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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Quote:
Originally posted by MikeyChalupa
Headphone setups for the passengers, you mean. I think a driver shouldn't be wearing headphones. It detracts from their ability to stay alert to their surroundings. In fact, on a military installation, it's illegal to drive a car, ride a bike, or jog on base with headphones on.
There's also a noise ordinance that says that if your stereo(or "system" for those of you who probably would violate this rule) can be heard outside your vehicle, with your windows up OR down, you can get a $50 ticket.
Neither of these rules get enforced, unfortunately.
-Mikey
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I used to do stereo competitions in the early days of loud stereos. People do get tickets for them (almost as rare as speeding tickets), most of those folks wore it like a merit badge. It detracts for the ability for the authorities to use sirens or even loudspeakers to announe commands.
Here in NYC in the Guliani days, he used to have police patrol for quality of life crimes, and those fell into the net. I think that I recall that they had made it a race issue because a good number of those types of violations came from poorer neighborhoods.
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