Rick Badie / My Opinion

By LT5000

September 10, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

Care to mention the demographics of said noise offenders?

LT5000

By Steve

September 10, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

Welcome to the 90’s. Does everything in GA always happen 10-20 years later than the rest of the country?

By Sloan

September 10, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

How come the majority of mugshots at http://www.scangwinnett.com/mugshots/ are of minorities?

By JJ

September 10, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

I have a music “thumper” in my neighborhood. I can hear him coming off the main road into the s/d. When he gets on our street, my windows start rattling.

I truly believe that these idiots who insist on playing that NOISE have tiny little penises and want people to look at them.

And the thing that really gets me, is it IS NOT music they are playing. Rap is NOT music. It’s noise.

By Rusty

September 10, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

“I can play my music as loud as I want to and they ain’t nothin’ ya’ll can do about it”. Yes we can!

By Twynn

September 10, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

Sloan is that a rhetorical question?

JJ, I confess I am a music thumper. Always have been…and “insert embarrassed face emoticon here” because I’ve been so stupid over the years, it’s now costing me some of my hearing. I personally don’t have a penis though, so the reasoning is not primarily due to what you suspect. My motive isn’t to provoke people to look at me, I just like loud music.

Of course I also like to hear what everyone is saying…which is being a small problem, at times.

Y’all listen up!!! Don’t listen SOOO loud…apparently all the times you hear people say not to listen to loud music…it’s for your own good, they’re not just trying to keep you down.

Plus apparently, in Clayton, Cobb, Rockdale, and potentially Gwinnett County, it will save you some money to keep it a little lower.

By The Snark

September 10, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

The law against loud car stereos is a STATE law. It applies EVERYWHERE. When will the city of Atlanta enforce it? I’ve been in cities all over the country, and none of them have so many people blasting noise from their cars. It’s just one of many things that make Atlanta seem selfish and uncaring and hostile.

By chuck allison

September 10, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

You don’t have to get angry at these outrageous young people. Their ridiculously high decibel music carries its own punishment. Just invest in the companies that produce hearing aids and these kids will someday fund your retirement.

By DeKlb Resident

September 10, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

More time than I can count I have witnessed these brain damaged idiots blasting their stereos in their vehicles with a poor innocent kid strapped in the car seat having to endure the hearing damage because some unfit parent is clueless about the welfare of a child. I have seen this in all races, black and white. This should be treated as child abuse.

By WhoCares

September 10, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

Do we really need the Government telling people how loud they can listen to the radio. Don’t get me wrong, I think these “Thumpers” are a bunch of idiots but most of them are just kids doing what kids do. Annoy adults. The one argument I can see for it is if it is loud enough to prevent the driver or other drivers around them from hearing emergency vehicles.

By Stan

September 10, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

Whenever I pull up to a red light nexxt to one of the idiots, I just insert my Bagpipes cd, and crank Amazing Grace. It gets the point across. Sometimes they just turn theirs up louder but often they will turn it down at least a little.

I’ve never understood, if they just want to listen to their music loud, why do they have all their windows down?

Good post LT, it would seem that this is a topic that meets your high standards for a blog entry =)

By Teacher, Too

September 10, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

When someone’s elses music is so loud that I can’t hear my music (or sports talk), then it infringes on my right to listen to my radio. (Oh, and that’s with my windows rolled up!)

And why should my car have to vibrate because someone is playing his/her music too loud?

By zeke

September 10, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

Fine them once! Then for each additional violation jail time! Increase the amount of jail time for each violation! First time a fine of $150. Second time 30 days! Third time 60 days, etc.

By Michael H. Smith

September 10, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Lawrenceville has always had a nuisance noise ordinance on the books. Recently that ordinance has been improved and has been made stricter; so has the enforcement of the nuisance noise ordinance. Needless, though very pleasantly to say, the silence is deafening.

By Cindy

September 10, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

You’re right Stan. This one does seem to have met with LT’s approval. :)

I wonder where Bruce Wilcox has been lately? Haven’t seen anything from him or Michael H Smith for too long.

By Cheryl

September 10, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

An aside to all the white kids and the older adults of all races who play “urban” music at full blast at traffic lights to impress people with their hipness: the only impression other people get is that you are a pathetic poser. It’s very sad.

I used the alternate music technique on a neighbor who liked to play his music full blast into the late hours of the night making my walls vibrate. The next morning after he had kept me up all night I put a marching band tape on continuous play at full blast against his wall then left for work. He got the hint.

By Michael H. Smith

September 10, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

Hope that answers your question Cindy. :) I passed on the last blog simply because it broke down into a discourse of pure “Race” mongering ignorance.

Hope Rick takes on the latest news from DA Porter.

By Michael H. Smith

September 10, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

Carole Boyce stick to your guns. You represent me on the B.o.E. and your stance is exactly the one I hope you will continue to take on this non-sense the head of the local NAACP is pushing. I’m no J. Alvin fan but J. Alvin is not the problem and dismissing him is not the answer to righting the wrongs that exist.

By HomeoftheRude

September 10, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

It’s about time. The only thing worse than cRAP cranked up to ear bleeding levels, are the jack*sses who think they are so manly revving up their sorry over priced Harleys. The next law that needs to passed and enforced is a decibel limit for vehicles.

WhoCares, you ever heard of the concept of your rights ending where mine begin?

Which reminds of this pathetic fat*ss I saw (and heard) at a red light the other day. He was revving up his surrogate penis like a madman and making everyone listen to his cRAP too.

By Jais

September 10, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

I absolutely LOVE how blubbering badie tries and tries again to ban me off this blog to NO AVAIL WHATSOEVER.

Good god badie, what’s it gonna take? Do I really need to let my indonesian pals loose in here again? Like I said before, I get paid way, way more than your little webmaster and I’ll run roughshod all over his work. This is possibly the most unprotected website of any news group.

Keep on trying, Ricky. I’ll be there to gloat over your failures every time. Carry on, precious.

By Cindy

September 10, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

Yep Michael, that was pretty funny that I was asking that right when you were posting. :)

By inquiring minds

September 10, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

zeke, I agree. Fine them once. But then the next time, no jail time. Impound their equipment instead. It will hurt them in their wallet. Putting them in jail hurts my (the taxpayers) wallet.

By grelican

September 10, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

IMHO it doesn’t matter what race someone is, how old they are, or what kinds of music they like. It’s disturbing the peace. There have to be basic standards of decency or else we live in chaos.

People have plenty of freedoms to do stuff. What about my freedoms from what they do?

That rumbling bass sound is a regular part of life where I live. I consider it one of the most aggressive, invasive and anti-social things a person can do. It’s the audio version of flipping the bird. Hearing that in my living room is extremely offensive to me and my neighbors.

Enforcing laws on things like noise, litter, and drunken-disorderly; things that are already on the books but get put by the wayside, make life better. It’s the broken windows theory of law enforcement. Worked in Giuliani’s New York, it could work here.

It’s true that the poorer and darker your are, the more this affects you. Some people get burned by overzealous cops while others get away with stuff that they shouldn’t. But does that mean that these social standards should just be thrown out? The perfect shouldn’t be the enemy of the good.

Only problem: no cops. The city of Atlanta has just enough police to make it hospitable to human life. Ask any cop and they’ll tell you that they’re stretched to breaking. No one’s writing any tickets in Atlanta for noise because they’re responding to emergency calls. As a ballpark figure, we need 500 new cops on the streets to start making Atlanta look like the safe, welcoming cities that we find across America.

Then again, Georgia doesn’t even have a safety inspection for cars. Just emissions, which, judging by the tailpipes I see around town is bypassed by palming off $20 cash instead of running it through the register. They could ban bass cannons and enforce it through an inspection too, while keeping cars safer and cleaner for all of us.

Maybe if we invested in ensuring some standards, fair and agreeable as possible, people from the ‘burbs and elsewhere wouldn’t mind coming in and spending their money here. If you clean it they will come, but it’ll take some investment and good will— things in short supply here in GA.

I love it here in Atlanta, and Georgia but man is it frustrating sometimes.

By inquiring minds

September 10, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

zeke, I agree. Fine them once. But then the next time, no jail time. Impound their equipment instead. It will hurt them in their wallet. Putting them in jail hurts my (the taxpayers) wallet.

By Jais

September 10, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this

so that reminds me of what i tried to post before i was so rudely interrupted.

Awoke this morning to the sound of power equipment. Clock read 6am. I wearily climb from bed and go outside in the bathrobe to see a crew with a backhoe drilling into my neighbor’s yard. All my neighbors are looking out the windows, standing on porches shaking their heads, so I wander over.

first thing i shout is “GOOD MORNING! WHAT THE F* are YOU ON?” to which this guy just spits his chaw and smiles. “We’re here to repair your gas main, sir…just stay back.” he says.

“What? it’s 6am, there’s a noise ordinance. shut it down and come back after 8.” I instruct. He shakes his head with a very pleased smile and goes “It will only be a while, sir. Sorry.”

I rub my eyes and realize something.

“Hey…who sent you out here?” I ask.

“The government” the man retorts with a smart-a* nod of his head.

“Well, you better get on the horn with ‘em because we don’t have gas on this street.” I inform.

“We know what we’re doing, sir.” he remarks with a snide smile.

“Well, it’s me or the cops, which one you want?” I warn, now irritable and fighting my eyelids to look at him.

“Call em!” the asswipe dares. No sooner than I turn around and he said it, WATER begins spewing all around the auger on the backhoe. “We got a problem…” the driver yells. I just went back inside and summoned the cops. And now, I’m tired, smelly because the water main is broken, and waiting for cop to finish up outside because now my front porch seems to have become a new precinct or something. I don’t even think they are working atm, I have no idea. there’s five cars out here…must have been a slow day…or early…

by the way- yes PETERSON GROUP is the name on the truck and they are getting a pretty heavy fine from what some guy told me.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AND MY PROPERTY AT WORK, FOLKS.

By Cindy

September 10, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

Aww Jais. :( Hope your day gets better.

By do you prefer racist or bigot?

September 10, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

how about the even more obnoxious and more prevalent harely? oops. sorry only whites ride harelys. never mind

By grelican

September 10, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

Re: Harleys, true, no doubt.

If you’re going to go after bass, Harleys shouldn’t be exempt. The whole “loud pipes save lives” thing is bunk, never proven.

People just shouldn’t be allowed to ride around on noisemakers.

Go be free with your leather chaps and attitude if you like… I’m all for the Great American Motorcycle Fantasy… but be free with a muffler.

I’ve got rights too. Your freedom shouldn’t trump mine or anyone else’s. Black, white, redneck, city, it doesn’t matter who you are. That’s justice.

By Cindy

September 10, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

Loud pipes are just fine with me. That’s taking it a little far.

By Southern Born

September 10, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

Harley-Davidson: the most efficient apparatus ever devised by the human mind for the sole purpose of turning gasoline into…noise.

Loud Pipes Lose Rights

By Cindy

September 10, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

Wow. I don’t even know what to say, other than I hope the Harley driving police officers aren’t reading this. And if they are, that they’re thick enough skinned to understand that you don’t truly understand what you’re saying.

By JJ

September 10, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this

I’ll take a Harley ANY day over thumping music. Several of my neighbors have Harleys…….and I LOVE ‘em!!!!

I’m all for loud MUSIC, but not Rap/noise.

Being the Van Halen fan that I am, and other classic rock and roll, I like some music loud. Stevie Ray Vaughn is better louder. But when I play my music loud, it doesn’t affect the neighbors, or my traffic buddies. And you can’t hear it three blocks away……

By LT5000

September 10, 2008 4:27 PM | Link to this

From Today’s Illegal Immigrant News:

*Police said Aurelio Vasquez was confronted by two young men and shot once in the head July 22 as he walked home to his Graves Road apartment from a nearby store. *

Two witnesses pointed to 17-year-old Pascual Lopez, an illegal Mexican immigrant and known gang member, in photo lineups as one of those assailants, Gwinnett police Detective S.A. LaCosta testified. The second suspect hasn’t been caught, she said.

*LaCosta said Lopez is an associate of the street gang “MS-13,” an El Salvador-based crew widely regarded as the most violent in Gwinnett. *

And Blubbering Badie writes a blog about loud car stereos.

Maybe a trip to the Gwinnett County Detention Center to give the people of Gwinnett the real types and numbers committed by our Illegal Immigrant “amigos” would be more salient.

But it’s too much to expect Blubbering Badie to be a real journalist.

However, I’m sure he will be writing about the Gwinnett NAACP wanting Wilbanks to resign.

If only the NAACP could direct that energy into ensuring people graduate high school, commit less crimes, be a father to their children………

LT5000

By grelican

September 10, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

Loud pipes don’t save lives. Helmets and leathers do. The sound’s behind you, lagging behind any threats to your safety, just bothering everyone else so you can look tough.

Cops’ Harleys have mufflers, as do most average owners. Besides, it’s not if it’s a Harley or a rice burner. It’s how loud it is.

Don’t make this a race thing. It ain’t. I travel across the rural SE for work and see the same ya yas listening to the same stuff at the same volume, just out in the sticks and with white skin. The point isn’t who it is, it’s how loud.

Besides, it’s a noise thing. If you don’t like one kind, you’re opening the door for all kinds of other noise as well. The law can’t pick and choose according to taste.

The law is defined in terms of distance from the noise and decibels— a fair measure that can be applied to anyone, black, white, rich, poor.

Loud bass, farting Harleys and redlining crotchrockets are all irritating and should face criminal sanction. But if it doesn’t bother John Q Public, I say go do what you want, just leave your neighbor in peace.

That’s the American way.

By Dee

September 10, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

I hope Gwinnett does start fining people for loud music (or cRAP). I listen to audio books, and often can’t hear them beacuse of the loud noise. Especially when I’m at Pleasant Hill and Lawrenceville Hgwy.

I also wish very much that GA would bring in a safety inspection for vehicles. I’m so tired of cars with one headlight out so they use the bright light on the one that is working. I’ve lived in several states and GA is the only one that doesn’t require a safety inspection. Maybe that’s why GA’s accident rate is so high?

By itpdude

September 10, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this

Not to sound all fuddy-duddy, but those systems are ridiculous. I remember in high school when the guys were all getting the big 8’s or 10’s or whatever in their trunk. It was stupid then and it’s stupid now. I wish Atlanta would have the guts to pull over booming cars. Hell, they’d probably find a bunch of probation violations and warrants in the process…

There is no way a driver that is blasting his music that loud is able to reasonably command his vehicle in a safe manner. It is a safety issue.

By dog

September 10, 2008 6:38 PM | Link to this

jais,

Why didn’t you just shoot the guy on the back hoe? Did you forget to take your lil’ gun with you?

By Come on People....

September 10, 2008 9:53 PM | Link to this

Who cares about the noise? They’re kids. Today it is rap. When I was a kid it was Skynyrd or AC/DC. Pull over and let them get 20 seconds ahead of you on the road…problem solved.

If the police want to put a $135 fine to good use give tickets to tail-gaters. They’re the menace on the roads. I typically pull over and let them get ahead of me as well, but often it is not feasible on the highway.

By ResonantNiteOwler

September 10, 2008 10:12 PM | Link to this

The state law on loud stereo is 100ft. Gwinnett (section 42-46 through 42-48 of GCCO) and some municipalities have a 50 feet standard. Because there are times these car stereos are SO loud that I know it is physically harmful to me and the people around me, I want to see improved enforcement and the upgrading of our existing noise ordinances.

Since overworked police especially in unincorporated Gwinnett county areas can’t chase down every noisy driver, our Commissioners need to address the epidemic of rude idiots driving around with their car audio systems thumping at all hours of the day and night by banning these boom cars, confiscating the equipment of chronic violators & implementing a program that will also allow citizens to file citations against their owners.

By NOWICUNVME

September 10, 2008 10:44 PM | Link to this

If I’m playing a favorite CD or a song comes on the radio that I like, I like to pump the volume up a tad also. However, I don’t have boom boxes in my trunk so it’s not that bad. The extra bass, extra loud, glass shattering, earthquake trembling noise is another story. I understand it’s an era thing, but it’s just way too loud. I think there should be a time and a place for the youngbloods to blow out their eardrums if they want. They will eventually grow out of it. I think the $135 fine is a little steep unless its outside the parameters of the noise ordinance. What can you do? Kids will be kids I guess. I know my kids are probably guilty as well. They however know they BETTER not go through our S/D or anybody else’s with all that unnecessary noise. I think they should get a warning at least the first few times maybe and the fine should be more like $60. I mean they’re not speeding, drunk driving, drag racing, doing drugs or anything like that. Problem with most adults nowadays I think is that they forgot they used to be kids too.

By NOWICUNVME

September 10, 2008 11:11 PM | Link to this

Jais, LT, and Mark?? is it? Are your boxers wet right now? I mean the Blubbering Badie thing is played out and boringly redundant. Can either one of you just post a friggin blog about the topic at hand without trying to get a rise out of others with your constant ignorance and stupidity? I mean really. How old are you guys? Grow up already will ya??

By Mark

September 11, 2008 2:30 AM | Link to this

Btw, did I mention that I just LOVE bbc. I know, tell all your friends that Mark loves bbc. Bbc in the morning, bbc in the evening, bbc at suppertime, Mark keeps on adding bbc to the good things he finds. Why, I must admit that I like to steal my wife’s bbc. Simply put, Mark loves bbc at meal time.

By 9-11-01

September 11, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

A Trivia question: How long is the beast allowed to have authority in Revelation?

Guess the Answer? Revelations Chapter 13:5 tells us it is 42 months.

And you know what that is? Almost a 4-year term to a Presidency.

According to The Book of Revelation the anti-Christ is:

NOW REMEMBER THIS IS IN THE BIBLE NOT MADE UP. READ REVELATION. YOU TOO WILL SEE.

The anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40’s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal,the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, will destroy everything?

NOVEMBER ELECTION IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. Is it OBAMA???

By Jack

September 11, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

Loud pipes do save lives. And I’d rather hear loud pipes than spade music blaring from a gar car.

And what’s a bbc, imbecile?

By Cindy

September 11, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

Jack I wondered about the bbc thing too…but thought it better to not ask. :) Sitting here thinking about it, I made bbc an acronym for waaaayyyy too many things, and none of them were blog worthy. It’s probably just my nasty imagination running wild though…it’s probably something totally innocent.

By Stan

September 11, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

British Broadcast Channel? If so I like Top Gear, Dr Who and a couple of other shows…

9-11-01…Please tell me you’re kidding…OMG of course if the Big “O” is the Antichrist, there is nothing that can be done about it anyway. It’s just the prophcey coming true.

Go Barr!!

By Jimbo I

September 11, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

When I can hear your stereo distinctly from my tenth floor apartment it’s too loud.

Making the best of it, I’m heavily invested in a broad selection of hearing aid and deafness treatment related companies.

By Alex

January 3, 2009 1:42 PM | Link to this

I live in the middle of nowhere (El Mirage, CA), and even here we have bassheads. Braindead zombies who can’t get in their car or be out in their front yard for five seconds without blasting the stereo. Either goofy mexican polka or that chicano cRAP. We moved out here to get away from the city/suburbs and still having to hear that ghetto thumping in the middle of desert, it’s almost comical. These idiots couldn’t make it in Compton, so they come out here and play into this fake-a* wannabee gangster image? What a bunch of assclowns.

I couldn’t agree more with the comment that instead of jailtime, their equipment gets impounded. I would lmao seeing some mexican crying like a baby as his overpriced system gets confiscated, or some spoiled little white brat for that matter. Serves the idiots right. This is not just ‘kids being kids’ either. Alot of these guys are easily pushing 30, older than I am.

By Alex

January 3, 2009 1:45 PM | Link to this

I live in the middle of nowhere (El Mirage, CA), and even here we have bassheads. Braindead zombies who can’t get in their car or be out in their front yard for five seconds without blasting the stereo. Either goofy mexican polka or that chicano cRAP. We moved out here to get away from the city/suburbs and still having to hear that ghetto thumping in the middle of desert, it’s almost comical. These idiots couldn’t make it in Compton, so they come out here and play into this fake-a* wannabee gangster image? What a bunch of assclowns.

I couldn’t agree more with the comment that instead of jailtime, their equipment gets impounded. I would lmao seeing some mexican crying like a baby as his overpriced system gets confiscated, or some spoiled little white brat for that matter. Serves the idiots right. This is not just ‘kids being kids’ either. Alot of these guys are easily pushing 30, older than I am.