Would somebody please explain to me what the attraction is in having a thumping throbbing permeating wave of amplified bass sound energy pounding through your entire body (not to mention everything within earshot) for hours at a time? Every year, as soon as the weather becomes kinder, our neighborhood in Peoria’s East Bluffs is assaulted with several barrages of this mind-numbing thrummm-thrummm-thrummm. Whenever the weather is fair, you can feel it, shaking the skeletal structures of not only the houses, but their occupants.
I love music, but I fail to see how this distortion of the electromagnetic spectrum even remotely qualifies as music. The laws governing the public exhibition of such atrocities set a range of 75 feet, beyond which legal actions can be taken. But, what about the unfortunate ones who reside within that 75 foot limit? I’d be willing to bet that prolonged exposure to sounds at these levels can cause cumulative damage to the auditory nerve, or perhaps even the cerebral cortex.
It does no good to call the police. The perps are somehow alerted before the police arrive. They also employ moving vehicles that troll the neighborhood with their woofers pumping (aka Drive-Bys) and parked cars with remote controlled stereos (stealth-bombers).
I know the police have better things to do than conduct ’sting’ operations on subwoofer abusers, but there has to be a way. This is, after all a quality of life issue and if this noise continues, the quality of life for those of us who value their sleep and sanity will be severely strained.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 11:41 pm
[...] is in response to the slew of articles and complaints I’ve heard and read about the problems Bluffians are having with their stereo advantaged [...]