I’m at the point where I don’t just want ticketing and other enforcement on this front, I want yanked licenses for this after a warning, and I might even want it legal to shoot vehicles guilty of noise violations and their drivers with paintballs to mark them for further enforcement and shame.
Smoking is the atmospheric equivalent of peeing in the pool; noise pollution is something between that and opting everyone into your dumb M80 party. It’s antisocial, it causes health problems on top of discomfort, and it should stop.
Sure, but as long as they're allowed to paintball you and sick draconian enforcement on you for whatever trivial things you do they deem to be slights against society.
Like FFS, it's just fucking noise. It's a small minority of people. Can we just ignore them? There's so much bigger problems. Most people grow out of it after one car like that.
> It's a small minority of people
So are serial killers. A small minority of people can affect the lives and health of a lot more. A handful of people roaring through a neighborhood at night like this can mean nobody ever gets a proper night's sleep.
If someone plays with a laser in your eye, being told "it's just light, it's one guy, can you just ignore him, he'll grow out of it", won't be a consolation. You'll want him stopped.
> Most people grow out of it after one car like that.
Someone else grows into it.
If we could ignore them, this thread would not exist.
and I support extra legal measures against these people. They do it for the attention and they deserve the attention they will have coming to them.
In Seattle they had a guy in Belltown being a nuisance with a loud charger at all hours of the night in an urban setting. They knew who he was and he lived with his mom (lol). I never understood why the community didn’t deal with it when the police would not. Lack of enforcement is what leads to vigilantism.
May you be cursed with chaotic noise til the end of your days
Its not "just noise" when its preventing people from actually sleeping.
I don't think you'd like it if people played deafeningly loud noises outside your bedroom window at all hours of the night every night forever.
"Like FFS, it's just fucking noise"
Okay, let me blast 110dB into your ears and you tell me how the fuck you like it.
110dB once a week isn't really a big deal. I don't really care if someone rips it down the highway assuming they aren't being completely reckless.