# Woman plays music loudly, gets noise complaint, writes WaPo piece **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 29, 2018, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-plays-music-loudly-gets-noise-complaint-writes-wapo-piece/815019 "2018-05-29T03:57:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-plays-music-loudly-gets-noise-complaint-writes-wapo-piece/815019/121 "2018-06-03T15:30:26Z")
> [@Fuji](#): > > Uh, dude? We were talking about why the woman’s neighbors in the OP might have called the police, not about _your_ crazy issues with your beleaguered neighbors. You know, if you stop calling the cops on them, maybe they’ll actually invite you to one of their block parties. You never know… > > Ah, now I see I was mistaken in giving you the benefit of the doubt. You really are a peach. Any more predictions, Kreskin? You are so pathetically narcissistic that you can’t see how your own bad behavior hurts others and you don’t care. You don’t have any more right to invade another’s residence with loud music than you do to break and enter. Grow up. It only takes one bad apple… ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-plays-music-loudly-gets-noise-complaint-writes-wapo-piece/815019/122 "2018-06-03T16:28:31Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > …when workers on non-day shifts may be trying to sleep. > …when people are home sick and trying to get rest which is disturbed by loud music blaring through the walls. > …when residents are simply trying to enjoy other activities but can’t because of a tenant playing wall-shaking music The last time I lived somewhere with neighbors, noise was only prohibited during specific hours (10pm-9am IIRC). A friend/neighbor had the cops called on him for playing music too loud at 10:15 one night. He honestly didn’t realize it was that late. He reacted with hostility over being turned in to the cops. For weeks after the situation, he’d play music as loud as his sound system could deliver from 8 pm until 9:59 pm. I moved away before the situation came to a head. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-plays-music-loudly-gets-noise-complaint-writes-wapo-piece/815019/123 "2018-06-03T16:33:00Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Yay! You can join Steophuckface as a group of now 2 people who think people who play loud music should be shot. > > What is wrong with you? Well it depends. What kind of music are they playing? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-plays-music-loudly-gets-noise-complaint-writes-wapo-piece/815019/124 "2018-06-03T20:42:55Z")
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**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-plays-music-loudly-gets-noise-complaint-writes-wapo-piece/815019/125 "2018-06-03T23:36:52Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > You are so pathetically narcissistic that you can’t see how your own bad behavior hurts others and you don’t care. Another prophet steps forth. Again, I thought we were discussing the neighbors in the OP, not my purported misdeeds, but if it makes you feel good, preach it brother! > [@](#): > > You don’t have any more right to invade another’s residence with loud music than you do to break and enter. Grow up. It only takes one bad apple… I think you might be confusing me with another poster, Jeremiah. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-plays-music-loudly-gets-noise-complaint-writes-wapo-piece/815019/126 "2018-06-03T23:55:09Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Yeah yeah, I’m a white cis male that looks harmless and at the time I was a ‘clean cut’ 20ish year old. Based on looks alone, he probably felt he didn’t have a whole of reason to be concerned… Crimes are committed by 20ish year old males. If he had any sense, he had reason to be concerned. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-plays-music-loudly-gets-noise-complaint-writes-wapo-piece/815019/127 "2018-06-04T02:13:24Z")
> [@ArtBeforeScience](#): > > I think that loud rap is a signifier for “potentially violent” Woooooah…does that mean I actually have some street cred? Because I thought I had exactly zero street cred, being a pasty-white middle-aged JAP from Long Island who lives in a rich white town in central Jersey and has never been in a physical fight in my life. But I do really love Public Enemy and I feel they are best enjoyed at a generous level of volume. Nice to know that somebody out there thinks there is a possibility that I am a badass. (It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back turns 30 later this month. After all this time, the line “soul on a roll but you treat it like soap on a rope” still holds. Dayum.) ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-plays-music-loudly-gets-noise-complaint-writes-wapo-piece/815019/128 "2018-06-04T02:24:01Z")
You know, it would have been interesting if the WaPo had located the neighbors who made the noise complaint (pretty easily done) and asked them to write their story of the incident. Or even obtained a copy of the police officer’s report of the interaction. Would have been a much more informative story. Given how much the media tends toward giving ‘equal voice to all sides’ nowadays, I’d think they could have done something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-plays-music-loudly-gets-noise-complaint-writes-wapo-piece/815019/129 "2018-06-04T13:52:32Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Well it depends. What kind of music are they playing? Well, if it was Rush, I might understand. ---
**Author:** ![EarlGrayHot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e480ec/32.png) [@EarlGrayHot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EarlGrayHot)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-plays-music-loudly-gets-noise-complaint-writes-wapo-piece/815019/130 "2018-06-04T14:56:04Z")
In the many years I’ve lived in a normally quiet neighborhood in a Midwestern town I’ve called in a lot of noise complaints. I’ve never given any thought to who was making the noise and would never hesitate to complain in the future because the city noise ordinance says I have that right. Most times I don’t even know who is making all the noise-I leave it to the officers who respond to find and admonish or cite them. This lady sounds as if she overreacted. Having an officer ask for your ID is perhaps a bit nerve-wracking but not that big of a deal. She was simply asked to be less noisy in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Inbred\_Mm\_domesticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/aca169/32.png) [@Inbred\_Mm\_domesticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inbred_Mm_domesticus)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-plays-music-loudly-gets-noise-complaint-writes-wapo-piece/815019/131 "2018-06-04T18:43:10Z")
> [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](#): > > You know, it would have been interesting if the WaPo had located the neighbors who made the noise complaint (pretty easily done) and asked them to write their story of the incident. Or even obtained a copy of the police officer’s report of the interaction. Would have been a much more informative story. > > Given how much the media tends toward giving ‘equal voice to all sides’ nowadays, I’d think they could have done something like that. It was an opinion piece. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-plays-music-loudly-gets-noise-complaint-writes-wapo-piece/815019.md?page=6)