"What's infuriating is that they turn their truck on from the driveway, blast music from these gigantic subwoofers-and then they go inside! Hey Prudence, Out in the desert, we all do some combination of indoor and outdoor living. But they're not even near the truck! They just turn the truck on and keep it running with the music up loud enough to be heard inside, like, behind real walls."
"I know this because when she barks, her owner yells. "Sophie! Shut the fuck up!" I've never had a dog, but it seems like an ineffective way to get your dog to stop barking. Then, one of the other neighbours comes out and yells at the dog to shut the fuck up. The owner then yells at him to shut the fuck up. The fucks go flying back and forth for a few minutes while the dog keeps barking."
One neighbor repeatedly starts a truck in the driveway, leaves the engine running, and blasts music from large subwoofers loud enough to be heard inside homes, prompting a resident to call the non-emergency line because people work from home. An officer visited and persuaded the neighbors to turn the music down. Another situation involves a persistently barking dog named Sophie, whose owner shouts "Sophie! Shut the fuck up!" while other neighbors also yell obscenities back and forth without calming the dog. Persistent loud noises from music or dogs create ongoing community irritation and prompt suggestions like providing noise-cancelling headphones for non-isolated homes.
Read at Slate Magazine
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