Last week on the dog walk I encountered a youth subculture I’d only read about – siren boys.
In a nutshell it’s kids mounting speakers to their bikes to play highly amplified music. Apparently they’re the scourge of sports venues as they keep breaking in and nicking their PA systems.
Thankfully this crew were on a quiet street in an industrial area rather than outside the house, as they were producing some amazingly loud sounds, in short 5 to 10 second blasts. It looks as though friends were positioned a distance away (probably 50 or so yards) and measuring the decibel levels and checking sound, as success is in quality as much as volume.
The nerdy part of me wanted to go and ask them more about the rigs they had put together. The anxious part of me that gets triggered by noise pollution wanted to take a baseball bat to their bikes. Thankfully the cowardly part of me had the casting vote and we left them well alone.
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