Decent people of America: STOP whatever you're doing, like sleeping or
trying to enjoy your own music at civilized volumes, because here they
come, down your street or into the driveway next door! These snot-rags
are the center of the Universe and you MUST worship their noise. The
worship will continue over and over at any time of their choosing,
including Sundays.
Victims are reluctant to take action because dealing with criminals is
a drag. Once you go that route, their problems get forced into your
life and can escalate quickly. And this is a special type of crime. It
doesn't leave much forensic evidence, except bags under the eyes. It's
also hard to record the "feel" of extreme bass with common
microphones.
To top it off, the perpetrators get defiant when asked to live above
the level of gorillas. If apes were banging their fists on your house
at all hours, animal control would be called, but these troglodytes do
it with sound pressure over distance. They don't see it as wrong
because they have yet to develop a conscience, or lack that brain
structure. I take that back: some of them are simply evil.
In milder cases, they think you'll find them ultra-cool and bask in
the glory of their brain-pounding thuds. It's a type of megalomania,
and many cases have real crime attached; drug dealing, chop shops,
etc.. These orangutans have decided that society's rules are beneath
them, so anything goes.
But they sho' are happy to leech off society's benefits, like the very
gear they use to rattle your house. Few of them would have the
intelligence or patience to invent it from scratch. School just ain't
cool for ghetto thumpers.
What can be done? It's a case-by-case solution at best. Use the same
caution you would when confronting any sociopath. They lack the sense
of fair-play we expect from civilized folks, and may take revenge on
your personal property - or your person. Try documenting the bass with
a mic. or camcorder that has good response. That is, if you can get
close enough without being made or shot.
Is there much hope? Not so long as the reptilian brain-stem remains
intact in human evolution. A doctor should invent a "core lobotomy" to
remove parts of the primitive brain while keeping functional levels
intact. Rare cases that are prosecuted could suffer that as a
sentence.
E.A.
http://enough_already.tripod.com/
If any other species behaved like Man we'd call it a plague.
P.S. Save your canned responses about not all boomers being
psychopaths, or acting like you're persecuted as "hobbyists." You all
know exactly what the issue is. Whether or not you give a damn is the
main point.