Our town started a new campaign called the "Lower the Boom" campaign. The purpose is to minimize the amount of cars driving around with music so loud that you vibrate 3 miles away. The hope was to actually stop the problem. It seem to have done little if anything to actually affect those who are causing the noise.
Down town is still over run by boys who think that overly loud vehicles, speakers and obscene music is the definition of masculinity. Whether children are present or not, the language that blares and bumps out of these speakers is appalling. I cuss (sometimes alot) and I listen to rap, hip-hop, alternative, rock, pop, on top of country so its not a hatrid of the music that causes me to say this.
The common decency that should be present in every day society is missing. Its MIA in every day society. The combined vibrations of the college students that don't care (thats not counting the students that do) and the trouble makers of our "beautiful" town shake and shock their way from the east side to the west. Again, our children are being taught what? And for those of us that don't appreciate these "musical concerts"?
Well, the "Lower the Boom" campaign is apparently not working, and ignoring it wasn't working, and asking nicely won't work so I have a new suggestion. Its worked for me a few times.
The next time you have a "BOOMER" in your presence follow these steps:
1) Insert Ear Plugs
2) Insert CD of OLD COUNTRY HITS (must be old country for maximum affect if you choose country), or BARRY MANILOW
3) Roll down car window(s) closest to the "BOOMER"
4) Once CD is playing start to increase your volume until it matches or beats theirs
5) Sit back and enjoy the look of pained confusion on their faces... and just wait for them to decide they don't want to "boom" around you anymore
Problem solved!
ENJOY!
So I can relate. Bass is very important for the marking of territory around here. Drives me nuts when my whole house shakes...and I live in a brand new 52-unit building, so for speakers to shake it, they have to measure pretty high on the Richter scale!
But those low tones do serious damage to the cilia in the ears. My partner is a sign language interpreter, so we just look at it as the creation of future clients!
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Its realy scarey how much damage they must be doing to their ears when the music is so loud in a closed car... I can't imagine it. I'm partially deaf so I listen to things a little louder than my boyfriend who has very sensitive hearing but when the kids are in the car I am VERY CONSERVATIVE on volume levels. I won't be the reason they have to put up with hearing loss... if it occurs than that is fine but I won't cause it.
Future clients! That was a good one. I am working hard to become a sign interpreter too! I like that more and more people are getting into it.
I'm taking sign also for my elementary education degree (Special Education minor) and it may become more useful than I originally thought.
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Your suggestion at the end is funny. Let's beat rap/rock/punk with country and Barry Manilow! Good stuff.
Too bad that "Lower the Boom" law isn't working. If it's not working in your area, I doubt it'll start working anywhere else.
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I've done this very thing. I keep a CD in my car (one of my favorites to be exact) of old trucker country songs and I know which songs will make the most impact. Its an experiment that I've tried with different results based on the songs used. :))
In Albuquerque, NM we have that sort of problem downtown too. I hate them for doing that! They play their junk loud so what i do is on my ipod I have a list of really random weird songs and I start to blast it next to them so they look at me weird and drive away quickly. It is pretty hilarious I have to admit. It may not solve the problem but I am just showing them how rediculous they look when they blare their stupid music.
I am in Bloomington, IN
Home of Indiana University (IU) and Ivy Tech Bloomington.
Two colleges - One Town - Craziness
We are like a ghost town during school breaks and are really a small town at heart. There are still a number of farms on the outskirts and in surrounding areas.
It gets really fun when my boyfriend and I take separate vehicles someplace and use that trick. His truck is a deffinite "hillbilly mobile" but has some major bass. My car has some pretty good power to so between the two of us with our radios turned up (especially at stop lights) its amazing how fast they turn their vibrators down. We'll be nice and do the same once they cooperate but the look of confusion and pain is comical! Not physical pain but more the affect of George Jones on a ThreeSixMafia fan.
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I think it is hilarious when I'm driving next to a preppy white boy with Fitty turned way up.
It's almost as good as catching my best friend reciting "I Hate My Baby Momma" by Holla Point while gardening. It's a little incongruous!
"I hate my baby momma. She always startin' drama. I work a forty hour week and come home with a dolla!" While tying up the tomatoes. Priceless.
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Being eclectic is fun though...
Keep em guessing... makes em wonder what your up to.
My favorite bus driver tells me that all the time (my boyfriend)
Check out my blog on "generation gap in love" ... there's a story about my boyfriend's truck and my music that you'd get a kick out of in there i believe :)
I do this all the time. I just flip on the oldies channel and sing at the top of my lungs. It IS fun ;)
I try to insure that any singing I do at times like those are done as out of key as I can possible get it to be!
:)) I love my sense of humor!
Or put some stuff up like Pink Floyd, Modest Mouse, Jimi Hendrix, Grand Funk Railroad, The Doors...really anything trippy or just noise, and watch them bug out. Metal works too. lol
Also soundtracks from "odd" movies or childrens music. I've played things from "The Labrynth" with David Bowie from the early to mid eighties. I've also used a CD that was left in the car from when I had the kids... Seasame Street! And I'll sing along with either one! Wanna talk about some freaked out people? hahahaha
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Picture this:
Father inside the store (at a gas station) in the middle of the night, and my mother is in the back seat with my brother... some ghetto hip-hoppers come up with booming speakers... my brother turns down the radio to reduce attention... my mother thinks, for some absurd reason, that turning it back up would be the right thing to do... so there she goes, whippin' out the great ol' Sweet Home Alabama.... I shoot her my "wtf" face, and she turns it up so loud my ear drums are thumping. The "gangstas" look over at us... to my surprise they didn't shoot. They laughed, pointed and said "yo man, look at that white girl bumpin' that oldies shit"...
ha.ha.
Well, at least I'm alive?
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A favorite of ours "Sweet Home Alabama" certainly draws attention but makes a statement too.
And to you... congrats on not being shot! haha
Glad I'm not the only Lynard Skynard fan out there :))
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are likely to shoot you is more than a little offensive and stereotypical. I personally find that "ghetto hip hoppers" have a good sense of humor, as they demonstrated by laughing at your mother. I hope you learned something about pre-judging people from the experience.
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/ediblewoman
Once again, ediblewoman makes a very valid point and the misconception she speaks of is a very common one.
I know from very personal experience that such misconceptions only cause bigger problems and feel that I must appologize to any offended if my response was in any way seen as a form of antagonizeing such misconceptions. I found it funny that it was truly a worry but then again, I don't know the area in which the inccident occured so ...
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