Rant incoming.
"I listen to rap music.. at every stoplight."
I work at the front of a building fairly close to the road, in a cubicle farm, and most of the front of the building is windows. Whenever some idiot drives by with his music loud enough to share with the county, it really resonates and pounds the windows. It is especially a treat when someone decides to wait in line for the drive-up teller at the bank next-door, or one of the food places across the street. It is extremely irritating at best, disruptive and uncourteous at worst. The dirty looks you get isn't because they think your antics are cute or funny - it is because you are disruptive and disrespect others. Hell, well below those volumes, your hearing is affected or permanently damaged, so it is evident that you don't even respect yourself. In reality, most of the time you are breaking the law. You even admitted that you WANT to break stuff and piss people off. I don't know about your local laws or ordinances, but where I live the music levels angered me so much that I looked it up:
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"Chapter 93: Noises.
93.01 "It shall be unlawful for any person to create or assist in creating any unreasonably loud and disturbing noise in the City."
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93.04 Noises Prohibited; Nuisances.
(A) General prohibitions. It shall be unlawful to create, cause, or allow the continuance of any unreasonably loud, disturbing, or frightening noise, particularly during nighttime, which substantially interferes with neighboring businesses and/or residents reasonable use and enjoyment of their properties.
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(B)(7) Motor vehicle speakers or other speakers located in or on a motor vehicle.
Operating or permitting the operation of any speaker or sound in or on a motor vehicle in such a manner that the sound therefrom is in excess of the maximum decibel level described in this section when registered on a sound level meter twenty-five (25) or more feet from the motor vehicle."
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93.07 Motor Vehicle Noise.
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to drive, operate, move, or permit to be driven, operated or moved, a motor vehicle or combination of vehicles at any time in such a manner that the sound level of the vehicle or combination of vehicles exceeds seventy-five (75) dB measured at a distance of twenty-five (25) feet from the nearest lane(s) being monitored and at a height of at least four feet above the immediate surrounding surface.
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Your city/county/state may vary.
Most of the time these cars are a minimum of 100 feet from where I sit [the ones across the street are two small parking lots and four lanes of traffic split by a large median away], and their bass rattles for so loud and long that it becomes a distractor. What about their, or your, music is SO good that there is a need to share it with everyone in a 5 block radius? There is a huge difference between listening to some tunes to have a good time while cruising, and cranking your music so loud that you are ignorant and disrespectful of other people and the law.
