And Texans. Fucking Lee Greenwood.
My favourite bit :
Well, der ! They’re the ones who are sick of listening to your bloody noisy music ! Why in fuck’s name would they help you protest your eviction ! IDIOT !!!
This reminds me of the furor over mandatory sentencing in the Northern Territory (Australia) a while back. It was labelled as racist… the only group it discriminated against was active criminals !!! (this is not to say I agree/disagree with this law, I could just never figure out how it was racist )
Just wanted to say that in Puerto Rico the neighbors can (and do) call the police if the noise becomes too annoying for them. I think it’s a law similar to what that city has. It all depends on the kind of neighbors that the loud person has, and if the neighbors enjoy that music. We also yell and knob on their doors and tell them to turn down the volume.
FWIW, my dad used to put his opera and classical music way too high. Mom and I had to tell him to turn it down, since he didn’t notice (for him, being alone and hearing his favorite music is being in paradise, sort of like I am). No one complained, but then, we had no close neighbors neither in front, above, or below(apartment building). I don’t know if the rest of the people liked it or not, though. Maybe they just had a higher tolerance level.
I’m going to turn this discussion around in several ways.
My neighbor is Latino, I’m not. We live next door to each other in a converted house, now an apartment building, with very thin walls. Sometimes I like to watch TV late at night, and after 10:30 he bangs on the wall. So I turn it down, almost till I can’t hear it myself, and later on…sure enough…more banging on the wall. (He has never talked to me face-to-face about this, just that damn banging on the wall.)
Actually, lately he hasn’t done that so much…maybe he finally caved and bought himself some earplugs.
The person in our complex who complains the most about loud noise is also Latina – I have never heard any of that noise she complains about, and everyone else thinks she’s a pain in the ass.
Oversensitive people and light sleepers are a curse. They’re the ones who should buy 20 acres in the country. Dense apartment complexes with thin walls are for those of us who don’t mind the normal noise of living.
I guess Mr. G must be getting a lot of action.
I love bagpipe music as well as fiddles, whistles, flutes and other Irish musical instruments.
I have this problem with the gangway outside my bedroom. In this case it is African Americans and Latinos.
I simply put the Boston College Irish Fiddle Championship cd in or one of the many bagpipe cds in. I find Breton music works particularly well due to the presence of the Bombarde, a piercingly loud double reeded instrument 
It usually works quite well. One time I had a neighbor bang on my door and tell me I was making it hard to hear his music:rolleyes:, I told him to turn his fucking music down and slammed the door in his face.
Is’nt multiculturalism wonderful!
By the way, when I’m sitting in traffic, and some idiot pulls next to me with his radio blasting, I like to lay on my horn until we pull apart. It drives my wife crazy when I do that. She thinks someones gonna put a cap in my ass someday.
This part kills me:
A 60-inch TV Jesus Fucking Christ on a pogo stick! How in God’s name do you stand having a 60-inch TV in an apartment? I mean, Christ! I live in a trailer, a 16 X 80 foot trailer, and if I were somehow to cram a 60-inch TV in here, I couldn’t watch the thing without feeling like Kier Dullea in the “light tunnel” sequence of 2001! (Though I gotta admit if I had a head full of acid, I’d be in heaven.)
Then there’s this little “gem” of a statement:
:rolleyes: Puhleeze! This is absurd! Yeah, we shouldn’t evict anyone no matter what it is they do! :rolleyes: Because after all, drug dealers and gang bangers need homes, too, don’t they?
But perhaps the most telling statement is this one:
Wonder why? Maybe its because they’re sick of her shit? Nah, can’t be. 
Actually Allentown WAS a nice city . . .especially the downtown . . .20 years ago . . .until the garbage started moving in.
Your wife is right. Keep that up, and you won’t be posting here for long becuase most likely you will be dead.
Care to explain that statement?
he probably means all the garbage from Shickshinny, Tamaqua, Wilkes-Barre and Pottsville…
As thoughtless and insensitive as people (or any race, creed or denomination) might be, I hope that someone had the thoughtfulness to try and settle things before going to the police. In this instance, the idiots in the article sound like recidivists who don’t care. Many times, though, a simple knock and a “Please turn your music down” will solve the problem, before having to get police involved. When it happens far too often, or the neighbors ignore repeated requests, then step it up.
As for the inconsiderate asses who blast the bass on their car stereos at window-rattling decibels at 3:00am, nothing short of nuclear weapons will suffice. Unfortunately, these wake you and disappear before you can call down an airstrike on their deaf ass.
Dang it! All those times when I was a teenager and my dad would get mad at me for blasting Led Zeppelin…I could have just told him it was part of my culture!
ESPECIALLY Shickshinny!!! As soon as a family comes in from Shickshinny, and starts playing that loud country music, and shooting each other in drug deals, living off welfare with 20 kids, and causing accidents with their beat up old cars, with those damned Shickshinny flags over their rear view mirrors, FORGET IT! You’ll never get what you paid for for your house.
I wish every one one of those Shickshinnians, with that gutter language they speak, I don’t know if it’s Pennsylvania Dutch, or Coalcracker, or what, hey speak ENGLISH buddy, or go back to friggin’ Shickshinny where you came from! I mean EVERY TIME you go to a K-mart, there’s these Shickshinnians, going "BIDIDIDIDIDIDBIDA-BID!!!: And you KNOW they are talking about you . . .
If I had my druthers, I would take every single one of those medallion wearing greaseballs from Shickshinny, and have them swim up the Lehigh River back where they came from, with a Tamaqua resident and someone from Pottsville under each arm!
I always found Allentown to be the ass-hole of Pennsylvania, you must consider moving. Find a nice little town, like Plymouth Meeting or Conshohocken. Leave them to their cardboard apartment buildings. Trash is trash, regardless of race.
Obviously,sir, you have not visited Pottsville, the true asshole of Pennsylvania.
Was that when they started closing all the factories down?
d&r
It’s all about the social contract: You have the right to do whatever you want, as long as it doesn’t affect my shit. If your music is so loud I can hear it over my TV, then the cops are getting called.
THe lady in the article was warned three times by the landlord, and I can almost guarentee that she had recieved several unofficial complaints from her neighbors. To pretent ignorance based on culture is ridiculous.
Why is it so hard to understand that you do NOT have the right to disturb everyone around you? Don’t block traffic, don’t litter, don’t blow smoke at strangers, and if you HAVE to have your music playing so loud it makes your fillings vibrate, then by some Goddamned headphones.
I have to disagree here. I don’t have much experience with the Caribbean communities you mentioned, but living in Ariz., some of the Mexicans in my old apartment complex were guilty of this on a regular basis in both the apartment and their cars. Of course, many of the anglo college students were just as bad or worse.
Trying to always be a good neighbor and give people the consideration I would hope to receive if roles were reversed, I always went to the apartments in question and politely asked if they would turn the music down. If I had to, I’d go back again. More than twice, though, and the apartment complex night monitor AND the local police would get called. The complex had a clause in the lease that if you got two complaints filed against you, you got 90 days probation. Another complaint in that time and you got evicted with 48 hours notice.
Guess what, they counted the montior call and the police call as separate complaints. I got six apartments full of people (4 anglo, 2 Mexican) evicted that way because they just wouldn’t act responsibly. Unfortunately, most of these incidents took place across the courtyard or across the drive; so if it was keeping me awake in my bedroom or I couldn’t hear the TV in my living room, you know it was ridiculously loud.
The cars were another story. Lots of times kids would sit in their cars and blast their music, either rap or tejano (sp?). Nothing like getting blasted out of bed by shrill polka music. I’d go and ask them to turn it down, too. They often, of course, were not as pleasant about it as the apartment dwellers (teenagers, didn’t live there, were with their friends and felt their image being threatened, whatever).
A couple of times I had two or three people step out of the car and make threats. In those situations, I kept a safe distance between us but made damn sure my hand was close to the gun strapped to my thigh and assured the guys I didn’t want any trouble and was not giving them any disrespect but rather was asking for a favor and respect in return.
It confuses people who are not familiar with the “armed society = polite society” theory when you are friendly, polite, respectful and carrying a very large firearm. I never got into a fight and never had to ask anyone in a car twice.
Somebody wrote:
“I think someone should get some ridiculously loud speakers and play Johnny Horton at top volume right outside Vaida’s bedroom window all night the night before this trial starts.”
Hey-- I kind of like Johnny Horton! “I’ve Got A Hole In My Pirogue” is outstanding;
Communal living is best experienced in a military barracks; nothing like a multi-cultural landscape to learn how to live with one another.
Stereo complaints are a staple of “CQ” or Charge of Quarters, essentially the commanders representative during non-duty hours; Stereos are generally confiscated once a pattern of noise complaints ensue, say, twice. Maybe that would be a good middle ground, rather than evicting someone, just take their stereo. Tends to get rather expensive, I’d think.