I can't believe this (i hate people like this)

[audiobahnuser18 5,000+ posts]

Hey guy's be sure to read this here. i can't believe this. stupid mother F*ckers like this make me //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rage.gif.0ad8a6e5565b5fddce406566fdd05149.gif. but read this guy's this sh*t is messed up.

Fed up with boom boxes

Group wants to ban blaring car stereos that keep them awake, rattle their homes

By Christy Strawser

Macomb Daily Staff Writer

Roseville homeowner Mark Roberts is tired of bass notes booming through his neighborhood at triple-digit decibels, and up his spine like a jack hammer, so he gathered support from more than 200 like-minded people.

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Roberts, 46, and his group, Consumers United of Roseville, are taking aim at motorists who put a powerful sub-woofer speaker in the trunk to blast music loud enough that their presence is felt before it's heard.

"We're calling for a ban," Roberts said. "Police don't have the manpower to pull everybody over. We don't want to rain on everybody's parade, but if I were to play the stereo in my house so loud it affected everybody on my block, I would get a ticket or I would get arrested."

Consumers United of Roseville targets an array of complaints, but Roberts said he has focused lately on the noise issue because 210 local people sent complaints about them to his e-mail address at bantheboombox@yahoo.com.

Roberts hopes to gather enough support that lawmakers are forced to pay attention, saying many supporters believe the sound is not just annoying, it also hurts their quality of life.

Roberts argues that loud stereos are dangerous, as well, because they drown out the sound of emergency sirens.

"I don't know why people do this, if it's status, who can have the most powerful sub-woofer, or just a general disregard for the public," Roberts said. "People's houses are virtually vibrating, the beds, the windows, they're shaking."

Roberts said he has been forced to sleep in the basement a few times in the summer to escape noise. He conducted sound tests in several areas of Macomb County and said the problem seems worst in Roseville, Eastpointe, Warren, and Sterling Heights.

Roberts said a sound test at the intersection of Common and Utica found some car stereo noise was reverberating two blocks into the neighborhood.

The issue has lit up the opinion section of The Macomb Daily with some arguing complainers need to worry about bigger problems.

"In response to a couple of readers who commented that we should be concerned with more important issues, like raising our children correctly, a child who is raised correctly doesn't drive with his sound system blaring through communities and neighborhoods at all hours, disrupting people and awakening them," Roberts wrote in a letter to the editor.

Roseville Police Chief Rick Heinz supports a ban on the sub-woofer car stereos, also known as boom boxes, saying police cannot chase down every noisy driver.

"It's been around for a long time," Heinz said. "I understand where they're coming from, but it's one of those things that is tough to enforce. It has to come by banning the product. Unless the car was to sit right in front of your house, usually you hear it then they're gone."

Most city ordinances ban any music that can be heard 50 feet away, Roberts said, adding fines for violating that limit can go up to $500.

Roseville police wrote 15 or 16 noise violations this summer to owners of boom-box car stereos, Heinz said, but he knows there are many more violators.

"They've written more (tickets) this summer than they have in the past, but it's not been a lot," Heinz said. "By the time you call, the offender is gone."

Roseville Traffic Lt. Thomas Suminski said people suffering from unwanted noise can be their own best advocates with a few simple steps. Suminski said his department is happy to write a citation after the fact if someone gets the license plate number of the offender, notes the time it happened, the type of car, and can identify the driver.

"Citizens who feel offended should sign complaints," Suminski said. "If they hear the violation that upsets them, they have to get a license plate number and they have to be able to identify the driver of the vehicle. It does help if they have at least one witness. In that case they could call the police department, we'll send a car out and we'll take a report."

Suminski is confident city attorneys would pursue the matter, saying "I think it's worth it."

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[audiobahnuser18 5,000+ posts]

should just all write to that guy why we do it and what we think about that etc....

 

[CrazedCat 10+ year member]

moral of the story: don't be an a$$hat in residential neighborhoods.

I agree with this guy //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[WantedIsHere]

i dont know if a ban is in order but i sure as hell dont like it when people drive down my street bumping either...

 

[audiobahnuser18 5,000+ posts]

i can understand bumping down the street . but there also talking banning systems completeley like when your driving etc..... neighborhoods i can also understand i turn my system off before i get into my neighborhood.

 

[Colt9699 10+ year member]

moral of the story: don't be an a$$hat in residential neighborhoods.
I agree with this guy //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

X2 I agree too many stupid people in our hobby.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I have the same problem with my neighbor's kids. They are always yelling out in their yard and I can hear it inside the house when I am trying to study. We should ban them as well.

 

[WantedIsHere]

its gonna be really hard to get a ban on owning equipment.... in fact they would be sued by many people... including car audio stores.... after the stereo is banned then comes home audio and then power tools then dogs tongues are cut out and the humans follow.... this type of publicity should just be a wake up call to the people who bump through residentials.... i dont care if your bumpin around town and such even stop lights(witch i know this article covers) my only problem is when people think its cool to drive down a residential street blairing distortion and foul language...

 

[germanyt 10+ year member]

i wonder what would happen if we wrote an article explaining how we would all turn to drugs and crime if we didn't have this as a hobby. lol

 

[DejaWiz 5,000+ posts]

Although I agree that people should have some courtesy for others by turning their systems down in or near residential areas, I absolutely do not agree with this statement:

"In response to a couple of readers who commented that we should be concerned with more important issues, like raising our children correctly, a child who is raised correctly doesn't drive with his sound system blaring through communities and neighborhoods at all hours, disrupting people and awakening them," Roberts wrote in a letter to the editor.

So he's saying that loud stereos = badly raised children. That's just ignorant.

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

I bet his 'sound test' was really scientific.

'OMG OMG I can hearzzz teeee wooffeerrzzz'....

 

[audiobahnuser18 5,000+ posts]

Yeah it is man . like i said i don't like people bumpn through my neighborhood either i don't in like any neighborhood just when im driving . but i mean what are they gonna ban next cutting wood or hitting something with a hammer i mean come on f*ckn pricks. i say we all need to get into article put our piece of mind in and send it to this guy.

 

[filtor1 10+ year member]

Although I agree that people should have some courtesy for others by turning their systems down in or near residential areas, I absolutely do not agree with this statement:


So he's saying that loud stereos = badly raised children. That's just ignorant.

I agree with you to an extent, but I also understand where he is coming from. While my family and I are watching TV, I have to pause the show I am watching due to some Douche that drives his Astro down our street. He has it loud enough that the audio from the tv is muffled. The windows shake and rattle as do various other things around the house. He is a douche bag. I would never support a ban, but I def support the noise ordinances that are meant to discourage this type of behavior. I do think he has a valid point though. There has to be some level of respect for others. That is taught at home, or not in many cases. I was raised to respect other people. This includes not rolling down the street in a neighborhood at any hour of the day pissing people off.

 

[tbasile1 10+ year member]

What kind of house does this guy live in if everything rattles inside and he has to sleep in his basement LOL

Sure he has a point and is angry, but I think he went a lil overboard and exaggerated with some things in the article.

 

[dride 10+ year member]

i see what hes saying..but at the same time ul hear it for 2 seconds and its gone..and me personaly i dont play music loud through neighborhoods but do on the main streets that run past them and im sure afew people hear it..and i turn it down at lights if someones next to me..but this guy is just cranky "it drowns out emergency vehicles' haha and sleeping in the basement, if it was their for that long cops would have shown up..theirs 3 people with systems on my street and im the only one who turns it down but when they pass i hear it for 3 seconds max..police are always at my house because my dad cranks on his guitar with my neighbors who are bass and drum players and its always the same person calling the cops..il email him..i live relitively close and my moms 15 mins away so im up in that area alot

rosevilles straight suburbia right outside sacramento..it cant be that bad