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LOUD Motor Vehicles: America’s true National Plague…

Video: https://youtu.be/76_0-Gss2Z4

An overwhelming majority of the automobiles, light-to-medium duty pick-up trucks, motorcycles, operating on the public roadways of the United States are regulated to a relatively quiet 80dB(A) total, maximum, noise emission level by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) via the Federal Code of Regulations (CFR). Companies who manufacture modified exhaust mechanisms and aftermarket exhausts that violate Federal noise emissions standards, a relatively safe and quiet noise emission standard represented by the OEM-factory installed muffler, should be civilly sued out of business and held criminally liable for the destruction of daily quality of life, the egregious health hazard, they have caused over the previous four-to-six decades in the United States and in every developed Nation around the World.

Companies who manufacture and retail these illegal exhausts like Magnaflow, Flowmaster, Vance & Hines, D&D, Yoshimura, Akrapovic, Cobra, Rinehart Racing, on and on the list goes and grows, these companies should be CRUSHED through the civil and criminal courts; yet, these culprit companies manufacture, distribute, retail, the illegal NOISE makers without any intervention from Federal and State regulators…perhaps it’s all about the money and to Hades with quality of life and health concerns where the law-abiding, tax-paying citizenry, is concerned? Why is this vehicular NOISE thuggery tolerated throughout the United States?

Motor vehicle noise has been regulated primarily for the health and safety, the daily quality of life, of the American citizen as unregulated motor vehicle noise is one of the prominent contributors to stress, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, as early mortality rates due to cardiovascular disease are directly attributable to unregulated traffic noise; unfortunately, enforcement of the 80dB(A) total noise emission restriction was delegated by the Federal Government to the States; tragically, our governors, county and local administrators, mayors, police chiefs, sheriffs, county commissioners and their law enforcement representatives have been an abysmal failure; this, while our Federal and State representatives have sold their soul to the man-induced climate change hoax, a money-making grab for politicians and globalists under the auspices of caring for the environment while vehicular NOISE thugs destroy the daily “climate” for millions exposed to their abusive, unlawful, NOISE; this, void any significant enforcement intervention…they’re all hypocrites, liars and thieves.

Unregulated motor vehicle noise is America’s true “national plague” and those who modify the relatively quiet, legal, regulated, factory installed muffler or replace same with a “not for road use,” closed course, racing, aftermarket exhaust and operate these illegally LOUD, illegally equipped, motor vehicles on our public roadways are irresponsible, selfish, narcissists who, with intent, audibly abuse America’s most innocent, our families, our children, the elderly, the handicapped; this, while our WOKE, impotent, law enforcement community; our State and local legislators who enact impotent vehicular noise laws; the judges who neglect to properly adjudicate violations of vehicular noise laws; law enforcement officers-judges-prosecutors who participate in and compromise with the illegal conduct, these are directly culpable for the destruction of our daily quality of life by undisciplined NOISE narcissistic thugs. 

Tragically, due to law enforcement’s ineptness, laziness, ignorance of the motor vehicle noise laws and applicable enforcement techniques, the naive general public has grown dangerously complacent relevant to the physiological and psychological harm done by exposure to illegally LOUD motor vehicles; in fact, far too many American citizens have been so thoroughly inundated with this NOISE plague decade after decade; this, while law enforcement does NOTHING to stop the abuse, these citizens naively believe the motor vehicle noise is actually legal and the LOUD automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, that abuse them daily were manufactured that way…to be intrusively LOUD. One of my major obstacles during my enforcement years relevant to the selfish, abusive, thugs, who ride and drive loud was the question “Whose complaining about it?” from administrators and/or their desk puppets…the reason so many don’t complain is due to law enforcement’s failures over the years to intercede on behalf of the vehicular noise beleaguered citizenry. The reason so few people take a stand against the audible abuse of our children, our elderly, our handicapped, our families, is cowardliness, ignorance, laziness and a selfish fear of “getting involved” and suffering retribution.

A government’s “first duty” is the “protection” of its citizenry from abuse, violations of a citizen’s rights to life, liberty, domestic tranquility, the pursuit of happiness. America’s public roadways, especially those in our larger municipalities, have become the property and stomping grounds of the abusive vehicular noise thug, an arrogant child who destroys the daily quality of life of millions without any fear of law enforcement intervention or vigilante retribution; vehicular NOISE that is audible, in many cases, over one-mile under hard acceleration. This sound energy is nothing less than a physical assault upon the American public as a whole.

During my enforcement years as a police motorcycle officer and especially as a police patrol officer searching for outstanding warrants, I found vehicular noise violations to be the most lucrative form of “probable cause” for a traffic stop as the selfish, narcissistic, individual who abuses our most innocent with illegal vehicle noise is the very same narcissistic individual who has a propensity to violate the law where warrants and suspensions mandating incarceration are common. Why is law enforcement not taking advantage of vehicular noise as probable cause for a stop and investigate? Murderers, thieves, pedophiles, gang thugs, biker gang thugs, drive or ride as well and far too many are representative of the vehicular NOISE thug; therefore, stop them, perform the obligatory back-ground check and arrest these abusers of the public and impound their noisy piece of junk until it’s returned to quiet OEM-factory noise emission standards.

I fear that vigilantism will be the only viable recourse for the Father dedicated to protecting his wife and children from rampant vehicular noise abuse that unlawfully intrudes into our homes, places of work and worship and recreation. It is not difficult to envision the day that America’s “men” will be forced to take matters into their own hands seeing that America’s law enforcement community is too weak, too cowardly, too ignorant of the law, too compromised, too WOKE, to stop the vehicular NOISE abuse of our families; it’s a shame that these NOISE bullies are allowed run amuck void any consequences, any personal accountability, for their abuse of our children, the elderly, the handicapped, our families; this, 24/7/365. I agree that not a single vehicular noise thug is worth a day in jail or life in prison but what other choice is provided the husband, the father, the caretaker, who has a responsibility, a moral obligation, to defend their family from abusive thuggery so prevalent in American society today; unfortunately, America’s “men” have been castrated by a feminized perverse society, environmental estrogen, political correctness, fear of standing for and doing what is right.

Finally, those who have taken a solemn oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, to protect and defend the American citizen and our daily quality of life, these representatives of the law have failed and failed miserably; therefore, what is the law abiding citizen to do?

For additional information, see my detailed article on this subject: The Truth about Loud Motorcycles, Automobiles, Trucks, the police won’t or can’t tell you  https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2016/03/10/the-truth-about-loud-motorcycles-the-police-wont-or-cant-tell-you/

Motorcycle Noise Enforcement 101: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2016/09/12/motorcycle-noise-enforcement-101/

Loud Biker Thuggery: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JtCf2jesg-A

Loud Biker Thuggery: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IbwiIN4pH5k

Loud Auto Thuggery: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z4B8fKuYJQA