[satchmodog9]

Where do you draw the line with noise in your area. I know my little section of hell has been taken over by 5 morons who have stock cars and tune them all day, Harleys speeding down the street, ATVs and snowmobiles and a death metal band. When is enough too much. When did having respect for your neighborhood and its residents become such a hard thing to do. I undersstand we all have our little freedoms, but glass packs, snowmobliles in residential areas and really shitty music by themselves are not too bad. It is the constant combination of all of this that makes me want to move to Iraq for quiet.

[volchef]

You must live on my street.

[spinestein]

[In Lorain, Ohio, police are known to smash illegal stereos with sledgehammers.]

What??? I'd like to see more details about this.

[DB]

The Harleys, boom cars and "performance" exhaust systems on little 4 cylinder Honda's that drive me nuts!

I don't understand why they have the right to make so much noise that I can't even talk on the phone in my home when they go by.

When they do drive by I have really evil thoughts as to what I'd like to do to them...

I do think the law should prohibit it. If they want to make lots of noise they should be restricted on where they can go and do it.

[spinestein]

[Where do you draw the line with noise in your area.]

I draw the line with my own personal responsibility.

I am in a rock band so there is a potential to disturb others. Our solution is to never play in residential areas or any place where people could reasonably be bothered by amplified music being produced in the vicinity.

We rehearse in a basement studio but we completely soundproofed the room so that we could even play at 2am and not a peep of noise can be heard outside the house (our volume level is 106 dB inside).

[conservative cat]

My current neighborhood isn't too bad. The community I lived in with the Nazi homeowners association was irritating, though. Kids screaming, riding scooters up and down the street, loud cars, and etc.(And this in a neighborhood where you couldn't paint without permission).

The worst was when I lived in an apartment by a pond. I worked graveyards and on the weekends people would race their gas powered boats on the pond starting at 8:30. I'd usually get an hour of sleep before I would get up for most of the day.

My kids are not angels, but they are warned once and then brought in the house if they are loud outside. I just returned a dog to the breeder because among her many faults were barking excessively when outside and howling when inside. I don't know if it's because we lived in military quarters growing up, but I am very sensitive about making too much noise and disturbing the neighbors.

[sc2_ct]

I've got a stereo system in my vehicle, but I only turn it up at nights when I'm on the highway or some country road winding through the woods without any houses nearby. During the day I keep the volume down and mostly listen to talk radio anyway. I have a surround sound system in my condo, but I always turn off the surround amp at 8:30 or 9:00pm so that I don't disturb neighbors. I've got one guy below me that I would like to slaughter though, since he starts pumping out spanish music at full volume at 9am (I don't get up until noon due to work shifts), and yet he pounds on the ceiling with a broom if someone happens to drop something at any time of the day.

Pretty much, people should just be respectful of those around them, but these chronic complainers (i.e. the guy downstairs) should be dismembered and fed through a wheat thresher.

[TXnMA]

On another thread, this was jokingly suggested as an antidote to "boom cars":

One second of REALLY LOUD NOISE would yield permanent silence from any "thumpermobile"... '-)

[sweetliberty]

I just wish they'd crack down on and fine these rude b*st*rds that rattle the windows on houses with their d**n boom boxes on wheels. Why is it that people with horrible taste in music feel the need to offend everybody with it?