When I was in school long ago we were taught the proverb, “Your freedom ends where my nose begins.” Parents, teachers and students on the playground drove home the lesson that freedom comes with limits and responsibilities and respect for others. Perhaps the young man in the June 18 Herald article, “His car was alive with sound of music” did not learn that lesson. He felt that his freedom included turning up the volume on his car radio to the point that a Lynnwood policeman cited him for being a public nuisance.
I hope that he is grateful to the judge who reduced his ticket to roughly one-quarter of what the writers of the ordinance deemed appropriate punishment.
And I hope that he and others like him (such as the car that passed a house in Lake Stevens with the volume turned up so loud that I truly thought we were having an earthquake) will learn the lesson of the old proverb [paraphrased]: “Your freedom ends where my eardrums begin.”
Granite Falls
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