You PA residents had better read this...

[427TJ]

I'll bet this is intended to control fart-pipe emissions. Such laws are already on the books in most states but the police just don't enforce them.

I had to go to traffic school last November. During one session the subject of noisy pipes came up. The officer conducting the class kind of shrugged his shoulders as if to say there really wasn't anything they could do. I asked if there was a city noise law regarding loud (I called them "coffee can" mufflers so as to not embarass anyone) fart pipes and the officer said that there are laws on the books regarding modified/noisy exhaust systems. He even admitted that there was a kid with a loud fart-piped Honda in his neighborhood. My next question was, "So you're saying there are laws that you don't enforce?" The response was along the lines of, "Well, errr, ummm..."

The problem is is that one man's irritating noise is another man excercising his freedom. If the cops start cracking-down on Hondas with fart pipes then the Honda guys will say, "What about those Harleys with straight pipes that scream through town all the time?" Then the Harley guys and the Ricer guys say, "What about those old musclecars that rattle my windows?" And so it goes.

It depends on whose ox is being gored, so to speak.

"My noise is okay but that kid in the rapper clothes with his fart-piped Japanese car down the street must be stopped!"

Oh, and the aftermarket manufacturers will put much effort into halting any legislation that has any teeth. There's a lot of money being made selling fart pipes and as long as they're profitiable they'll keep on selling and they'll keep on driving everybody else crazy.

The intense craving within young males to make as much noise as possible with their cars and motorcycles is a time-honored tradition. Think: glasspacks on a '55 Chevy 40 years ago or a Model T modified with a short, straight pipe in the '30s.

Boys love their noise. The aftermarket loves helping them make that noise. Better get used to it or move out, way out, into the country!