I thought of this thread today when I was sitting at the steering wheel and heard a loud, offensive noise. It's something we often listen to but yet it hasn't come up yet on this thread as being an irritating noise: it was a #$%$
leafblower.
To me, those things are worse than Harley loud pipes... if you hear the Harley pipes, at least they're going in another direction and you won't have to listen to them for long....
Ditto with a boat. At least the engine is running - they're moving, right?
But those WHOOORRRRRR-WOOOORRRRR-WHOOOORRRRR leaf blowers are far, far more offensive. They're powered by a motor and run by someone on two legs - they're going no where fast - or fast enough.
So write your area rep, state senator, congressman, etc. and ask them for noise limits law for leaf blowers. The world will be a better place.