New Law

[dolla_bill0913]

I live near the city of allentown in Pa, and they are trying to pass a new law that if a car stereo can be heard 75 feet away, the car can be inpounded and you get a 200 dollar fine on top of it. I wouldnt care about the fine, but to take your car away for playing your stereo too loud. Dont cops have anything useful to do, like prevent crime and solve murder cases, instead of inpounding cars with loud stereo's. The really interesting part is how are cops going to use this new found power. They could pull anyone over and say that the stereo was too loud and take your car. Cops use speed guns to catch speeders, they should use decible meters if they are going to start inforcing sound laws. Dont get me wrong some people do play their stereos way too loud, but lets not go crazy and start taking peoples cars from them.

[freakray]

Originally posted by dolla_bill0913
I live near the city of allentown in Pa, and they are trying to pass a new law that if a car stereo can be heard 75 feet away, the car can be inpounded and you get a 200 dollar fine on top of it. I wouldnt care about the fine, but to take your car away for playing your stereo too loud. Dont cops have anything useful to do, like prevent crime and solve murder cases, instead of inpounding cars with loud stereo's. The really interesting part is how are cops going to use this new found power. They could pull anyone over and say that the stereo was too loud and take your car. Cops use speed guns to catch speeders, they should use decible meters if they are going to start inforcing sound laws. Dont get me wrong some people do play their stereos way too loud, but lets not go crazy and start taking peoples cars from them.

It's not like Allentown doesn't already have some screwed up laws anyhow, to what is one more.

I would imagine that you would only be concerned about this new one if you were indeed responsible for breaking it (kind of like people that speed and then bitch about speeding tickets - you break the law, deal with it!).
My in-laws live in Allentown so I am there at least once a month and from experience there is an excess of loud mobile music in some areas.

Besides, 75' is a reasonable distance from the car.....

[taranaki]

Unfortunately,there are a lot of politicians at all levels who seem to forget their real reason for being there,and make disastrous legislation based on trying to force the rest of the community to comply with their view of how the world should be.

Here's a classic example.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/922454.asp?vts=060520031620

[Pick]

Originally posted by taranaki
Unfortunately,there are a lot of politicians at all levels who seem to forget their real reason for being there,and make disastrous legislation based on trying to force the rest of the community to comply with their view of how the world should be.

Here's a classic example.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/922454.asp?vts=060520031620

Here's a whole bunch of people guilty of it.........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,88677,00.html

[YogsVR4]

Also remember that traffic cops don't solve shit. They don't investigate crimes - they enforce stupid laws in a poor and asanine fasion.

[dolla_bill0913]

The real purpose of cops is to make the city money. They will write you a ticket if you look at them funny.

[gigatron]

I agree some of the cop habbits are ridicilous. My paps lost points on his driver license for going over 60KM and going 70KM... He got arrested for getting past a granny who was going 20KM in a 60KM road.. etc.. stuff like that is stupid :/ I swear if there was a way to make money off of AIR politicians or corporations or law enforcment or whoever would gladly like the money :X Lots of crazy laws and cheap habits to extract money indeed ..

[Toksin]

It's pretty sad that police are being taken from doing real work to doing revenue collecting...but that's going OT.

Sounds like an okay law as long as they can prove it, ie decibel meters or whatever.