MAD, While I agree that laws must be enforced & many motorcycles are too loud when they don't have to be, enforcing noice ordinances is difficult & its also costly. I did not write down figures but I saw the news report on WMUR. It takes alot of manpower that is needed for other crimes & investigation, overtime needs to be paid because to properly enforce it there must be officers placed at certain areas specifically for that purpose. If they don't do this then if another more important call is received they must attend to it. Also if you catch someone, you write the ticket & the offender leaves the scene with the noisy motorcycle or stereo still intact & still making noise so what have you accomplished? & then you may never be lucky enough to catch the same offender a second time so the problem still exists.
There are much more pressing problems in NH right now that require our resources, like funding education. Right now that seems more important than the 15-20 seconds of a loud rumble going by the house.
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