

This was just a case of the police having nothing else better to do except harass a bunch of young people who were into custom cars. Well, we filed a complaint to the city and the police never bothered us again after that.

 

As for the boom boxes, I am guilty of having a 10" Bazooka in the back of my car. However I am courteous about it. I don't crank it to deafening levels and I keep it down in residential areas and stop lights. So not everyone who has bass should be considered a nuisance. Just the ones that are discourteous to their surroundings.

I agree that these laws can be abused by a misdirected police force. Bad cop: no donut.

 

The key here is nuisance. When the noise becomes disruptive to the neighbors, it must be dealt with. If the owners of the offending sound systems can't handle their responsibility to protect the peace, then they shouldn't be surprised when a professional offers to hold their hand.

 

It should be noted that in Europe, noise pollution is regarded as seriously as air and water pollution, ensuring, if nothing else, continued American boom car superiority.