You could do what the police do in the city where I live.....give them a BIG ticket for noise pollution. One of my son's friends got such a ticket for having the amplifier in his car up too much outside of Wal-Mart. The ticket was $150. He's 20 years old and he thought THAT was criminal......(and here I thought the damage being done to my ears was criminal........I'll never understand how young folks think..... <g>  ) Makes me wonder how long it will be before I need hearing aids (and that is no joke).

Cynthia Bridges-Fowler
IMC Salt, Inc., a division of IMC Global
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>>> Stan Sieler <[log in to unmask]> 08/28/01 01:20PM >>>
Re:

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  - vendor show audio ... the problem of amplified sound in vendor
    booths was better this year than in many previous years.  Still,
    I'd like to encourage Interex to think of the *users* more than
    the *vendors*: ban amplified sound.

  - party safety : I left the Thursday party after 5 minutes, due to the
    criminally loud music.  I timed it...my ears were still hurting
    20 minutes later.  Heck, *DOWNSTAIRS*, the music was
    louder than acceptable (the party was on the second floor).
    When the #$%^ will Interex learn to say "90 db or less"?  (Note: I
    picked 90 db from out of the air...I don't know what a safe level is,
    but I sure know an unsafe level when I hear it from a hundred yards away!)

    WE DO NOT NEED SUPER LOUD MUSIC TO HAVE FUN!

    Do the users need to bring OSHA personnel to the next party, to protect
    the waiter's hearing?  Is that the only path we have left?

    My complaint falls on deaf ears ...
    but they wouldn't be deaf ears if you listen to me!

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