I’m starting to think that’s the only solution.
Man, you old folks are so cranky.
As someone whose ridden in these bassmobiles before, they’re actually quite fun - if you have the right music for it.* Something about getting the dinosaur portion of your brain going.
- Believe me when I tell you that I only condone this while riding down the highway with a crazed roommate drag racing along I-80. I am as annoyed as everyone else with the fools who do this in residential districts, but I can one up you: at midnight on a Wed. parking your car outside your girlfriend’s house (that just happens to be nextdoor to a sleeping Chairman) and, not only not turning down the stereo, but honking.
Hmmm, In my home town, it’s (IIR the rates Correctly), it’s 300 dollar fine for the first offense, 600 or so for the second offense, and up to $1000 and loss of the stereo for the third offense.
I used to live by a McDonald’s/Chevron combo. Not only would they come in with the bass booming, but they wouldn’t just get their gas or burgers and leave, they’d CONGREGATE, several cars at a time, booming that crap at 2am.
After nearly a year of calling the cops and the station with complaints AND going over there to yell at the inconsiderate little snots myself, and sending a written plea to the nearby high school to be passed on to the students, and one incident where we managed to flag down a cop and actually get a constant offender fined (he actually worked at the McDonald’s), the incidences finally died down.
I don’t begrudge these kids their fun and need to show off, just do it out on the HIGHWAY, somewhere, ANYWHERE away from residential areas, is that so hard to figure out?
And to the poster who mentioned the wish for a “bass killer” type device, I’ve longed for one of those as well, I’d pay BIG BUCKS to own one…sigh
They do, they’re called assault rifles. 
Sadly, (or thankfully my friends say) I’m not allowed to own one in the UK. So many times have I prayed for such a device.
There is no God. 
If the heart arrhythmias thing is an urban legend then why have I actually felt like I’m having heart palpitations when I’m stuck at a stop light with one of these bass-boomers? You can feel the pounding in your body and it feels like my heart is either trying to compete with it or match it, it is very uncomfortable.
At least I know I am not alone in wishing for some sort of device that you could use to fry these systems.
WAG: I think what you feel is the frequencies that are too low for you to hear but that also get produced with the rest of the frequencies passing through your chest cavity.
NOBODY expects the Speaker Inquisition!
Actually it’s NOT QUITE an urban legend (or maybe it was an urban legend that is just a little step closer to legitimacy. But it’s not arrhythmia it’s a pneumothorax.
Fark, put me on to this (I also tend to find that bass makes my chest feel “uncomfortable”, not painful, just creepy discomfort).
A medical journal recently published a report that links loud music to lungs collapsing. :eek:
So far there’s nothing truly conclusive, though so linking extremely loud tunes is still in its infancy. And other risk factors are usually present for the lungs to go all deflatey (smoking, chronic obstrucitve lung disease, etc.) But you’re not crazy if you feel that the bog boomy bass feels entirely too weird in your chest.
I work with a lot of professional musicians. I carry earplugs with me at all times, but I have been known to just leave venues because I don’t like how it feels like my “lungs are vibrating too much.” Sometimes it just feel more difficult to breathe. I don’t think it actually IS more difficult to breathe, I think it’s just some kind of instinct telling me “Hmm, lungs not right. Let’s go to where lungs feel right.”
This isn’t true entirely…once in my life, I saw a man blasting loud music out of the back of his souped-up Honda - Mozart.
Blew my mind, it did.
My wife is an audiologist. Every time one of those cars goes by with noise thumping out of it, she just smiles and says, “Another future client.”
You’re not alone. I was sitting in a car waiting for my sister to come out of a convenience store when a big pickup blasting bass notes pulled up next to me. When the guy opened the door, it was Brooks and Dunn, I kid you not.
Were they playing Brooks & Dunn?
Well done. I’m impressed that you handled it so well.
Thank you – he’s really a good neighbour. 
On the other hand, I was busy setting up a bazooka aimed at the person parked next to the mailbox farm directly opposite my flat for 30 minutes Sunday morning – reading his mail whilst sitting in his car, bass so loud it was rattling my windows and walls.
What’s interesting is how many people came outside, like me, obviously thinking, huh? and looking for the source of the noise, and stared at him a la The Village of the Damned children, until he looked up, saw all of us, and sped off. Twit.