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CaboRon
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Packoderm
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| Quote: | Originally posted by CaboRon
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oldlady
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
I have a professional sound system. 8 Bose 801's & crown amps. Used to have neighbors who would keep me up half the night racing their sand rails
on the beach and playing music at mega decibels. Tried to reason with them but all I got was, "This is Mexico and we can do what ever we want."
I set up the system on the upper deck, pointed directly at their casa and waited until early morning. Cranked it up to 11 and played revellie
followed by the Star Spangled Banner. They stumbled out shouting something I unfortunately couldn't hear. Later that day there was a knock at my door.
We came to an agreement.
Turns out that in Mexico, you can't do anything you want. |
We also found this process to be effective, but we chose the 1812 Overture...less nationalistic.
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vgabndo
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Being sort of Wagnerian, I love the smell of frying amps in the morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSKL5E3zSjs
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"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
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Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
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osoflojo
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Loud music? Al the more reason to drink heavily.................
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Pops
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In Mexico and probably elsewhere.....
It doesn't have to be good as long as it's LOUD!!!!!
  
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rogerj1
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Sounds like a good question for the "Ask a Mexican" column.
http://www.askamexican.net/
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twogringos
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It looks like Mexico City had recognized the problem.
From The News:
City aims to curb its cacophony
BY NACHA CATTAN
The News
Mexico City's government is embarking on a campaign to turn down the volume of blasting speakers, honking horns and other sources of noise pollution
that have left some residents at their wits end.
On Friday, a team of environmental officials measured decibel levels at businesses, stands and roving carts in the Centro Histórico, where they warned
noisemakers of fines and arrests for those who exceed the sound limit.
The next stage will begin in early June, when the city installs noise monitors throughout the Centro to keep permanent tabs on those who raise a
racket and begin fining them, city prosecutor Luis Genaro Vásquez told The News.
The pilot program will then be extended to other parts of the city, where sellers may face fines of up to 250,000 pesos and up to 8 years in prison
for exceeding limits of 65 decibels during the day and 62 at night and early morning.
The first of three surprise visits in the downtown area revealed that 90 percent of 70 businesses measured had surpassed limits by 10 decibels, the
city said.
"A trend has caught on all over the Centro in which stores set up speakers outside their shops to draw customers in," Vásquez said. "It has become the
noisiest neighborhood in the city."
While noisy stores may be shut down as early as June 1, there are no plans to arrest anyone yet, Vásquez added.
"It is important that owners and managers of commercial establishments in the Centro know how high noise levels affect peoples' health," City Hall
said in a statement Friday. "They can cause stress, irritability and anxiety, which can lead to raised blood pressure, cholesterol and heart rates."
Residents weary of noise pollution welcomed the measure, but doubted that the permanent din churned out by daily life in the capital could be
diminished.
"If they can't even get the garbage collection in order, how will they control the noise?" said pharmacist Raúl Camacho from the Alvaro Obregón
borough.
TAKING OUT THE NOISE MAPS
Having lived in the city all his life, Camacho, 65, said he can handle most any tumult, with one big exception: He shakes with fury when microbuses
blast their music on his route home.
"It's not even good music," he said. "It's full of curse words."
Noisy vehicles and street-sellers have been a feature of Mexico City life for decades. As early as 7 a.m. one can hear the bellowing from hawkers of
propane gas, tamales and bottled water, the clanking cowbell of the garbage truck and the blaring music of a variety shop promoting its trinkets.
"We are permanently exceeding noise levels," Diana Ponce Nava, the city's environment prosecutor, said at a press conference last week.
The city will employ noise maps drawn up in 2007 based on citizen complaints to pinpoint problem areas, Ponce Nava said.
But some of the biggest noise generators said that if the city indeed enforces a 2006 ordinance that would prohibit them for raising their voices,
they would be out of a job.
Juan Carlos Hernández walks the streets in the Azcapotzalco borough each morning at 7:30 shouting: "Gaaaaaaas!" He delivers propane tanks to
residents, while dodging occasional pails of water thrown at him by irate neighbors.
"How else are we supposed to get people's attention?" he asked. "Use sign language?"
http://www.thenews.com.mx/home/tnhome.asp?cve_home=1573
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BMG
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Interesting article. I wonder why businesses think blaring music attracts customers to their store? Or does it?
I think the world is run by C- students.
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Udo
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It's kinda like the night clubs. They attract patrons to their places by playing the loudest music. The louder the music the better the party...or so
they think.
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tehag
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Loud
Some kids were trying to de-crackle some trunk blasters in a funky old car that was worth probably half what the speakers went for back when they were
new. I hollered to the kid in charge that those things were going to wreck his hearing. He turned a big grin on me and said, "Huh?"
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BajaDove
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Seems everyone is hung up on listening YOU HAVE TO FEEL THE MUSIC
If its not where it is, its where it isn\'t.
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BMG
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaDove
Seems everyone is hung up on listening YOU HAVE TO FEEL THE MUSIC |
Do you mean that thumping I feel in my chest from the bass? Kinda feels like CPR.
I think the world is run by C- students.
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lingililingili
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I have a question: Why is it that neither the movie feature on camera nor the phone pick up that awful thumping noise? Do they filter it out?
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The Gull
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BMG
| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaDove
Seems everyone is hung up on listening YOU HAVE TO FEEL THE MUSIC |
Do you mean that thumping I feel in my chest from the bass? Kinda feels like CPR. |
It may save your life.
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tjBill
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Its good that Mexico City is fighting noise pollution. They seem to be following cities like Madrid, Rome and Paris. Both Paris and Rome have
completly banned the use of horns.
If only Tijuana would fight noise pollution.
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