Posted on 01/30/2006 3:02:44 PM PST by OnRightOnLeftCoast
St. Louis police will be able to seize cars blasting loud music under a bill passed today by the Board of Aldermen.
The bill mirrors laws in other cities, prohibiting the use and even installation of some enhanced speakers.
Alderman Craig Schmid’s proposal easily had enough votes to pass, but not after aldermen turned up the volume on their own concerns. Impounding a car for playing loud music is to severe, opponents said, and ripe for abuse.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
THAT'S RACIST!
"Impounding a car for playing loud music is to severe, opponents said, and ripe for abuse."
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On a first offense yes..but after a few times....take it. These booming stereos are a major nuisance...worse than second hand smoke...by far!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brought to you by the same people who banned smoking in public places...
step 2: Crush car with junkyard carcrusher, and;
step 3: Execute operator of vehicle.
They gonna take Nelly's car????
This is the same stupid headline as yesterday. Cars aren't being seized. They are being impounded just as they are for parking at the wrong spot during business hours. You pay the impound yard to get your car out and go on your way a bit wiser.
Seized would indicate their ownership is being transfered to the city for disposal at its discretion.
I think it odd that a person would want a setup like that in their car.
I've been sitting at a stop light more than once with the windows up and listening to talk radio. One of those cars pull up next to me and the bump-thump drowns my radio out. I can feel my chest thump as the bass vibrates all of my car.
In this area it is not so much Blacks as White kids.
What? (typical response from the average teenager nowdays. Used to be only grandpappy said that.)
Your sh*tting me right? I guess there is no crime left in St Louis...
I guess with the two 12's and 1200 watt amp in the trunk of my CTS make I am practically a murderer in St. Louis.
Talk about your stomping on the 4th amendment.
What ever happend to a little detail I like to call: Due process
Record the noise violation, press charges, use the law to seize the offender's vehicle. Simply giving the cops indiscrimate permission to seize vehicles for 'loud' music is ambiguous at best.
"Nice Lexus, lady ... I bet you could really crank those speakers if you wanted too..... nah, don't bother showing me, it's my car now".
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I don't agree with impounding, ticketing maybe, but I'd love to live long enough to see these kids with hearing aids.......
my buddies car has a system we always blast metal or rock, never rap, so if all the lil thug wannabes wanna blast rap...were gonna blast metal lol
Seized to me, means the property is transferred out of my posession and into the city's, ans since I have to pay a "ransom" to get it back or it will permanently sold at auction I think seized is the right word.
"Seized would indicate their ownership is being transfered to the city for disposal at its discretion"
That's exactly what should happen, after all the stereo crap is ripped out and destroyed.
What you make up your stereo system with is not bodys business. Where you play it too loud is another story. This country is getting so un-American with its laws that it just makes me cringe any more when ever a read about a new law. It is really getting out of hand. I do agree that no one should have the right to blast these care steros in the general public. Especially the subwoofers. You can hear those a mile down the road, and they will wake you up out a sound sleep.
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