Unfortunately I think that's the effect they're going for; they'd probably just crank it up and smirk at you. :-/
My wife's teacher had an "interesting" solution: an old open-topped Jeep he had wedged a nice stereo system into. Pulling up to a stoplight with a boomba-chucka car going, he'd lean over, crank it to 11, and BLOW THEIR DOORS OFF with, IIRC, Flight of the Valkyries. More than one surprised look. Not sure if it helped the noise pollution, but at least he had fun.
If I'm in the car, I crank up the second Homespun Ceilidh Band album (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/homespunceilidh2) (because that's the one I've got dubbed to cassette for the car). I can't blow them away since all I've got is the factory sound system, but I can usually get it to the point where I'm hearing my music more than theirs and they should be able to hear mine interfering with theirs. If I wind up next to one of those real monster systems, that won't work with the gear I've got.
If I just shine a plain laser pointer out my bedroom window, sometimes they turn the volume down because they suddenly realize there's another consciousness in the area -- I'm figuring those are the ones who are just thoughtless rather than intending to annoy -- or because they see it as a threat and want to use all their senses to try to figure out where I am -- in which case I still get some relief from the noise. But I figure a bunch probably think it's just some jackass playing with a laser at random, and I'd like to be able to make it clear that I'm attempting to communicate a message, not just annoy. Plus, if any of them sic the police on my and say I tried to blind them or something, having thrown text instead of a single dot will probably weigh heavily in my favour.
I mostly want to reach the thoughtless ones and drive home the point that they're driving through a residential area, where at 2AM a number of people are attempting to sleep, and that the sound they crank up in their car doesn't magically stay confined to their car. If they just forgot to turn down after getting off the Interstate, or they're driving home from a loud club and didn't realize how loud their stereo was, I can shame them. The ones doing it on purpose are already beyond hope of being reached by anything other than violence, and the police might object to my running out into the street with a sword.
If they crank it up louder, well, at that point I'm already bothered enough to have gotten out of bed, and eventually the traffic light will turn green. If they're parked (as happens occasionally), I can ring the police with a noise complaint.
[Sorry about the incomplete copy of this in your mailbox (if you have emailed comments turned on) -- Perrine sat on the keyboard and managed to do so just wrong. Argh.]
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Unfortunately I think that's the effect they're going for; they'd probably just crank it up and smirk at you. :-/
My wife's teacher had an "interesting" solution: an old open-topped Jeep he had wedged a nice stereo system into. Pulling up to a stoplight with a boomba-chucka car going, he'd lean over, crank it to 11, and BLOW THEIR DOORS OFF with, IIRC, Flight of the Valkyries. More than one surprised look. Not sure if it helped the noise pollution, but at least he had fun.
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If I just shine a plain laser pointer out my bedroom window, sometimes they turn the volume down because they suddenly realize there's another consciousness in the area -- I'm figuring those are the ones who are just thoughtless rather than intending to annoy -- or because they see it as a threat and want to use all their senses to try to figure out where I am -- in which case I still get some relief from the noise. But I figure a bunch probably think it's just some jackass playing with a laser at random, and I'd like to be able to make it clear that I'm attempting to communicate a message, not just annoy. Plus, if any of them sic the police on my and say I tried to blind them or something, having thrown text instead of a single dot will probably weigh heavily in my favour.
I mostly want to reach the thoughtless ones and drive home the point that they're driving through a residential area, where at 2AM a number of people are attempting to sleep, and that the sound they crank up in their car doesn't magically stay confined to their car. If they just forgot to turn down after getting off the Interstate, or they're driving home from a loud club and didn't realize how loud their stereo was, I can shame them. The ones doing it on purpose are already beyond hope of being reached by anything other than violence, and the police might object to my running out into the street with a sword.
If they crank it up louder, well, at that point I'm already bothered enough to have gotten out of bed, and eventually the traffic light will turn green. If they're parked (as happens occasionally), I can ring the police with a noise complaint.
[Sorry about the incomplete copy of this in your mailbox (if you have emailed comments turned on) -- Perrine sat on the keyboard and managed to do so just wrong. Argh.]