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So...a couple of weeks ago I was watching the news and they had a story about a father who was pitching a fit because he was at a gas station and his kids had to hear music coming from a car that he didn't like. So he decides that he is going to make it where people get a ticket for playing music too loud, because kids shouldn't have to hear it. Never mind that most music is perfectly fine to listen to, and doesn't harm children. I shouldn't have to turn down my music just because someone else is driving behind me with kids. I love my music and it is not offensive music. It is not full of dirty language. And even if it was, it is my car. UGH!!

Last night, I am watching the news, and that guy was successful. It is now a freaking law in our state. It isn't going to do much good though. People are just going to turn down the radio when they see the cops. Just like they hide the booze.

The "kid" reason is a bit odd, but I agree with what that guy is doing generally. Noise from a car over a certain decibel level is both dangerous (for the driver) and obnoxious (for others) -- regardless of who hears it.

Sometimes that can be a really good thing. I drive ambulances around and it's amazing how many times I am stuck behind a driver who is bebopping to music that I can actually hear over my sirens. When music can be heard over my sirens, something is wrong. not to mention that it slows my response time.

Personally I don't simply think the act of hearing someone elses music is offesnive, annoying sometimes, but not offensive. If it is so loud that it poses a nuisance that's different. Or if it is vulgar in nature.

It shouldn't be a crime to listen to your music, but when you are teaching kids new vulgar terms, or you no longer have the ability to hear that car horn, police siren, ambulance, etc. then you have taken it overboard.

Skeeter

The van I drive is so soundproofed that it is hard to hear stuff on the outside (normal stuff, etc). Horns, ambulances, yes, but average background noise, no.

The only obnoxious sounds are a) when I can FEEL and HEAR the motorcycle engines from a block away because they are loud. Personally, they should be under noise restrictions as well. and b) I can HEAR music from other peoples cars on the inside. For that to happen, with windows rolled up and just sitting at a stop light, for me means that the music literally must be deafening even when closer than 10 feet away.

If someone wants to go deaf, keep the volume up like that but roll the windows up. Please. That way you can only burst your own eardrums.

If it helps, I NEVER hear Vivaldi or Mozart being pumped up that loud.

Vulgar music -- I hate to say it, but most of the [censored] I hear when I'm not supposed to be hearing/feeling it, is "rap" music, pumped out by 20 somethings, young males, and usually black. I am not being racist, I am being truthful. I am just stating what I have observed in real life for many years.

I'm with him. I don't want to hear music coming from any car but my own. If I can hear your music with my windows rolled up, you should turn it down. I am a crotchety old grump!!!

Using "kids" as his reason just hurts his credibility.

WoW! I thought it was just the English who made silly rules! LOL!

We now have a �15 charge for anyone who gets convicted of ANYTHING. So if you get a speeding/parking ticket you now have to pay that on top of the fine. And they are unfair with those too!

It is actually law in New Zealand, that if your car is a "noice nuisance", whether it has a loud engine, exhaust, or stereo, you can be fined. Some of the stereos there are so loud that you can see the windows flexing - "da boyz" turn the entire boot (trunk) area into a subwoofer, and apparently the vibrations from them can actually cause damage to your internal organs (!!!) I actually agree with it, I don't need some short pipe Harley or jacked up wagon pumping da soundz coming past my house at 3am ...

As for Daddy, his kids are going to be subject to all sorts of vulgar stuff in their lifetimes. Get over it already, you can't shield them forever, and a car parked at a gas station for three minutes is not going to corrupt your little pweshus. The kid probably didn't even notice until you went over there and made a scene. You knew what sort of a world you were bringing your kids into, so why b***h about it now??

I'd bet that this is the same father who will buy his kids tickets to rock concerts when they get older, and they probably already have Ipods turned up to 100 decibels as they walk to school. If you want to protect your kids hearing, look around you, dumbass.

I get SO sick of the "all about the children" brigade. As Pinkbows says, if it annoys you, that's one thing, but the whole "for the baybeez" thing is getting really old. As is the notion that just because you got laid and made a kid, you get to tell everyone else how it's going to be. Puh-leaze...

Generally speaking I like the fact that the law limits how loud one's music is in the car, but not because of kids. I sometimes get woken up because somebody drives up to my community with music so loud. But passing this law just for kids...that seems quite ignorant. There should be more to it than that.

I agree with GloriaJeans, and Skeeter makes a great point. But doing it as a law having to do with protecting kids sounds rather idiotic.

I also think loud vehicles in general should be illegal. I think they might be actually, but it isn't very well enforced. Where we live it's usually quiet, and on weekends the bikers love to come and drive around on the country roads. It's so loud and obnoxious. It's one reason I almost want gas prices to go up, so people stop driving around wasting gas just for thrills.

The other day, I was driving home from work, and it was a nice day so I had the driver's window rolled down. In the car on my right (so on my passenger's side) a young woman had her stereo cranked playing a song with F*** as every other word in the lyrics (I guess the composer of the song didn't have a very strong vocabulary). I got weary of the song pretty quickly, and since the traffic didn't allow me to get much separation from her car, I ended up rolling up the window to escape the excuse for music she was listening to. So, even though I didn't have kids in the car (window would have had to go back up faster in that case!) it was annoying to me.

Cindy