why do they have tickets for music being loud

why the hell is there a noice limit me and my friend got pulled over one day and got a $75 ticket for our music being above 5.0 something i think diameters i dunno but i still dun get the point.. can u help explaining it to me?

loud music annoys people...
I've got a system in my car too, but when the sun goes down, so does my volume...
Next time you're cruising around in a residential neighborhood or something like that, think about the people around you as well.

Did you get the ticket during the day? were you on a highway, or moving througha neighborhood?

why the hell is there a noice limit me and my friend got pulled over one day and got a $75 ticket for our music being above 5.0 something i think diameters i dunno but i still dun get the point.. can u help explaining it to me?


Should have been $750 theres nothing worse than annoying little turds driving around with music blasting and the Thump Thump Thump of Woofers, luckily we have not had to endure that for the past 12 months but it does get you irate.

Not to mention the damage being done to your own Ear Drums, and the fact that the loud music prevents you from hearing the approaching emergency vehicles from side streets.

It should be 3 strikes and you lose your licence for life :nono: :nono:

BTW it should be spelt "Noise" :wink:

yes i was driving at night but i was also on a highway ... ummm i dun think i should get my lience taken away :( thats not fair i only get pulled over for music i'm a good driver thoa

hmm u were on the highway? wtf isnt that louder then ur music when can it possibly be disturbing. dont no wut to tell u. but hes right u gotta watch it in a residential area n during the night. as for the other asshole hes just a hater, screw him. good luck wit it, i try to fight it.

i know where i live that during the night if you can here the music 25 feet away from your car you can get a ticket, no matter where you are. and to toymaker, i hope i find where you live so i can leave my car running 24-7 with my music annoying the hell outta you :grinyes:

got a $75 ticket for our music being above 5.0 something i think diameters
Diameters is a measure of distance.
Decibels is the measure of sound volumn.

can u help explaining it to me?
It's called disturbing the piece. What you may find pleasant to listen may annoy others. Why should they be forced to listen to your music?

Think of it this way, imagine if everyone listened to music on the same volumn that you listened to yours on.

well the answer to this thread is ezy. Loud music is only cool too teh person listening too it, yet still everyday im sitting in traffic or at a light it happens...some kid pulls up beside me blasting music loud enough to rattle my cars mirrors, hell when i cant hear my straight pipes over your music theres a problem there. I'm thinking to myself dont they worry about going deaf?! Who really wants to hear what yoru listening too anyhow, think about the absolute WORSt type of music you dont like, would you like someone to pull beside you blasting it?? especially through a residential area at say 10pm on a freaking wendsday night? The anwer is simple, no. So plain and simple, they made the law through enough complaints of the general public. I happen to agree with it, theres nothing cool about music so loud it rattles your car, as long as it has good quality and can get loud enough to hear over your car at say the local wash, thats all the louder you need it.

I have generally found that the volumn that music is set at is inveresly proprortional to what the listener has to say that is worth hearing.

well that basically amounts to that persons opinoin and you know what they say about opinoins?? There like buttholes everybody has one and they all stink. not everybody likes the same music so dont turn it up all the way listen to it at YOUR level, thats they way i figure it

I like blasting my music! But yes, I do turn it down a little a night on residential streets.

I believe it's not only' disturbing the peace'. But it's called consideration for somebody other than yourself(self centered?). Being pulled over on a highway. It must have been loud for a cop to hear that. You turn it down in a residental area. I doubt it. You like your music that's ok. Me being forced to listen to it. Not ok. Effecting your hearing. I could care less. But it might viberate the rust loose and your fenders will fall off. LOL

Oh yes! It's parameters

haters! lol

i like to listen to my music loud too, but i usually turn it way down on city streets (the exhaust is loud enough as it is...don't need anything else to draw cops' attention). i'll turn it up on the freeway, though...if a cop is parked, he/she shouldn't be able to hear it long enough to write a ticket.

I have a loud system, but theres this little device I discovered to keep it under control at night or in a neighborhood. Its this crazy thing called a "volume knob". Check out your stereo, you might be lucky enough to have one too. I also think that loud exhausts should be given tickets. But then, shouldnt motorcycles be given tickets also? Noise is noise, no matter the source.

I think the real saying goes, "excuses are like buttholes....." However, I am a fan of that version too lol. go ahead and fight the case, but your excuse for having your music up so loud, will probably be just like your butthole.. and stink. Plus, I doubt you got pulled over on the highway, I think you just dont want to admit you were on a city street. I love loud music, but nobody cares that you have a good system, its just obnoxious to blare it where you will be bothering people. I dont pump my system as loud as I can when Im at a red light, but Im not gonna turn it ALL the way down because thats annoying to me. you can deal with the thump thump thump for 15 seconds, its no big deal, plus I stay about 20 feet behind the car in front of me at stop lights so I wont bother them (too much). But in neighborhoods when people are in their homes, I dont want to disturb them there.

you know i have to agree with rickwithatbirds whole stament i think he hit the nail on th head out of all teh replys made on this thread, there has tob e a moderation reached with the volume of your stereo. Your right, a judge is gonan think thsi persons case is gonna stink. He will cite you for violation of a noise ordinance that you probably did get on a city street cuz lets face it who the heck is gonna hear it gonig down teh highway, for the 1sec it took you to pass a cop in the median. Nothing wrong with listening to music loud but isnt there a limit when your at a stoplight or barely moving?? how do your ears stand the decibles, honestly ive always wondred how ppl arent hearing impaired from it. When you stop and think of listening to music that loud it just doesnt make since, kinda like having pipes so loud you cant even hear your car goign down the road, no need for it, noise from pipes doesnt constitute power.

i love the ppl who have 5k into a stereo system that is for the most part covered from teh outside eye anyhow unless your at a car show, an di dont know about the rest of you but i pay more attention to the trick body work, interior, and engine, than i do a 5k stereo in teh trunk.

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i use to run prostreet, i like loud pipes myself, but like i siad doesnt constitute power ive seen ppl with exhaust that dont make hardly a nice rumble, pull on line and run a freaking 10 or 11, the guy next to em looses and hes got straight headers, gotta know somethinga bout proper exhaust c uz believe me noise DOESNT constitue power its how you set it up that does, and nothing wrong with THAT soujnd of music i love it mseylf, but not at a stoplight or when your trying to walk into the grocery store, and have joe blow come by with an obviously too large of a cam, and a set of 3 inch exhaust with a cutoff on only one side of the car, sounds like crap actually, make all that noise for nobody to see, lets face it not everybody is a gearhead and likes the noise like most of us do, at the track if you dont like, then ya shouldnt be there. but in town theres no need for it. I raced pro stock for about 5yrs now, and you have to find the line between the track and reality

Was the noise ticket the only one she got or was she stoped for speeding and was to dumb to turn his music down before the officer reached his car? :rolleyes:

if you thinks $75 is bad. I got pulled over for loud music, to loud of an exhaust (i was down shifting to stop), tint to dark AND 5mph over the speed limit. Music-$85 Exhaust - $195 Tint - $108 Speeding - $315. cops in maine are douche bags

315$ for 5mph over? thats unbelieveable.

well he was ssayuing that all of them combined equaled the sum of 315 dollars which i can believe your lucky that music fine wasnt higher actually around here its a 200 dollar fine minimum

yea its retarded. I appealed it thank god because it was considered a speed trap the guy was behind a fence and bushes. and clocked me 40 in a 35 and then thought i was shit faced. and i did the whole sobriety test. cops in my town will pull u over if ur oing 1mph over and give u a rediculous fine. its unbelieveable they can get away with this shit

OK...have you ever considered admitting that you were breaking a law? yes, volume is a matter of opinion. The window tint thing might catch you by surprise. but speed limits are posted often and obviously. If you knew you were breaking the law, why are you so surprised that you're gonna have to pay for it?

Please take responsibility for your own actions, no one but yourself is to blame.

Well i dont konw about eerywhere else but they use one offense to check for others, your trained to look for othres as ou approach the car, really you were to always be suspicious of the person. He used the small speeding offense as his ligitmacy for pulling you over, then decided to write you up for the others. Most of the time they give you 5mph over but some officers are hell bent on upholding the law to the books. All i can say is you were technically speeding so not much you can do about it, watch your speed, turn down music a bit, and if its darker than 3% take it off, exhaust id suggest a tuner, quick ezy fix a lil welding and some beer you can fix that too.

I would assume if you had all those other offenses. That you would maintain a lower profile. And speeding is not maintaining a real low profile. I would assume that like the above mentioned volume knob. That you probably have a visible speedometer also. But there I go assuming.

inded its funny how ppl get mad when there pulled over for doing 5 over 2 over or 15 over, give an inch and they take a mile, if the speedlimit is 55mph then technically 56mph is speeding and a vaible reason to pull you over and although its a petty pull over, mostly beatable by saying my speedometer was broken (which in most cases this is true, i dont know a car that has PERFCECT calibraction) stil either way you slice it your breaking the law, noise ordinaces are set in place for reasons. Although some laws are petty and some are just down right stupid, we still haev to abid by them or face the consequences and in thsi case it seems like you broke plenty. When a car goes by you in the median its hard to catch all thsoe offenses right off hand, but as long as he has probable reason for pulling you over then if your car or actions brake the law while in his presence then he has right to cite you for it. My advice to you, suck it up and stop trying to beat teh system you screwed up now take yoru lumps, learn a lesson, its called school of hard knocks

you sound like a high school principal. Getting pulled over for 1 mph over is like being considered tardy for not being all the way sat down in your seat when the bell rings. Its hard to stay exactly on the speed limit. sometimes the road slopes, and the car speeds up by way of gravity, and you act like thats breaking the law. Shut up. Thats stupid. 5 mph over is speeding, but not worthy of a ticket if there are no other infractions. Sure a good cop may use that 5mph as a reason to inspect for something else, like drinking, or tint, insurance, whatever... but if you are all legit, they should just let it slide. If you ever go the speed limit, people will just zoom right by you, and thats because the speed limit is too slow. it's set to make money for the city. Not always for safety. Ticket the people who deserve it, not average Joe who rides all legal but goes 5 mph over. If you think 1 mph over is breaking the law, then you need to get whatever branch is in your ass, out. And on that note, Im sorry that your parents hate you, dont believe them when they tell you that you were a mistake. Now get over it.

i understand the window tinting... it was legal i just got the ticket for not having a certificate of tint. i understand the exhaust music, but where i was pulled over the speed limit dropped from 50 to 35. and he was about 10 feet into the 35mph zone. kinda stupid but oh well. and another thing doesnt make sense i was pulled over for 20 over ( my fault i was being stupid) and the ticket was less than the ticket for the 5mph over

well that my friend was unecessary. you maded the stament earlier i answered it, the judge doesnt give a damn abou the fact that your speedo was off, your car was pulled by gravity, or what you thinka bout 1mph being technical. I was ticketed for 2mph over and guess what it stuck in court. I was just simply pointing out the obvious. So you ned to get whatever branch is up your tail out, and stop cursing and using beligernt comments as your rebutle, grounds for being banned. Your whole rebutle was rude and arrogant, stick to teh topic at hand. i simply pointed out the obvious, 1mph is technicaly speeding so get ready to be puled over, and as i said before whcih you obviously ddint read CLOSE enough, its grounds to pull you over to LOOK for other stuff. Read another persons staments before you get rude, your totally outta line, with tha being said i wont resopnd to this thread again.

i have no problem with it maybe my attitude maybe misunderstood. i did things to my car cops may not like and i have to pay the price. im over the whole thing anyways. and since the incident the cop has been thrown in jail for taking drugs from people he pulled over and re selling them to college students up the street from my house. and the reson i know he was doing this was because my friends dad is on the same police force as him. but yes what youd said was right 1 mph is techically speeding so if i offended you with what I said im sorry. as for this thread, not everyone likes the same taste of music and ones persons opinion of good music can be another persons opinion of bad music.

Stick with the flow of traffic and you'll seldom get a ticket for speeding.

As for the volume, well...it might sound great in the car. But believe me when you're 50 feet away and all you can hear is the boom boom boom of the woofers, it gets pretty da**n annoying.

I think you should only get a ticket if you're playing sucky music loud like the Spice Girls, or that Macarena song.

I know this sounds like a rights issue here - ex. "I've got the right to listen to this type of music, at this level..." but I think more than anything its safety thats the biggest concern. You are suposed to be aware of your car and of your surroundings when driving, and its kinda hard to hear the ambulance siren or person coming right at you with their horn, or even to feel one of your wheels wobbling as the bolts come off if you freakin car is vibrating mad from the noise your speakers are making.

I agree with Roadrunner that if its that loud you're getting a ticket it probaby sounds like shit outside. Friend of a buddy of mine has apparently some crazy system in his GTP (2k watts, 5k+ watts, whatever, its suposed to be expensive), I got to hear it once when we were chillin on my buds driveway with our cars - the trunk rattling was so bad (and so loud) I didn't get what everyone else was so impressed with. It was a joke to me.

i dont mind the bump, just in neighborhoods

alot of people in my neighborhood have stereos and they always come thru the neighborhood at all times of the night...

i had a system in my old car and i always turned it down in the neighborhoods, its just rude i think.