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Englewood police had been called before to the neighborhood on complaints of loud music. The neighbors claimed a gentleman would park his car in front of their houses and play his music at high volume.
They also claimed the gentleman monitored a police scanner so when neighbors called police he would turn off the music.
Police had warned the gentleman two days prior to an officer pulling up four houses away from the gentleman’s residence on a quiet, peaceful October morning.
The officer reported he got out of his cruiser and was standing on the sidewalk when he saw a vehicle slowly back out of the gentleman’s driveway, do a U-turn and back into the driveway. The driver then turned off his headlights and “proceeded to turn the stereo up to a level that I could hear four houses away,” the officer reported.
This at 6:30 in the morning.
The officer approached the vehicle and asked the driver to identify himself. It was the gentleman police had warned.
The officer explained that numerous neighbors had complained about his behavior. Then the officer added that he had heard the stereo played at “a disturbing level.”
The gentleman “became irate and demanded to see our ‘loud o’ meter’,” the officer reported.
The gentleman was cited for loud music and ordered to appear in Vandalia Municipal Court.
The gentleman might have mis-remembered the Robert Frost verse. Perhaps he thought the poet wrote, “Good sound walls make good neighbors.”
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By Squirrellygirl
November 16, 2009 9:05 AM | Link to this
Sounds like this guy was trying to get some neighbors back, maybe they were being loud at night when he was sleeping, so he decided to wake them up a bit early every morning to show them what it’s like. That’s what it sounds like to me. I’ve had neighbors like that before, and they make you want to do something like this.