Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.

Subject: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: meself
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 01:06 PM

Judge gives 'noise ordinance violators' taste of their own medicine. (Note: some bagpipers may find this report
offensive).

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: MAG
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 01:20 PM

Can it be applied to people who fail to turn off their cell phones in certain venues, and even answer them?

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: Bert
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 02:27 PM

We had a neighbor who regularly annoyed us with loud rap music despite being asked to turn it down.

One day we retaliated with equally loud Breton folk music. He got the message and we had no more trouble.

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: Colin Randall
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 02:31 PM

I used to like American Pie. Then my neighbour's son took to playing it over and over again - the extended version, and at very high volume - and I soon stopped liking it. I sentence him to three hours in a padded cell with Topic's Voice of the People series played nonstop.

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: GUEST,wordy
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 02:55 PM

Brilliant idea! I'd volunteer to run it round here.
First; "My boy Lollipop" by Milly
Last; A typical festival singaround after an evening's drinking.
They'll NEVER re-offend!
Locally there are a few public lavatories that play choral and classical music. This has successfully reduced vandalism to basically nil.

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: Macgyver42
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 03:18 PM

Here in Cincinnati at Joseph Beth bookstore, classical music is played on speakers outside the building. It drives the baggy pants croud nuts

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: llareggyb (inactive)
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 05:16 PM

Repeat offenders should have to listen repeats of "I've Got a Brand New Pair of Rollerskates" by Melanie -- that should be a severe enough to deter anyone.

It's usually the low bass that offends the worst -- rattles walls and windows. Without prejudice, since I like my music loud myself (when I can play it without disturbing others - thank the giddess for headphones), most heavy bass offenders are rappers who wouldn't come within a mile of classical music. But I say, no swingin' folk music or gentle Mozart for them! Give them twentieth century pipe-organ music, with 15" sub-woofers, recorded on organs with 32' pipes (that's a chest thumpin' 16 hz)!

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: pdq
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 05:26 PM

This shows why people can't have a sane discussion about (C)rap. You can't discuss it in the abstract as an "art form" and not take into account who plays it, where it is played and how loud it is.

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: Bert
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 06:45 PM

When our kids were teenagers we got 'em good one time. They were due for punishment for playing too loud and coincidentally a TV station was running a special on Hee Haw all day long.

They have never let us forget it.

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: Genie
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 09:16 PM

I think the offenders with the mega-boosted bass and monotonously pounding rhythm track should be sentenced to spend eternity (or at least long enough for it to seem like such) listening to John Tesh, Andy Williams, or Yanni.

Genie

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 10:53 PM

Songwriter, Steve Deasy, wrote a song about a judge in the Detroit area that sentenced a kid to (I'm not sure how many hours) Wayne Newton.

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: Fastauntie
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 12:17 AM

At Christmas 1990 my mother and I were visiting my brother, and the people in the apartment below were blasting their music so loud we actually had to shout to hear each other. We went down and pounded on their door, but got no answer (I doubt they heard us). So we took his 3-foot speakers and laid them face-down supported by a phone book at each end so they were just about 2 inches off the floor, cranked them all the way up, stuffed our fingers in our own ears, and put on a bagpipe record. The noise from below ceased at once. We gave them a full minute, turned it off, and heard not a sound from that direction the rest of the day. There's a reason bagpipes are used on the battlefield.

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: Genie
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 02:22 AM

LOL, Fastauntie!

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: mandotim
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 02:58 AM

A former neighbour used to 'entertain' the area by playing bubblegum pop music at high volume in his garden for most of the summer. I live in a quiet rural area, and this was not appreciated by most locals, but requests to turn it down were greeted with rudeness and sometimes abuse. Quick chat with the rest of the neighbours, set up my 6000 watt pa rig in the garden, facing the neighbour. 2am, play ZZ Top at full volume. (The rest of the neighbours were at my house to see what happened). Haven't had a problem since...
Tim

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: MAG
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 08:32 AM

My Dad once repiad some neighbors with classical on his very loud car stereo. Pulled his car right up next to their house and blasted away.

I heard it worked for one day.

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 08:58 AM

The collected wisdom in this thread seems to be that he shoulda used bagpipes, MAG...

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 09:48 AM

I have a particular loathing for those morons (usually young males) who insist on driving around in their 'hot hatches' with the windows rolled down and rap 'music' pounding out at full volume. It should be legal to toss a tear gas grenade in through the open window ...

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: curmudgeon
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 09:57 AM

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: curmudgeon
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 09:59 AM

Maybe someting like   this?

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 10:33 AM

Here's what I would do. i would order people who blast loud music to listen to a week's worth of music and speech which simulates the sounds heard by someone who's lost a lot of hearing.

After those hours of straining to hear swwet nothings (which they can't understand) little kids (that they can't hear) and music with no high notes (so boring), they might get the point.

I remember how sad it was when my great-nephew was playing with a toy car one day and making up stories, and my father said, "Is he talking?"

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: Greg B
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 09:59 PM

Was up in Jim Thorpe PA a couple of weekends ago.

A young lad had one of those gigantic 4x4 pick-up trucks,
all done up in metallic paint, giant wheels and tires,
the whole shot.

Walking up the main drag, we later saw him parked in front of
his cottage. He had the big stereo blasting...of all things...
Neil Diamond.

We thought it maybe an aberration, but came by an hour or two
later and it was...Neil Diamond.

Maybe just a coincidence, but no, next time we went by it was...
Neil Diamond.

Now HE must irritate the crap out of his neighbors.

SWEET CAROLINE (BA BA BA!) GOOD TIMES NEVER FELT SO GOOD (BAH BAH BAHHHHH) I'VE BEEN INCLINED...

And later...

I AM I SAID...TO NO-ONE THERE...!

Maybe he does Barry Manilow on alternate weekends.

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: open mike
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 11:45 PM

i have head that music over loud speakers is used for a weapon
in torturing captives -- and in mind control (or out-of-control)

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: Bee
Date: 16 Sep 08 - 12:23 AM

At least rap music is often intended to have an overwhelming bass sound. What I most object to is any kind of music, worst offender country rock and pop rock played by young men in cars. No treble to balance anything, lyrics utterly buried, all you hear is the damn bass vibrating its way down the road. Hope their doors fall off - and they best stay offa my lawn!

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: GUEST,crazy little woman
Date: 16 Sep 08 - 05:26 PM

I've got an idea for suitable sentencing.

Offenders should be incarcerated and should have to watch 'Gosford Park' until they can transcribe every sullen mumble of the head housemaid, Elsie. (I'm pretty sure it was Elsie.)

When they've managed that, they have to write 100 times, 'I understand that if I damage my hearing, every person in real life, movie or TV will sound like Elsie.'

Subject: RE: Suitable sentencing for loud 'music'.
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 16 Sep 08 - 06:03 PM

The best record I ever played loud was Good Golly Miss Molly by Screaming Lord Sutch & the Savages.