Florida's New Loud Music Law Goes Into Effect July 1: What to Know
Florida’s new loud music law, which allows police officers to issue $114 fines, goes into effect July 1. Here’s what Florida drivers should know.
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New Florida Law Makes Blasting Music in Car A Punishable Offense
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I don't mind this. Fuck people blasting loud bass in their cars, hurts my ears and I go to concerts. You're not impressing anybody, you're just being a public nuisance.
This isn't banning listening to music in your car. It's banning being so loud I can hear your music from 25 feet away. There is no need to have your music that fucking loud in public. Blast music in the privacy of your home.
Except cops will now use this to abuse their power and stop people even more frequently because "the music was too loud."
This is a shit law that will only further allow the police to harass minorities.
I don't feel like I hear people blasting music much anymore
Illegal gangs roaming around on ATVs?
Illegal gangs roaming around on ATVs?
I'm sure all the white dudes with lifted trucks blasting the latest country anthem are in for a real rude awakening!
Excessively loud music/bass in cars is annoying- especially in neighborhoods.
But this is Florida. And it'll be used to target specific demographics only. Probably also be used as a get out of jail card for someone who gets so upset they shoot someone over having loud music.
But this is Florida. And it'll be used to target specific demographics only. Probably also be used as a get out of jail card for someone who gets so upset they shoot someone over having loud music.
No, it's giving cops additional excuses to harass minorities regardless of the volume of music in their car.
White trash listening to Kid Rock in their pick ups, obviously.
$114 isn't high enough. I used to work on a street that was really narrow with a stop at the end of it so it was a huge bottleneck. During the summer at least once a week you would have some jackass with a poorly installed subwoofer blasting music while they were stuck in traffic. You get the bass and the rattling of the trunk and the subwoofer cabinet.
This is just going to be abused by the Police, it's not going to be doing anyone any favors.
Oof. This is just rife for selective enforcement and abuse.
I'm not sure how prevalent stunting on ATVs still is, but being an Atlanta-area resident, it's DEFINITELY a thing.
Basically an affordable replacement for motorcycle cruising.
I'm not sure how prevalent stunting on ATVs still is, but being an Atlanta-area resident, it's DEFINITELY a thing.
Basically an affordable replacement for motorcycle cruising.
If I could snap a finger and make everyone's car radios quiet as the grave, I'd absolutely do it.
But yeah this is nothing but another excuse for cops to pull people they have a problem with over, not something they'd ever actually enforce consistently. No idea how you'd even prove it in court either way.
But yeah this is nothing but another excuse for cops to pull people they have a problem with over, not something they'd ever actually enforce consistently. No idea how you'd even prove it in court either way.
Well that's a problem with cops being ACAB, not the law itself. So yes I see the problem given the execution of it. But in the right, equitable application, I see no problem with the details I've read about this law. Though yes, it's Florida, I guess it won't be applied equitably. It'll be a "fine brown/black people" law
You'd rather be stuck living next to someone blasting music in their house than someone driving by for 5 seconds with music blasting? I used to live next to someone who would practice their electric guitar for hours on end with the window open. Now that was hell on earth
In the abstract, I'd be happy with this kind of regulation if I still lived in a busier place. In practice, this will surely end up just being racist.
edit: also, merely being audible at any level from 25ft away is nowhere near a public nuisance. so yeah this is just bad faith pretense for pulling more people over.
edit: also, merely being audible at any level from 25ft away is nowhere near a public nuisance. so yeah this is just bad faith pretense for pulling more people over.
I like to play my music loud in my car, but I always turn it down when in residential areas. Don't really care outside of that, as you're not usually sitting still. Seems silly and like they're gonna...
Do this!
Do this!
At least I wish there was a law like this in my country. It really pisses me off some jerks put their music so loud that it makes me wonder how they can still hear.
Can't comment about Florida though.
Can't comment about Florida though.
that seems antithetical to the spirit of florida ive heard so much about.
dumb.
dumb.
This law is stupid. You can hear a car's engine 25 feet from it. Even moderate, unintrusive music can be heard that far. This is just another law that will selectively be used to fuck with black people.
No. It's a problem with the law itself because we do not live in magical fairyland.
I'm sure the goal post will move to specify blast your own Music at home ONLY while wearing headphones.
Except we don't live in a world where it is applied in "the right, equitable application." It will not be applied that way. Period. So, cheering a law that you should know will be used to punish minorities is dumb. It's like cheering Voter ID laws as if the intent is really about voter security and not suppressing minority voters.
This 100%, this law will only target minorities and don't think otherwise lmao
Curious if any of this leads to any change. I figure this is just another excuse to pull over black/brown people.
I live off a busy street in Orlando so I'll be happy not to hear reggaeton blasting every 15 mins.
I live off a busy street in Orlando so I'll be happy not to hear reggaeton blasting every 15 mins.
Technically they're not blasting Spank It INSIDE of their car.
Also while it seems like a nice law, I immediately see it being abused to harass people.
Yep. Knowing our cops this is exactly what will happen. We should never celebrate anything that empowers the police to brutalize our marginalized and poor communities.
I have a white friend who was dating a black guy and they got pulled over one day and the police officer's first remarks were "Are you okay mam?"
Disgusting pigs, the lot of em.
Basically agree with all of this
Hate people who blast music of any kind
Odds are this will mostly hurt minorities, white redneck trash will just be asked to turn it down if they're even stopped at all.
