Thread: Car Stereos . . . kind of
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06-01-2008 08:09 AM #1
Car Stereos . . . kind of
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.Jack
Gone to Texas
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06-01-2008 08:22 AM #2
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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06-01-2008 08:23 AM #3
Anyone who could invent a remote "zapper" that would silence these things would make a fortune!!!Your Uncle Bob, Senior Geezer Curmudgeon
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06-01-2008 08:36 AM #4
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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06-01-2008 08:48 AM #5
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 . . .Jack
Gone to Texas
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06-01-2008 08:51 AM #6
In Macoupin cty Illinois the loudest sounds you'll hear are probably 12 ga. or occasional dynomite
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06-01-2008 09:50 AM #7
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.Jack
Gone to Texas
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06-01-2008 02:41 PM #8
A nice unshielded magneto with solid core wires does wonders for themtheres no foo like an old foo
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06-01-2008 03:32 PM #9
yep
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06-01-2008 03:36 PM #10
my stereo is under the hood
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06-01-2008 03:55 PM #11
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 againYou don't know what you've got til it's gone
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06-01-2008 04:23 PM #12
As I've said before, stereo is a good exhaust system, surround sound is open headers!!!!!Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Live for Today!
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06-01-2008 04:39 PM #13
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.Bob
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