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It was a legal, unmodified exhaust. It was loud, but not "extremely" so. Also, they were not crossing, they were walking down the middle of the street. You know

It was a legal, unmodified exhaust. It was loud, but not "extremely" so. Also, they were not crossing, they were walking down the middle of the street. You know, where cars are supposed to go. People walk on sidewalks. This was a Paris street, with two large sidewalks on either side of a narrowish one-way street. It's not like they had no other practical choice.

pdimitar 3y ago
"Legal" is an arbitrary metric likely formulated in concert with the car/bike manufacturers via corrup... excuse me, via lobbying, so you should really know better than to use that term as a shield. Do you not agree that noise pollution is a real problem that has grown to unacceptable levels? Expect even more civil disobedience -- I've observed the same as you in my city, people started doing it on purpose to sabotage cars and bikes taking way too much space on iconic scenic streets.
- vladvasiliu 3y ago
  I do agree. It's one of the reasons why I've sold that bike several years ago. But I very much doubt this was done on purpose. This was not an "iconic" street by any means, just a random street of no particular interest, with close to no traffic, pedestrian or vehicle. Such "iconic" streets do exist, and they usually have specific road rules where people are allowed to walk in the middle of street and cars are expected to avoid them (the streets) as much as possible. This was no such street. Plus, they were already walking down the middle of the road much before I was close to them. I've also seen other people do the same even with no vehicle in sight, in this or other similar streets. This is also a problem for bicycles, which also have to ride in the street and aren't exactly a source of annoying noise.
natch 3y ago
They were in Paris! This changes everything. Of course they were walking in the middle of the street. Plus, Paris or not, with no setback for the buildings nobody wants to risk getting leftover washing liquid poured on them from a window.
- mschuster91 3y ago
  > Plus, Paris or not, with no setback for the buildings nobody wants to risk getting leftover washing liquid poured on them from a window. Wtf, this is not backwater Russia we're talking about (aka the places where the Russian units originated that were caught looting washing machines). I've never seen someone be as intentionally rude as to dump out water from a window.
  - dustincoates 3y ago
    I sort of see it all the time in Paris. I almost got dumped on a couple of weeks ago when walking my children. If we had been five seconds earlier, we would have been soaked. (I say "sort of" because I assume it's generally people watering plants, but the amount of water coming down seems excessive.)
  - natch 3y ago
    But surely you are aware that Paris has many visitors. And that a good portion of them may be paranoid about this type of thing due to their very real experiences elsewhere.

pdimitar 3y ago

"Legal" is an arbitrary metric likely formulated in concert with the car/bike manufacturers via corrup... excuse me, via lobbying, so you should really know better than to use that term as a shield. Do you not agree that noise pollution is a real problem that has grown to unacceptable levels? Expect even more civil disobedience -- I've observed the same as you in my city, people started doing it on purpose to sabotage cars and bikes taking way too much space on iconic scenic streets.

vladvasiliu 3y ago
I do agree. It's one of the reasons why I've sold that bike several years ago. But I very much doubt this was done on purpose. This was not an "iconic" street by any means, just a random street of no particular interest, with close to no traffic, pedestrian or vehicle. Such "iconic" streets do exist, and they usually have specific road rules where people are allowed to walk in the middle of street and cars are expected to avoid them (the streets) as much as possible. This was no such street. Plus, they were already walking down the middle of the road much before I was close to them. I've also seen other people do the same even with no vehicle in sight, in this or other similar streets. This is also a problem for bicycles, which also have to ride in the street and aren't exactly a source of annoying noise.

natch 3y ago

They were in Paris! This changes everything. Of course they were walking in the middle of the street. Plus, Paris or not, with no setback for the buildings nobody wants to risk getting leftover washing liquid poured on them from a window.

mschuster91 3y ago
> Plus, Paris or not, with no setback for the buildings nobody wants to risk getting leftover washing liquid poured on them from a window. Wtf, this is not backwater Russia we're talking about (aka the places where the Russian units originated that were caught looting washing machines). I've never seen someone be as intentionally rude as to dump out water from a window.
- dustincoates 3y ago
  I sort of see it all the time in Paris. I almost got dumped on a couple of weeks ago when walking my children. If we had been five seconds earlier, we would have been soaked. (I say "sort of" because I assume it's generally people watering plants, but the amount of water coming down seems excessive.)
- natch 3y ago
  But surely you are aware that Paris has many visitors. And that a good portion of them may be paranoid about this type of thing due to their very real experiences elsewhere.