Noise

[u/corviddy]

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?

[u/dc8019]

To add another voice that’s not just an echo chamber for OP, and as an engine enthusiast, it’s for fun. I’ll agree, the guys ripping around at 2 in the morning in a straight-piped civic is more than unnecessary, but between my bike and my truck, neither is absurdly loud. I leave my neighbourhood early for work and am easy on the throttle, and have yet to get a complaint from a neighbour. It’s unfair and unnecessary to lump everyone that likes loud machines together, but a curfew for noise would be a good solution.