Dallas police to implement first-time offender ticketing policy on loud car stereos

Scott Doyle says:

I'm sure Chris is relieved now that he knows why he was happy in the pants all day yesterday.

Rick Yost says:

There's nothing more irritating than this. With your windows up, and your own music playing, you still are forced to listen to the bass-booming car in traffic next to you.

However, I worry about the ever-increasing trend to legislate away the aggravations of living in society.
We rally around attempts to limit all nuisance from co-existing with others. I think at some point we must say, "that's just what it's like to live with other humans".
The more we try to make life perfect, the less freedoms we all have.

Robert Kelly says:

Amen Scott. And Rick. Really - if you want that kind of 'quietude' get your ass to the country.

Aaron Johnson says:

Why don't they call it like it is? It's just another excuse, oops, 'probable cause', to pull over minorities. It's a shame. Learn to get along don't legislate to get along....

Rick Yost says:

Nathan- sorry about your predicament. Having such a problem at home has to be a drag.

I don't expect silence at a traffic light, but no one is forced to hear the crap I listen to, why should I have to hear everyone else's?

Yes, I used to be young and stupid. (now I'm just older) I used to drive with my music up loud and the windows down so all could hear the cool stuff I listen to, and know how cool I was.
I was once starved for attention.

Eventually everyone grows up. (well, they get older anyway)
Now I see it doesn't matter how cool you appear.
If everyone was this selfish- angrily waving their particular tastes in everyone else's face, we'd really have a mess.
Oops! That is the case isn't it?

Rawlins Gilliland says:

Schmoozing Bemused Chapter 213:

I hate to tell you, fool that you are Mr. Jones, but I live not much father from Downtown than you and my backyard...a mere 2 blocks below my hill (yes a hill in Dallas)... overlooks the 17 mile long Trinity Forest. So it's damn quiet here, and I've been darned happy here for 24 damn years. Thank you very much.

Now, as I leave to have my sunset hike in said forested trails with my dog Honey (who is 1/4 coyote and could eat a mongoose.... or you), I suggest, as a Dallas native emissary wishing you to find your bliss, that YOU take a hike.

PS: Your gripe should not be with this city but rather 1) your parents and the resultant gene pool you are clearly drowning in 2) your realtor who must have laughed all the way to the bank. .

Scott Miller says:

Where I live in Oak Cliff there are frequent weekend parties, with loud tejano music that can be heard in our living room. I look at it as a happy noise; it beats the hell out of gunfire in the distance. If it were something I couldn't tolerate I wouldn't live here.

But even live, outdoor music is no match for the bone rattling sub woofers some people put in their cars.

I don't get it. I usually love loud music but having your very guts, bones and teeth shaken is something else entirely.

Rick Yost says:

This is why I have such little faith in humanity- every thread on this site turns into a sand-box squabble.

Chad Jones says:

Well, it does make murder and war less intangible.

Rick Yost says:

And I doubt you really need to give Rawlins any slack- I'm sure he can handle you ruffians.

Rawlins Gilliland says:

Bill, my earlier comments were made when once again, no matter what the discussion, the discussion becomes a dispute was about 'that bar'; about the same thing it was before: people living where there is a pre-existing noise like airports and yes, the (dare I say it? The Cedars) neighborhood in question. And Bill, you live on a hill also. And a quiet one when you bought it, and a quiet one today. Not some mixed use conglomerate of urban transition. I am hardly the first to call for a truce on that an already beaten dead horse that has almost no relevancy to the larger readership, and is no longer relevant to this or other threads. Mike Orren himself was no less uncharitable is expressing his fatigue with this chronic drone.

It was neither me nor others that took this once again off message: I saw the ongoing detour, that is inevitable lately, to be still another sermon about what is 'wrong with Dallas'. And then the inevitable NYC reference, et al. Any regular reader...that would be us... knows the drill by heart.

Now for what this thread actually is about:

I lived in NYC when then Mayor Giuliani passed the ordinance against 'boom boxes' and over-hyped car stereo volume. I have Sirius in my car and office, and am a son of two musicians. But I make every effort to NOT have my music where others can hear it when I am at a red light. If I have the sunroof open, I turn the music down. File it under respect for others and manners. As opposed to those who have it at top volume with the doors and window open while they pump gas. Also inevitable.

Ironically I support ordinances against loud noise in neighborhoods. And yes, for two years there was one house across the street that was in violation. But the neighborhood that was driven in the ground in earlier blogs by the multi-faceted Pampas/Chris/bemused was and is a mixed commercial area. I moved OUT of my original neighborhood of East Dallas next to the now Cuba Libre for the very reasons. I did not want to become another Avi Adelman. Or Chris Jones.

Postscript: Thank you Bill if you pledged. I'd like to buy you a beer and talk about the humane ways to address the coyote situation that you and I have discussed in other threads about which you voiced concern when the traps were set up near you. And thank you for touting me about the Drs w/o Borders setup near you. I appreciated it immensely. When I first discovered Pegasus, I believe I crossed you regarding something that I know almost nothing about; restaurants. Since you are a self-professed ‘foodie’ I bow to your expertise and hope my initial comments during the ‘Thanks Tristan’ round of drinks can be forgotton, because, to be honest, I neither knew what I was talking about regarding the players… nor cared about that topic. I can steer someone to a cheap steak and Colombian food and Tex Mex and that’s it. Luckily some of my friends have more money than I and ‘drag’ me to tony diners. Otherwise, I’m home cooking. Yes, on a hill.

Rick Yost says:

"...told ya!"

And venture downtown to my place and I'll buy you both a beverage.

Robert Kelly says:

I guess Bemused should just move to New York.

Michael Davis says:

It's cool to have a little system in your car and pump it a little. But why must the entire block be annoyed when you drive through someone's block a 2 am with the volume all the way up. That's whom this ordinance is designed for. And these laws have been on the books. The police tried to give people leeway but it didn't work.