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Hmm. I like it?

Lets live in a city and get pissed about loud noise. So lets stop bumpin there and go out in the middle of no were were people mind them sevles and piss them off.

If im in a city im bumpin. If im at a loud ass stop light im bumpin. If i go out in bum fuckin no weres im listen to county not so loud. Thats just me

your logic is border line retarded

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Lets live in a city and get pissed about loud noise. So lets stop bumpin there and go out in the middle of no were were people mind them sevles and piss them off.

If im in a city im bumpin. If im at a loud ass stop light im bumpin. If i go out in bum fuckin no weres im listen to county not so loud. Thats just me

I like this statement. I mean lets all get real, sometimes we are stupid about it, ego does get the best of us all sometimes. One day I had an old man show up to my house at 1pm on a saturday followed by 2 police officers. He immediately started yelling at me while I was tuning my system in my own yard. I looked at him completely befuddled as he flipped shit, I turned it down all the way and said calmly "No problem sir, but seriously all you had to do was ask nicely." He lived on a different block...why werent my immediate neighbors bitching...?

This one I am not proud of but it had to be done, had an ex-gf start telling girls in my hometown shit about me so I showed up to her work and made her life hell for a few mins. Really immature but shaking every window at her work made me feel better :)

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Lol at the ex gf thing.. Some people take some shit so seriouse. And they act like they havent had fun pissing people off. Yea sure were gana end the life of car audio... What the fuck ever. Build your system and never play it. Ill do it my way

Lets live in a city and get pissed about loud noise. So lets stop bumpin there and go out in the middle of no were were people mind them sevles and piss them off.

If im in a city im bumpin. If im at a loud ass stop light im bumpin. If i go out in bum fuckin no weres im listen to county not so loud. Thats just me

I like this statement. I mean lets all get real, sometimes we are stupid about it, ego does get the best of us all sometimes. One day I had an old man show up to my house at 1pm on a saturday followed by 2 police officers. He immediately started yelling at me while I was tuning my system in my own yard. I looked at him completely befuddled as he flipped shit, I turned it down all the way and said calmly "No problem sir, but seriously all you had to do was ask nicely." He lived on a different block...why werent my immediate neighbors bitching...?

This one I am not proud of but it had to be done, had an ex-gf start telling girls in my hometown shit about me so I showed up to her work and made her life hell for a few mins. Really immature but shaking every window at her work made me feel better :)

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If loud music is illegal everywhere so should loud ass exhaust and hick's with train horns IMO......lol Gonna be some intense bass battles at the red lights in Florida! :lol:

Already. lol

Lol U mad korey?

i agree with Korey in principle......i feel you can do your best to be responsible if you have a big system by not playing it at stoplights, saving it for the open highway or somethign like that. Thats what i usually do. BUT, I agree with Dwright too......What crawled up your ass and died Korey? you are one angry individual. Remind me of that "Wen du weist" guy who was also an angry, negative, bitter individual most of the time.

chill out, its not that big of a deal LOL.

lol angry fag

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so does this all mean we can get all of our $$$ back for past noise violations?? 8):peepwall::pardon:

that would be like tax season all over again :yahoo:

Man I'm glad I didn't lock this I get to witness two retards holding hands telling each other that it'll be ok because they are awesome.

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How is a stop light loud?

I wafd out woud

At least someone got it! Ha ha :lol:

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Florida law banning loud car music ruled unconstitutional

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Updated: Thursday, 12 May 2011, 5:23 AM EDT

Published : Thursday, 12 May 2011, 5:19 AM EDT

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) - A state law making it illegal to blast loud music or other audio from a car stereo system has been declared unconstitutional.

A three-judge panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Lakeland ruled Wednesday in a pair of Pinellas County cases. Both motorists were cited for playing their car radios too loudly.

The judges found the law is an unconstitutional suppression of free speech because it arbitrarily exempts vehicles used for business or political purposes.

They also ruled a provision making it illegal for sound to be "plainly audible" from 25 feet or more away from a vehicle was unconstitutionally vague.

The panel, though, agreed to certify the vagueness issue to the Florida Supreme Court for further review as a question of great public importance.

This is how it all started:

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St. Petersburg corporate lawyer Richard Catalano

By Frank Cerabino Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Posted: 11:12 p.m. Thursday, May 12, 2011

The Florida law that gives police officers the authority to issue traffic tickets to motorists for playing their music too loud was dealt a severe blow this week.

It all started four years ago with a Bronx-born lawyer.

Corporate lawyer Richard T. Catalano, 50, was driving his Infiniti sedan through St. Petersburg on his way to work. His windows were rolled up, he said, and he was listening to a song from Justin Timberlake.

"Yes, Justin Timberlake," he recalled Thursday. "I like Frank Sinatra, Pink Floyd, Motley Crue. But it just so happened on that morning that I was listening to Justin Timberlake. It's something that haunts me."

When Catalano got pulled over, the officer told him he was getting a ticket for playing his car's stereo loud enough to be "plainly audible" from 25 feet away.

"I said, 'You gotta be kidding. That's a ridiculous law.' "

Officer reveals the truth

So Catalano tried to fight the ticket in traffic court. He lost.

"After I did, a police officer came up to me and told me he was glad that I lost. He said, 'We use that statute all the time to pull people over and search for drugs.' '

The state defines its "plainly audible" standard this way:

"The officer need not determine the particular words or phrases being produced or the name of any song or artist producing the sound. The detection of a rhythmic bass reverberating type sound is sufficient to constitute a plainly audible sound."

And that just made Catalano angry, concluding that the law was just a pretense for getting around probable-cause requirements for legal search and seizures.

"It's like, pull over the black guy and check him out for drugs," Catalano said. "There's right and wrong, and this is just wrong."

So he appealed the ticket, challenging it as unconstitutional. And this week, a three-judge panel at the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Lakeland agreed.

The judges determined that the state law was unconstitutional because it was not "content-neutral."

Ruse to let cops pick on folks

The noise law forbids some vehicle stereo sounds while making no restriction on music or any other sounds coming from vehicles if they're for commercial or political purposes.

So if an ice cream truck plays Pop Goes the Weasel at a volume that can be heard blocks away, that's not a violation because it has a commercial purpose. Or if a political candidate or activist blasts the theme song from Rocky as he bellows on a bullhorn from the back of a flatbed truck, that can't be a noise violation because it's noise for political purposes.

But if a police officer detects a bass beat from a teenager's car at a distance of four or five body lengths away, that's an occasion for a traffic stop and citation.

Judge Anthony Black, writing for the appeals court, used this example:

"In other words, an individual using a vehicle for business purposes could, for example, listen to political talk radio at a volume clearly audible from a quarter mile; however, an individual sitting in a personal vehicle that is parked next to the business vehicle is subject to a citation if the individual is listening to music or religious programming that is clearly audible at 25 feet."

The court ruling pointed out that the 2007 noise law doesn't treat all noise equally, and is therefore unconstitutional by considering the content of the noise as the determinant of whether or not it's permissible.

The ruling comes after a doomed attempt in the just-completed session of the state legislature to increase fines in this law, and after the city of Sarasota briefly adopted an ordinance that impounded vehicles on the first infraction.

The issue may still take another turn if this week's appeals court ruling is taken up by the state's Supreme Court.

But for now, Catalano feels vindicated.

"I told the cop who pulled me over, 'You got the wrong guy, my friend. I'm a boy from The Bronx.' "

oh shit i love it! don't forget to email the guy and thank him [email protected]

Okay, being a resident of Florida all my life and being the Moblie Aduio enthusiest I am, I went ahead a emailed Mr. Cantalano to thank him for his efforts. I live in Tallahassee, Fl which is where the sates supreme court is located. If the case is accepted by the supreme court he will have many supporters locally.

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