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very loud sounds can panic/shock animals and if it's too much for them, they die.
by katbyte 5y ago
very loud sounds can panic/shock animals and if it's too much for them, they die.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoWell, in that case, when will we start jailing bikers with loud exhausts for the deaths of old people from heart attacks?
- vinay427 5y agoMany places do regulate the noise levels of exhausts, which seems a bit more appropriate and less punitive than permitting any exhaust and hoping people don't die as a result. The penalties for noncompliance are obviously not as high as jail time, but at least to me, (among other things) there is an element of premeditation or willfulness missing in these deaths.
- cherryturnover 5y agoGod that would honestly be a dream come true actually
- over_bridge 5y agoI dream of a day when light and noise pollution are taken seriously. Its exhausting walking beside a busy road with the roar of traffic. You see the birds don't even bother to try and sing anymore. They are just silent and isolated until they get further away. Visual pollution from advertising would be great to curb as well.
- nradov 5y agoIs there documented proof of this actually happening?
- billyruffian 5y agoRural person here from Wales where sonic booms from military aircraft were moderately common. Animals panic when they hear the boom: they tend to stampede, fall off cliffs, break legs, trample each other, lambs get separated, break through hedges and into traffic. The booms were severe enough to occassionally shatter the Royal Doulton in the house, much to my mother's disgust.