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To: Mr Ramsbotham
I liken this to the smoking debate. Has it ever been proven that secondhand music causes any harm, or is just an annoyance that some killjoys want to use as an excuse to persecute lovers of loud music?

Man is that flawed logic. I don't give a crap what kind of music anyone listens to, nor do I care how loud it is. But they should play it where others are not forced to listen.

As a matter of fact, the manner in which most of these RichardHeads play the music is not so much because they like it loud, but because they enjoy annoying as many people as possible.

Example (happens very frequently, BTW): It is 98 degrees, the middle of summer in central Florida. Long lines of traffic on black asphalt roads backed up at intersections. 18 year old kid is sitting next to me in a new or nearly new car with all four windows down and playing a $2500 system at 150 decibels. The heat is stomach turning but he won't roll up his windows and turn on his A/C. Yeah, he's not doing it to bother anyone, he just happens to be a connoisseur of loud music. BS. AFAIAC I should have the legal right to pull out a baseball bat and smash his windshield. I just happen to be a connoisseur of cracked glass.

109 posted on 01/29/2006 9:02:08 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
As a matter of fact, the manner in which most of these RichardHeads play the music is not so much because they like it loud, but because they enjoy annoying as many people as possible.

Substitute "cigar smoke" for "music" and you're spot on.

But should we ban cigar smoking just because it annoys us? Or does there need to be a more significant reason?

120 posted on 01/29/2006 10:08:54 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Bend over and think of England.)
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