Midtown neighbors:
are you getting fed up with neighbor's stereos buzzing your walls with a repetitious pounding beat that distract you from focusing on a project, from sleeping, that wear on your nerves? What about the morons who drive up the main streets every 10 minutes assaulting the space you call home with booming sounds and foul language?
I'd be interested to know why more people don't call the police and start taking charge of their environment. My experience has been that some people are afraid of retaliation, others like myself feel like the police are coercing us out of making reports, or making the process so drawn out that busy people like myself end up dropping it. If you don't believe it, try asking to make a formal complaint. First, they'll try to get you to just give the morons a warning. These animals don't care about warnings. The next time you call and complain, the police say they didn't hear anything, or that no one answered the door, or start offering you other options that only take up more of your time waiting for the next time the morons want to assault you with their stereo ''fallout.'' When you really get tired of playing these games and insist on making ''a citizens arrest'' they become a little argumentative like you are being an unreasonable citizen. Then once they make out the report, they tell you the judge will probably throw it out of court. All of this would undermind anyone but the most aggressive or someone so fed up that they don't care what happens. Doesn't it sound as if the police are trying to inhibit, intimidate, coerce or in some way use their authority to talk us out of exercising our rights? If they didn't do this, more complaints would be made and they'd have a whole lot less valuable time spent dealing with these lawless stereo addicts. The funny thing is that most of the young people who pull this crap, believe that they can play their music as loud as they want to until 10PM. They lose their ''cool'' when they find out that that just isn't so. I'm telling anyone who doesn't know the noise ordinances of our neighborhood that I don't have to listen to anyone elses music in my home at any time, and the law can protect me if I make use of it.
I'd like to know if there's any groups that have banded together to do something about this noise that is becoming toxic. Does anyone know about any legislation in the works that is more effective than what we have now.
What does it take before we've had enough?
I'd really like to hear your experiences and what you did about it, other than playing more games with the perpetrators and the police.
Tired of Moving.
are you getting fed up with neighbor's stereos buzzing your walls with a repetitious pounding beat that distract you from focusing on a project, from sleeping, that wear on your nerves? What about the morons who drive up the main streets every 10 minutes assaulting the space you call home with booming sounds and foul language?
I'd be interested to know why more people don't call the police and start taking charge of their environment. My experience has been that some people are afraid of retaliation, others like myself feel like the police are coercing us out of making reports, or making the process so drawn out that busy people like myself end up dropping it. If you don't believe it, try asking to make a formal complaint. First, they'll try to get you to just give the morons a warning. These animals don't care about warnings. The next time you call and complain, the police say they didn't hear anything, or that no one answered the door, or start offering you other options that only take up more of your time waiting for the next time the morons want to assault you with their stereo ''fallout.'' When you really get tired of playing these games and insist on making ''a citizens arrest'' they become a little argumentative like you are being an unreasonable citizen. Then once they make out the report, they tell you the judge will probably throw it out of court. All of this would undermind anyone but the most aggressive or someone so fed up that they don't care what happens. Doesn't it sound as if the police are trying to inhibit, intimidate, coerce or in some way use their authority to talk us out of exercising our rights? If they didn't do this, more complaints would be made and they'd have a whole lot less valuable time spent dealing with these lawless stereo addicts. The funny thing is that most of the young people who pull this crap, believe that they can play their music as loud as they want to until 10PM. They lose their ''cool'' when they find out that that just isn't so. I'm telling anyone who doesn't know the noise ordinances of our neighborhood that I don't have to listen to anyone elses music in my home at any time, and the law can protect me if I make use of it.
I'd like to know if there's any groups that have banded together to do something about this noise that is becoming toxic. Does anyone know about any legislation in the works that is more effective than what we have now.
What does it take before we've had enough?
I'd really like to hear your experiences and what you did about it, other than playing more games with the perpetrators and the police.
Tired of Moving.
