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An observation about moral behaviour

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 02:54pm on 2004-03-09

Still not feeling well; slept fitfully and incompletely, have nastybad headache; also have errands that cannot be postponed. Since there's no 3LF rehearsal next week and we do have a gig coming up, plus photos to show, getting to rehearsal tonight would be a Good Thing.

Usually it is lack of temptation, desire to do right, or desire to avoid causing harm which keep me from being dishonest or violent, not the threat of punishment. But when somebody plays their car stereo so loud it causes me physical pain, then it is the rule of law and fear of consequences that stay my hand. I think the presence of pain has a lot to do with it.

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posted by [identity profile] blueeowyn.livejournal.com at 12:22pm on 2004-03-09
There is 3LF this week and next, it is the following week that we won't have rehearsal (3/23).›
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 02:30am on 2004-03-12
Thanks. I had the date right but somehow missed the week in between when I looked at the calendar.
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posted by [identity profile] renefrost.livejournal.com at 12:42pm on 2004-03-09
i do hope you feel better. in the meantime, can i send you the license numbers of those cars with the bass boosters that vibrate my windows? i mean if you are going to be violent anyway...
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 02:38am on 2004-03-12
On the one hand, finding out just how hard I have to strike a tempered glass car window with the crossguard of my bastard sword to shatter it ought to be a spur-of-the-moment, heat-of-passion sort of thing, however tempting the thought of hunting might be.

On the other hand, I wonder whether there'd be any point to putting up some sort of sonic "wall of shame" ... would it work as public censure, or would the LOUD PEOPLE consider being listed a point of pride?

I'd really love to get a Baltimore cop with an SPL meter sitting at the curb writing expensive tickets, but even with the prospect of several hundred dollars worth of fines -- easy money -- I get the impression the city police force has a lot else to do. (And I need to look up what the law actually says about excessive noise.)
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Thumpy cars

posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 01:36pm on 2004-03-09
I'm so grateful no one just parks here. As it is, I can't always keep my tongue sheathed, and will make faces and rude gestures if they're within range. Sometimes I sneak up on them and mouth the question: "Are you a future member of Deaf Drivers of America?". It's dangerous to me to incense them. But not as dangerous for them as if I hide in my trees and hit'em with water balloons. Convertibles are so tempting, especially expensive ones. (Eeevil grin) There's a good reason I don't have a super soaker. And getting arrested is probably no fun and expensive. But Ooh, the looks on their horrible thump-racket-making faces when I hit... A sweet imagining.

And the fact that they're causing you physical pain is triple-maddening. Hackles are up. (Unspoken obscene comment omitted. It made for a good giggle to think, though.)
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 02:41am on 2004-03-12
I've been tempted to lob water balloons or paint balloons out my 3rd-floor window, but I fear the odds of having a witness point out where the missile came from is too great. But the targets are right there ...
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posted by [identity profile] malada.livejournal.com at 06:43am on 2004-03-10
Loud car stereos?

Hand me my rocket launcher.

;-)

-m
Oh yeah.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 02:48am on 2004-03-12
[hands you the rocket launcher]

My pleasure.

(I've also wondered how hard it would be to build an extremely narrow-dispersion speaker, so I could throw a shitload of decibels back at them without inflicting too much collateral damage ... either a competing signal loud enough to annoy and/or cause them pain, or an out-of-phase copy of their own signal so that their sound quality just goes to Hell (or delayed just enough that it sounds garbled, which the distance from them to me and back might be sufficient for all by itself). If I could get them to turn it down or off in disgust, that'd work for me.)
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