I'm probably officially racist

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I was just outside washing my car. I hear some godawful bass coming from down the street. I wait a minute and the source comes rolling by. A newer BMW, I stare at it with a look of disgust. As it rolls by he waves at me and I see it's a black guy and maybe a hispanic woman. Couldn't really tell.

Anyway, I don't wave back. I don't care what color you are but if you don't have the courtesy to leave your godawful thump crap music off for 3 minutes while you enter/exit your neighborhood YOU ARE A PIECE OF SHIT.

I'd have done the same if some rich redneck with a big @$! lifted truck was thumping some country junk so I know I'm not racist.

I've got two subs in my theater room and I played the boomiest parts of Mad Max with the bass louder than I like while I stood outside and listened for it. I couldn't hear it, if I could have I'd have kept turning it down.

 

[PDXFonz]

I think you need to chill out. The dude waved at you and you didn't have the decency to wave back. I don't care who he is and what he was doing in his car, he tried to be respectful by waving, you tried to be disrespectful by ignoring it (even if you didn't approve man up and do the respectful thing, an eye for an eye, two wrongs don't make a right, etc...). Pisses me off when I wave at my neighbors and they just glare at me, or when I let somebody in but they don't have the time to raise their freaking hand to say thanks. It seems like so many people for whatever reason no longer have the time/energy to show these simply displays of courtesy.

 

[BonesJones]

What did race have to do with any of this? "I hate when people blast their bass" seems to be the premise. Race has nothing to do with it, because I might have my bass up too loud sometimes. I don't think anyone can hear it, but I guess that still makes me a piece of shit.

 

[oldfisherman]

NO ONE is entitled to enter your property without your permission and disrupt your peace of mind with their loud awful music.

The driver of the car was the one that was being disrespectful.

Keep your shit noise of all kinds off of my property, and I promise to keep mine off of yours. If any wave was appropriate in the OPs scenario, it was the single finger wave, with both hands.

 

[PDXFonz]

NO ONE is entitled to enter your property without your permission and disrupt your peace of mind with their loud awful music.

The driver of the car was the one that was being disrespectful.

Keep your shit noise of all kinds off of my property, and I promise to keep mine off of yours. If any wave was appropriate in the OPs scenario, it was the single finger wave, with both hands.

It's a public thoroughfare... Plus there's never any reason to send that kind of negativity out to anyone.

Just an FYI - You're doing more of an injustice to yourself by spreading that negativity than you are to the person you flip off.

And don't for a second think you know who somebody is or where they have been. Those two could have been returning from the hospital after visiting their sick mother, you really think they need to see some ass hat flipping them off? For crying out loud if you are actually an older gentlemen then you blow me away. How many years have you lived on this Earth with your head in the sand?

 

[oldfisherman]

It's a public thoroughfare... Plus there's never any reason to send that kind of negativity out to anyone.

Just an FYI - You're doing more of an injustice to yourself by spreading that negativity than you are to the person you flip off.

And don't for a second think you know who somebody is or where they have been. Those two could have been returning from the hospital after visiting their sick mother, you really think they need to see some ass hat flipping them off? For crying out loud if you are actually an older gentlemen then you blow me away. How many years have you lived on this Earth with your head in the sand?

What part of disrupting a person’s peace of mind do you not understand?

What part of trespassing on private property do you not understand?

If you do not respect my property and peace of mind, then fuck you for being the asshole by trespassing on my property with your loud music or noise!!!!

 

[Hobbesarable]

I don't think anyone can hear it, but I guess that still makes me a piece of shit.

Is that after your Noise-Induced Hearing Loss?

 

[PDXFonz]

What part of disrupting a person’s peace of mind do you not understand?

What part of trespassing on private property do you not understand?

If you do not respect my property and peace of mind, then fuck you for being the asshole by trespassing on my property with your loud music or noise!!!!

What part of a public road isn't yours/his/anyone's private property do you not understand?

Are you that crazy ass old man who shot wildly into the neighborhood when the kids egged his house, hitting near a child's bedroom at the home across the street?

 

[PDXFonz]

 

[oldfisherman]

What part of a public road isn't yours/his/anyone's private property do you not understand?

Are you that crazy ass old man who shot wildly into the neighborhood when the kids egged his house, hitting near a child's bedroom at the home across the street?

Section 7.05.010 Public disturbance.

A. A person is guilty of public disturbance if he or she:

Sound from portable audio equipment, such as tape players, radios, and compact disc players, operated at a volume so as to be audible greater than fifty (50) feet from the source.

The foregoing enumeration of acts and noises shall not be construed as excluding other acts and noises which offend the public peace.

 

[PDXFonz]

Section 7.05.010 Public disturbance.

A. A person is guilty of public disturbance if he or she:

Sound from portable audio equipment, such as tape players, radios, and compact disc players, operated at a volume so as to be audible greater than fifty (50) feet from the source.

The foregoing enumeration of acts and noises shall not be construed as excluding other acts and noises which offend the public peace.

Lol, grow a pair or move to the mountains or country.

And if you actually take the time to measure the distance from your house to the road then that Would be time better spent learning how to constructively deal with things that upset you.

 

[Hobbesarable]

Lol, grow a pair or move to the mountains or country.

Actually loud noise disturbance can act as an affliction and affect a variety of people with conditions, such as: PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injuries, and Hypersensitivity to Sound and Anxiety Disorders.

I work a lot with people like that and it really is an affliction for them.

 

[PDXFonz]

Actually loud noise disturbance can act as an affliction and affect a variety people with conditions, such as: PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injuries, and Hypersensitivity to Sound and Anxiety Disorders.

I work a lot with people like that and it really is an affliction for them.

I totally get that and respect it fully, but are you telling me that the majority of them think the best way to combat the problem is with rudeness? Is rudeness ever the correct answer in your mind?

There are countless different options to resolve a problem. It is of my belief that none of those solutions should involve violence or rudeness. When I was growing up my mother used to say that you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

 

[Denny Crane]

Bazooka time.

 

[Hobbesarable]

I totally get that and respect it fully, but are you telling me that the majority of them think the best way to combat the problem is with rudeness? Is rudeness ever the correct answer in your mind?

There are countless different options to resolve any problem. It is of my belief that none of those solutions should involve violence or rudeness. When I was growing up my mother used to say that you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

Rudeness is not the correct answer. However, you were just as rude with Oldfisherman. Something to think about.

 

[PDXFonz]

Rudeness is not the correct answer. However, you were just as rude with Oldfisherman. Something to think about.

Please bring to my attention what I said that was just as rude as had I flipped him off.

If you are talking about the old man question it was something that actually happened here and a legitimate question.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

What did race have to do with any of this? "I hate when people blast their bass" seems to be the premise. Race has nothing to do with it, because I might have my bass up too loud sometimes. I don't think anyone can hear it, but I guess that still makes me a piece of shit.

Not reading the part where I said if you can't wait 3 minutes to leave your neighborhood part ruins the whole concept for you.

I meant to mention I'm racist in the same way that blonde bimbo is for mentioning a Sir Mix a Lot lyric.

I'm literally not racist as I don't think the color of your skin makes you a certain way. Dviss1 chewed my ass for treating that Winco kid I should have got fired differently. So, I kept it real. Did what I would do to anyone.

I had a car wash mitt in one hand and a hose in the other by the way and only a split second to wave...too busy glaring.

I wave to all my neighbors and about half of them wave back. Even the white ones don't wave back..must be racist against me.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I think you need to chill out. The dude waved at you and you didn't have the decency to wave back. I don't care who he is and what he was doing in his car, he tried to be respectful by waving, you tried to be disrespectful by ignoring it (even if you didn't approve man up and do the respectful thing, an eye for an eye, two wrongs don't make a right, etc...). Pisses me off when I wave at my neighbors and they just glare at me, or when I let somebody in but they don't have the time to raise their freaking hand to say thanks. It seems like so many people for whatever reason no longer have the time/energy to show these simply displays of courtesy.

See, I already show ALL of my neighbors courtesy. Unlike this asshole who likes to drive 30-35 by kids on bikes.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

It's a public thoroughfare... Plus there's never any reason to send that kind of negativity out to anyone.

Just an FYI - You're doing more of an injustice to yourself by spreading that negativity than you are to the person you flip off.

And don't for a second think you know who somebody is or where they have been. Those two could have been returning from the hospital after visiting their sick mother, you really think they need to see some ass hat flipping them off? For crying out loud if you are actually an older gentlemen then you blow me away. How many years have you lived on this Earth with your head in the sand?

It's actually a private road in a gated community. I could be a dick and complain to the HOA but I wished he'd have stopped and asked why I was staring at him. Maybe he is too stupid to realize the common courtesy he is lacking by blasting his dumbshit music in a new development of half a million dollar homes.

The sooner they sell these homes the sooner the community is finished. If someone looking at a house heard that they might not buy.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Somewhere in my posts here there might be a story of the Harley guy I threatened which made him stop revving his (insert South Park quote here) stupid motorcycle in my old community. He too gave me shit about respect when he lacked it from the beginning. That shit kills me.

As if you could be so ignorant of community etiquette.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

I use to be that ass hole kid with top 3 loudest car in bend that seargents stereo had metered anyway. It didnt take long to grow up and turn it down in neighborhoods though.

As for waving, i was smoking a stogie in the back yard last night, waved to everyone that walked by. I dont know what race has to do with it, my neighborhood is probably 70% black and only one young punk didnt wave back, but i cant blame him, id hate me too if i was that age walking cause i dont have a car and my second truck is just chilling in the yard not being driven. Suck my balls kid, stay off my lawn.

 

[Further]

So I think this is a situation where both are right and wrong. @Fonzthecpt1, he never said he flipped the person off, that was your addition but he just said he didn't wave back and looked at the BMW in disgust. I get that, if you were having a relaxing time gardening or whatever and someone rolled by with loud music, it would annoy you, wouldn't it? On the other hand Bodyman, it is true that you would most likely be a happier person if you didn't let simple things like this get under your skin. It's just someone who wasn't being curious, but maybe he didn't realize how loud he was, or just wasn't thinking about that at the time. Perhaps he just turned it up because he got to his favorite lyrics or beat, and that just brought him intense joy. Sometimes people just don't contemplate the bigger picture. No, you aren't racist for being annoyed at this, but you might be better off letting little things like this not piss you off in the first place. Of course, time of day matters here. But you posted this in the middle of the day on a weekend, not 2am on a Thursday. 2am on a Thursday would make me livid, 2 pm on the weekend would be inconsequential to me.

 

[MarAzul]

I had a crappy night last Tuesday. Tied up to the dock at the Red Lion in Vancouver, just below the Interstate bridge. A guy was going to delivery me a boat part there the next morning. Bad place to stay, several people down on the dock, smoking shit until the wee hours. One with a car backed up to rail above, doors open playing shit on the stero. The fucker would rattle your teeth.

Man that weapon above would do the trick, a 40mm launcher loaded with a M2 belt! Probably need school to run that though. Better stick with my carbine. I left it in a safe spot and bit my lip. MF's.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

You could hear my shit 6 blocks away.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Cars go by so quick that raising my blood pressure over some bass doesnt seem worth it. If i had a neighbor constantly thumping at night and it kept me up id probably just ask them if they wouldnt mind turning it down at night. My neighbors all seem chill though, we all have a night or 2 where our music is up but usually by sun down everyone turns it down. If someone said something to me id apologize and oblige. Most neighbors play rap during their parties, im more the odd ball ass hole that plays country and rock, but cant really hear mine passed my yard and i turn it down by 7.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

You could hear my shit 6 blocks away.

I use to be like that. Man i wish i had listened to mom. Im not quite 30 and have some hearing problems already. I cant hear conversations in front of me if there is back ground noise, every now and then my ears just hear a high pitch ring like i got hit with a flashbang grenade in call of duty.

 

[BonesJones]

Not reading the part where I said if you can't wait 3 minutes to leave your neighborhood part ruins the whole concept for you.

I meant to mention I'm racist in the same way that blonde bimbo is for mentioning a Sir Mix a Lot lyric.

I'm literally not racist as I don't think the color of your skin makes you a certain way. Dviss1 chewed my ass for treating that Winco kid I should have got fired differently. So, I kept it real. Did what I would do to anyone.

I had a car wash mitt in one hand and a hose in the other by the way and only a split second to wave...too busy glaring.

I wave to all my neighbors and about half of them wave back. Even the white ones don't wave back..must be racist against me.

I don't turn down my music when I enter a neighborhood. If someone has a problem with that then it's their problem. I bet if you had (have?) kids you'd let them play outside, which your neighbors could hear which would bug them as well.

So you're sarcastically calling yourself racist, and youre doing so because you noticed there were minorities in the car? Weird.

 

[MarAzul]

Cars go by so quick that raising my blood pressure over some bass doesnt seem worth it. If i had a neighbor constantly thumping at night and it kept me up id probably just ask them if they wouldnt mind turning it down at night. My neighbors all seem chill though, we all have a night or 2 where our music is up but usually by sun down everyone turns it down. If someone said something to me id apologize and oblige. Most neighbors play rap during their parties, im more the odd ball ass hole that plays country and rock, but cant really hear mine passed my yard and i turn it down by 7.

Ha! I thought about playing some Willy Nelson for those dudes on the dock the other night. But no way will my stuff in the boat compete with the car rig they had going. Probably hear that sucker in Jantzen Beach.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Ha! I thought about playing some Willy Nelson for those dudes on the dock the other night. But no way will my stuff in the boat compete with the car rig they had going. Probably hear that sucker in Jantzen Beach.

I played some traditional celtic music the other night while a buddy and i sipped some beer. We got some funny looks by passers by but i dont care i love me some celtic pipes flute and fiddle. And by night i mean like 5 pm.

 

[Further]

You could hear my shit 6 blocks away.

Perhaps you should take medication for your explosive diarrhea