Man in trouble for yelling at kids with a loud stereo?

[Shugarra 10+ year member]

From my local paper, I couldn't find it on-line so I'm just going to have to type it out:

High court rules yelling at teens was crime

Helena--Allison Chapman was fed up that night, fed up with teenageers routinely driving the streets of Geraldine playing loud music on their car stereos into the late hours.

But his attempt to discourage the practice was disorderly conduct, for which he was rightly convicted, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled.

A five-judge panel said Tuesday that Chapman's effort to disperce a carful of teens from a public road in front of his house by shouting at them to get out of his town was a crime. Chapman was wrong in arguing that no one's peace was disturbed by his actions, the court said.

Chapman, 38, assailed the high court's decision as depriving him of his constitutional free speech.

"They're saying we don't have any constitutional rights--we can't say anything; we have to watch everything we say," he said Wednesday. "If you say anything that anybody at all takes any offense at, you're guilty."

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[drjjg 10+ year member]

If that's true, it's a flagrant violation of the 1st amendment. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/verymad.gif.3f39c5c2fd57527b671fad3efdfac756.gif

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

Never knew of a man with the name: "Allison"!

Good article by the way!:thumbsup

 

[Cantaffrdspeaks 10+ year member]

So can i sue old people for yelling at me when im wangin???

 

[Shugarra 10+ year member]

Found a link

http://www.helenair.com/articles/2004/01/15/helena/a06011504_01.txt

 

[bchickens 10+ year member]

Hmmm, but he was yelling at them when no music was playing... I bet that guy was just easily angered.... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Rmsanger 10+ year member]

God that sucks for Him!!! What a shitty thing, that he can get sued for that. I hate it when F*ing kids bump their system ouside my house at night. If they just are driving by thats one thing but if their just sitting their the deserve a bat upside the head.

 

[Trixter 10+ year member]

I live in the same house as my tenants and I hate it when they sit in their car and bump while they wait for their friends. I always tell them to chill with it. Then again the neighbors hate me when I tune my system when I do something new to it too.

 

[EarDrummin. 10+ year member]

They weren't playing any music when he yelled at them. I'd get out and pop him in the ****ing face.

 

[TheVanMan 10+ year member]

I have the same problem with my parents tenants. They have a very loud stereo system in the house and the guys loves to play his system way up. My room is on the third floor attic and the bass can be felt and heard from his first floor apartment. He does it even in the late hours and in early morning. It can get quite disturbing when I am doing my homework. I tell my parents about it and they say "He pays rent and you don't and he can do whatever he wants". However when I driving I have to shut off the subs before I get in the drive way so I disturb the tenants. Sometimes it makes me wonder. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[denim 5,000+ posts]

responsible boomers club