And I have to add...Many years ago, the late Mike Royko wrote in a column on those audio-enhanced "boom cars" (you know the ones, they take out the rear seat so they can install superwoofers or something so that everyone in the state has to hear the owner of the car's choice of music ). He said that he felt an appropriate punishment for anyone caught driving one of these things in a residential neighborhood between 11 pm and 6 am was to have the car and the person hauled out to the desert, the car's owner stationed at a safe but visible distance from their car, and then the car blown up.

I heartily agree. Last night, someone parked their boom car outside my house. I could hear it in my NEW bedroom, with the fan turned on high and the noisy dehumidifier running. But what can you do? If I call the cops, by the time they get there, chances are the person will be gone or will have at least turned off their car.

there's also one person - I think it's the boyfriend of one of the girls in the house because I saw her get out of the car, doing a modified "Walk of Shame" (modified because this is apparently a regular thing and not a one-night stand) this morning as I was heading out to church - who has this car that...well, it's like listening to a Huey helicopter taking off. The thing is damned loud. If I were freer with my money, I'd go out and buy a gift certificate for a tuneup and muffler replacement and slip it under his windshield wiper sometime..