Law enforcement officers in Florida have started giving tickets to drivers who blast music from their car. The law went into effect in July 2022, though not every Floridian is happy about it, and it also targets vehicles fitted with an aftermarket exhaust system that's deemed too loud.
How loud is unacceptably loud remains rather vague. Florida-based news outlet NBC Miami reported that drivers can be fined $114 if their music can be heard from over 25 feet away, which is a relatively short distance when you consider that a Chevrolet Suburban stretches nearly 19 feet long. The outlet adds that the law becomes stricter if a motorist plays loud music close to a church, a school, or a hospital.
"We look for the more egregious violations, that you can pretty much coming from a block away. So it is easy for us to make notations on the citations that the sound was heard from several car lengths away, maybe even half a block," police Capt. Tim McCarthy told NBC Miami.
As of writing, it's unclear whether officers will decide what's loud by ear or if they will use a decibel meter.
There are several exceptions to the rule. Law enforcement vehicles are obviously exempt from it, ambulance drivers don't have to worry about being ticketed for blasting a siren, and the law doesn't apply to vehicles that are "used for business or political purposes, which in the normal course of conducting such business use sound-making devices." It sounds like your local ice cream truck driver is safe, then.
NBC Miami added that police officers will also further crack down on loud exhausts, and that they're trained to detect illegal parts.
I was walking home just last night along this main road and it's insane how loud some of these cars are playing music. I mean deafening to all other sounds loud. Also this shit with exhausts that sound like gunshots has got to go. Make it legal to shoot these people.
Andrew Hill
I'm white & middle class. I enjoy blaring music out the window when it's especially good, in part to flex my superior taste in Any Forums-approved music
I'm in Spicafornia, and this is fucking based. There's loud music and then there's no fucking reason in the world except to be an asshole loud. Same thing with exhausts that are designed to set off car alarms and force everyone within 3 blocks to hear it inside their homes.
Carter Collins
Good im glad honestly if you listen to music at all you are a normie faggot let alone at 1000000 decibels
Isaiah Harris
Ah yes. The legislators in Flordia have nothing better to do other than ensure cops have more options than ever. To ticket and fine otherwise law abiding adults.
For those unaware. Flordia has no income tax. So the cops fund themselves by being predatory leeches. Also OP is just a bot plagiarizing news articles. Do not bump. Do not reply. Fuck mods fuck jannies
Everyone hates you and hopes you kill yourself btw
Bentley Anderson
based kek
Samuel Hernandez
Only affecting niggers and white daddy teens. Should be global law
Gabriel Thomas
Based. Keep it down, niggers.
Owen Campbell
>cant listen to music >cant have foreskin >cant stop tranny propaganda if kid is older than 9 Land of the free
Camden Scott
Shoot those niggers on sight.
Jayden Clark
I like playing Moonman while speeding through nigger infested areas, or stomping on it outside refugee housing at 3 in the morning waking up the pickaninnies. Last time i let the window down to shout "Sieg Heil" at them. Someone turned on the lights but my money pit Jag pulls, and i was gone like lightning, forstinger cans growling at them. Antisocial cars used to menace minorities should be exempt.
