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[General] Deliberately loud vehicles should be illegal, impounded, and crushed into a cube at the owner's expense (dubvee.org)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Since the last 24 hours have had nothing but troll posts (and one that a user deleted; dunno what that one was), here's my latest gripe / reason I'm tired shaped into the form of an Unpopular Opinion. Hopefully this gets us back on track.

Nobody is impressed by you revving your engine at a stop light and cranking out 300 dB of noise from your fart cannon at 3 in the morning (or any time of day, for that matter). There is also no reason to peel out from the stop light when the next light is 2 blocks away and guaranteed to be red. e.g. We left the first red light at the same time. I drove normally, you like an asshole, and we both stopped at the next light all the same.

Driving an (intentionally) obnoxiously loud vehicle, especially driving it aggressively, should result in immediate revocation of license and the offending vehicle crushed into a cube. As much as I hate vague "disturbing the peace" laws, this seems like a good use for them (where noise ordinances don't exist).

I don't care about the extra 1-2 HP you get. Do tell me all the (street legal) things your pavement princess of a truck is going to do with that (I can see it has neither the tow package nor a speck of dirt on the tires). If you just like the sound and think I should get over it, allow me to come fart near you. If you don't like the smell, by your logic, that's on you: get over it.

Note: It may be a regional thing, but this is definitely an unpopular opinion in my (very redneck) area.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

One of our suburbs used to have this rule. It kind of fizzled out due to unnecessarily large cars for a suburb environment becoming normal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"You have 24 hours to move your car before it will be impounded.

"You have 24 hours to remove your car from impound before it will be crushed into a cube."

"You have 24 hours to move your cube."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

😆 I had that scene in my head when I decided to phrase it that way. Good catch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

God I hate the stupid loud vehicles. And it almost always sounds like shit too.

Be funny if coal rollers had to strap a giant diaper to the back of their vehicle to identify them, since clearly their lifted douche-wagon struggles with incontinence.

I like aftermarket stereo equipment in a car (mostly just like the feel of bass going through me and sound quality improvements), myself, but I'm not an asshole about it, I just blast music on interstates, and keep it to conversational levels on normal roads. If you can hear it outside the car it's generally too loud anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Motorcycles, dirt bikes, four wheeler shitheads ride downtown (where I live) in my city every weekend. They takeover intersections and rev their engines. We call them "cool guys," because I joked to my partner that they aren't overcompensating for anything; they're obviously super cool, with big dicks, and happy lives.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Of course – fully agreed that something has to be done. Civilized countries, like Netherlands have "sound traps" – if a vehicle is too loud, photo is taken as in speed photo traps, and penalty is sent to the owner. Sadly, I do not live in such a country.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

Crushing a vehicle because it's loud is stupid and waste of resources. In a civilized country it would simply fail inspection and you'd have to make it not-loud in order to get it registered again.

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