From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!hou5d!hou5a!hou5e!mat
Newsgroups: net.social
Title: Re: Loud music & teenagers ?
Article-I.D.: hou5e.231
Posted: Sun Feb 20 19:33:32 1983
Received: Mon Feb 21 04:40:55 1983
References: houxm.333


	This is a COMMON experience.  The loud music tends to block out
any experience except what the kids are concentrating on.  They have grown
used to it and our next generation is now damn near deaf.

	I read an article (maybe it was on the net) that said that
when the Swedes though that they had a Soviet sub trapped, they had difficulty
finding anyone able to operate the listening gear because all of the
sailors were deaf ... not from gun duty, but from music heard in lounges and
while on leave.

	YES, it is extremely rude to play ``music'' at this volume and in this
way.  It is rather like smoking in a crowded shopping mall.  If you
are concerned about your daughter, and about other children as well, perhaps
you should find some of those other parents, and compare notes.  You
might have enough ammo to take to the school board.  If we won't allow
industrial workers to be exposed unprotected then what the HELL are we doing
allowing our schools to expose our children to louder noise yet.

					Sorry for the dull style.
					Mark Terribile