WHY DO YOUNG PEOPLE PLAY THEIR MUSIC FROM THEIR MOBILES IN PUBLIC PLACES? LOUDLY!

why do yo'll do this? are you trying to show off?

i dnt understand this new trend... always on the train, tram or bus, always loud and inappropriate, always black kids!!!! and they always act defensive if asked to turn it off.Just makes black kids look typicallyignorant!

keep your personal MP3 music PERSONAL

Kunjufu wrote:
Most definitely, it is not just a 'black thing'. Butyou know how it goes? Blacks tend to notice a thing more when another black is involved, which can sometimes give the impression that it's a 'black thing'.It's called being 'self-conscious.

Yeah I have had my ears assaulted by all types that are into this 'sharing of their musical taste with the world' thing. It wouldn't be so bad if the sound quality was good, but it's just so grinding on the ears. Why do people do it? confused3 Don't know, but I know where I would like to stick their 'musical' device.

Respect

Why did young ppl run around with ghetto blasters when you were young?

I think it is an act of aggression personally. Almost dearing you to tell them to turn it off. They are aware of there surroundings as well. i.e If a bus was full of Peckham Boys then non-Peckham boys would not have the urge to play the music loud, if at all

I would say that in my expereince 9/10 the perpetartors are black but I will concur with Kunjufu that it is a youth problem cos I post in forums where they complain about the trend in Newcastle, etc

Let them be I say, let them have 'fun'! Why are we so down on youth andthe innocent things kids do? it could be much worse.

And that Ken Livingston has got it in for them as well, apparently, he will confiscate their free oyster travel if anyone is caught doing this Funny, I was on aBrixton busand a mid 30somthing white man came boppingdownstairsblearing his chartmusic, I then though would Ken have taken this stance if these kids where playing music more palatable to most travellers (I.e) Beatles, Queens anthem... Or for our musical genre - lovers rock, soul... Man can webe selective or what!

Time for noisy bus yobs to change their tune ...

Dec 8 2006

By Robert Dex

A PETITION calling for a clamp-down on people playing music on buses has been handed over at City Hall.

And next week another copy will be given in at the House of Commons.

The petition, signed by 4,552 people, was given to Transport for London (TfL) boss Peter Hendy by Conservative London Assembly member Roger Evans on Wednesday morning.

The move comes after Mayor Ken Livingstone said young people playing music out loud on buses could be stripped of their free travel passes.

Tom Wright, one of the two organisers of the campaign, said he had been surprised by its success.

He said: "We are going to edit the petition so it can be used across the UK. So many people have told us it's not just a problem in London.

"It is a problem on trains and trams, as well as buses and the transport by-laws cover them all."

Tom, 31, and his girlfriend, Valeria Martinelli, 38, started the campaign in September after suffering dozens of noisy journeys.

They demanded a ban on the use of mobile phones and MP3 players without headphones.

Tom said: "We used to catch buses from Merton to Tooting at the same time as kids going to school.

"My girlfriend used to take her daughter on the 270 bus and it was so noisy she used to sit downstairs.

"I make the same journey myself several times a week and to be honest I actually walk it if I can."

TfL director of transport policing Jeroen Weimar said current by-laws made it illegal to play music out loud on public transport.

He said: "We are talking about a small minority of people who are using loud music to be aggressive and intimidate their fellow passengers.

"Any youngster with a free travel pass can have it taken away if they are found guilty of breaking those by-laws."

Free travel for all under-16s in London was brought in last September and was extended to 16 and 17-year-olds in full-time education this September.Bob Spink, MP for Castle Point in Essex, will present the petition to the House of Commons on Monday.

He recently tabled a motion pushing for tough measures against people behaving badly on buses.

Source: http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200southlondonheadlines/tm_headline=time-for-noisy-bus-yobs-to-change-their-tune----&method=full&objectid=18230622&siteid= 50100-name_page.html

Okay Kunjufu, its true its not just a black thing. But it always seems that way not only to me but to every other sorry so and so stuck listening to grime or some rubbish UK hip hop recorded straight from the TV, on their way to work that day.

unfortunetly I always find it is black kids in my area... ALWAYS....

I think pesonal stereos are not as bad if played loudly, because at the end of the day the music is flowing into your ears with some leakage out to the surrounding people, not the entire bus/ train/ tram etc., as that loudspeaker music was never intended to be kept personal its deliberately playedout so everyone has to listen- how rude and ignorant!You can cope with a personal stereo blurring loudly its been happing for years and its not as loud as this, though annoying its usually just whispybrassy high hat sounds not sharp clashing badly recorded music complete with terrible ragga or grime lyrics, sound effects and everything else...this new trend is just

unacceptable!

It PISSES me OFF BIG TIME... i'LL BE ON THE bus on the way home from work comign from a city centre on a packed bus to hear a pack of chavy white girls on the back of the bus blasting AKON's 'I wanna f*ck you' in my ears on their crappy music phone ! It pevess me off big time .. I jus feel like knocking them out big time, and I always find it's chav little white girls

I agree its on a different level from a walkman, some walkmans can be loud/ but the physics of it just means that the mobile will be louder.

And its always that grime music rubbish..

As long as its no swearing then Id say 'low it. However if its ****** this and ****** that..thats when it gets highly embarrssing and time for a dirty look. I did ask some youths politely on a train to turn it down (playing some ****** dis hip hop).. and they were cool..but the mouth on some of thees youth nowaydays means if they do get bright you'll want to take off your belt and lick them down.

Since I cannot be putting my hand on a youth /most times I tolerate it. But if its some ignorant music (generally hip hop with the Nword) then Iwill say something.So if you hear "man gets jumped by 10 youths on bus" in the South London Press it will be me..

It's not only the music on the phone shit but a whole heap of other things I have observed in terms of how technology has turned black people into base like animals. Young and old for real..I just sit there at times looking at these people like they just came out from under a rock or stone or some bush..

Feel like I am 200 years old unitl you check so called big people doing the same shit. What is all this shit about talking your business loud on some mobile phone...Folks aint got no shame..

Because to my home upbrining that is a dog or someone who drag up, because