Stand Your Ground? Texas man kills teacher over noise complaint

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179. OK; he's not "your boy"...Pardon the ebonics...

Last edited Thu Jun 7, 2012, 11:16 PM - Edit history (1)

Let's start with #3: If the police had failed to resolve the problem, what good does it do to call them again?? At what point does he wake the hell up and get an attorney involved (or a homeowner's association if there is one)? Had any other neighbors complained? And why are the cops so goddamned lazy that they actually CALL the party house and tell them to turn it down like they're some teenager's parents?


#4: If that was really 85 decibels (equivalent of a lawnmower) at 200 feet, the music would have drowned out his voice on the mic -- But I'm hearing crickets at the exact moment he announces it...And how far apart are the homes themselves? If he measured in his living room and it was 85db, that I could understand...And what's the point of measuring the sound, anyway?? And why did he arm himself and bring a camera to do it?? And if he already called 911 to report it, why is he on the phone again with them right as the truck pulls up??


#5: What gets me is his aggressive, high-pitched "let's start some shit" voice the moment the truck pulled up -- What was that ever going to accomplish? If you're saying that there was a petty bullshit, passive-aggressive tit-for-tat history between the neighbors, then you're right and this is something that goes far beyond the events of that night...


But if that was the case then WHY even call the cops for the 500th time when he knows that 1. They won't do anything, and 2. It's going to really piss off the neighbor?? I daresay it's almost like he planned the whole thing all along if the petty battle had reached the point where one more call was going to push him over the edge...


EDIT: I was wrong on something, but it makes even less sense now -- Here are a list of things that are at or about 85dB:

Garbage disposal, dishwasher, average factory, freight train (at 15 meters). Car wash at 20 ft (89 dB); propeller plane flyover at 1000 ft (88 dB); diesel truck 40 mph at 50 ft (84 dB); diesel train at 45 mph at 100 ft (83 dB). Food blender (88 dB); milling machine (85 dB); garbage disposal (80 dB).
http://www.industrialnoisecontrol.com/comparative-noise-examples.htm

You're seriously telling me that the music was that loud to bother him in his house?? Just for fun, let's look at the next lowest tier, and let's be generous and assume this was the actual loudness level in his house:

Passenger car at 65 mph at 25 ft (77 dB); freeway at 50 ft from pavement edge 10 a.m. (76 dB). Living room music (76 dB); radio or TV-audio, vacuum cleaner (70 dB).

So he called the cops a million times for something that MAY have been this loud in the house?? No wonder he was headed towards an ass beating, no wonder he was the only one to supposedly complain that much, and no wonder the cops stopped giving a shit...