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Good. Lived in cities for 10+ years before living back to Ohio and the city noise from obnoxious vehicles is unbearable. Asked some cops in SF once why they do
by cududa 4y ago
Good. Lived in cities for 10+ years before living back to Ohio and the city noise from obnoxious vehicles is unbearable.
Asked some cops in SF once why they don’t fine/ ticket people with ridiculously loud motorcycles and they were utterly confused. Responded “uh, because they’re cool?”
- jquery 4y agoIt’s because a lot of the people with loud motorcycles are cops or former ones.
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- kibwen 4y agoIt's not a city-only thing, the loudest place I've ever lived was a tiny town in Appalachia which (like everywhere in Appalachia) was on a hill, and motorcycles and trucks would deafen us at all hours as they revved up the hill. Over a decade of my childhood was spent being woken up every hour of every night because of inconsiderate jagoffs defeating their mufflers, and cops who didn't give a damn. Ironically, I moved to a city and it's far quieter.
- tekknik 4y agoIt’s a land area thing. Move to a small town where everybody’s crammed together, or move to a big city where everybody’s crammed together. Go to the country where everybody has a mile between them, that’s what they mean by out of the city.
- thenoblesunfish 4y agoThat’s a great point I hadn’t thought of! Loud motorcycles and cars are so irritating to almost everyone, and would be pretty simple for cops to ticket (they’re on the empty roads with the cops at night and are by definition easy to detect). It makes sense that the cops are similar types of people (a-holes) who understand the motivation.
- tekknik 4y agoOr maybe it’s because there’s not enough police officers to cover every area? It’s a pretty common problem in the US, and was made worse in some places with the whole defund the police movement.