From my post in an earlier thread about this, because I'm too damn lazy to write it out again:

WTF? You're okay with idiots blaring their stereos in the street at 3am when you're trying to rest up for work the next day? Because that's primarily what the new regs are targeting. Why do they have the right to disturb my sleep and I don't have the right to a quiet night in bed? Because you say so? Are you for real? Since when should people have no responsibility whatsoever for their actions?

You honestly don't know what the hell you're talking about.

And as far as the Mr. Softee music goes, again: listen to it for an entire summer day and see if it doesn't drive you batshiat. And then realize that we have to hear that crap daily from the first warm spring day to the last warm autumn night. Damn right it should be minimized.

Seriously, the new noise regs are a good thing. There's a banquet hall down the block that is supposed to close at 1 am but frequently stays open past three. We get drunk-ass morans yelling up and down the block, pissing on my stoop, breaking bottles on the sidewalk, etc. I don't mind the place being there so much as I enjoy sleeping at night. As a result I'm hoping the new noise regs will get the cops to crack down on shiat like this.

Weaver95: Hey, YOU wanted to live in the damn city. If you suddenly don't like it, MOVE.

Suck my ass, c*nt-monkey.

So I have no right to a peaceful night's sleep because I live in the city? Excuse me? What kind of asinine bullshiat is that? How dare you tell me I have no rights in this country just because of where I live?

It never ceases to amaze me how so-called "libertarians" think personal rights and personal responsibility stop existing at their whim and will . . . usually when someone who lives somewhere they don't like trieds exercising them. F*ck you and your selective perception of liberty and the law. You're a f*cking moron.

Johnny Football Star: There is no reason why a person can't play their car stereo at a reasonable volume that can't be heard four blocks away. There is no reason why the ice cream truck has to blare its jingle for 30 straight minutes outside my apartment.

This. I don't mind anybody earning a living, but that does not exclude them from living by the rules of a responsible and polite society, in New York or anywhere else. If you are waking me up at three in the morning because you're a drunken asshole, or if your ice cream truck has been sitting outside my building for an hour or more blaring the goddamn music at top volume, then you're invading my privacy, you're disturbing my peace, and you are breaking the rules of a responsible and polite society. At that point I have recourse to the law.

If you prove you can't handle your responsibilities as an adult human, then the law/government, acting in the name of the people whose rights it is ostensibly there to secure, has the right to shut your dumb ass down. Period. That's the way the real world works. Anything else is insipid pie-in-the-sky utopianism, and deserves nothing but upbraiding and scorn.

slipperyrockdawg: There are no such things as undisturbed afternoons.

From everything I've heard they are concentrating on night enforcement, but they are exercising a good amount of daytime enforcement as well.

Dinjiin: However, in modern America, most people are selfish little pricks who don't give a rats ass about anything other than themselves.

Hence, the existence of Libertarianism.

Or they're just mean and bitter and have a perverse enjoyment of making everyone around them just as miserable as they are.

Hence, the existence of Bill O'Reilly. :)