Poem made up for neighbor with noisy vehicle (early)

Connecticut and it's towns have ordinances about noise, loud vehicles, etc. But are they really enforced? NO.

Clearly hearing a motorcycle or other often-purposely loud vehicle from inside your house, when it's still several blocks or streets away....is a quality-of-life violation that affects many...every day. It's not getting any "better", and it's getting really tempting to consider taking the law into our own hands about this. (Especially early morning/late night knuckleheads. That means you too, early newspaper delivery ("grown-up") drivin' "boys"....Habla Englais?) Many local police, towns, condo associations, etc. will do nothing (or next to...). ("Manpower." Couldn't a tiny fraction of Obama's money have gone toward improving this (re local police)??) In fact, you're sometimes looked upon as "the problem" if you even ask them.

Try politely communicating with an offender first, if you feel safe enough to. (At your own risk.) Some people are (still) decent enough.... if you ask nicely.

I had a person down the street who left for work before 5am every day in a purposely noisy truck. Leaving a copy of this fractured verse on his windshield one night seemed to actually work (though not right away). It ain't great, but I made it up in a hurry...

"Asleep we are at dawn's first light

Work is later; it's still late night

'Fore 5am, from down the street

A noisy truck rumbles us out of sleep

"It's him AGAIN", we mumble surly

Another night; we're awakened early

We leave this note to make you aware

That neighbors will complain to someone who cares

About a noisy vehicle that wakes people up around 4:45-5am every weekday!"


Trick is, finding someone with authority....who cares. Sometimes a town council (person) might help, as the people with shiny badges supposedly have to listen to them.