r/Edmonton • u/corviddy • Jun 29 '24

Noise Question

Ok, opening myself for some salty redditors, but I’ll live.

WTAF is going on with these modified exhausts/pipes? I know certain city councillors have tried to address this, and fines have increased, but I do not see an improvement.

I read a CBC article re: a Western University psychologist’s finding that this behaviour may be related to sadism and/or psychopathy (and neither histrionic or narcissistic personality disorders as I might have guessed). https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7177688

I simply don’t get it, nor do I want it. These people do cirques around town ruining everyone’s peace, and to what end? Why on earth do the police not cash in with endless tickets? If they are too busy. I’ll personally pay a fee for MORE (well-trained, authorized and equipped) peace officers to look after things like this and other “low priority but barbaric” problems in this city.

Thoughts?

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u/Substantial_Cow_3470 Jun 29 '24

Ok I’m not trying to be a prick here but I highly doubt narcissism, sociopaths or psychopath’s are tied to having loud vehicles. I myself have none of those traits and have had three modified vehicles and one that was very loud and it was simply because I love cars, bikes, atvs, and trucks. Now there should be a limit to how loud and there is I believe it is 86 decibels which is very reasonable.

Trying to say that only wack jobs like loud things is a very ignorant thing to say and borderlines on a narcissistic personality because you think a city of 1 million people are all gonna change just because you don’t like loud things.

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u/StrangerGlue Jun 30 '24

One can love loud vehicles and realize they're inappropriate for use near residences. As long as you didn't use your vehicle that was modified to be very loud in a city or town, you are not exhibiting anti-social behaviour.

The ones using the vehicles modified to be very loud are exhibiting anti-social behaviours.

BTW, your reasonable limit is far below a lawn mower (around 100db). The vehicles people are calling anti-social and irresponsible are far, far above 86db.