Hello Everyone,
Evelyn here,
It doesn't matter where you live these days,
crime involving boom car drivers, loud, rude and pushes neighbors, drunken neighbors
or drug addicts exist. It seems to be more present is our
everyday existence today than from a decade or two ago, but more on this on another day.
Right now, I intend to impart some information that will help those of you
wanting to do something about the loud music coming from cars of inconsiderate
drivers in your area.
Also, I want to stress that it is a misconception to think that all boom cars drivers are young and male. Boom car drivers come in both sexes, the young, the old, and of all races. Take a good look at some of their faces as they drive by you sometimes.
As I write this there are passing boom car drivers, someone blowing a horn that sounds like the type use in semi-trucks, people arguing. Is this a normal Friday evening? Not really. This is the protect of a small group people who have just learned that I am part an organization whose goal is the improve our current noise law. This law, Florida Statutes 316.3045-On The Operation Of Radios And Other Sound Making Devices A In Vehicles, is to my dismay little known, and of those drivers who doing know of it, much abused.
Florida Statutes 316.3045 states:
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The 2007 Florida
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So these in is the problem. The law is too weak. There are probably some lawmakers out there unhappy with my choice of works, but I can think of no other polite set of work for a law that has causing so much unrest and violence due to drivers the music extreme volume level within their cars.
Now the viable solutions.
Write and call you local representative, senators, city/county councilwoman of counsilman.
In addition, NoiseOFF, the organization to with I am a member, is working on is getting the police to consider adding booming to the newly re-instated impoundment law, which Sarasota has begun. Some of the Saint Petersburg Police Department doesn’t think it's necessary. How can call either Bill Proffitt, their spokesperson; or Don Gibson, the PD attorney; or leave a message at Chief Harmon’s office. Call 893-7780 and ask for any of them.
No one of us is alone out there; and the police department as well as our representatives should be made aware of it. Members of the police department should be constantly reminded of the fact that when they fail to take serious a call of a citizen (who is suffering under the extreme volume of a boom car driver, and in some cases suggested to verbal abuses and threats of bodily harm) that they are in a sense condoning those the actions of the lawlessness of those drivers as well as not enforcing even this weak law that we now have on the legal docket.
I end this post as I began it with a boomer’s loud music intermittently playing in the background outside.
Evelyn out.
