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    While stuck in traffic yesterday, I had this thought about several folks:

    Hey! It's possible I could like you. We could even be friends. You're driving a nice car, and seem to be a nice person. There's even a chance I could learn to like your music. If I could hear it, that is. But . . . I don't hear a bleeping thing except that bleeping thumping bass woofer you've got stuck in your trunk, and turned up to 8.6 on the Richter scale. Like I said, you may be a really nice person, but at this exact moment, I really, really wish that the wires to your woofer would short out to, say, about 1200 volts, and generate a pressure wave that would completely implode your worthless, bleeping skull.
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    Amen to that!! I fully agree! We have sound laws here, but the police do not really enforce it, so i too have to hear this at lights.

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    Anyone who could invent a remote "zapper" that would silence these things would make a fortune!!!
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    I see those devices on the news shows all the time---usually someone about the same age as the woofer owners have a rpg pointed at something--seems like a pretty effective tool altho I haven't seen them in stores

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    Some time ago, I was sitting at a bus stop on Naval Station Norfolk, VA. An E-nothing pulled up to the stoplight in an old ricer with the stereo booming so loud that the body panels were rattling.

    I saw the door open on the car behind him, and a Navy Captain in service dress whites got out, walked up to the window and tapped on it. The stereo volume went WAY down in a hurry, and there was lots of (one way) loud talking and finger shaking. The last thing I heard was "If I ever hear that again, there will be holy hell to pay." I gave the Cap a thumbs up . . .
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    In Macoupin cty Illinois the loudest sounds you'll hear are probably 12 ga. or occasional dynomite

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    Jerry,

    Oh I don't know about that. That's the music most of the high school kids listen to these days - even in farm country.

    Then, there's all that traffic on I-55 (Ex-Route 66) running down Macoupin's eastern edge.
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    A nice unshielded magneto with solid core wires does wonders for them
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    yep

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    my stereo is under the hood

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    most of these new stereo's have remotes... I have a Handspring Visor ( old Palm OS PDA ) that has a universal remote program on it ( Visor has an IR ) and an automatic code finder.. push the button to find the code and it rapidly changes the code and flashes the on/off button. you just tap the screen quick when it works ( turns your device on or off ) so you will never know when the stereo is turned off, but it will be, and it will recycle on and off as the codes cycle again
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    As I've said before, stereo is a good exhaust system, surround sound is open headers!!!!!
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    Last time I had one of those boom blaster cars along side of me, I had to check my tach to see if my engine was still running. It was hard to believe that my twin Smithy's were totally drowned out by one of those things.

    When I see kids with their stereo's up loud, I smile and give them a discount card for a on a hearing aid or two. One day, not too long from now they will need it.
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