Sunday noise

[oldballs]

What about the folks who have their holy day on Saturday?

I've never heard those folks (a couple religions) complain about violation of their "Holy Day".....be it in the military or civilian setting. Now with stopping to "pray" several times a day............can't say how that will turn out.

 

[daugen]

BBBRRRRRRAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

nothing like some minigun action in the morning...
can someone get an exemption to have one of those things for ahem, "demo" purposes?
Or if you are caught with one, you'd better be military?
Of course the ones on the Warthog might be a bit big for Arnold to carry around or mount on his Hummer.

I have a good friend who spent some time in Nam. Very quiet, maybe medicated. Has a huge rifle collection of just about every military rifle
since WWI. He only showed it to me once, kept locked up in special cabinets mounted in drawers. Even as a non hunter, boy would I like to try each one of those
rifles just to feel the action. I have to wonder when the State Trooper that lives a mile away starts hearing some of these good old boys firing off their rifles in an annual ritual before the hunt, he cocks his ear to see if anything sounds "illegal". Whatever that means. I guess no RPG rounds flying by...
Do you think he counts to see if the rapidfire goes over 15?

If my friend fired off those rifles in his neighborhood of 5 acre lots, he would hear sirens in about five minutes. Not a gun friendly area.
But here, it's like listening to birds and trying to recognize what bird it is. What is someone shooting off now?

No one in this area shoots off guns on Sunday morning. Perhaps that's the lowest common denominator, other than setting off dynamite...

 

[Thomas]

We have what they call noise pollution law here.
Monday thru Saturday 7am-9pm Sunday 9am-9pm noise time.

Being early riser and outdoors early I do try my best keep noise level down,but there times opps.

 

[daugen]

We have what they call noise pollution law here.
Monday thru Saturday 7am-9pm Sunday 9am-9pm noise time.

very interesting. Better get to early Mass...

there are laws and there are customs. it would appear quiet Sundays are a dying breed. Farmers with animals for sure have to tend their critters, but perhaps the
full load of chicken manure can be spread after noon on Sunday?.... I had that once one Sunday, local field just got sprayed. That was nasty.
Frankly I think most folks are considerate of their neighbors and want to be good citizens. So if they have to mow, they'll mow the part furthest from their neighbors first, that sort of thing. Machinery makes noise but sometimes you can reduce it ,perhaps wait until folks get off to work. Landscape crews are the worst, out at the crack of dawn with those obnoxiously loud blowers. Am pretty sure they usually don't work on Sundays though. I guess it depends upon the area.

This is all about living too close to each other. We all ought to have 50 acres and some privacy. I'll vote for that. For taxpaying citizens only...

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Growing up around airplanes, working at airports for 7 years, and living by the airport for 44 years, I've seen a lot of really cool stuff! The A10 is right up there with the best of the best, just behind the SR71 but just ahead of the Hawker Sea Fury and P3 Orion.

It's hard to get ahead of the Sea Fury...unless maybe it's an F4U Corsair! The Spitfire, Hellcat, Bearcat and P51 Mustang are all in there too...not to mention the P38!

 

[N80]

Growing up in the south Sunday was considered a special day in which you refrained from shopping, working and in general from loud or ostentatious forms of entertainment. On a Sunday when I was a kid, even in a suburb of a city, no one would mow their lawn or run a leaf blower etc. All of this was, of course, based on Sunday being the sabbath and a day of rest. Even nominal Christians and non-Christians would at least refrain from loud activities on Sundays since they knew their Christian neighbors were generally trying to rest and relax.

Of course now we live in a post-Christian society and Christianity is viewed as an oddity or not considered at all. We also live in a society that has lost all concept of the idea of respect for others.

I live downtown in a small southern city in the house my grandfather built. It is an old tree lined street that looks like hometown USA with nice, well kept homes. Even 20 years ago it would be quiet all day on a Sunday on College Avenue. No longer. My young neighbors will be up early on Sunday morning blowing leaves or mowing the lawn. It seems odd to me. I know my neighbors and I like them. They just don't have a clue about traditional southern culture and only a small clue about general respect for others.

I understand that my viewpoint is alien to most people these days. I do not expect them to change or see my viewpoint. I don't try to change theirs. I don't complain.

But, regardless of what you believe or if you believe anything at all, there is a wisdom behind a quiet day of rest. It has been lost. Greed. Commercialism. A misplaced work ethic. Cultural ADD. And not without cost. No one knows how to slow down these days. And as a family doctor I see the toll this takes on people, day in, day out. It is sad.

On a lighter note, I go to the race track a few weekends each year (heathen that I am) to drive and instruct. My local track is way out in the sticks. From 11am to noon on Sunday no race car engines can be running. It seems to me if the heathen hoards of track rats can get this right then the rest of us should be also.

At my cabin in the country it is dead quiet on Sundays. Hunting is legal but most people just don't.........but more are starting to. I have no problem with the religious or social aspect of hunting on Sunday. I just choose not to.

 

[Thomas]

We have what they call noise pollution law here.
Monday thru Saturday 7am-9pm Sunday 9am-9pm noise time.

very interesting. Better get to early Mass...

there are laws and there are customs. it would appear quiet Sundays are a dying breed. Farmers with animals for sure have to tend their critters, but perhaps the
full load of chicken manure can be spread after noon on Sunday?.... I had that once one Sunday, local field just got sprayed. That was nasty.
Frankly I think most folks are considerate of their neighbors and want to be good citizens. So if they have to mow, they'll mow the part furthest from their neighbors first, that sort of thing. Machinery makes noise but sometimes you can reduce it ,perhaps wait until folks get off to work. Landscape crews are the worst, out at the crack of dawn with those obnoxiously loud blowers. Am pretty sure they usually don't work on Sundays though. I guess it depends upon the area.

This is all about living too close to each other. We all ought to have 50 acres and some privacy. I'll vote for that. For taxpaying citizens only...

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Understand what your saying and 99% agree,but there's 1% or couple neigbors to me are just plan lazy no up keep around there home/land,likes to complain even if distance train miles and miles away train blows the whistle...little compaision from me.

 

[Botaskinner]

Funny about how some think trains are objectionable, even from a distance. We have a rental in Tehachapi, Ca where 36 trains a day run through town.

On the rare occasions we spend the night there (fixing up between old and new tenants), it's music to my ears. If we ever retire down there, I'd want to be close enough to still hear them.

 

[N80]

We have trains nearby where I live in town. You get used to it. And the firetrucks.

My sister-in-law used to live out in the country but with train tracks in the back yard. We'd be eating dinner and talking and she and her family would just stop talking when the train came by, since you couldn't hear anything else anyway, without even thinking about it. When you ask them about it they say they hardly even notice even though the walls are shaking.

Now, as far as loud motorcycles go, I firmly believe that the louder the bike is the smaller something else is. No. Doubt. About. It.

 

[dmccarty]

... I have to wonder when the State Trooper that lives a mile away starts hearing some of these good old boys firing off their rifles in an annual ritual before the hunt, he cocks his ear to see if anything sounds "illegal". Whatever that means. I guess no RPG rounds flying by...
Do you think he counts to see if the rapidfire goes over 15?

...

No one in this area shoots off guns on Sunday morning. Perhaps that's the lowest common denominator, other than setting off dynamite...

People shoot around us all of the time. Sometimes it is just a few round while other times it can be many dozens of rounds though usually in short strings of a dozen at a time. The ones that get my really attention are very loud rounds fired close by. That usually means some one is poaching/trespass but thankfully that has only happened once or twice.

I don't think I have heard anyone shooting on Sunday morning though. Maybe Sunday afternoon.

There has been talk about letting people hunt on Sunday in NC. I can't remember if that has been passed or not. I used to be all for Sunday hunting since it was sometimes the only day I had free. Now that I live on our land, I don't want Sunday hunting so I can have peace and quiet. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

A few years ago someone was setting off some very loud explosives. I heard it at least twice, once at home and another time while driving. From various conversations with people who heard the explosions they were miles from me in both cases. :shocked: Maybe some sort of carbide explosion? I really don't know. But it was loud and heard for miles. This has not happened since then. Maybe the deputies were getting close to finding out who was making the boom boom. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan