[Mpls] Noise Pollution

[BARBARA L MURRAY]

I prefer not to use my gas guzzler's air conditioning when I can help it.  Unfortunately, as soon as the snow starts to melt, when everyone wants to roll the windows down and enjoy the warmth and smells of Spring, the vehicles playing music I would rather not hear, force me to roll the window up again!  I love music, my own.  The mobile heavy bass, rap speakers on wheels seems to be worse in Minneapolis than anywhere else in the world I have been.  There is a City Ordinance regarding music that can be heard from 50 feet away.  There is a fine, and I wish it would be enforced.  There is a gas station on Penn in Camden that has a sign asking folks to turn down the "tunes".  The vibrating metal speakers on wheels are my #1 complaint as far as driving and trying to enjoy rush hour go.  Can we get signs made at a reasonable cost and post them at gas stations?  Perhaps a biodegradable flyer to let the (hopefully not intentional) drivers of the boom boxes know it is illegal to make us listen to their noise?  I have not noticed this "rude" behavior in St. Paul, Richfield, Bloomington, Edina, St. Louis Park etc... A few times I have tried to politely request a little less volume:when a vibrating steel speaker is parked next to me at what seems like a very long light.  Every time I am glared at, and sworn at.  What is up with the rude sons of guns? I live next to 94.  The freeway barrier is my privacy wall.  I am not sensitive to noise, just rude people. Any ideas? Barbara Murray Riverside Park   Formerly of the West Bank, which I an now too ashamed of to claim as my neighborhood.  Lots of stranger assaults going on here,  teens grabbing purses and knocking women down.  For some PC reason, they are not being reported.  We sure can't make folks "uncomfortable", or be seen as "anti" something by identifying thugs!