GustavsGos
New Member
My jurisdiction is: California
I am a car fan, I love all kinds of cars, high performance cars, low performance cars, trucks, whatever you have. I have always been only a little irritated when I see somebody on the street with a loud exhaust. But now, I am in a situation where the problem of modified exhausts have really begun to ruin my life. Imagine you live in a neighborhood of houses where every day, whenever some guy down the street drives back and forth to his house, you can hear him fire up his car over a block away. You live right next door to him. Now imagine that it is not a neighborhood of houses, but an apartment complex and the guy lives right next to you. Even worse, it is not just one neighbor, but two who live right next door to each other who have the modified exhausts. This is my situation. They have both modified their exhausts in the same way. These are not Japanese cars, but US V8's. Sometimes these guys drive their cars to the apartment complex mail boxes. They are starting them up and driving back and forth sometimes four or five times a day. Naturally, they are most miserable at night when I am trying to sleep.
I tried contacting the local police about the problem, but they tell me they have to catch them on the street. I have license plates, VIN numbers, make and model and addresses of the drivers. They are not interested in that information. They tell me that they would be happy to send an officer over to me, to visit me and talk to me about it. Strange, isn't it? They can't go visit them, but they could come and visit me. This is in a small University town in California.
I tried calling the California Highway Patrol. They took down all the information and I waited for some changes, but nothing has changed. I called them back to follow up and they told me they had passed the problem on to the local police. They advised me to call again and complain again, but they said that the local PD would not be able to tell me if anything was being done because that would be a violaton of privacy.
Is anything being done? Is there any way for me to find out if anything is being done? Should I be assured that something should be done?
Please, any and all responses would be appreciated.
I am a car fan, I love all kinds of cars, high performance cars, low performance cars, trucks, whatever you have. I have always been only a little irritated when I see somebody on the street with a loud exhaust. But now, I am in a situation where the problem of modified exhausts have really begun to ruin my life. Imagine you live in a neighborhood of houses where every day, whenever some guy down the street drives back and forth to his house, you can hear him fire up his car over a block away. You live right next door to him. Now imagine that it is not a neighborhood of houses, but an apartment complex and the guy lives right next to you. Even worse, it is not just one neighbor, but two who live right next door to each other who have the modified exhausts. This is my situation. They have both modified their exhausts in the same way. These are not Japanese cars, but US V8's. Sometimes these guys drive their cars to the apartment complex mail boxes. They are starting them up and driving back and forth sometimes four or five times a day. Naturally, they are most miserable at night when I am trying to sleep.
I tried contacting the local police about the problem, but they tell me they have to catch them on the street. I have license plates, VIN numbers, make and model and addresses of the drivers. They are not interested in that information. They tell me that they would be happy to send an officer over to me, to visit me and talk to me about it. Strange, isn't it? They can't go visit them, but they could come and visit me. This is in a small University town in California.
I tried calling the California Highway Patrol. They took down all the information and I waited for some changes, but nothing has changed. I called them back to follow up and they told me they had passed the problem on to the local police. They advised me to call again and complain again, but they said that the local PD would not be able to tell me if anything was being done because that would be a violaton of privacy.
Is anything being done? Is there any way for me to find out if anything is being done? Should I be assured that something should be done?
Please, any and all responses would be appreciated.