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I like to listen to music when I am driving - but, I keep the volume at a level that only I can hear. I think it is extremely rude to have your volume so loud that people in other cars can hear your music! Maybe not everyone likes your style of music. I love CW or easy rock or folk music - someone else may abhor that. I often get very stressed out when someone pulls up near me at a stop light and their music is so loud I cannot hear my own music. And the vibrations from some of those speakers can be damaging to some people's hearing. What is wrong, I ask, with the old fashioned etiquette of respect for others?!!! Where in society has respect and consideration gone!????

I live in low income housing, were music is all around me. i took a hammer to my wall last night my neighbors music was so loud my walls were vibrating. This goes on all the time, the police are called they don't come, i went down to our office manager and when i walked into her office she had her music on loud she had to turn it down to talk. these people raise there children to follow in there foot steps where they grow up playing their music loud, what ever happened to respecting your neighbors. when i went to my neighbor about her music she said she doesn't speak English. does any one know how to say turn it down in spanish

Yes, that's just it. I shouldn't have to listen to your music, and you shouldn't have to listen to mine. The people who blare their music loudly think they're the shytz and so rebelious, but I listen to metal, so they're hardly doing anything that I find shocking, just annoying.

Rosie, I think she would understand if you just took a hammer and hit the radio with it.

Phyllis thats a good idea, lol

I would call your town hall and ask them what their noise ordinance is. There should be some sort of a town law involving how loud music can be at night. Then the next time they play it loud after that hour, call the police. If you do it every night and prove it is a recurring issue, they will have to start taking action.

I agree that we all should be more considerate and I hate hearing really loud noises/music from other cars, houses, etc. BUT, I also think that justifying a law about it because of children is stupid. Parents are responsible for teaching their children about what's appropriate, etc. and it is NOT society's obligation to prevent children from being exposed to anything controversial or undesirable like this when people who have a right to enjoy the music or whatever in public are enjoying it.

This isn't about children though - noise ordinances exist primarily because of bars and adult parties Noise ordinances exist in pretty much every town and should be enforced.

A public environment by definition is open to community use and having a rule that says public noise can't disturb people after normal sleeping hours is both reasonable and necessary in many communities.

For example here is Miami's laws -

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The truth is, noise ordinances shouldn't have to exist. Common sense and common courtesy have reached a point where they do not exist outside of what is legally mandated. If every parent took the time to teach basic manners and respect to their children, and enforced these lessons throughout childhood, most of these stupid little annoyances would be gone in a generation or two. What we suffer now is the result of lazy parenting. What we see coming is that the result of even lazier (and more entitlement focused) parenting will be worse.

I must fall back on two of my favorite lines:
** Teaching respect and common sense is not the government's job, but the parents'.
** The word "parent" is also a VERB!

I agree when the driver can't hear emergency vehicles things are out of hand...
Also, people are now driving listening to their Ipods so, they can't hear much at all...I think this will be illegal before long...it is dangerous.
We went to see Dweezel Zappa "in concert" recently...It wasn't my thing...my DH enjoyed it (we have VERY different taste in music)- the music was soooo loud that I felt light headed and my heart started to race also, my ears started to hurt...I had to escape to the foyer for some quiet time...my ears were ringing for days...never again!