Noise snare law now in effect in Calgary

[troutman]

We notice less loud bikes on HWY 22, but still too many.

[Dan02]

They just need to straight up ban bikes on 17th, that would get rid of most of the ######s pretty easy.

[Bill Bumface]

They gave out one ticket. And it was succesfully appealed.

http://www.calgarysun.com/2013/04/24...the-technology

[Ironhorse]

There's at least a half dozen POS cars with fart cans on them in my neighborhood, including one across the street that must nearly run open pipes. Easy money there too, CPS.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by jammies

I want to set up one of those clothesline traps on my street; when buddy decides to take his noisemaking machine down the street at 3 AM, I could just press a button and have him decapitated by the razor wire that would spring up at neck height.

That seems both a measured and reasonable approach to the problem. Who will miss these d-bags? My guess would be: no one.

Back when I was about 12 we setup a clothesline. Although it was used to play tennis, but it worked as a clothesline. We attached it to bushes on one side of the street and a lamp post on the other side. We forgot to take it down when we went inside and we clotheslined a girl riding by on her bike. We didn't learn though and heard tires screetching outside. We quickly remembered what we did, and went out and saw a car sitting in the middle of the street the string nice and tight against the windshield, and some really angry driver cursing at us. The cops came by a couple hours later and told us not to do it again. That ended our tennis playing days.

[Table 5]

If anyone cares, feel free to write a letter to Bylaw Services. I also wrote to John Mar, my alderman about it. It's the first letter I've written to any politician about anything....I must either be really irked by this, or I'm getting old.

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by jammies

I want to set up one of those clothesline traps on my street; when buddy decides to take his noisemaking machine down the street at 3 AM, I could just press a button and have him decapitated by the razor wire that would spring up at neck height.

That seems both a measured and reasonable approach to the problem. Who will miss these d-bags? My guess would be: no one.

You never know dude. That friendly old man who volunteers for underprivileged teen moms with cleft lip in Botswana could be a night-ridin' Harley maniac tearin' up the mean streets with his badass hog every Thursday (and sometimes Tuesday).

[GreenLantern]

Apparently this is coming to Saskatoon next, as a downtown resident I can't wait.

In before the you live downtown what do you expect!!! I can handle noise, but obviously I am not the only one who doesn't appreciate excess noise.

[DownInFlames]

I live on 12th Ave and I'm used to traffic noise. But the bikes that are so loud they set off car alarms are pretty ridiculous. I'm going to contact John Mar to see if they're doing enforcement this year.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by jammies

I want to set up one of those clothesline traps on my street; when buddy decides to take his noisemaking machine down the street at 3 AM, I could just press a button and have him decapitated by the razor wire that would spring up at neck height.

That seems both a measured and reasonable approach to the problem. Who will miss these d-bags? My guess would be: no one.

One of my dad's buddies was a rascal back in the 60s. He would drive a motorcycle downtown and kick over bike racks. Eventually, the City bolted down one bike rack, and this guy got pulled off his bike and is lucky to be alive. #lessonlearned

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Table 5

If anyone cares, feel free to write a letter to CPS at cps@calgarypolice.ca. I also wrote to John Mar, my alderman about it. It's the first letter I've written to any politician about anything....I must either be really irked by this, or I'm getting old.

I kind of doubt writing a letter to the CPS about a technology that bylaw enforcement is/isn't using will do a lot of good.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

I kind of doubt writing a letter to the CPS about a technology that bylaw enforcement is/isn't using will do a lot of good.

Yeah, I'm sure it will do diddly-squat, but venting about it does make me feel a bit better about it. You know, till the next bike rumbles by.

[Ozy_Flame]

Cops who use their sirens to cheat through a red light because they can't wait like everyone else should be getting fined for that too. I've seen that happen enough times to know that they're just as guilty as ######bag bikers and monster truck drivers.

[Ducay]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Cops who use their sirens to cheat through a red light because they can't wait like everyone else should be getting fined for that too. I've seen that happen enough times to know that they're just as guilty as ######bag bikers and monster truck drivers.

Who cares, if it gets them there faster, its fine by me (even if it is to Tims or whereever). Putting them in the same group as dbag loud bikers is pretty insulting.

[_Q_]

So is there anything I can do to get these loud motorbike d-bags, fined/arrested/castrated/shot in the head?

I live in Marda Loop and for some reason it seems like loud bikes love to congregate to the area. I'm talking about 1 every 20 minutes drives by during the summer.

[JohnnyB]

Going to be many a pissed off motorcycling tourist I imagine.

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by Ducay

Who cares, if it gets them there faster, its fine by me (even if it is to Tims or whereever). Putting them in the same group as dbag loud bikers is pretty insulting.

Nope. If they're breaking laws to get to Tim's or anywhere else that isn't an emergency (and I know a few who admit to it), they're in the same class of douchiness by abusing their power. Sirens should only be used for emergencies. Nothing else.

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Nope. If they're breaking laws to get to Tim's or anywhere else that isn't an emergency (and I know a few who admit to it), they're in the same class of douchiness by abusing their power. Sirens should only be used for emergencies. Nothing else.

Lol, wut? I really don't mind a cop using a siren to make it through to a Tims. I've seen cops pay for their stuff and then have to abandon it there at the counter because a call comes in.

And I really don't like cops.

[Ozy_Flame]

My argument is that they are essentially running red lights for no good reason. Are cops now above the law because they're hurting for coffee?

[Matata]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

My argument is that they are essentially running red lights for no good reason. Are cops now above the law because they're hurting for coffee?

what's to stop you from getting license plates and making complaints now? Even minor complaints can stop a cops career dead, particularly ones that involve them abusing their power.