blasting music from headphones in public transport

Oh yes, I have seen it happen sometimes. The usual scenario would be one young punk (lol) blasting his music out loud on speakers and oblivious to what others are feeling. If you visit that privacy-invading stomp website, you can even see some of these pictures. I do not condone stomp. I think it is wrong to take pictures of people and put them up. On the other hand, I do not agree with what these punks are doing. They need to be more considerate. I never blast my music. I never play them via speaker mode in public - only my earphones. And I would be two times a moron if I blast them because it would exceed a healthy volume limit for human ears. These punks think they are gung-go. Ask them what they think when they get deaf before their time. But we are not here to discuss their education and upbringing lol. Anyway more specifically to your question, I don't yell them to stop. I wouldn't want to be caught in some fights which might see me crippling or killing them by mistake. The Changi prison isn't the most comfortable of hotels. I normally ignore and try to enjoy the music even if it is nice. Otherwise, I will just find another place on the train if possible. If I am on the bus, I will just meditate perhaps. I am not one who is too affected by such noises. In fact when I was a student, this kind of noisy environment suited me best when I wanted to study (which is very rare lol). So either way, such music blasting does not really affect me, but I do know most other people can be very irritated by it.

ha ha ha... you are one step faster than me. I was thinking about writing the same thing today! Just yesterday evening, encountered another two couple, one pair of young kids and an old couple. The young malay girls were blasting their malay songs on their sony ericsson w550i. The quality was so horrible, I was so tempted to grabbed their phone, throw it on the floor and jump on it till the phone is no more. I would have done it if not for my wife holding me back! Then the old couple, did one up on the girls. They were facing each other, the old lady was talking so loudly to her husband, I couldn't even hear myself think. The husband was also fiddling around with his handphone, a nokia 6230, i think. He started broadcasting hokkien songs in the middle of his wife's one way conversation with him. AND the wife started singing to the song like they were in a Karaoke!!! Man~~~ the type of characters you meet on the trains these days! It is a good thing we only had two stops to our destination when this started, cos the train was quite crowded and we had no where to go. I would have gotten off and change another train. Sometimes, there is no point in telling these people off, cos they have no freaking cow senses to know that they are an irritation to the people around them. And when they blast their music, they are always doing it in groups... you never win if the situation turn ugly.

These things are very very annoying to me but afraid I am one who 'suffers' I hate making waves so would never say something. Unless it's someone I know then look out - I have this problem with my kids all the time, turn it down or shut it off is my response - I gave up on the 'do you know what you are doing to your own hearing by doing that' years ago. I like the idea of banning them in public places - if someone else can hear the noise what is the since of headphones.