Yeah, we’re out of it.
Yeah, we’re out of it. Why else would it take us three days to link to an Ann Arbor News letter headed “Loud rock music was poor business decision”? The letter, concerning Leopold Brothers’ abrupt, city-influenced decision to stop featuring live music, questions why the police didn’t put a stop to the notoriously violence-inducing indie rock sooner. “I also don’t understand why the police don’t quickly enforce noise ordinances to shut off loud music in residential areas. The extent to which they dawdle and equivocate makes one wonder whether they might not be fostering the violence they say they seek to prevent.” But the writer falls prey to a common misconception. The Ann Arbor Police have said they seek to write traffic tickets, not prevent violence.
Now I understand why the police grudgingly accept the 2:00 a.m. phone calls I make when the neighboring rental house is shaking the walls with subwoofer rap “music” — it’s a lot more trouble to enforce the noise ordinance and issue a citation than it is to write a parking ticket. Since the police don’t write noise ordinance tickets, my calls do nothing but increase my vulnerability to the neighbors’ revenge, which arrives the next night from the same house, accompanied by a fleet of car stereos set at rolling thunder volume.
posted by music lover on July 23rd, 2004 at 1:33 pm