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Chunder Bucket
Website: http://www.utopos.net
Bio: A dashing debutante of dapper discernment.
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- Barlow's Forth of July message
- Jesse Helms leaves the planet.
- Tattooed living zombie
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- BBtv: Xeni kicks the tech tires on Virgin America.
- BBtv: Monochrom's Nazi Petting Zoo
- That Violet Blue thing
- Save the International Cryptozoology Museum
- Untitled 1
- Boing Boing's Moderation Policy
- #boingboing IRC channel open for Happy Mutating
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latest episodes
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In addition to noise ordinances, you can rely on the common law tort of public sonic nuisance as grounds for getting an injunction against one of these things.
I don't know how far the American judiciary has conceptually stretched "freedom of speech", but noise nuisance is often anything "beyond the aesthetic." There's definitely an aesthetic to watching how one of these things tortures people, but I don't think that would outweigh the public inconvenience.