How is the noise from a car stereo any worse than the noise from a motorcycle, or even a large diesel truck? Motorcycles are considerably louder than car stereos and the higher audio frequencies which motorcycle engines produce cause much more hearing damage than the lower frequencies from car stereos. Additionally, the motorcycle engine noise travels farther.

Why are car stereo enthusiasts being discriminated against, but motorcyclists and truck drivers are free to create noise?

Next, will we start going after lawn maintenance workers for their noisy chain saws and gas-powered blowers? They make a lot more noise in my neighborhood than any car stereo ever has... and the noise lasts much longer than the few seconds of noise that you hear from a car driving by with a loud car stereo.

If car audio enthusiasts are ticketed then all Harley riders must get tickets also. Why is one noise worse than the other? Is this a form of discrimination? Profiling? It's a serious issue for small business owners who sell car audio.

This is not an action I would think appropriate for a "free" country. As mentioned, some people pursue happiness through loud motorcycles, some through loud trucks, some through enjoying music at near concert levels. Are constructions sites supposed to close down? What happens when the road needs repair and a jackhammer has to be used? Can citizens call and report those noise infractions as well?
I don't believe that the founding fathers had in their minds citizens turning on each other when they were drafting the guidelines for our country. So many of our personal freedoms are being taken from us daily, where will it stop?
What is the legal basis for this? How will the "law enforcement" prove that a report made, was actually valid? This seems like a waste of the "law enforcement" resources. Imagine if someone started just flooding the site with random license plate numbers... What happens to the person whose number is accidentally written down by a snitch, I mean, responsible citizen? Are innocent citizens going to be given a "hefty fine". What happens to the vehicle owner who lets someone borrow their vehicle and they driver abuses the system? Is the vehicle owner responsible for the driver's lack of discretion?
This all seems very contrary to "land of the free and home of the brave".

If it passes please start sending in the old people tag numbers, see what they say when they get the ticket! Flood the office with them if this is the only way they are going to enforce who gets tickets.

I think in Pinellas County we have bigger fish to fry with our tax dollars, umm say like the PRESCRIPTION DRUG issues. Way to go Sheriff for spending our money wisely. And why would you allow the public to turn others in... do they have a decibel reader available to know what is classified as noise pollution? NO. What about motorcycles, loud chain saws, cars with broken mufflers. They are all loud and intrusive sounds so let's just start writing all of them tickets! We can all turn in our neighbors in and start classy disputes like we have here in P. Park and obviously need more of. Again, way to piss away my tax dollars.

So what's next Sherrif Gaultieri? How about allowing citizens to visually estimate the speed of other drivers while they driving through their neighborhoods?

Based on the crazy news I see coming out of Florida, loud stereos should be the least of your concerns.

Ok im moveing there, must b perfectly safe if law n forcement has nothing better to do..i say fire him, if hes sherrif im shure there r bigger things to ne conserned with, like his drug prob, lol lettn ppl turn other ppl in, g whats next, sending airpolution tickets for farting n public?

Heyy sheriff...I'm hyper sensitive to red colour..please ticket all the red coloured cars before I become totally visually impaired......such a lame concern !!!!!!!

Ticket the little punks, I say! That crap that supposedly passes for "music" is a nuisance and we're tired of having our windows rattling from a bunch of wannabe "gangstas" in our "'hood"! Your freedoms do not constitute having OUR right to live in peace and QUIET taken away. These idiots with their 4 door Neons with aluminum wing spoilers and license plates vibrating to heavy bass also deserve to be ticketed for bad taste, NOT just in automobiles, but music. The fact that the majority of these posts counters my opinion shows the sad state of affairs in the world today. Typical self centered whiners who have no concept of manners, social etiquette and love to point fingers elsewhere at OTHER subjects instead of 1st focusing on the one being discussed. I back Gualtieri's measure (the CORRECT way to spell his name, by the way!) and think punishment should include 4 hours of listening to Air Supply's Greatest Hits on headphones while handcuffed..... better yet, make it Justin Bieber!

Inconsiderate jerks who can't seem to drive their vehicle two feet without blasting out their eardrums (and dozens of others within a 1/2 mile radius) deserve to go deaf by their 25th birthday.

In My town in wainwright,Alberta ,Canada the bylaw stats is illegal for loud stereos. Noise pullution is the ticket you will receive, I have a a loud system in both my vehicles, maybe the loudest in town the smart thing I do is see a cop or bylaw officer just turn it down when I see them then just crank it back when the pass, besides my girls as baby would not go to sleep in my vehicles without the tunes cranked up. so you can always get around it so it's no big deal.

Feel free to speed, go through red lights, drive on people's lawns...because the 3 cops we have in Palm Harbor will be too busy handing out tickets for noise violations. Another pathetic example of leadership in our community.

We should be able to listen to our music how we want. Our car, our systems. Why do you care if we go deaf? Our choice. I love my subs, and respect to others who blast theirs too!!

Travis .... Jason ... Mike ... Naja ... etc. You would maintain that you have the right to play your car audio system as loud as you wish to. It is my right you might exclaim. Might it be that your music is so loud that hearing a emergency vehicle is impossible? What right do I have not to hear your music? Might you also maintain that wearing a seat belt is uncomfortable and you should be required to wear one, as is currently required? How do you respect my rights with your music filling my space?

Our neighborhood enthusiest passed the house again at 6:35 on his way to school, he will be back at 11:55, and again tonight at 11:30...... all the neighbors have his license plate, photos of the car, description, and video of his big smile as he passes sharing his boom. I am sorry guys I do not share your thoughts of freedom, its a form of Terrrorism.

I think it is about time somebody stepped up to tone things down. It is a start. all noise should be included in a future ordinance. I am an advocate for lower the boom. Yes it is a free country and I should be able to sit in My owned home living room and watch tv or have a conversation .Everyone is always whining about their first amendment of speech. What about the preamble to the constitution which was written PRE constitution of "ensuring domestic tranquility"?.You do not have to turn it off just turn it down.If I hear ya I am turning you in. So if you are in my community I got ya.......Tax dollars shoot i will send a donation to support this program. There are worst things going on with our tax dollars that we do not even know. Go Sheriff you have my vote......

While we are so busy legislating things that are fairly insignificant, why don't we just ban smoking. I am tired of smelling it, and the long term health care costs for every one of us are unfair.
I believe our over-reliance on the government is and will continue to be our downfall..

The car in the picture is owned by a Pinellas County Sheriff Officer, send the first ticket to him. I don't advocate people driving around annoying the public in any way, but why does everyone go after the car stereos first? There are FAR more motorcycles in Pinellas County than loud stereos, and they make a much higher level of noise. Yet nobody touches them. Is it because so many officers are riders too? And how does Sheriff Gualtieri want citizens to define "unreasonably loud"? Clearly everyone has a different definition. I own a car stereo shop in Pinellas County and I can hear the tires of every vehicle that passes by my business and I find some of them to be annoying. I plan to turn in thousands of cars and motorcycles under this plan, and I expect every one of them to be equally attacked.

In fact, Today is Wednesday. It's Bike Night at Quaker Steak and Lube on 49th street, there will be hundreds of incredibly loud motorcycles there tonight. If sheriff Gualtieri is serious about this noise issue and he's not just trying to engage in profiling he will have the swat team there ticketing the offenders. Let's see it Sheriff.

On the form to fill out the complaint why are there boxes for the AGE and RACE of the driver of the supposed offending vehicle?? Why does the AGE or RACE of the driver matter unless you are intentionally engaging in profiling?

Ahh the air brakes of that 18-wheeler coming down Tampa this morning at 2am. If our police don't enforce the laws and posted signs we already have (in this case, no tractor-trailers are allowed on Tampa Rd. from Belcher to Alt. 19 after 6pm), than why have are we to believe they'll enforce any other laws?

All day long on US-19 people are doing 80mph, yet I never see anyone getting pulled over. All day long on Nebraska ave people are doing 40+mph, never anyone pulled over. All day long people making illegal right turns where No Turn on Red signs are posted. All day long people going through red lights and stop signs, yet no one gets pulled over. Why? We have very little police presence in our community. So does this jackass of a sheriff really want us to believe that the little police presence we have around here is going to be focusing on car stereo noise instead of actual emergencies?

Sometimes I'm ashamed to live in Pinellas! Between our police, local services and our school board, becoming harder and harder to raise a family here!

Will the Sheriff-Sponsored motorcycle ride on February 11th be subject to this noise control? The combined sound of hundreds of motorcycles is far more harmful than a single loud car passing by.

Jim, you cant bring subs to a form of Terrorism. There is no way.

Bottom Line: TURN THAT SH*T DOWN! The fact that you think it's ok does not make it right, nor does the fact you're a bunch of immature punks that like to draw attention to yourselves. Pretty creative to bring the motorcycle runs, let alone the "jake-brakes" (that's what they're called) on the occasional tractor trailers among other nuisances.... but that fact stands - Most of us live in residential areas, quiet neighborhoods which are SUPPOSED to be a refuge from the crazy crap going on everywhere else. We do NOT want to hear that sh*t at ANY hour in our homes. Let alone at some stoplight with some wet behind the ears, spoiled brat driving a car Mommy and Daddy bought to get them out of THEIR hair. Anybody over the age of 22 still doing this stuff needs their heads examined. You wanna do it out on a barren Interstate? GO FOR IT..... blow your freaking ear drums to kingdom come. But in any residential area it is just plain RUDE to assume anyone else wants to listen to your tribal BS!

~ Just read some of your threads (posts previously spewed) and Yes, you should really try and remain ONOMOUS as you have serious anger and CAPPING issues when posting.

Judy Ellis, of Noise-Free Florida - GET A REAL JOB AND STOP TRYING TO TAKE AWAY FREEDOM FROM PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR A LIVING. Read a book, take a picture, knit a sweater, do whatever old ladies do, just don't try to tell others how to live their lives because you are no good at it.

ROFLPUMHA! (Rolling on the floor laughing picking up my hearing aid!) "Upstanding citizens? Hysterical. Yeah, driving around like little kids banging a drum craving attention without the first clue to any sort of real musical structure or history, let alone social etiquette..... is exactly what I consider upstanding. Take your "liberal" interpretations elsewhere. Maybe when you mature, you'll understand others don't need to be subjected to your noise and stop making excuses for your behavior. Next thing you know, the new thing for 2012 will be the Occupy Miracle Ear movement.

:::rolling eyes::: Try harder, Your argument isn't working. I have cookies to bake for Bingo and anyway (I might add), we are registered Independents.

So it matters on the style of music?? I see someone wrote AIR SUPPLY should be the punishment. What if I was listening to Air Supply when I drove by with my stereo up at extreme volumes? Would that make it better? I somehow doubt that if the "young punk" pulled up next to you and had the stereo cranked up to "YOUR FAVORITE SONG" you'd definitley not turn that guy in, huh?

I wish I knew where these folks lived, I'd like to see what they are actually referring to. Seems like Profiling against "YOUNG PUNKS" as they put it. Any type of music can be loud, anything can annoy another person. Who cares? Why does it matter that much. I'm in my 30's, I love the sound of a nicely tuned LOUD stereo. Does that makes me a young punk too? My motorcyle is Louder than my stereo at times. However, I never hear people turning me in for it. I think it more Suburban America ticketing Rap, Hip-Hop etc. I'm damn sure if I had my $10k+ stereo cranking up a song by The Eagles or the like, I wouldn't get any of these tickets that a kid listening to Eminem would get. That makes it wrong.

Discrimination, pure and simple. One should not be ticketed for one type of public disturbance(loud stereo) when another type of public disturbance(loud pipes) is acceptable.

Oh yeah, I like this one! Got a neighbor with a bass-booming stereo and he will be my first report. It's one thing if you hear loud music. OK, I can live with that. But the deep, loud vibrations are much worse. Go Sheriff!!

I don't think we should be declaring "War" on our own people over playing music, even if it is very annoying.

Love the contradictory comments. Someone's freedom to blow out their ears, break the spot welds on their car and listen to a poor excuse for music - no matter HOW annoying to others is ok? Here my friends, are the same people that let their kids scream in restaurants, theatres and grocery stores with no regard for others and we're supposed to think it's cute. Well, we don't ....and see no reason not to express that when you infringe on OUR rights.

K.T....... the Onomous family name has a long and storied history, I tell you :)

Ok, motorcycles driving past do not wake babies up & frighten them,the vehicle owners who are proud to have the loudest audio system do. It is not a right to disturb people who are in their own homes & awakened every time an inconsiderate driver rolls by and their earthquake noise rattles windows & home foundations. It is everyone's right to enjoy music but assaulting & terrorizing others is not a right.These people are inconsiderate & most find it amusing that they are disturbing the peace. Motorcycles do not rattle windows! Most noise offenders are CRIMINALS anyway FACT!. If more were pulled over & ticketed, this would also lead to more drug busts & other illegal activity. They DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS especially the right people have to enjoy peace & quiet in their own home. Yeah, audio terrorist thugs, what about those people & their rights? Loud audio is used as assault on others, don't believe it? Take a look at some of the audio/subwoofer ads that invite consumers to terrify neighbors or put them into cardiac arrest. The intent is to disturb others & so why should anyone give an actual F#$% about your right?
Your rights end when you infringe upon the rights of others. They don't care that they are bothering others with that infernal thumping, in fact, they like it. It's also true that these thugs detroy property, abuse animals (plenty of YOUTUBe VIDS show this! Your pitbulls don't like that noise either, s#$%heads). Pull up your pants & act decent!!

And to Anne Onomous, I love your clever name! Obviously not for the faint of wit. Back in the old days, guys just bought corvettes to make up for their er.. um ..shortcomings, at least they went fast & chicks dug em'. I notice these guys are never with chicks so either their efforts to compensate for something little with a big noise isn't working or they are latent homosexuals, I always only see them with other dudes. Since they are all mostly criminals anyway and just like in jail, walking around wearing their pants hanging down, it all makes sense! The boom boom is a mating call for men seeking men. Boom boom boom, big boys!

I have a Vette..... a Chevette to be exact. :)

Does anyone know if I have a party at my private residence in Largo, at what time should I turn down the music so I don't get arrested. My stero isn't that great anyway, only about as loud as a car stereo. Is Saturday better than Friday. My neighbors are real jerks and will call the cops if people talk too loud even.

This is nuts I'm 30 n love my systems we have hit between 154.5-161.1 db at the dash the more u bitch the louder I will play it n will pay any fine I'm given just don't care n will never give up my love for the hobbie

I have two major problems with this law:

First, if you are going to say stereos then you also have to hit all loud sounds that can flow into the roadway or neighbor. So, Stereos, Motorcycles, Load Engines, High School Football Games, MInor League Baseball Games (I can hear the fireworks & see them at my house), etc... I have a nieghbor who complained that my dogs were barking one night, chasing a possum. But then go upset when I asked him to stop yelling at his wife for the 5 night in a row at 11pm. Would be both be ticketed at that point?

Second, the average citizen doesn't have the knowledge or the logical intelligents to be responsible for this. Would I be ticketed for listening to NWA, Guns n Roses, Neil Diamond, Pearl Jam or Mozart. All of which have been played with the windows down in my car this week. I'm sure that only one or two of those would upset some citizens were others would not.

This just proves that Bob Gualtieri and Judy Ellis have too much time on their hands. I am going to also assume that Judy never sees fireworks, the Orchestra, Concerts, Sporting Events, because those things would be too loud and would hurt hearing.