The state legislature just approved the change to our local noise ordinances. This victory belongs to every person who hit send on those emails and stood by this petition. Keep watch on your property lines to ensure our new standard is enforced correctly.
December 26, 2012
Final supporters
NoiseFreeTexas.org
Petition
To Our Elected Officials,
Re: Texas Penal Code
Title 9. Offenses Against Public Order and Decency
Chapter 42. Disorderly Conduct and Related Offenses, Sec. 42.01 Disorderly Conduct
(2) a noise is presumed to be unreasonable if the noise exceeds a decibel level of 85 after the person making the noise receives notice from a magistrate or peace officer that the noise is a public nuisance.
As citizens of the State of Texas,
and constituents of your county and district, we respectfully request that the
current noise statute of the Texas Penal Code be changed to reflect a healthy
and acceptable noise level of 60 - 65 decibels (dbl), 7pm to 7am (sundown to
sunup), in lieu of the current and unacceptable 85 decibels (dbl). We request that state and national holidays, ISD events, professional sporting events, and the discharge of firearms, etc., be exempt.
The current 85 dbl. isn't neighborly and discourages a healthy rural lifestyle. A decibel reading of 60 – 65 decibels will ensure that a 45 dbl. reading will be in our homes. 45 dbl. is the noise level of normal indoor conversation.
We also request the new statute to specify that the decibel reading, upon investigation, be taken at the property line of the noise source to ensure a decibel of reading not over 65 decibels. Please specify noise meter readings are to be taken at the noise source. It's also important for the noise level to be measured using the C-weighted decibel meter, which measures low frequency bass vibrations.
To live close to a business that generates a constant 85 dbl., till all hours of the early morning, is unbearable. The low frequency bass sounds and vibrations travel several miles from the noise source, and have the capability of entering our homes through windows and up foundations. Disruptive noise prevents normal interior conversation, prevents and disrupts sleep, and negates a healthy lifestyle. Most distressing is that disruptive noise prevents the peaceful enjoyment of our homes and property.
According to Science World, (3/25/02), 85 dbl. begets hearing loss. 85 dbl. is the registered noise level for a subway, a lawnmower, or jets flying overhead. Disruptive noise has been scientifically researched and documented. Excessive exposure to disruptive noise is used as a successful military tactic. Living near or working under 85 dbl is unreasonable and an intolerable stressor upon neighbors and employees.
Please change the Texas Penal Code statute to reflect a maximum of 60 - 65 dbl., 7pm to 7am (sundown to sunup). This change will better protect all Texans from unreasonable noise inside our homes, and ensure a healthy rural environment for all.
All Texans should be afforded the right to a good night's sleep. We rural Texans want to live in peace and quiet. Please help us.
GOOD
TEXANS KEEP THEIR NOISE TO THEMSELVES
LET’S KEEP THE PEACE IN RURAL TEXAS
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
December 9, 2012
March 11, 2011
We hit a real turning point today and the momentum behind this push is undeniable. Now we move to the next phase by emailing your local representative to demand they back this specific code change. Take ten minutes right now to send that email and confirm they received it.
November 3, 2010
We hit 100 signatures today. Post your thoughts on Facebook and email your representative about our request for a 65 decibel limit.
Reached 100 supporters
November 2, 2010
81 Comments
Neighbors have allowed their kids to use their 30 acres for a dirt track. It backs up to our cul-de-sac and they ride until 9-10pm every night. The County Commissioner has been out several times using a decibel meter & it exceeds 85 decibels, but still says there is nothing he can do.
We love music, but when outdoor music is allowed at 85dB near single family homes, as it is in Austin, it is an unfair, health damaging noise to those who live there! We want our city and our state to prohibit this noise invasion of our homes.
It is way past time for this to happen. I live across the street from folks who believe its OK to play their car stereos loud enough to rattle my windows and the sheriff says he can do nothing. It is ridiculous that I can be cited for my dogs barking easier than they can be cited for the crap music.
just stop
just stop
I am a HOA Board member and this is an issue in our community.
Driftwood is becoming a war zone between neighbors over loud gun shots by their neighbors disturbing Peace of Mind.
agree changes needed
Ivenhoe, Texas take note!
PLEASE pass this and add something in for unincorporated areas as well!!!
Reckless neighbors let their dogs bark all day and night. I cannot even walk outside of my own home. We should be protected noise nuisance by law!
Tired of idiots literally shaking the walls of my house with their, "hey, look at me! I'm noisy! I need attention" noise machines at all times of day and night. Complete disregard for anyone else.
I wish you well in this mission. I have a problem with the School across the street from my house. I don't have a problem with kids being kids but the coaches play music on an amplifier so load that my older kids working graveyard shift cant sleep. Its painfull
We live in Katy, Texas and a new Crossfit Elevate has opened in the back of our property. They open at 5:00 am in the morning. They keep the back door of their facility fully open with loud music all the time. We are seeing strangers all the time overlooking our back yard. We cannot walk freely in our backyard from 5:00 am to 8:00 pm as there are strangers all the time overlooking our back yard. The facility they run the gym is an old metal shed with no sound proofing or engineering standards. I addition to the loud music we are deeply affected by the thud and vibration of dropping of heavy weights, shouting of clients etc. We have totally lost our privacy, our right to solitude and our family is under stranger danger.
I have a band that plays next door in a tin building, sometimes 4 days a week. I can't even watch TV or go to sleep in my bedroom. I live in the county and the sheriff is either afraid of theem or they just doesn't care.
Noise crossing private property lines is trespass. Time to put some teeth in industrial noise in Texas.... 65 db crossing property lines should be governed
Please pass this
It is quite disturbing that tax paying citizens who live in unincorporated county areas have to put up with such disrespect.
Get rid of the vehicle stereo noise that not only doesn't allow me to enjoy TV but the language of songs that are inappropriate. Motorcycles that think I should be awakened at 2:30 AM by their illegal pipes. Vehicles with no mufflers racing up and down the street. 85 decibels is not hard to hit by any of these people. Getting law enforcement to do something about is hard to do. "I was not here to hear the noise so there's nothing I can do for you".
I own 50 acres, got away from town, shouldn't have to listen to Mexican music!
Thank you for starting this petition. Vehicle stereo noise especially with grotesquely amplified bass frequencies are particularly offensive and unreasonable!
Thank you for starting this petition. This issue also applies to urban and suburban areas. The quality of life has deteriorated very badly in many areas of Texas due to disruptive noise, which as is correctly pointed out, is actually a military tactic to harass enemies.
Neighbor in country rents an open barn for parties and music is loud until 2 am. Sleeping is impossible. We need this ordinance
I wonder if noise sources are addressed in this section of the penal code. Aircraft noise is a nuisance in our area, just 4 miles from Easterwood Airport.
I am gladly signing this petition against excessive noise! I have neighbors who think it's ok to play loud music, regardless of time of day. If I'm in my house, with doors closed, TV on, and I can hear booming, thumping music, it's too loud, extremely rude and disrespectful to others.
Tired of having my ears assaulted on my own property.
We need to lower the level and add in the base as a form of measurement. It can be difficult to convince law enforcement that the base on moderately played music can be heard in my house from full the street.
The gym on the back of may house has no sound proofing material on the wall and their music with low frequency invades into my house passing through 60 feet of my back yard. I went to the gym to talk with the owner and contacted the land lord. Nothing has been changed. Several dispatches of constables have been ignored. while there is a right to listen to the music for them, I should have a right not to listen to their music. They are protected by law, I am not.
Please do something. Neighbors very unruly
We have lived in a small town near the square for over 32 years. Recently, a BAR, calling itself a restaurant, became our next door neighbor. Our city officials are more concerned about the tax revenue than they are about protecting the sanctity of our homes and neighborhood.
I support this petition. Excessive loud music especially the loud bass from vehicles and neighbors (inside or outside the home/apartment unit) is disrupting my quiet enjoyment of my property, my peace, and affecting my psychological, emotional and physiological health in a negative way. Noise regulation should also be in terms of sound frequency or Hertz/hz. Loud bass is not safe because it is a low frequency sound wave/vibration. Low frequency (LFN) sound wave is harmful to the health. LFN 0-20 hz is not audible but detected by the body. Bass is 60-250 Hz is both audible and felt by the body. One article I read said that frequencies below 100 Hz travels really far. One LFN wavelength can be as big as 17 meters of 55.77 feet. This is explains why it can pass THROUGH windows, walls, concrete, and the human body. When low frequency soundwaves pass through the body, our body vibrates - our organs, muscles, cells; picture yourself being subjected to unwanted vibrations/shockwaves. Also, we can feel the bass from can travel far from distant events or parties next door because it can travel far. Bottom, attack the loud noise issue both as decibel (DB - measure of loudness) and Frequency (Hz). The physiological and psychological pain we experience come from uncomfortable/harmful sound levels and unwanted bombardment of frequency sound waves/vibrations.
This is a clarification. The human body has its own sound, eg heart beat and breathing. It has its own frequency, the heart has its own frequency. The problem is when unwelcome LFN coming from outside the body, eg loud bass music, clashes with the body's own frequency as the external LFN passes through; the organs ,muscles and fluid inside vibrate. Sound travels faster in liquid than air; human body is 60% water. Imagine the ocean wave meeting the river wave. The unwelcomed frequency causes physiological and psychological side effects - eg increased heart rate, heart palpitation, muscles shaking, headache, tension and anxiety.
Whiskey River regularly plays music between 85-95 db that keeps hundreds of homes awake from 9pm to 2am Wed-Fri since the start of 2019. Our only recourse is legal, because they refuse to work with us.
My neighbors have a concert every night. Please help stop this!
I've lived off 6th St. in Amarillo Tx. for almost 39 years and there is a sign about noise ordinance but it's just there. No one cares! Especially, motorcyclist. Have to always call police. No respect for working people!
The bass pounding from a local music venue is driving us nuts on weekends.
Too much bass from a nearby bar/restaurant every weekend
Barking dogs for 16 hours a day is noise unwanted unneeded unnecessary and unhealthly,
Please let me know what I can do. I moved to Crosby Tx about 13 years ago and it was peaceful. I bought a 15 acre plot of land that backs up to the forest. Since then there has been an a couple of UTV/ATV parks on river about 2 miles away that have been opened. It is a constant battle with humming noises of hundreds of UTV’s and not to mention the music with booming sounds that shake my house. Last night it was till 240am after several calls from the community! I am tired of this and will do anything it takes to stop this ! Please let me know what I can do to help! Perry
Everyone should have the right to quiet enjoyment in their own homes.
Please make this noise violation apply to all Texas county's. Rural people are sick and tired of the police telling us you can't make the neighbors turned down there loud music because there are no noise ordinance in the county. We deserve a decent night sleep like everyone else!
Loud noise especially at night is not only a nuisance it is determental for our health. I hope my signature get this whole state one step closer to better noise regulations
I live in Tom Green County and have called the Sheriff's Department due to loud music at 2am and they told me that there is nothing they can do to the fact of there is no ordinance. I am a working taxpayer and need sleep to function, I consider their attitude towards the noise very uncaring and rude.Texas needs change now in regards to noise.
We have ONE neighbor within our sight. They have many dogs - they bark all day and all night. They moved in one year ago, and we haven't slept peacefully since then.
Need to establish an ordinance restriction on bass boom car stereo systems.
I love music just as much as anyone. However, I would be mortified to discover I was disturbing a neighbor with it, regardless of how loud *I* thought it was. (As if people have nothing better to do than stop everything they're doing to ask a neighbor if they can turn their music down a little.) Most people hate to do this (and even more so when it's a neighbor). Anyway, not everyone has my taste in music, and I don't expect them to. I'm just asking for other "music lovers" to consider the same thing. But then... Then there are the purposefully vindictive urban terrorists, the elusive BASS BOMBERS, for whom disturbing others is a vocation and what gets them out of bed in the afternoon... The ones who know EXACTLY what they're doing... These are the jokers who revel in the twisted practice of rolling into quiet, sleeping neighborhoods for the sole purpose of jolting residents awake in horror with sudden, sadistic, 15 to 20-second eardrum-perforating blasts of earth-jarring, internal organ-bursting BASS from their high-end (or not-so-high-end) car stereos—before peeling off violently into the night. Left in the BASS BOMBERS' wake is the resulting chaos of triggered car alarms, frantically barking dogs, an overloaded 911 system jamming up, traumatized grannies, screaming babies, and motion-sensor porch lights popping on and off erratically... The law making THAT form of psychotic mass torture illegal needs to be bumped up to a felony. A violent felony. Thank you for listening.
I love Formula One....but keep it off the streets.....it is noise pollution and bad for us.
i live in N Hays County, its in an EJT outside Dripping Springs. My home built in 1983 in quiet pastures is now bordered by a Dog Kennel, Austin Pet on FM 1826. The barking starts at 615am through 8pm, seven days a week. It also, in cool weather, when they open their windows, which i can not do, continues thru the nite 24/7. it has exceeded 95db on my android phones db meter. sometimes as many as 40 dogs are out at one time.
I live in Fresno area and I had some mexican neighbors in the back of my backyard who are extremely noisy for about 12 hours day and night during the weekend. I called the police and they just totally ignored us
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The state legislature just approved the change to our local noise ordinances. This victory belongs to every person who hit send on those emails and stood by this petition. Keep watch on your property lines to ensure our new standard is enforced correctly.
December 26, 2012
Final supporters
NoiseFreeTexas.org
Petition
To Our Elected Officials,
Re: Texas Penal Code
Title 9. Offenses Against Public Order and Decency
Chapter 42. Disorderly Conduct and Related Offenses, Sec. 42.01 Disorderly Conduct
(2) a noise is presumed to be unreasonable if the noise exceeds a decibel level of 85 after the person making the noise receives notice from a magistrate or peace officer that the noise is a public nuisance.
As citizens of the State of Texas,
and constituents of your county and district, we respectfully request that the
current noise statute of the Texas Penal Code be changed to reflect a healthy
and acceptable noise level of 60 - 65 decibels (dbl), 7pm to 7am (sundown to
sunup), in lieu of the current and unacceptable 85 decibels (dbl). We request that state and national holidays, ISD events, professional sporting events, and the discharge of firearms, etc., be exempt.
The current 85 dbl. isn't neighborly and discourages a healthy rural lifestyle. A decibel reading of 60 – 65 decibels will ensure that a 45 dbl. reading will be in our homes. 45 dbl. is the noise level of normal indoor conversation.
We also request the new statute to specify that the decibel reading, upon investigation, be taken at the property line of the noise source to ensure a decibel of reading not over 65 decibels. Please specify noise meter readings are to be taken at the noise source. It's also important for the noise level to be measured using the C-weighted decibel meter, which measures low frequency bass vibrations.
To live close to a business that generates a constant 85 dbl., till all hours of the early morning, is unbearable. The low frequency bass sounds and vibrations travel several miles from the noise source, and have the capability of entering our homes through windows and up foundations. Disruptive noise prevents normal interior conversation, prevents and disrupts sleep, and negates a healthy lifestyle. Most distressing is that disruptive noise prevents the peaceful enjoyment of our homes and property.
According to Science World, (3/25/02), 85 dbl. begets hearing loss. 85 dbl. is the registered noise level for a subway, a lawnmower, or jets flying overhead. Disruptive noise has been scientifically researched and documented. Excessive exposure to disruptive noise is used as a successful military tactic. Living near or working under 85 dbl is unreasonable and an intolerable stressor upon neighbors and employees.
Please change the Texas Penal Code statute to reflect a maximum of 60 - 65 dbl., 7pm to 7am (sundown to sunup). This change will better protect all Texans from unreasonable noise inside our homes, and ensure a healthy rural environment for all.
All Texans should be afforded the right to a good night's sleep. We rural Texans want to live in peace and quiet. Please help us.
GOOD
TEXANS KEEP THEIR NOISE TO THEMSELVES
LET’S KEEP THE PEACE IN RURAL TEXAS
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
December 9, 2012
March 11, 2011
We hit a real turning point today and the momentum behind this push is undeniable. Now we move to the next phase by emailing your local representative to demand they back this specific code change. Take ten minutes right now to send that email and confirm they received it.
November 3, 2010
We hit 100 signatures today. Post your thoughts on Facebook and email your representative about our request for a 65 decibel limit.
Reached 100 supporters
November 2, 2010
81 Comments
I have complained to the Sheriff's Department but they said they could do nothing because of a lack of an ordnance. I cannot open my windows at night because of the noise. I am 86 years old and need my sleep.
Neighbors have allowed their kids to use their 30 acres for a dirt track. It backs up to our cul-de-sac and they ride until 9-10pm every night. The County Commissioner has been out several times using a decibel meter & it exceeds 85 decibels, but still says there is nothing he can do.
We love music, but when outdoor music is allowed at 85dB near single family homes, as it is in Austin, it is an unfair, health damaging noise to those who live there! We want our city and our state to prohibit this noise invasion of our homes.
It is way past time for this to happen. I live across the street from folks who believe its OK to play their car stereos loud enough to rattle my windows and the sheriff says he can do nothing. It is ridiculous that I can be cited for my dogs barking easier than they can be cited for the crap music.
just stop
just stop
I am a HOA Board member and this is an issue in our community.
Driftwood is becoming a war zone between neighbors over loud gun shots by their neighbors disturbing Peace of Mind.
agree changes needed
Ivenhoe, Texas take note!
PLEASE pass this and add something in for unincorporated areas as well!!!
Reckless neighbors let their dogs bark all day and night. I cannot even walk outside of my own home. We should be protected noise nuisance by law!
Tired of idiots literally shaking the walls of my house with their, "hey, look at me! I'm noisy! I need attention" noise machines at all times of day and night. Complete disregard for anyone else.
I wish you well in this mission. I have a problem with the School across the street from my house. I don't have a problem with kids being kids but the coaches play music on an amplifier so load that my older kids working graveyard shift cant sleep. Its painfull
We live in Katy, Texas and a new Crossfit Elevate has opened in the back of our property. They open at 5:00 am in the morning. They keep the back door of their facility fully open with loud music all the time. We are seeing strangers all the time overlooking our back yard. We cannot walk freely in our backyard from 5:00 am to 8:00 pm as there are strangers all the time overlooking our back yard. The facility they run the gym is an old metal shed with no sound proofing or engineering standards. I addition to the loud music we are deeply affected by the thud and vibration of dropping of heavy weights, shouting of clients etc. We have totally lost our privacy, our right to solitude and our family is under stranger danger.
I have a band that plays next door in a tin building, sometimes 4 days a week. I can't even watch TV or go to sleep in my bedroom. I live in the county and the sheriff is either afraid of theem or they just doesn't care.
Noise crossing private property lines is trespass. Time to put some teeth in industrial noise in Texas.... 65 db crossing property lines should be governed
Please pass this
It is quite disturbing that tax paying citizens who live in unincorporated county areas have to put up with such disrespect.
Get rid of the vehicle stereo noise that not only doesn't allow me to enjoy TV but the language of songs that are inappropriate. Motorcycles that think I should be awakened at 2:30 AM by their illegal pipes. Vehicles with no mufflers racing up and down the street. 85 decibels is not hard to hit by any of these people. Getting law enforcement to do something about is hard to do. "I was not here to hear the noise so there's nothing I can do for you".
I own 50 acres, got away from town, shouldn't have to listen to Mexican music!
Thank you for starting this petition. Vehicle stereo noise especially with grotesquely amplified bass frequencies are particularly offensive and unreasonable!
Thank you for starting this petition. This issue also applies to urban and suburban areas. The quality of life has deteriorated very badly in many areas of Texas due to disruptive noise, which as is correctly pointed out, is actually a military tactic to harass enemies.
Neighbor in country rents an open barn for parties and music is loud until 2 am. Sleeping is impossible. We need this ordinance
I wonder if noise sources are addressed in this section of the penal code. Aircraft noise is a nuisance in our area, just 4 miles from Easterwood Airport.
I am gladly signing this petition against excessive noise! I have neighbors who think it's ok to play loud music, regardless of time of day. If I'm in my house, with doors closed, TV on, and I can hear booming, thumping music, it's too loud, extremely rude and disrespectful to others.
Tired of having my ears assaulted on my own property.
We need to lower the level and add in the base as a form of measurement. It can be difficult to convince law enforcement that the base on moderately played music can be heard in my house from full the street.
The gym on the back of may house has no sound proofing material on the wall and their music with low frequency invades into my house passing through 60 feet of my back yard. I went to the gym to talk with the owner and contacted the land lord. Nothing has been changed. Several dispatches of constables have been ignored. while there is a right to listen to the music for them, I should have a right not to listen to their music. They are protected by law, I am not.
Please do something. Neighbors very unruly
We have lived in a small town near the square for over 32 years. Recently, a BAR, calling itself a restaurant, became our next door neighbor. Our city officials are more concerned about the tax revenue than they are about protecting the sanctity of our homes and neighborhood.
I support this petition. Excessive loud music especially the loud bass from vehicles and neighbors (inside or outside the home/apartment unit) is disrupting my quiet enjoyment of my property, my peace, and affecting my psychological, emotional and physiological health in a negative way. Noise regulation should also be in terms of sound frequency or Hertz/hz. Loud bass is not safe because it is a low frequency sound wave/vibration. Low frequency (LFN) sound wave is harmful to the health. LFN 0-20 hz is not audible but detected by the body. Bass is 60-250 Hz is both audible and felt by the body. One article I read said that frequencies below 100 Hz travels really far. One LFN wavelength can be as big as 17 meters of 55.77 feet. This is explains why it can pass THROUGH windows, walls, concrete, and the human body. When low frequency soundwaves pass through the body, our body vibrates - our organs, muscles, cells; picture yourself being subjected to unwanted vibrations/shockwaves. Also, we can feel the bass from can travel far from distant events or parties next door because it can travel far. Bottom, attack the loud noise issue both as decibel (DB - measure of loudness) and Frequency (Hz). The physiological and psychological pain we experience come from uncomfortable/harmful sound levels and unwanted bombardment of frequency sound waves/vibrations.
This is a clarification. The human body has its own sound, eg heart beat and breathing. It has its own frequency, the heart has its own frequency. The problem is when unwelcome LFN coming from outside the body, eg loud bass music, clashes with the body's own frequency as the external LFN passes through; the organs ,muscles and fluid inside vibrate. Sound travels faster in liquid than air; human body is 60% water. Imagine the ocean wave meeting the river wave. The unwelcomed frequency causes physiological and psychological side effects - eg increased heart rate, heart palpitation, muscles shaking, headache, tension and anxiety.
Whiskey River regularly plays music between 85-95 db that keeps hundreds of homes awake from 9pm to 2am Wed-Fri since the start of 2019. Our only recourse is legal, because they refuse to work with us.
My neighbors have a concert every night. Please help stop this!
I've lived off 6th St. in Amarillo Tx. for almost 39 years and there is a sign about noise ordinance but it's just there. No one cares! Especially, motorcyclist. Have to always call police. No respect for working people!
The bass pounding from a local music venue is driving us nuts on weekends.
Too much bass from a nearby bar/restaurant every weekend
Barking dogs for 16 hours a day is noise unwanted unneeded unnecessary and unhealthly,
Please let me know what I can do. I moved to Crosby Tx about 13 years ago and it was peaceful. I bought a 15 acre plot of land that backs up to the forest. Since then there has been an a couple of UTV/ATV parks on river about 2 miles away that have been opened. It is a constant battle with humming noises of hundreds of UTV’s and not to mention the music with booming sounds that shake my house. Last night it was till 240am after several calls from the community! I am tired of this and will do anything it takes to stop this ! Please let me know what I can do to help! Perry
Everyone should have the right to quiet enjoyment in their own homes.
Please make this noise violation apply to all Texas county's. Rural people are sick and tired of the police telling us you can't make the neighbors turned down there loud music because there are no noise ordinance in the county. We deserve a decent night sleep like everyone else!
Loud noise especially at night is not only a nuisance it is determental for our health. I hope my signature get this whole state one step closer to better noise regulations
I live in Tom Green County and have called the Sheriff's Department due to loud music at 2am and they told me that there is nothing they can do to the fact of there is no ordinance. I am a working taxpayer and need sleep to function, I consider their attitude towards the noise very uncaring and rude.Texas needs change now in regards to noise.
We have ONE neighbor within our sight. They have many dogs - they bark all day and all night. They moved in one year ago, and we haven't slept peacefully since then.
Need to establish an ordinance restriction on bass boom car stereo systems.
I love music just as much as anyone. However, I would be mortified to discover I was disturbing a neighbor with it, regardless of how loud *I* thought it was. (As if people have nothing better to do than stop everything they're doing to ask a neighbor if they can turn their music down a little.) Most people hate to do this (and even more so when it's a neighbor). Anyway, not everyone has my taste in music, and I don't expect them to. I'm just asking for other "music lovers" to consider the same thing. But then... Then there are the purposefully vindictive urban terrorists, the elusive BASS BOMBERS, for whom disturbing others is a vocation and what gets them out of bed in the afternoon... The ones who know EXACTLY what they're doing... These are the jokers who revel in the twisted practice of rolling into quiet, sleeping neighborhoods for the sole purpose of jolting residents awake in horror with sudden, sadistic, 15 to 20-second eardrum-perforating blasts of earth-jarring, internal organ-bursting BASS from their high-end (or not-so-high-end) car stereos—before peeling off violently into the night. Left in the BASS BOMBERS' wake is the resulting chaos of triggered car alarms, frantically barking dogs, an overloaded 911 system jamming up, traumatized grannies, screaming babies, and motion-sensor porch lights popping on and off erratically... The law making THAT form of psychotic mass torture illegal needs to be bumped up to a felony. A violent felony. Thank you for listening.
I love Formula One....but keep it off the streets.....it is noise pollution and bad for us.
i live in N Hays County, its in an EJT outside Dripping Springs. My home built in 1983 in quiet pastures is now bordered by a Dog Kennel, Austin Pet on FM 1826. The barking starts at 615am through 8pm, seven days a week. It also, in cool weather, when they open their windows, which i can not do, continues thru the nite 24/7. it has exceeded 95db on my android phones db meter. sometimes as many as 40 dogs are out at one time.
I live in Fresno area and I had some mexican neighbors in the back of my backyard who are extremely noisy for about 12 hours day and night during the weekend. I called the police and they just totally ignored us
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I have complained to the Sheriff's Department but they said they could do nothing because of a lack of an ordnance. I cannot open my windows at night because of the noise. I am 86 years old and need my sleep.