Noise pollution from car stereos
13-March-2010
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It really get my goat, when people turn up the volume of the car stereo and open all the windows.  Haven't they ever heard of noise pollution, and do these people imagine that everyone else has the same tastes in music as them, hence the need to broadcast to the public?  Quite apart from not being able to hear anything else around them, such as a horn or siren (surely a safety issue), it's actually very annoying for the rest of us just walking down the streets.  Why do these people feel the need to play their car stereo so loud with the window open?

That familiar thump, thump, thump can usually be heard long before you see the car.  Whilst the car itself may, or may not be sporting tinted windows and an extra wide tail pipe (the usual dress code for such vehicles), it will almost certainly have a baseball cap clad youth in the driver's seat.  This young man tries to appear cool as he gazes around at the passers by through his sunglasses.  He needs to make sure that enough heads have turned and paid adequate homage to the boom box in the depths of his car.  You see It wouldn't do to have spent all your wages on car audio equipment and then get little reaction.

You can barely hear anything over the din

But there's worse to come.  Not satisfied with deafening people on the street, the pumping sound from no doubt expensive car audio can still be heard when sitting in front of the TV.  You've settled down to watch a nature program or to listen to the news and find out what the rest of the world is doing.  What's the point though?  You can barely hear anything over the din.  All you hear is the pervasive thump of music or some rap artist screaming obscenities in your own living room.

Noise pollution from car stereo equipment

Another form of noise pollution is car horns.  Why not get out of the car and ring the door bell?  Oh dear, I forgot.  Why on earth would you want to do that?  Better to be a lazy bum and remain in the car whilst blaring the horn and revving the engine.  How considerate of you!

By: Kryton


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Here's how to end the noisy boombox plague:
Ask some poor wretch if he'd like to have a ten- or twenty-dollar bill. If his answer is Yes, tell him about your noisy boombox neighbor and then say:
"The money is yours if you can figure out something so I won't have to hear that guy's boombox again. Don't kill him or beat him up. But do whatever you have to do to silence that Hollywoodized lowlife!"
Believe me, this is VERY effective. Heard of the VAB's? They're the "Vigilantes Against Boomboxes." Or you can start your own vigilante group.
Reactions, anyone?
*Trevor  23-Jan-2010 03:30

 
Why do they have their music so loud,or is it if its too loud your to old.
*turn it down  16-Nov-2009 20:48

 
is there a petition to stop loud exhausts? if so I want to put my name down
*jojo  04-Nov-2009 18:35

 
My idea is to fine noisy neighbours or inconsiderate business a set fine each time they make noise. This will give power back to the police and should sort out the problem quickly.
If you agree with my please sign my petition to the prime minister here:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/NoiseFine/

I know it probably wont make any difference but we have to at least try.
*james  08-Oct-2009 09:01

 
Oooooh we can let your tyres down when you're asleep though.
*meh.  05-Oct-2009 19:58

 
Now im 17 and love subs the louder the boom more heads turn + all of u disin them are just old twats u need 2 get over it ther ent nothing u can do about it !!
*Jacob ftw  05-Oct-2009 15:13

 
Earlier today I went for a walk around the lanes. It's a rural area and not a lot of traffic, in 2 hours I was probably passed by 30 or 40 cars.

The only thing that spoilt the experience was half a dozen or so pathetic idiots in their undersized and overpowered tin boxes on wheels with booming stereos broadcasting (c)rap 'music' to the neighbourhood.

With one exception, these people were black.
(OK folks, you can start waving the race card now.)
*MikeP  23-Sep-2009 17:07

 
My partner (who is 25, does not have a modified car and is definitely not a ‘yob’) loves to play his music loud in the car but when he winds his windows down or pulls into the street I have to tell him to turn it down or physically do it myself; he sees nothing wrong with it but it drives me crazy! I think it’s very inconsiderate and completely unnecessary, plus it does give the people who hear you a certain impression about the type of person you must be. People revving their engines (motorbikes are the worst offenders in my street) and honking their horns are also a pet hate of mine, they clearly have no respect for others in the area with young children or those wimply wanting to relax in the peace and quiet of their own homes. Completely agree with the post and that more should be done to stop the culprits.
*L  09-Sep-2009 16:53

 
I hate the thump thump booooom boooom boom thump thump booom of car subwoofers! One or two of them is ok, but some people have dedicated the entire back seat area for like 20 10 inch subwoofers. Also, if you turn it up so much, you don't hear a song. You hear BOOOOM BOOOOM WOOOOOOOOOOOM WOOOOOOOOOOM THUMP THUMP WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOM THUMP THUMP BOOOOOOOOOM BWAAAAAAAAAAAAMM BWAAAAAAAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*TheWeeklyGripeUser  30-Aug-2009 05:35

 
Well what can I say,we all end up listening to some 12 year driving a corsa or saxo with 2 kids in the back ,so loud its just distortion,chunga chunga music,why do they have to lean left if they are turning left,& the same if they are turning right.(sorry different gripe)
*get over it  08-Aug-2009 20:03

 
I enjoy music, I enjoy my home; my thoughts are that people can do what they want as long as they don't infringe on the rights of me doing what I want. It's an intrusion on my home and my body which I happen to own both, to have the vibrations go right through my home and my body. I believe it's a trespassing of sorts. This is why the laws will become harder and harder on these folks and the fines higher and higher and eventually, like loud mufflers, the trunk thumpers will be outlawed. People that are causing this racket, are in fact really sabotaging their own enjoyments. Such is the way of self-centered, obnoxious actions.
*banjo7  31-Jul-2009 18:12

 
I would have the cars crushed, preferably with the morons inside.

Do you know the difference between a porcupine and a 'hotted up' little car with pumping bass and darkened windows and a couple of baseball cap clad 'yoofs' inside? The porcupine's pr1cks are on the outside.
*MikeP  30-Jul-2009 09:53


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