Some young people are just insensitive

Kevin Bruaw’s July 1 op-ed article regarding the noise ordinance in Lynnwood begged me to respond. I think the noise ordinance is appropriate. He states “speeding is a greater risk of causing an accident than does a loud stereo system.” My question to Kevin is: How could he pull over to give right of way to an emergency vehicle if he can’t hear its horns and siren because he’s playing his stereo too loudly?

A few weeks ago, I stopped at the intersection of Everett Avenue and Broadway and a car pulled up beside me with his stereo so loud that it was louder than my car radio – even with all of my windows closed. I was so outraged that I put my hand on my horn and blew it in one continuous honk for the entire time that the signal light was red until it turned green. The two young people in the other vehicle never even heard or acknowledged that they heard anything. So much for Kevin’s “loud music poses less danger than speeding.”

Another time about two months ago I was awakened at 9 a.m. by loud music coming into my bedroom through two walls. I got up out of bed and went out and hollered at the cable man who was up on his cherry picker on the pole and he couldn’t hear me. He had both doors opened from his service truck with the stereo blasting so he could hear it 25 feet above his truck. I got out my electric bull horn and yelled, “Can you turn that music down so I don’t have to hear it inside my house?” He replied “No, cause you didn’t ask me nicely.” I called 911, the police came and made him turn it off.

Kevin Bruaw has the opinion that young people are singled out as noisemakers. I have the opinion that some young people have no sensitivity toward their fellow man and could care less about anyone else’s ears. I have never observed a middle-aged person playing their stereo too loudly. If I can hear your car stereo from inside my car with my windows up, yours is too loud.

Everett

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