Big stereo could cost you your car in St.Louis

[phantomdjx 10+ year member]

This is crap and something needs to be done to stop these Alderman.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/275F57729BE6E21F86257104001AFB1F?OpenDocument

ST. LOUIS

City police would be able to seize cars blasting loud music under an ordinance passed Friday by the Board of Aldermen.

The ordinance, which would take effect once signed by Mayor Francis Slay, prohibits the use and even installation of some enhanced speakers.

Slay was out of town and unavailable for comment.

Alderman Craig Schmid's proposal easily had enough votes to pass, but only after aldermen turned up the volume on their own concerns. Impounding a car for playing loud music is too severe, opponents said, and ripe for abuse.

"It's almost idiotic for us to take somebody's car for something like that," Alderman Stephen Conway said.

Schmid said he wanted to send a "strong message" to drivers who cruise through residential areas, jarring neighbors and rattling windows.

"I analogize it to auditory graffiti," Schmid said.

Other aldermen said loud music coming from cars is among their top complaints from constituents. The music gets so loud, said Alderman Dionne Flowers, that when "you're in bed, you fall out."

The bill would prohibit operating car stereo equipment that creates "louder volume than is necessary for convenient, normal hearing," which is the same language as the city's current anti-noise ordinance.

But the new measure would outlaw possessing or installing any car stereo with a speaker over a foot in diameter; having more than one speaker 10 inches in diameter; more than 10 speakers overall; more than two amplifiers; and any amplifier over 300 watts.

In addition to impounding the car, possible penalties include a minimum of $250 fine on the first offense and $500 on subsequent offenses within a year.

The city's push to quiet loud music is not new - the Board of Aldermen passed a bill targeting cars with loud music 10 years ago.

On Friday, some aldermen complained that the measure is heavy-handed. Stephen Gregali, who represents the 14th Ward, questioned whether police would get rulers to measure the length of speakers.

"It's like killing an ant with a howitzer," Alderman Charles Q. Troupe said of the measure.

Bob Pfeiffer, who has been installing custom car stereos for 23 years in St. Louis, said the ordinance could destroy his business.

"I might as well lock my doors now," said Pfeiffer, who operates Automotion Alarm and Car Stereo on North Broadway.

Not all "tricked out" stereos are used for cruising and thumping music, said Pfeiffer, whose his clients include jazz musicians.

"What a crock," Pfeiffer said. "It's really a bogus bill."

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[DaveVT 10+ year member]

This has already been posted. It is still BS though. Since you are new I will just say...please use the search function before posting something that might already have been posted.

 

[phantomdjx 10+ year member]

OH okay well delete it then. I did do a search and didn't find it.

 

[DaveVT 10+ year member]

Its all good. No point in deleting. Some may not have seen the thread.

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

Easy fix. Turn it down. You can't get in trouble if you don't break the law right.

 

[Ko-B 10+ year member]

****. Thats F****** B*******! I thought Chicago had some strict laws but that is absolutely ridiculous! 300 Watts ain't s***!

 

[mobileaudio219 10+ year member]

Easy fix. Turn it down. You can't get in trouble if you don't break the law right.

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[rocky 59 5,000+ posts]

wounder if it just applies in st. louie or in other missouri towns. cause if it does im screwed cause i just got a job install shit lol

 

[phantomdjx 10+ year member]

Don't worry man it is only in St.Louis and i'm not sure if the mayor has approved it there yet. I know here in Columbia we like to thump...go figure since we're a college town. But man in Springfield mo they are like bass capital of the midwest and I can't imagine them ever ever restricting them.

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

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Yes, hence my reply. Do you have comprehension skills?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[mobileaudio219 10+ year member]

Yes, hence my reply. Do you have comprehension skills?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

"But the new measure would outlaw possessing or installing any car stereo with a speaker over a foot in diameter; having more than one speaker 10 inches in diameter; more than 10 speakers overall; more than two amplifiers; and any amplifier over 300 watts."

Three words for ya, random sobriety checkpoint. you get pulled over for any reason (not just because you have the volume to loud) and you have a 12" running off a 310 watt amp the cops might beat you like so... http://164.109.57.224/dynamic/images/stories/news/20060130-pursuit.jpg

http://www.fox2ktvi.com/

"Then the officers punched him and kicked him repeatedly before cuffing him."

"A man sworn to uphold the law goes jail, charged with gunning down two young men near Troy, Missouri. The Missouri attorney general has filed two counts of involuntary manslaughter against Lincoln County sheriff's deputy Nicholas Forler. The court papers just filed at the courthouse accuse Deputy Forler of recklessly firing his service weapon at the tinted driver's side back window of a pickup truck he'd stopped for speeding, then firing a second time into the darkened rear window. Killed was 22-year-old driver Tyler Teasley and 23-year-old rear passenger Michael Brown"

What will it cost you in the end?