Judge Orders Teen To Remove His Car Sound Equipment

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ALEXANDRIA, La. -- A judge has ordered a teenager who blasted his pickup truck stereo to remove all non-factory installed sound equipment for violating a noise ordinance.

Calvin Bennett Jr., 18, got the loud-music ticket in 2004 but missed his initial court appearance. Last Monday, he was arrested for contempt of court and spent the night in jail. He appeared Tuesday before district Judge Thomas Yeager on the loud-music citation.

The teen pleaded guilty, got a 90-day sentence suspended and was given probation. As a condition of probation, he had to turn in his drivers license for 30 days and remove his stereo equipment.

Yeager said he ordered the sentence to try to deter young adults from disturbing their communities with loud music. "It is a big problem but one that has a solution," he said.

The Pineville and Alexandria police departments stay busy fielding loud-music complaints. Both cities have ordinances addressing loud noise, including drivers playing their radios too loudly.

"The sentence isn't going to stop me playing music," Bennett said. "I love my music."

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little fuckers should ALL be given tickets when they boost that shit

car drives by my house, it's one of the downsides of living down the road from a cheap college. That and the fuckers doing it always seem to be the ones driving nice and slow so everyone can share :eyes:

one is barely gome when the next is on it's way

I feel it before I hear it.

did it say the kid was a hip hop fan?

i assume that's what you meant by the bass lines?

just wondering...

say anything about hip hop?

They said "base lines" -- in my neighborhood, the "base lines" I hear are from Latin music from my neighbor up the block. My Mom in Tahoe hears base lines from from her neighbor who plays Vietnamese music.

Clue: most popular music has "base lines".

this guy follows me around putting words into my mouth by force of habit.

It's like clockwork, in fact.

and to answer the question, the kids going up my block all listen to the Ministry remix of Zamfir

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I find, more often than not, it's not exactly hip-hop, it's some ersatz Mariah Carey/En Vogue ripoff warbling all over some lightweight top-40 quasi-"urban" dreck.

No reflection on real hop-hop fans.

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All I can seem to hear/feel is the bass. I know they only have that "system" in the car to piss me off.

But when the speakers are designed and positioned to throw more music outside the car than in... then we are talking a completely different matter.

Way to go. I have no problem with people "loving their music"...they just shouldn't expect me to have to love it too. :hi:

Equipment forfeiture

I appreciate loud music as much as the next person but please have some consideration especially when driving through residential areas.

I have a factory stereo, but it's pretty good. So, if I'm jamming to somthing, as soon as I turn into my subdivision (or anyone elses) I turn the radio down.

Then we'll be in middl-age heaven! And I'm not being sarcastic.

I'm wondering what part of contempt of court does he fail to understand? I have cars drive down my street and wake me up sometimes. I'd like to shoot out their tires. IMO, there is no sane reason for people to inflict their choice of music on others.

I want to aim for the cranium.

KABOOM! KABOOM! KABOOM! and I want to kill something!:nuke:

at top volume for 72 hours. let a christian fundy grandma pick the music.

my teen neighbors had some friends in the driveway at 1:30am on a tuesday blasting bass all over the block. i finally got up and went outside, but they turned it down 2 seconds after my front door opened.

i want to pull those kids over and take away the volume control, then turn their baseball hats straight on their heads, pull up their pants, and make them speak decent english.

every teenager on my street thinks he's 50 Cent.

Might teach him some consideration.

there is a guy who drives in and out who always has these drum and bass tracks booming. I wonder if its the same guy
:P

...but he has no right to inflict his choice of music on others.

Just MHO.

Seriously people with those mega systems should get out of the car and listen to the loose rattling on their cars.

I'm not.

I hate people like this guy.

here in Cali. I have one tenant who just bought a pick-up truck with a modified sound system. He's 3 doors away from me and drove up the driveway bumping his music, parked and CONTINUED to play his music after parking. My walls & windows were rattling and the cats ran upstairs. Tenants from both sides of his place were calling me about the noise. I went outside and politely asked him to turn the music down because he was disturbing the tenants and his reponse was "if you don't want to hear it then, put some fucking cotton balls in your ears!".

This stupid fucker was already 3 weeks behind in his rent and I always worked with him giving him time to catch up when he was late but this time that ONE statement and the fact that he couldn't do a simple thing like turn his volume down prompted me to cancel his lease and evict his stupid ass.

I really don't like country music (or ever, for that matter) at 6 am on saturdays.

It just would be nice if you would learn two little things:

1. You are not the only person on the planet.

2. Everyone around you is NOT looking after you with lust and admiration because you just shattered their windows and blew their eardrums.

windows down, blaring the music. And I pull up to a light, and the guy next to me looks over. I know he's wondering, "Is that Beethoven or Mozart?"

...can still play the radio!

With their trunk full of speakers and amplifiers.

We have a lot of teenagers with lots of bass. That is so annoying. But that is probably why they do it. Being cool.

I hate loud music. It never sounds good, either. I will never understand some people's fascination with loud bass. I will never understand why they waste all that money to put systems in their little cars or trucks and get rid of all the space they would otherwise have.

Plus it sounds like crap.

for the fist amendment.

to enforce that one with these assholes!

...piss off all the people within 300 yards of their car? It isn't speach any more than a jet engine or leaf blower is. So how does this relate to the 1st?

I have been known to do that, every so often. :)

I have a modified speaker system, but I only crank it on the open road. I turn it down at lights, and pulling into the neighborhood. I admit I also have a bit of a lead foot, but neighborhoods are not a place for that, either, and I don't cut people off.

I suppose I am unusual for a 33 year old woman...lol.

Havng to listen to Air Supply at full blast nonstop for 4-5 hours. And I used to like them too....

Make him sell the equipment and pay up his car insurance instead!

Not that this nice little soccer mom would ever do such a thing, but was it a myth?

Just for research, mind.

That takes expensive equipment.

about this. That probably isn't the progressive or liberal way, but serves him right.

All the people who drive around in these damn boom boom cars are going to be prematurely deaf.

I wish there were a few judges like that in my neighborhood. Those rolling boomboxes make our windows rattle.

On my stock speakers, with my stock iPod, it usually downs out excess bass.... The lovely thing about horns is that they carry. (There's a reason they were used by pre-walkie-talkie armies to signal changes!!)

Most of the little darlings look at me funny. I like it that way.