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Most communities have noise ordinances. For some reason,(The article tries to pin some bs on Reagan, go figure)your local police refuse to do anything about any of it. You can file a formal complaint against some one, but then you run the risk of coming home one day to find your dog raped and your wife shot.

The noise ordinances in communities are a grab bag of results, some desirable, some not.

I know of a town in northern Wisconsin that has a tradition of live bands that play on Friday and Saturday night during the summer, in the local pubs in the commercial district. This past year, a few newly arrived residents decided that they didn't want any noise at all and stealthily passed a noise ordinance that was extremely strict and was poorly put together in terms of its viability.

The noise limit was 65 dB (about as loud as a small group of people having a discussion) and very soon all of the restaurants and businesses in town were in violation of the ordinance just because there were people present talking and laughing. The situation was one where the police could harass people by selectively ignoring some violators and citing and shutting down others.

It turns out that the councilmen who wrote the ordinance also wrote in an exemption, by name, to a few select businesses in town who were owned by them or their friends even though they were, by far, the worst offenders of noise pollution.

Fortunately, the ordinance was repealed when many angry townspeople showed up at the town meeting to protest.