posted by [identity profile] blumindy.livejournal.com at 02:43pm on 2004-03-26
Can't you call the police about this? Isn't there some sort of noise ordinance? One of the nice things about suburbia is that there are and the cops do come....

If not, I'm sure another nice lady and I could buy you a be-bee gun ;-)

The idiots deserve it.
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 02:55am on 2004-03-27
I need to find the ordinance online or go to a library and find out just what is covered. They expect the city to be noisier than the 'burbs, so I don't think they'll intervene just because it's loud enough to annoy me when I'm extra sensitive due to a headache (though they do answer noise complaints, and I have called them in before when the levels have been downright insane and it's been after midnight).

The loudest offenders are usually in moving cars (not counting the motionless period at the red light), so it's hard to tell the police where to intercept them. Now if I could get them to put an officer across the street with a SPL meter for a few hours some evening to pull over the worst offenders and write tickets (and to catch trucks on Lombard St. after 19:00, a posted no-no), that might have some educational value.

The phrase "be-bee gun" has me thinking of a transmogrifier ray that turns its target into a bumblebee.

I want an EMP generator that'll fry their electronics. No ballistics to trace if they figure out what happened (I just need to keep it switched off while they're looking for it). Projectiles are tempting tempting tempting but I fear arrest.
 
posted by [identity profile] blumindy.livejournal.com at 11:12am on 2004-03-27
Is this EMP weapon a shielded, narrow pulse? Don't fry the innocent or your own gear!
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 01:18pm on 2004-03-27
Until I figure out how to make sure it's narrow-dispersion, it doesn't get built. ;-)
 
posted by [identity profile] juuro.livejournal.com at 01:29pm on 2004-03-27
So far every configuration I've thought of seems to be at least bidirectional, and even then, having more of a null plane than a power beam.

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