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There Oughtta Be a Law

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005

Contra Costa, California:

Contra Costa, California is considering a proposal to confiscate cars with loud stereos. Under the proposal, anyone with a stereo loud enough to be heard from 25 feet away would be fined $250 to $1000 and have their car confiscated for one month.

On the first offense.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005 at 12:02 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under There Oughtta Be a Law, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “There Oughtta Be a Law”

  1. #1 |  Carpundit |  March 22nd, 2005 at 1:44 pm

    Loud Stereo? Lose Your Car - Can We Get This Law in Boston?

    Some of the laws Radley Balko highlights in

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  2. #2 |  Overlawyered |  March 31st, 2005 at 10:23 pm

    Traffic-cams

    Radley Balko has more (Mar. 22, Mar. 23, Mar. 31, and again Mar. 31) on how the use of these devices tends to turn criminality into a carefully cultivated cash cow. For more, see Mar….

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