Hobos have been around since the railroad system made traveling across America possible. Itinerant workers rode the rails to where jobs were available, as best they could. Their numbers grew when unemployment did, and they developed a system leave messages for each other. Or did they? Historians know that the “hobo code” we’ve all read about is not what we’ve been told before. -via Kottke
Source: neatorama
I don’t think so, it’s in general simple respect for others around you and being conscious of those around us. Of course there will always be exceptions but there is an overall attitude that anyone has the right to do anything any time. Actually the music law was prompted by the dangers of the driver not being able to hear emergency sirens. Back in 1995 I had a car that had the greatest sound system for its time. I had a Gino Vinelli cassette and I remember blasting it. There was a portion of the tape that there was a siren and wouldn’t ya know it …. I pulled over. My wife looked at me like I was nuts. Nonetheless, I can attest that because of where I live, a residential stretch of a busy street, like clockwork there are cars that drive by with the “thumping” that I can hear in my house with all the windows closed. I’m in my freaking house … who is invading whose space? When I’m at a stop light and my rear view mirror is vibrating because of the base coming from another car … whose space is being violated? Earlier there was something mentioned about stimulus and children in stores, in essences a trigger. Okay, here is one for you. Many years ago I suffered from what was called back then, suicidal migraines. Low vibration sounds send chills up my neck in that they trigger something in me that’s related to the migraines I would get. That’s why with all my sound systems the base is usually minimized. Again, it goes back to simply respect of others.