Rolling Boom boxes

Everywhere you go today (you can even be sitting at home) there's always that thump, thump, thump going on. Getting louder as it gets closer to you. It's the youth these days with their pimped out stereo systems in their cars. I'm not against music, I thoroughly enjoy mine, it's on at the house, in my car and at work. I just think that if I can hear someone else's music (I guess that's what they call the thump, thump, thump) then I feel it's a little too loud. I don't mind it if someone pulls up to me at the stoplight and I can actually hear the words to the music, but that other stuff needs to controlled. It's very irritating when you are awaken at 3 am to this sound going by your house. I asked an officer onetime if that fell under the noise pollution ordinance in our town. He said that it did, I asked then why something wasn't being done about it and I was told to get them a license plated number and they would follow up. ???? Excuse me, just how am I suppose to do that at 3 am when it wakes me out of a sound sleep? By the time I got up and out of the house they would be long gone! Granted we've all been there, the generation before us just didn't understand what our music was all about and why we had to turn it up, but at least our music had words to it. I can recall more than once my mother telling me to turn my music down. I've noticed that whenever you see (or better yet hear ) one of these rolling boom boxes, they always have their windows down no matter what season it is. Has the thought ever crossed their minds that if they roll their windows up they wouldn't need to have it so loud, or that not everyone is impressed with their stereos' output? I think not, or else they would already be doing that. What was really rough, was when I worked graveyard shift as my second job. I live close to the high school and most of the school traffic went by my house. I found that if I didn't get to bed in the mornings before 7:30, then it would be after 8:30 before I could do so, otherwise their stereos would keep me awake. I do have to admit that I have actually seen someone be considerate about turning it down. I was sitting on my porch one day when I hear the thump, thump, thump coming up the street. When this young fellow stopped at the stop sign, he looked my direction and must have noticed the irritated look on my face, because he turned it down and from that time on, he would turn it down at least a block before he reached my house and didn't turn it back up until about block past my house. Whenever I saw him from that time on, I always waved at him just to let him know that I appreciated his consideration. Now if we could get the convenience store clerks to ask their patrons to turn theirs down while they're in the store, or the police to start issuing warnings while in traffic, day or night, it just might get to a tolerable level. I'm getting ready to leave , now where did I put those earplugs?