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    So I was crossing the street on my lunch hour to go hit the salad bar, and I heard it....

    *BOOM*, *BOOM* *uhuhahuahaha* *BOOM* *BOOM*....

    Somebody had pimped out their ride and put an overdriven bass tube in the back of their car and it was rattling windows for blocks. Now technically, it's illegal, but cops almost never enforce noise violations. I'm sitting there, thinking what an arrogant, bratty cuss this jerk that's driving around like this is. And it got me to thinking... how do people in societies that aren't so individualistic deal with these sorts of things?

    I understand that the number of people 'crusing' in their pimped-out Eclipse in say Rome is pretty low, but extrapolate a little... How do people in more community oriented socities deal with obnoxious behavior where somebody is acting as an individual to the extreme... they're engaging in very public behavior and their only desire is to annoy as many of their fellow citizens as possible....

    I mean, the types of people that usually do this (and this is NOT a racial statement, I've seen people of all colors, including a hysterical looking Korean kid down in NC) are subhuman. Ask them politely to turn it down and you're more than likely to receive a death threat for your troubles. I'm not small, weak or shy, so typically that's where it begins and ends...but I can see where most women and a lot of smaller men wouldn't even have the gumption to do that.

    So, to you Brits, you French, you Germans, you Swedes, you Chinese and you Japanese.... all of you who pride yourselves on being more community minded than we Yanks (which I think is just about anybody)... how do you deal with patently offensive behavior by the individual when it is clear that there will be no help through law enforcement channels?
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    I understand that the number of people 'crusing' in their pimped-out Eclipse in say Rome is pretty low, but extrapolate a little... How do people in more community oriented socities deal with obnoxious behavior where somebody is acting as an individual to the extreme... they're engaging in very public behavior and their only desire is to annoy as many of their fellow citizens as possible....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
    A potato works wonders , though a banana goes in easier .
    Inserted into the car's exhaust pipe to create a stall or inserted into the driver's left nostril to get his attention?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
    [a potato or banana] Inserted into the car's exhaust pipe to create a stall or inserted into the driver's left nostril to get his attention?
    The object must be lodged in the nostrils (potato or banana doesn't make a difference) as putting it in the exhaust pipe won't do a thing.*


    * The mythbusters proved that the only thing sticking a potato or banana in the exhaust pipe of a car could do was creating an spudgun.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peasant Phill
    * The mythbusters proved that the only thing sticking a potato or banana in the exhaust pipe of a car could do was creating an spudgun.
    The mythbusters are a little late though....

    I proved that years ago when I was a small lad of 12.......

    let´s do the math....

    a bunch of kids with nothing to do + a lemon tree within easy reach + a bunch of teachers cars parked in the schools car park = Science experiment!!!

    and indeed....all you get is a giant spud (or in this case lemon) cannon
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    Come to think of it, I've never seen a pimped ride, and I rarely see/hear people playing music in public.
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    Well, we just ignore them or look at them thinking they have a very small peepee...
    Yes, we're a bit americanized or urbanized, whatever you think is right.

    The Chinese introduced those mobile death busses for these guys, didn't they?
    Or maybe the government will have a tank roll over him in the name of the people.
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    Here the cops turn the streets they drive around on into a pedestrian street(that can't be the correct word can it, a street where it's only allowed to walk). Works like a charm

    It's usually followed by a small rebellion though, but seriously, who cares about what people driving around in a pimped Volvo 240 thinks?
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    You know, I've never really noticed it that much, but when I do it's (non-white) immigrants. But I'd have thought community ties would be stronger there, so why is such behaviour encouraged in such groups? Curious.
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    At a guess ...Leave a prescription for viagra on their window and a swedish penis pump on the bonnet?
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    I've never really noticed it that much, but when I do it's (non-white) immigrants.
    How do you know that they are immigrants ?

    Then again you may have a point , there is one immigrant fella at work that drives an absolute heap , a multi coloured Fiat Tempera estate that might just be worth as much as 50 euros at the scrap yard . The sound system in it would be worth about 3000 though .
    He isn't white either , more of a sort of pinky creamy colour .

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    Its like every other car here... bloody SUVs with 20k $ Sound Systems and Hydraulics. If I really, really, really wanted too I could put all of these people under the turf but being an eco minded, friendly individual I just ignore it for the most part. Though the noise ban after 9pm is strictly enforced, and the Police around here drool for the opportunity to slap a 1000 (minimum) to 5000 (maximum) US Dollar fine on the Upper Middle Class wannabe Gangstas. Most take it because they think they can afford it. But the 3rd Fine is an automatic revocation of their license for 2 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
    So I was crossing the street on my lunch hour to go hit the salad bar, and I heard it....

    *BOOM*, *BOOM* *uhuhahuahaha* *BOOM* *BOOM*....

    Somebody had pimped out their ride and put an overdriven bass tube in the back of their car and it was rattling windows for blocks. Now technically, it's illegal, but cops almost never enforce noise violations. I'm sitting there, thinking what an arrogant, bratty cuss this jerk that's driving around like this is. And it got me to thinking... how do people in societies that aren't so individualistic deal with these sorts of things?

    I understand that the number of people 'crusing' in their pimped-out Eclipse in say Rome is pretty low, but extrapolate a little... How do people in more community oriented socities deal with obnoxious behavior where somebody is acting as an individual to the extreme... they're engaging in very public behavior and their only desire is to annoy as many of their fellow citizens as possible....

    I mean, the types of people that usually do this (and this is NOT a racial statement, I've seen people of all colors, including a hysterical looking Korean kid down in NC) are subhuman. Ask them politely to turn it down and you're more than likely to receive a death threat for your troubles. I'm not small, weak or shy, so typically that's where it begins and ends...but I can see where most women and a lot of smaller men wouldn't even have the gumption to do that.

    So, to you Brits, you French, you Germans, you Swedes, you Chinese and you Japanese.... all of you who pride yourselves on being more community minded than we Yanks (which I think is just about anybody)... how do you deal with patently offensive behavior by the individual when it is clear that there will be no help through law enforcement channels?
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