If Animals Rejects It, Imagine What It Is Doing to Us

I sympathize a lot with people working on Construction and the noise abuse they have to go through. There are mainly two sides affected by Construction activities. The workers themselves and the people that live near by it. Acoustic issues and events affect differently workers and near by people. Those that works on the construction develops a certain degree of tolerance because of predicability of activities, work choices and monetary reward. For those that lives near by none of these apply to them but on the contrary they are subject to the impact acoustic inconvenience that this construction activity brings. There are many things that one can do to improve work and public safety and I will detail it in the next movie.

Rabidlemur, First the responsibility to not infringing in the rights of others fall on those that creates and initiate the sound energy, not the other way around as you are describing.

We all know that there are some degree of sounds in nature and everywhere. What we are talking about here it is in regards to everything that it is excessive. We are talking about noise that trespasses property lines. We are talking about peoples behavior and the misuse of it when they have these devices on their hands. We are talking about retaliation from groups that use these noise devices to harass others anywhere or any time they wishes. Remember I did not started my social acoustic research Yesterday. I have been observing and analyzing acoustic social issues for 10 Years. These social acoustic issues it is not as general and not as simplistic as many people think they are.

What is excessive? Shall we all walk around with a decibel reader on? What is the punishment for making .001 extra decibels of noise in Stopnoises world? What if I am hyper sensitive to noise, should I require the entire apartment complex to whisper at all times?

You must live in a strange world, because where I live if someone is making excessive noise, I ask them to stop, I interact with them.

Honestly you sound like you may have Agoraphobia or Acousticophobia.

The Law clearly specifies excessive noise as being those that it is offensive to a person of normal sensitivities. Since we have cameras with microphones that can pick up excessive sounds trespassing our property lines, we should oppose to that. We all know that traffic needs to go by. There are a lots of people that passes in our roads that does not make an acoustic statement while they are passing through. However there are many people creating excessive noise with their cars that does not follow the same path. These are the excessive ones!

"The Law clearly specifies excessive noise as being those that it is offensive to a person of normal sensitivities"

My point exactly, what is normal? That's totally subjective, my sensitivities are vastly different from yours, which of us is normal?

Let me give you a simple example since you have a problem to define what is normal and what is not. What is excessive and what is not.

Suppose we meet each other. I shake your hand and give you a smile and say "nice to meet you!" That's considerate normal behavior.

Now suppose we meet each other and without a word, I slap your face with my forehand and kick you in the groin.

That would be considerate an abnormal behavior.

That is another nuisances that many Communities all over America enacted ordinances banning it from operation. One point it is that it blows pathogens into the air. The other it is the noise and the third it is the gas pollution. They could accomplish the work with a quiet electrical water power jet with lots of savings and quietness and at the same time water the landscape and plants. I just feel that some times people do not use their full brain capacity to do their housing or landscape maintenance. The other point it is that some industries have a serious problem developing and bringing quiet technologies to appliances in the market. So it becomes both a behavior issue from one side and a lack of choices on the other side.

Thank you for bringing this up. That is another thing I would change about the world - they are not only acoustically fracturing to the nervous system, but also destroys the natural permaculture of an area (messes with the good insects, including bees), let alone the dust and pollutants they blow about in the air or over to the next door neighbor's property. Can you imagine how the people who use the leaf blowers must feel physically at the end of their day's work. They cannot feel very well or very happy as they expose themselves to that kind of pollution, which includes carrying a tank of gasoline on their backs all day...

I totally understand your point as often I speak about this travesty. Here in the City we have people coming at any time of the day or night and pushing these buttons emitting a horn sound or a special effects sound waking up people from deep sleep. Several times I had a person going back and forth. Opsss! I forgot something, Whaaack! Opss! I forgot something again, Whaaaack! He went back and forth five times whacking his car horn. Do you want to know what time it was? 1:15 AM in the morning.

Petarro, My job as a Journalist it is expose the issue. People's job it is to act and stop the abuse! As far as it is concern my job is done!

Just remember that this machine was beeping many hours all day long. We all understand that the EMS, emergency medical systems use noise in case of emergencies. In regards to this construction site, the issue it is about safety. However they question here is if they could have done the work without acoustically abusing the people near by with excessive noise. I can see many safety mistakes just by looking at the site here.

Ps: By the way Petarro, From the neighbors side, they presented the City Personnel the Acoustic Laws that specify they cannot have excessive noise or trespass property lines. After that they asked the City Planning Personnel in regards to this mysterious Federal Law and she could not produce one. The reason that she could not produce one can be two:
1. She do not want the neighbors to know about this law.
2. There might be other reasons and she is instead protecting the noise makers.

Petarro, pay attention - he said that this is the neighbour's dog who usually is a sweet and calm dog.

RIght, and that means now they are fear less. Have you ever watched a Dog in your life before? How about at the sea shore? How do they retreat?

Dogs have a great sense of hear and being 2 or 10 meters away from the sound is not going to make a difference. Nor it does to us. Nor it did to the Camera. Remember the Test?

Take Action, contact the Manufacturer of the Vehicle and ask them for a sound regulator or something.

LOL, well, I cann't argue with that---except that dogs act in packs also.
My point was that dogs always opt for the simplest most straight forward solution first. If it is too noisy, move away. If the guy on the bobcat chased the dog with it, sooner or later the dog would change tactics and attack the guy on the bobcat.(and dogs are PLENTY smart enough to know who and what is making the bobcat run).
I'm not really argueing with you here stopnoise---I'm calling on my 35 years of experience training police and hunting dogs. We can learn a lot from the instincts that developed over millions of years to insure survival is what I think.

The thought comes to mind. Have you ever tried the noise cancelling earphones? Noise is compression waves created in the air. Noise cancelling headphones have microphones that pick up outside sound---and then generating sound waves that cancel out the outside noise. In a nutshell---creating the exact opposite soundwaves so that when they meet, the waves cancel themselves out.

That is just a suggestion of something you might look into----maybe not perfect, or for all situations, but it might be some help to your frayed nerves(I hope).

You can find them at most large electronics stores, and they are not very expensive.

wetdog, maybe you have not figure out yet that this is my area of research and teaching. I teach safety in the work place using quiet technologies. I am a problem solver and I do not exactly live near by any of these sites. I have been invited to cover the issue because I asked to do it to my friends. This is part of my Acoustic work. On the other hand I do sympathize with the people that have to put up with construction from the both sides of the story.

My dogs can hear mice and voles runing beneath tall grass or snow. They routinely catch them by sound location alone. I know they are locating them by sound alone because they will follow them till they stop, then leap about 3' in the air and pounce down on them everytime. It is very rare that they make a pounce and don't come up with a catch.

They can usually locate them from 10 to 15 ft. away.