Cops don't like hearing bass speakers set to 11 any more than we do, but they can do something about it: When officers in a cruiser felt the vibrations from the car next to them at Mt. Hope Street and American Legion Highway on the Roslindale/Mattapan line yesterday evening, they followed the car for a bit, then signaled the driver to pull over.
Boston Police report that they wound up arresting the driver on charges of operating with a suspended license and, bonus, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. Police say it wasn't just the nine plastic bags of marijuana they found on him at the stop, but the digital scale flecked with pot and the grinder they found on him while he was being booked that convinced them the marijuana was for more than just personal use.
Innocent, etc.
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I love how the alleged part
By ShadyMilkMan
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 1:36pm
I love how the alleged part is in front of idiot and not blaring car stereo lol
Noise? Call the cops!
By anon
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 1:42pm
Nothing you can do about it? I guess if we hear loud noises we should just call the police.
No wonder communities are so isolated.
Different issue
By adamg
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 2:01pm
When the people across the street want the entire neighborhood to hear how wonderful their choice in music is, that's one thing. When I pull up to a red light and all of a sudden, the entire car starts vibrating like a bowl of Jello in Jurassic Park, I've never been tempted to call the police; I just start hoping the light changes real soon.
It's worse for the people
By neilv
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 3:25pm
It's worse for the people who live near that red light.
I live a couple blocks down from a light, but traffic gets backed up, and in good weather we get to hear lots of stereos for hours a day. And every few days of summer, there is an overachieving driver whose bass pounds my entire building for a minute or so.
Besides disturbing the peace, I wonder how much the extreme end of the volume dial is masking emergency vehicle sirens and legitimate uses of car horns, for themselves and for nearby vehicles.
Car stereo terrorism is worst in September, when it has the added impact of making you briefly worry that a new bad neighbor just moved in, til you realize with relief that it's just a car making all that noise.
masking emergency vehicle sirens
By operator
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 3:45pm
Loud woofers and high end cars with great sound proofing have made it hard for drivers to hear sirens so a new invention has come out to get through to them. It is called the "Rumbler." It rumbles stronger than the woofers and gets through all that soundproofing. Too bad it had to come to this though.
Try living next to a gas station.
By Neal
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 3:29pm
I live five floors up in a building adjacent to a gas station where many boorish douchebags felt the need to blast their radios at full bass at all hours. It was pretty annoying until the Police began enforcing the noise ordinances. They've cracked down quite a bit over the past few months and it has gotten much better. I believe that there was a change in the law recently regarding noise from
car radios. I think the standard was changed from anything over a certain decibel level to anything audible outside of the car.
One night while I was
By coffeeweasel
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 4:50pm
One night while I was waiting for a bus in Brookline Village, an SUV stopped at a light was blasting Russian language lessons. I was more amused than annoyed, mostly because of the novelty.
I thought that
By aging cynic
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 6:41pm
everyone in Brookline already spoke Russian??