Loud music.... Is it really that much of a crime?

[Screamarie]

Because it's annoying. I don't give a DAMN what music your listening to, it's why I have my own car, with my own stereo, with my own music. If you're in your car and I'm in my car I shouldn't have to turn up MY stereo just to be able to hear MY music. That's simply fucked up.

It's okay if it's a little loud. A light thump is fine, I get it, I like it a little loud too, but when I FEEL the vibration of your car, and all I can think about is that I want to get out of my car, drag you out of yours, and beat you...then you're being an inconsiderate asshole.

As for just in the neighborhood, that's still messed up. I shouldn't be hearing your music from across the street. If I'm not invited to the party,that's fine, I don't care, but your party shouldn't get in the way of my quiet evening in my own home.

 

[Dawn Horsfall]

I think that people should be able to have their music loud if they want to. Expecially if it's during the day! All this time i hadn't got any complaints ever and then one day last some shit head from upstairs complained that the music was too loud and that they were going to call the police on me. Well that has never happened before and i don't think i should be able to have earphones on when it is 2:30pm or 5:00pm in the afternoon!

I am in my apartment not in my car!!!!!!!!!!

 

[StriderShinryu]

I wouldn't necessarily call loud music itself, in any venue, a crime. It's more of a nuisance which, in certain venues and in certain situations, actually can be a crime.

To the OP, though, yeah I'm not really sure what the race has to do with anything. In my experience, people of any race or gender can be a jackass about how they play their music.

 

[Dawn Horsfall]

yes but at 2:30pm in the afternoon? Don't you think it's a bit much to call the cops at that time of day???

 

[Total LOLige]

I don't do it myself, but I don't mind if others want to do it. I once heard that song from saving private ryan, you know the part where they tell the mother of private ryan her son is dead. The song from that part, any way more to the point that played fr around 5 minutes then it turned into some techno remix I pissed myself with laughter. A really sad song then "PUMP UP THE BASS!"

 

[bobmus]

The worst experiences I've had with loud music are as follows:
1. My girlfriend's roommate - has sex really loudly late at night, and plays loud music in a futile attempt to drown the noise out. He once finished then played I Just Had Sex, which was actually kinda funny, if dickish.
2. I stayed on a clubbing street on a holiday with friends in Malta. When the club across the road closed it would play a loud siren to tell people to go home - at like 4am...

 

[omega 616]

snipity

The thing is, say I am watching a film then this


Comes rolling down the street, interrupting your film viewing and completely ruining the atmosphere/suspense the movie had built up.

Not good enough? Okay.

Lets say you work nights, you just finished a 12 hour security shift and want to rest you wary head and then that rolls down the road ... I bet you aren't going to think "well I enjoyed that 30 seconds of that song" you're going to think "you fucking arrogant, self centered, uncaring twat!".

 

[Dragonclaw]

yes but at 2:30pm in the afternoon? Don't you think it's a bit much to call the cops at that time of day???

Not at all, especially if I'm trying to enjoy some downtime in the privacy of my home. If your loud music is making MY walls shake and echoing through my space than you're in the wrong and, quite frankly, an ass. I've had a (thankfully former) neigbor crank his music up so high that pictures were falling off my walls. I work hard most of the time, so when I'm in my home I like to relax, not be forced to listen to (usually just the baseline of) someone else's crappy music. You clearly like enjoying your time at home and your music, but that doesn't give you the right to force everyone else to listen to it in their homes.

 

[Something Amyss]

but you only hear it for a few seconds before you pass each other on the road and then the sound is gone.

Yeah, unless you're parked, at a traffic light, etc.

It's not going to hurt anyone,

Except the hearing.

It's dickish enough without that, but it's worse when you consider the sound levels frequently ARE damaging.

 

[Rastien]

"Ok I'm sorry if this offends some of you, but why do Hispanics think its ok to blast there damn music in our neighborhood? Like seriously its annoying."

One of my Facebook friends posted this on her wall. Really??? Obviously it's going to offend someone, that someone being me. I am not really Hispanic, but racism is a big deal to me. What does ethnicity have to do with anything with music? This forum is not about racism, but where it applies to this situation, feel free to comment on it.

Anyways, I am not one to turn up my music all the way just to let other people hear my music, but i've never had a problem with others doing it either. It may get on some peoples' nerves, but you only hear it for a few seconds before you pass each other on the road and then the sound is gone. It's not going to hurt anyone, so if you've got a system to show off, why not show it off, right? I say turn it up and let everyone know what kind of music you like. Doesn't bother me.

Few things here the quote doesn't state its in a car or house as i can assure you if you got work the next day and students below are still blasting music out there flat at 03:00 in the morning you wanna break some skulls.

Also not defending/offending just commenting the person in question may not be that sharp as the rest of us. I believe she/he is reffering to the style of music more than anything else and if its a group of hispanics it could help people quickly understand the situation in that area.

Anyways my opinion, meh in a car do what you want if your driving as you say its only a few seconds. If your in a block of flats don't be blasting music so loud you piss your neighbours off till the early hours of the morning. If your going to, at least be polite and let them know before hand that way their less inclined to call the popo. Courtesy gets you a long way.

 

[Dawn Horsfall]

I went next door to my neibours to tell them that we were going to have a party from 12:00 noon to about 4:00pm and he said it was ok. Next thing i know i get the knock at the door by the police that we were making to much noise! I went next door and being polite. I knocked on the door and said why did u call the police on me when u said it was all right. Well i got the big middle finger and he said something that he wasn't suppose to and then i got the door slammed in my face.

What the hell man! He said it was fine and then he did the opposite!!!


That is the first time ever i have had the cops come here to my apartment and i have lived here for six years!

oh by the way i don't have parties 24 7.

I am 36 for godsakes not a 15 year old!!!!!

 

[Don Savik]

I'm so glad I don't live in an obnoxious neighborhood, or an apartment.

But I'm probably going to end up living in an apartment in the future so I'm doomed. I'll probably just resort to having headphones in at all times playing my music to counter out all the trash.

 

[wintercoat]

I have had shitty neighbors all my life who played their music ludicrously loud, and it was always some shitty, high bass crap that tears your speakers to shreds and makes the walls shake. My family has called the cops more times than I could count. It's almost as bad as a motorcycle. People who do that and get pissy when told to turn it down deserve a 2x4 to the face.

 

[Vor Yang]

I usually don't care until it's 2AM and I have to get up at 4AM to leave for work.

 

[ace_of_something]

"Ok I'm sorry if this offends some of you, but why do Hispanics think its ok to blast there damn music in our neighborhood? Like seriously its annoying."

I say turn it up and let everyone know what kind of music you like. Doesn't bother me.

If you're music is too loud you can't hear emergency sirens. If it's even louder other people can't. Then people will not respond appropriately to those vehicles. The two or three seconds you add on to the ambulances ride could be the difference of life and death. Another factor is different people work and sleep at different times of day. I can't count the number of times when I worked nights I'd hear someone drive by my apartment with a bassquake and wake me up. Thank god I live in the boonies now.

I've never met anyone who 'found' a group or song based on hearing someone else's stereo in traffic.

In my experience as an officer, at least in my part of the USA, the most common group of people who blast their music isn't hispanics... it's men 16-24.

 

[pilouuuu]

Well, I live in a latin Southamerican underdeveloped country and I can say that your opinion is not racist, it's reality.

Here not all, but many people like to listen to loud music, especially that reggaeton shit. Everywhere. In their houses, in the car, on the public transportation. It's really annoying and more than being about genes, it shows lack of education and a poor culture.

 

[Pegghead]

In a world where headphones, closed doors and even the sound of one's own imagination exists playing your music loudly in public is inexcusable. I don't care if you're playing a remastered vinyl of Revolver on state of the art speakers, it's annoying and if you do it then you've got no right to complain about the bloke up the back of the bus who screams about how the Jews steal his thoughts.