Noise 2007
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00:02:19See this guy. I know this guy. He's a car thief
00:02:24He knows that most car alarms operate by a simple electric sensor
00:02:28Jiggle the door you complete a circuit and trigger the siren
00:02:32I've been stealing cars since I was 14 the truth is
00:02:36Alarms make my job easier not harder. Let's say somebody's walking by and sees me fiddling with the ignition so sorry man
00:02:43He's stupid alarms. Yeah
00:02:46He knows that they can be set off by someone breaking into the vehicle or bumping into it
00:02:51That's an invisible machination of the car's interior or for that matter
00:02:58We also know that they go off accidentally so often that in New York at least no one pays any attention
00:03:06I'm detective Dante Moretti NYPD. I've been on auto crimes for seven years. I'd say in that time
00:03:12Well in Manhattan anyway a car alarm has not prevented the theft or burglary of a single vehicle not one
00:03:18Ever frankly that's a lot of BS. I'm Ritchie McIntyre the Security Industry Trade Association
00:03:25We estimate that in 2003 alone today in New York City
00:03:30Administrative Code section 24-2 to 1 states that any car alarm must automatically shut off within three minutes
00:03:37I don't think that's quite fast enough. I'll tell you why let's say it's 4 a.m.
00:03:42And you've been up since 1 with your colicky newborn
00:03:48Just as you're getting her down
00:03:58Or say you're reading
00:04:02The executed purpose or the actual as existent is movement and unfolded becoming but precisely
00:04:11You're too stupid really to understand any of this
00:04:13But in your dogged way you've been reading and rereading the same passage for the past half hour
00:04:17And just as you're beginning to get it
00:04:20unfolded becoming unfolded becoming
00:04:32Or say you haven't gotten it up for the past month
00:04:38the usual reasons
00:04:40boredom rage
00:04:42Short positions in the market, but tonight for some reason you feel an unexpected ease
00:05:13I
00:05:15Was like those you don't really want to wait three minutes, do you?
00:05:21Or one minute or even 30 seconds personally, I don't think you should have to hear it at all
00:05:28Maybe you don't either
00:05:30But unlike you I do something about it
00:05:36I'm the rectifier
00:05:38Today at City Hall mayor Reinhart Schneer met the
00:05:41278 motorists whose vehicles have been damaged by a figure identifying himself only as the rectifier
00:05:47I'm here with one of the victims. This is Alan J. Corporatini of Bayonne, New Jersey. Mr. Corporatini
00:05:53Could you show us the letter you received?
00:05:57Would you read it for us
00:05:59Yeah, dear Alan J. Corporatini on the evening of April 3rd your burglar alarm disturbed the citizens of New York
00:06:07Every time the rectifier or anyone in his organization encounters a motor vehicle with his alarm on for any interval whatsoever
00:06:16It will be damaged that is why you were obliged to repair your battery cable at a cost of approximately
00:06:23$200 subsequent offenses will receive more severe sentences the rectifier
00:06:28Actually, I fixed it myself a little little wire
00:06:32Didn't cost me nothing
00:06:35Mayor Schneer, however was typically unamused. I will not tolerate that kind of creep in my city
00:06:43Come on, your honor. At worst. This guy's guilty of a misdemeanor
00:06:46We've had 316 complaints about him
00:06:50But 90 days each and served consecutively that comes to almost
00:06:5678 years a
00:06:58WOR poll indicates that the rectifier is a popular figure on Halloween some kids even dressed up as
00:07:07I'm the mayor
00:07:09This self-styled rectifier is nothing but a two-bit vigilante
00:07:15Rationalizing his immaturity and impotent rage in the name of justice
00:07:25The rectifier I presume
00:07:28I'm sorry. Is this is there something you want? Well first I want you to pay us for the window you broke
00:07:37$616 plus tax and installation somebody broke a window
00:07:44Yes
00:07:49You took fingerprints
00:07:52Well
00:07:55These aren't mine and even if they were
00:07:58You would need a court order to get my fingerprints for comparison and for that you need probable cause which you don't have
00:08:06Unless you've already been arrested and the prints are in the system
00:08:12On three occasions
00:08:15Ah
00:08:17Yes spent 30 days in the city jail for breaking a window of a Lexus trying to turn off the car alarm
00:08:30I read things sometimes I
00:08:33Can write something about you if you want? No, thanks
00:08:38Not interested fine
00:08:40But if I tell the cops in the press that you're the rectifier Mayor Schneer will find out
00:08:46Schneer hates you. You know that I hate him more. How do you know?
00:08:51Schneer hates millions. I hate one my hate stronger
00:09:01Fine I'll pay you your money. I don't care about the money
00:09:05What you're doing everybody in this city wants to do
00:09:09Only they don't have the guts
00:09:11How come you're different?
00:09:14Maybe the question is
00:09:16Why do people put up with it?
00:09:20Because human beings are sheep
00:09:24Even if they see the slaughterhouse
00:09:27The doors open waiting for them. I think I'm gonna be in jail. I'm gonna be in jail
00:09:33Waiting for them they go in quietly as if they deserve it. It's quite pathetic actually
00:09:42You could sit in the Philippines nice to meet you too, mr. Howard
00:09:48So, how did you begin? How did you get to be the rectifier?
00:09:58By not being the rectifier
00:10:03You
00:10:21We've been living in New York for five years at that point and I liked everything about it even the noise at first
00:10:33But after a while began to bother
00:10:35I
00:11:02Could you close that
00:11:05I
00:11:35I
00:12:06I
00:12:08Was the first time I
00:12:16Did that for a couple of years like a hobby
00:12:28Lots of things around the tax system. I know I know I know what I'm saying. You're saying you're always
00:12:35David I'm saying what can you do about it?
00:13:03Stop
00:13:05Oh
00:13:28It's not there
00:13:32It's not there
00:13:35Oh
00:13:54Thank you
00:13:56Is
00:14:01Your car sir, no, sir, it's not what are you doing here now what I should have said was alarms
00:14:08We're going off for six hours. My kids sick. It's keeping her awake
00:14:11I was just disconnecting the battery so she could get some sleep. Look. I know how you feel
00:14:16But cars are private property. You can't just break in you have to call us. I know that I knew that
00:14:23What I actually said was did call you I called you three times in fact
00:14:28It was only twice we came all three times and the alarm wasn't going that's because it shuts off for a minute every so often
00:14:34That it starts back up again
00:14:35If you've gotten out of your car and stuck around for more than 30 seconds, you might have fucking heard it
00:14:40So instead of this, why don't you go and hold you a little angel make sure she's all right. You don't need this mess
00:14:46I'll take care of things
00:14:53I got this
00:15:04As soon as they put me in jail, in fact the moment they snapped on the cuffs I felt calm
00:15:11Calmer than I'd ever been in my life
00:15:14What'd he do busted into a guy whose alarm was going off he was gonna take him down to central booking
00:15:19The two cops drove me down to central booking and the next morning
00:15:23They loaded a bunch of us into a police van and took us over to Manhattan criminal court
00:15:35And left us there in the van for an hour
00:15:38No one spoke not one of us said a word for the entire hour
00:16:09I
00:16:16Had to change channels they weren't even watching
00:16:22Then I understood
00:16:24Was simply to remind us that they were there that we were in their power
00:16:31What were you doing in the
00:16:33red Volkswagen I
00:16:36Was trying to disconnect the car alarm it had been going off for five hours
00:16:41You mean this is the guy who really did break into the car to turn off the alarm?
00:16:48That's what all the car thieves say when they get caught
00:16:52It's funny getting arrested was the best thing that ever happened to me in the Hegelian sense
00:16:58It was the negative that transformed me and led to my becoming what I in fact was
00:17:05What were you?
00:17:08The rectifier
00:17:10Potentially
00:17:12Potentially
00:17:15My becoming unfold
00:17:35Right me doing in the furniture stuff I work for my uncle sometimes
00:17:42Shut down politics for justice what happened afterward what did Helen say?
00:18:05I
00:18:14Everybody laughed
00:18:17But I felt like I could be back there tomorrow. I
00:18:21Used to think that there's nothing you can do about the noise. But once you get started, it's easy
00:18:28What's hard is stopping?
00:18:31So
00:18:34This isn't the first time
00:18:38How long you've been doing it a couple of years a couple of years
00:18:47Well never this big I mean mostly just
00:18:53You know letting the air out of tires ripping windshield wipers off cars stuff like that
00:19:00And you never thought to mention it
00:19:10What else don't I know
00:19:12You do things I don't know about I am NOT breaking into cars and going to jail
00:19:17It's like you're a delinquent or a thug. Oh, right. I'm a criminal. I'm a terrorist. I'm Al Zarkali. Come on, David
00:19:24We have a child
00:19:26We're supposed to be the adults I am the adult I have the adult job I
00:19:31Had no idea that our life meant so little that you would risk it this way. What is this all about?
00:19:36What are you doing? It doesn't make any sense
00:19:56I
00:19:58I
00:20:24Guess I don't understand why you take it all so personally
00:20:29I mean do you
00:20:32Do you think that the noise deliberately directed at you I don't think they're out to get me
00:20:44Check what infuriates me is how indifferent they all are to me to you to everyone
00:20:51Close the window, you know, don't think about it
00:20:58I can't
00:21:01Can't close the window
00:21:06What if I want it open
00:21:13You don't want an answer
00:21:18So, what do I do just turn on the air conditioner or put in your plugs, yeah
00:21:22Well, we can get one of those
00:21:24White noise. What about the other people?
00:21:28What other people in outdoor cafes people that work in garages that can't close the window that don't have air condition
00:21:35We have to worry about them
00:21:38This is a problem in the world
00:21:42No, it's not as serious as global warming or funding for chamber music
00:21:49It affects people every day tens of thousands of people I bet millions of people every day
00:21:59And and you just want me to adjust to it
00:22:04What else can we do
00:22:07What Helen what if Jonas Salk had this attitude what if he had this attitude towards polio? Oh
00:22:15It's polio, you know just adjust to it. Do you think you're a Jonas Salk like figure?
00:22:28I
00:22:34Love you
00:22:37Stop it. I'm serious. I'm serious
00:22:41You said you'd stop
00:22:43Stop stopping. Stop. Stop. Why?
00:22:47well
00:22:49Helen doesn't like it and thinks I'm crazy
00:22:52It doesn't mean you have to put up with the noise. I put up with it
00:22:57Sometimes I snap but mostly I put up with
00:23:02Like what?
00:23:05The bells going to hell Janet haven't you noticed nothing's perfect
00:23:11Nothing's perfect
00:23:14Barbara didn't get it. I thought she was stopping nobody
00:23:18So I tried other methods when I came across a car alarm. I'd write down the plate number. I
00:23:24Paid a hundred fifty a year for a website that gave me access to DMV records
00:23:29And I filed suit against repeat offenders in small claims court
00:23:32Are you with us David?
00:23:38It's a deduction for uncollectible accounts for the Depco default line 23
00:23:44Your honor the car alarms in question have resulted in disturbance of the peace damage to business loss of income and sleep to hundreds
00:23:51If not thousands of New Yorkers dismissed your honor. We have neighbors block associations even firefighters
00:23:58Dismissed citing evidence that above a certain level noise can constitute a kind of physical assault that
00:24:06Dismissed
00:24:08Dismissed
00:24:38Oh
00:24:57This was amusing the first time it had certain quixotic charm now, it's boring. I'm sorry
00:25:0830 days suspended if I see you back here, you'll do time
00:25:18This is absurd, it's quixotic. That's not funny
00:25:28The house and I X to the satellite I don't want to move to the night
00:25:34Back to my neck
00:25:36No
00:25:39You can't stand the noise, but you don't want to move where it's quiet because it's wrong Helen the noise is wrong
00:25:44I seem to be the only one that
00:25:47David lots of things are wrong
00:25:50Just be wrong
00:25:53What can we do about it nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing I want you to see a therapist
00:25:59This is not a psychological problem. It's a social problem. It's a political go ahead and get that
00:26:04It's not like we're having a conversation or anything David. You are having a breakdown
00:26:10Can't you see that this is all you do this is all you talk about
00:26:15You are obsessed
00:26:17It's affecting Chris
00:26:21What do you mean what do you mean it's affecting Chris she keeps asking why does daddy get so upset
00:26:27Her teacher said that she's getting short-tempered one of you know if there is anything wrong at home
00:26:32Maybe it's a problem with the teacher. It is not the teacher's problem. It is you you need to let this go just
00:26:40Just let it go
00:26:50I can't okay. I can't I can't
00:27:00Move
00:27:02I
00:27:13Will go the country will
00:27:18Borrow my brother's place for the weekend just for the weekend
00:27:23See
00:27:29Just to see
00:27:32I
00:27:39What is she doing playing with the neighbor's dog
00:28:02You
00:28:07What is it a leaf blower yeah
00:28:11Some towns have regulations against them not this one
00:28:18Nothing says the country's quieter, but the noise is seem to bother you more
00:28:24Caitlin's dad
00:28:27I
00:28:27Look at her just blowing everything into the street winds just gonna blow it right back on
00:28:32I think she thinks about the gasoline she's using pollution noise
00:28:41Whatever happened to rakes where you going talk to her
00:28:47Me
00:28:53Can you turn it off, but we're just here for the weekend and guys have a rake a
00:28:58Rake yeah, got a rake. Yeah, you know how to use it. Is it the dad who hit you?
00:29:05the mom
00:29:07Was mommy's fault
00:29:10Did you hit her back no
00:29:17Then the sirens sang again in their irresistible voices
00:29:21Odysseus shouted and struggled until he was exhausted and when the sirens island was left far behind
00:29:28his men released him and
00:29:30Drew the wax from their ears
00:29:33Helen made it clear one more strike, and I was out. She wondered if I was mature enough to have a family
00:29:40Mature enough did she really say that she didn't mean it. She was frightened of what?
00:29:48You ever been married
00:29:51No
00:29:53I've never been married
00:29:55I've never been married
00:29:57I've never been married
00:29:59I've never been married
00:30:01No
00:30:11This is great all your stuff
00:30:16Anyway after that I realized I just had to put up with it
00:30:21Like everyone else so I did
00:30:23I
00:30:28Put up with the power saws the fireman started up twice a day just to make sure
00:30:33I put up with backup beepers going off at 5
00:30:36Street their background level sensors malfunctioning as usual
00:30:40I put up with the ambulances the fire engines the electric sidewalk washers the trucks to clean up their furnaces the jackhammers
00:30:49Piledrivers
00:30:51Boxes the shrieking subways
00:30:56They can scare the life out of you
00:31:09You have a second leg
00:31:18This is nice, what is it Mozart? Yeah, I meant the wine
00:31:27You must put something H
00:31:31That's the last letter
00:31:34No, I'm hungry
00:31:37Do I have to get every letter or can I just guess you can guess it's good to guess
00:31:48Oh
00:32:18I
00:32:34Can't wait that long. Where's your clicker? It doesn't work
00:32:38Disconnect the fucking thing so it never goes up ridiculous
00:32:49Oh
00:32:54You were told you cannot do this you have to call us
00:33:00We're here now
00:33:03You don't come when the cars attacking us only when we're attacking the car car didn't attack you
00:33:08Oh, so what you said what you're really saying is the car matters. We don't wear pieces of shit
00:33:15He's not he's not nuts he just doesn't understand what he's doing what it means
00:33:21Context why aren't you arresting the real criminals? Huh? The guys from Enron and world cause your business man move
00:33:29Yes, this is my business. This is everybody's business
00:33:38Daddy
00:33:40I
00:33:4430 days and a $10,000 fine and I'm making a note on your jacket
00:33:50You show up here again, and you'll do a year
00:34:10I
00:34:40I
00:35:10I
00:35:40I
00:35:57Welcome back
00:36:06Judson fired me
00:36:10She
00:36:13Packed my stuff going on vacation or am I moving up you're moving out
00:36:25Yeah, Chris
00:36:32Missed you so much
00:36:34I
00:36:37Miss you, too
00:36:39Hey, I
00:36:40Need you to score me a goal right now. I
00:36:44Need you to go out there and score me a goal. Okay?
00:36:47Go on right here
00:37:01So, who is it
00:37:05The guy you're saying
00:37:12Evan
00:37:19Who the fuck is that David I do is it a boy or a girl he's Caitlin's father
00:37:29That's a fat one
00:37:31Caitlin's a redhead
00:37:34I like her. She's sexy
00:37:37David she's seven. She's sexy. It's not my fault. I didn't say you know
00:37:49So is the dad sexy who is
00:37:54How is it with you
00:37:56Great, actually, you know what? I don't care. Yeah, it's fun. I don't really want to hear
00:38:01If you have you a little thing I have mine, so how long is this
00:38:07Yeah, how long you been doing this
00:38:14Excuse me, you know, I don't know this but when you have a cell phone you don't have to shout
00:38:31Why do you have to leave well
00:38:34because mom
00:38:36Mom and I think it's best just for now because you keep getting in trouble. Yeah, I guess
00:38:43Hey, look at that guy
00:38:46What's he doing putting boats in the water what kind of boats think they're origami boats
00:38:55Made them out of paper
00:39:01I
00:39:09Is that why they call them sirens because of those women who sang on the rocks
00:39:27So, why can't you be more like Odysseus
00:39:31like him
00:39:34He had his men time to the mass so he didn't wreck the ship
00:39:47I'm sorry, honey
00:39:52You seem so calm are you really okay with it her being with someone else
00:40:01I mean, I like why did you like it? I don't know
00:40:09Because I'm crazy I'm out of my fucking mind, right
00:40:31I
00:40:40Was joking it's a joke
00:40:44No, I'm not the prison shrink said I wasn't you know what I can't stand is how angry you are all the time
00:40:51You like it you like
00:40:53being angry
00:40:55What are you so angry about?
00:40:57That I'm impotent
00:41:00Always very often always sexually
00:41:06But always
00:41:09Always
00:41:11It's the buzzer it's the doorbell yeah
00:41:17The fan is here for your things
00:41:30I got a place at 24th and 6th
00:41:34Once I moved downtown, I didn't have a job or family or friends
00:41:42All I had was the noise
00:41:59I
00:42:30Every night the same
00:42:38It wasn't a car it had to be one of the buildings on the block
00:43:00Read me back the last paragraph. No the one before that
00:43:11Excuse me, do you have an alarm in this building burglar alarm?
00:43:16We already have one thing. I know you have one. No, I'm not you
00:43:21It works fine. That's actually a matter of opinion. It went off last night for half an hour three hours
00:43:27Last night for half an hour at 3 a.m. Did you know that? No, you can't cut that the transition will make
00:43:35Hello
00:43:48Why do you think it was all alarm I live right across the street I heard
00:43:58I
00:44:08Can't do that, but I will have the company recalibrate it the next time they come
00:44:15Is there a number I could call you in case it goes off
00:44:20Take one just one
00:44:27This is your this is your business number you have a cell phone. I don't have
00:44:38Okay
00:44:40Okay
00:44:52Excuse me, excuse me
00:44:56Do you hear that what the whistle? Oh, yeah, that's the intercom it does that a lot
00:45:05How do you get it to stop talk to the super how do you find the super
00:45:10I don't know you live there. You don't know how to find the super. Hey, sometimes he's around. I don't know where he goes
00:45:21Doesn't bother you, you know, it does bother me that manhole cover on six what manhole cover
00:45:33That's not it
00:45:34There there again, you heard it, yeah, it's every time the car comes on the street
00:45:40Bother you and not the internet
00:45:43You notice this I noticed that
00:45:45Yeah, what?
00:45:48Because you promised to buy Monday Jack whose fault is that
00:46:04I
00:46:31Was funny how that affected me the applause
00:46:34That's when I realized
00:46:37This was my job now my calling
00:46:40Yeah, all right, like Jonas saw
00:46:43I
00:46:59After that, I never got caught I
00:47:02Stopped being angry. I
00:47:04Developed a kind of intuition where the cops would be in where they wouldn't
00:47:08It was easy really
00:47:10Once I gave up everything else
00:47:12I knew how to be the rectifier
00:47:18What you've been doing is cutting battery cables
00:47:21Right, which kills your basic factory installed device two problems one if the guy's got a
00:47:27night watch or a
00:47:29Conroy any decent aftermarket alarm
00:47:32It's got an auxiliary power source right and cutting the battery cable won't even stop it and to even if it does work once the
00:47:38cables fixed
00:47:41The alarms back in business, what about the alarm trumpet? Well, I'm trumpet. I don't know
00:47:46Those are only an older cars, you know now it all goes to the horn
00:47:50All right. So in this particular case, it goes straight for the electronics
00:47:54It's usually right down here under the dash
00:47:57voila
00:48:05You know, it's funny
00:48:07The alarm right in your ear can drive you crazy, but it's once further away can sound kind of nice
00:48:14sort of plaintive
00:48:16You think so?
00:48:19Yeah
00:48:38A
00:48:39Fucking son of a I know I know
00:48:43But I've got an idea follow my logic on this one round. Okay, we piggyback on this guy
00:48:47We oppose him personally, of course, but we support the idea the issue. It's very popular with the people
00:48:52You might bounce a couple points. Sure
00:48:55pocket
00:48:57See if we can use the Patriot
00:48:59the anti-terrorist
00:49:01Piece of shit mr. Mayor we're ready
00:49:04Now
00:49:10This
00:49:13Self-styled rectifier is nothing but a two-bit vigilante
00:49:17Rationalizing his immaturity and impotent rage in the name of justice
00:49:34It
00:49:36Looks like fun, huh, but I'm doing it not you. Oh
00:49:40You think it's easy for me. I'm only a fiction
00:49:44perhaps
00:49:45But then my suffering is also
00:49:48Yours is real
00:49:51You just sit there
00:50:03Oh
00:50:33I
00:51:04You
00:51:17The rectifier I presume
00:51:20There's stupid
00:51:23Business
00:51:26Direct the ship
00:51:29Let me ask you something
00:51:32The noise was driving you crazy, so you moved from the Upper West Side where it's relatively quiet
00:51:41Down here where it's twice as loud why
00:51:45It's a place I could find that I could afford
00:51:49Because you love the noise
00:51:51You hate it, but you love hating it. It's your muse
00:51:56My muse you've read Hegel, but you haven't understood him. I'm sick of Hegel. I wish I'd never heard of
00:52:03The genius of a car alarm is that you can't talk back to it
00:52:09It has a mouth, but no ears
00:52:13It makes you pay attention to it, but it pays none to you. How does that make me love it because it's safe
00:52:19You summon all your rage you hurl yourself at it
00:52:24And nothing happens
00:52:28The whole secret of power is to make it unresponsive
00:52:33The more arbitrary it is the more cruel and irrational the more respected
00:52:43The more we love it
00:52:47So what can we do about it
00:52:53I
00:53:06Wanted to smack you you're so rude
00:53:12Maybe I wanted to look at you
00:53:15No, I don't say don't matter when I do other things
00:53:22Touch
00:53:25Get your
00:53:29Listen to you
00:53:32It's that same as only to fuck you
00:53:36When you imagine it
00:53:39Do you think about me coming and you're coming
00:53:45By astounding my sexual prowess
00:53:51Haunted blasted
00:53:56Something like that
00:53:58So I'm the object and you're the subject
00:54:01No, no, you can't this down an object. We're both subjects
00:54:12And how can you make me come by by rendering me an object I
00:54:16Can't make you come if you keep talking stop talking. I
00:54:23Can't make you come unless you agree to it
00:54:31I want you to force me. I want you to make me do things. I don't want it
00:54:45I
00:54:52Was that another not turn you down both get a notch
00:55:06We can keep breaking into cars until they put you away for a year
00:55:12Or we can do something real
00:55:15What do you mean by real
00:55:19Excuse me, this is Board of Elections. I
00:55:27Think this is Board of Elections. Can I get the package for initiative petitions? You want to run for office?
00:55:32No, I think they mean the ballot initiative ballot initiative
00:55:38Yeah, I mean the seat is an initiated referendum to amend the city charter
00:55:44You got to go to a city clerk for that. No, you don't. Yes, you do. It's right there in a book
00:55:48You can do it right here. We've only got packets for running for office
00:55:52Packets what packets there are no packets. Yes, there are you get it from the city clerk?
00:55:56You can draw up your own petition form for people to sign. I think we've got a sample somewhere
00:56:02How many signatures do we need to get in the ballot?
00:56:04Five percent of the number of city residents who voted in the last election for governor or 30,000 whichever is less
00:56:12Fewer
00:56:16So we just make one of these up ourselves
00:56:18Yes, don't forget to write on top what you are petitioning for but she's still gonna fight on the city clerk. That's true
00:56:25They keep this
00:56:28Thank you
00:56:36So as to preserve protect and promote the public health
00:56:40Safety and welfare and the peace and quiet of the inhabitants of the city
00:56:44We forbid any and all use of car alarms within the five bars of New York City
00:56:50Violations to be punished by a fine of not less than $100 per incident
00:56:54What about backup papers?
00:56:56No, no backup papers
00:56:58They make sense to people and if we try to our make sense they infantilize us
00:57:05They're overprotective
00:57:07Didn't back up. Thank you. I've heard it
00:57:09But the alarm industry is gonna use it to portrays as extremists out of touch with the general public
00:57:14We can't just came into those people you pussy. Come on put in backup papers, David
00:57:21Do you want to win an alarms or do you want to lose an alarms and backup papers?
00:57:26Because if you want to lose dude by yourself
00:57:28I'm only here to win
00:57:32It's not funny
00:57:36I'm collecting signatures
00:57:41No
00:57:45We're trying to get
00:57:50I've got nothing
00:57:53We need help
00:57:59Who's that with the dark hair
00:58:22You have a pen
00:58:29Is that a Kenan I hear
00:58:31Finally the big night arrives opening night, right? He's waiting in the wings. He keeps saying the line over and over again
00:58:36Is that a Kenan? I is that a Kenan? I
00:58:39He's got he knows
00:58:43Well, hey he gets his cue he comes through the curtain he crosses the stage
00:58:47He gets it with the spotlight right when he's about to deliver his big line
00:58:51Boom there's a huge explosion. He hits the deck. The crowd is stunned. And what does he say?
00:58:56Jesus Christ
00:58:58Fuck was that
00:59:04Not bad, right pretty good. That's a good joke. That's a that's funny
00:59:09I could tell that to the Japanese guys. I think they'd even get it. Oh, you're kidding me. That would love it
00:59:14It would work like a charm good
00:59:17See this yet
00:59:20They're getting a lot of signatures on them Jackie says they're gonna get that initiative on the ballot
00:59:33Talk to this EK Philip Nova prick
00:59:37Philip Hovner by the way, he's a she pretty cute, too
00:59:43Bitch I want to talk to this UK Philip. Oh
00:59:48Bitch
00:59:52Your initiative won't make it I can tell you that right now if you supported it would
00:59:57You could take the credit
01:00:00People would love you
01:00:04The rectifier is behind this right
01:00:07I could call a grand jury. I could ask you that question in front of them. If you didn't answer I could find you in contempt and
01:00:14Send you to jail
01:00:16Go ahead
01:00:20You're fucking him, aren't you?
01:00:27What do you like about him I never met the guy
01:00:31I
01:00:33What do you like about him I never met the guy
01:00:37But if I did what I would like is that he was alone
01:00:40Everyone against him and he fought anyway, I'm alone. Everyone's against me. Oh
01:00:47You think just because I got elected millions of votes that the people are with me
01:00:54They hate me
01:00:56You know why?
01:00:59Because when you're strong you don't cave in
01:01:04When you're not a weakling like they are they hate you for
01:01:12You want to run things you got to be a monster you got to be willing to kill people who did you kill?
01:01:20No comment
01:01:22Nice people can't do it. I get chewed up spit out nothing left but a fart
01:01:27You know what I used to tell my kids when they were little when they still spoke to me
01:01:32something
01:01:34What happened they didn't like and they would say oh
01:01:38That's unfair and I would say no don't say that's unfair say that's
01:01:45not
01:01:46beautiful
01:01:49People like your boyfriend the wrecked the ferry need everything beautiful
01:01:54Need everything beautiful, that's why they're so helpless
01:02:01But you're not like that
01:02:05So drop that putz come work with me I'll show you how to run the world
01:02:16What would I do no personal advisor
01:02:24Parks Commission
01:02:27What about economic development
01:02:30What is that?
01:02:31Bringing new business here. I
01:02:34Got a Japanese contingent coming
01:02:37They would love you
01:02:43Okay
01:02:46Only if you support the initiative don't waste your time on that
01:02:53Too tiny then promise you won't oppose us
01:03:07Where are you going? I'm going to England to study philosophy
01:03:14So fuck you
01:03:22I
01:03:40Wanted to thank you all for helping out today we have
01:03:45Unofficially collected over 40,000 signatures
01:03:52That's more than 10,000 about the minimum
01:03:55But remember at least half will be disqualified. So we need to get at least 20,000 more. Can we do it?
01:04:22I
01:04:32Kushka seemed to be getting along
01:04:36She's nice
01:04:39What about you
01:04:42What about me what you're attracted to her she's attracted to you
01:04:52Talk or are you making trouble?
01:04:55They talk
01:04:58What did you talk about
01:05:01She wants to come home with us. She weird or home
01:05:08She's sexy
01:05:14What'd you say dad mom's here
01:05:22Put your seatbelts on
01:05:25Take mommy's bag
01:05:30My girlfriend's very pretty
01:05:34Not my girlfriend
01:05:38Anyway, you've got no complaints, right?
01:05:52Hi, yeah, we'll be there in 20 minutes
01:06:04We should celebrate
01:06:22You
01:06:25Come here David. Yeah, we're looking at my pussy
01:06:39See I
01:06:40Know it
01:06:42You have a beautiful pussy
01:06:44You have a nice one, too. No, I don't
01:06:48exactly
01:06:50It look like it threw up on itself or something. Yeah, look at it
01:06:58What are you talking about nothing is wrong believe me plenty is wrong
01:07:04Anyone as a man ever
01:07:06Said anything about it. I really know of course not
01:07:12But it's not the point
01:07:14You want to be beautiful?
01:07:17But you are
01:07:19beautiful
01:07:21Incredibly beautiful
01:07:23Yes, thank you
01:07:25But you want to be completely beautiful
01:07:28with no flow
01:07:31I'm happy with how I look generally
01:07:34My pussy spoils it
01:07:38Drops on the whole thing
01:07:40You
01:07:44Know anyone that's perfect. I'm discussing ideals and inner beauty. You cannot separate from outward things
01:07:53I'm talking about
01:07:55Looking in the mirror. I'm feeling you're one of the angels
01:08:00Are you a beast or an angel?
01:08:05Can I be a human being no
01:08:08Because a human being is nothing but a question
01:08:12And the question is peace or angel peace or God?
01:08:17you
01:08:19You're obsessing with alarms and everything
01:08:23What you think you're doing?
01:08:26Aren't you trying to leave yourself?
01:08:29And everyone else
01:08:31Everyone else up from the beast reality of this awful noise to the heavenly silence
01:08:42That's beautiful
01:08:45Yeah, yeah
01:08:48Yeah
01:08:50So you wanna make heaven for the ear?
01:08:53Only wanna make it for the body
01:09:02I
01:09:04I
01:09:27Chris says you'll make it on the ballot. She's very excited
01:09:31Well, it's an easy sell everyone hates alarms, I
01:09:37Guess you're not completely impotent after all
01:09:45When you make you nervous
01:10:02I
01:10:04Don't even come home when I'm finished
01:10:17I have to leave Friday
01:10:20Leave for where Moscow see my dad school in London
01:10:31We're up to 56,000 signatures, but I want to get at least 70
01:10:36You have to be here for the election
01:10:39The guys I met today are great
01:10:41They'll introduce you to all the right people
01:10:44Stop by email
01:11:02I don't want to say goodbye to you. No, it's perfect
01:11:08Your wife threw out
01:11:12They had their little thing
01:11:17Now you get to go home a little bittersweet in the heart be a good father
01:11:25A good husband
01:11:28I
01:11:30Anyway, you love Chris
01:11:36You love Helen
01:11:40You need love
01:11:52Could you pull over here, please
01:11:55I'm gonna pick something up
01:12:06Thank you
01:12:25Oh
01:12:35Hi
01:12:37What's this? These are petition signatures?
01:12:40Petitions for what to get an initiative on the November ballot. There's a charter revision on the November ballot a
01:12:49What a proposal to revise the city charter?
01:12:53Okay
01:12:54So you can't have an initiative when there's a proposed charter revision unless the mayor lets them both stand
01:13:01Who proposed the charter revision?
01:13:03Mayor Schneer
01:13:05Why did he do it? Well, he didn't tell me
01:13:09But back in 98 when Giuliani wanted that new stadium on the west side and the people in Chelsea
01:13:16Collected all those signatures for an initiative against it Giuliani put up a charter revision just to bump their thing off the ballot
01:13:25Maybe Schneer is doing this
01:13:27To stop that car alarm initiative. We are the car alarm initiative you are
01:13:34Well, there you go
01:13:46I hear you baby, but that ain't gonna help
01:14:02You got a problem this thing for sale
01:14:12How much
01:14:141,500
01:14:17Got an alarm in here
01:14:27Hey
01:14:30So, how is it is it decent decent it's a piece of shit perfect. I want to put an alarm in
01:14:40It's already that one. I know I want more
01:14:43More how many more how many can it hold?
01:14:47Shit, that is a fit as long as the battery has the juice to run them. Can you customize them?
01:14:54Customize them how I want them to go off when I want and I want them extra loud
01:15:07So this actor
01:15:12Something happens to his like memory
01:15:16Or he's nervous, but he keeps
01:15:20flubbing his lines
01:15:22Well after a while
01:15:24He can't get a job
01:15:28Finally
01:15:31His agent no agent
01:15:35Lands him a small part in a play
01:15:39one line
01:15:43Hark is that a cannon I hear
01:15:52So every day he's um, he's practicing this line
01:15:57Hark is that a cannon? I hear hark. Is that a cannon? I hear the play takes place in Chicago, Chicago
01:16:13Oh
01:16:16He goes to the theater he's putting on his costume hark he gets into the wings
01:16:33He walks out onto the stage there is this incredible crash so he goes
01:16:42Oh
01:17:12Oh
01:17:42Oh this fucking guy
01:18:12Somebody please shut that thing
01:18:42I
01:18:48Just shut up the fucking along hey, what's your language?
01:18:53My ears are private property am I hearing my mental well-being let me brutalize my sir
01:18:59You are disturbing in fact assaulting everybody in this neighborhood
01:19:03You'll be arrested and charged with that. Yes
01:19:13Oh
01:19:15All right, come on come on sir, come on come on here a BDC
01:19:20Jesus I can't
01:19:42Oh
01:20:12Oh
01:20:42God
01:20:47Next on the docket Raymond T Gilson plaintiff seeking damages from David Owen defendant
01:20:52The mayor was very upset. In fact, he failed to close a deal. He was negotiating with the Japanese
01:20:57So I guess you could say mr. Owen cost the city 4,500 jobs
01:21:01Could you estimate the effect of that on the tax base?
01:21:05They were high-tech high paying so I would imagine the losses would be in the tens of millions
01:21:12My
01:21:16Wife gets terrible migraines
01:21:18This man's alarm brought on an attack that lasted three days
01:21:22Sir, he was a judge. What's he doing in the witness stand?
01:21:26Financial is a judge. She's a plaintiff in this trial
01:21:30Two judges
01:21:32What they shouldn't do it that way. It's too confusing. There'll be no talking from the jury. I was just like
01:21:38making an observation
01:21:40Sorry, your honor does the defense have any questions for this with your honor
01:21:47Judge Gilson going back to the afternoon of May 19th when the incident in question occurred
01:21:53Tell me that one's a judge too. No, he's an idiot time. They're all idiots
01:21:59I believe you said and I quote that noise is disturbing actually
01:22:06Assaulting everybody in the neighborhood, I'm not claiming here that you assaulted anyone
01:22:12But you're a judge you understand the law
01:22:15Assault doesn't require an actual physical blow does it?
01:22:20It's true
01:22:22If you run up to someone and raise your arms suddenly as though you're going to strike them. It's frightening. It feels like an attack
01:22:29It's assault. So legally speaking
01:22:32The alarms that went off on Fifth Avenue that afternoon were in fact an
01:22:39Assault
01:22:41That's true
01:22:44Mr. Owen, you realize that the evidence you're presenting tends to support the plaintiff's not your honor if I may continue
01:22:50I think you'll understand where I'm going judge Gilson
01:22:53Would you agree that your experience that afternoon was a bit like being hit being struck?
01:23:02Yes
01:23:04Unquestionably, so it wasn't just assault
01:23:07It was battery as well
01:23:11Yes, what about the grinding of garbage trucks
01:23:17Garbage trucks
01:23:18What about when a motorcycle owner removes the baffles and the sound is as loud as a jet engine coming down your street?
01:23:27Where's he going with this?
01:23:29someday
01:23:30Someday
01:23:32When we finally spend the money on quieter garbage trucks
01:23:36Which they already have in many European countries when we have banned the utterly useless
01:23:41car alarm and the constant assault of the backup beeper people will look back on the way we live today and
01:23:48They will not
01:23:50understand
01:23:52How on earth
01:23:54We put up
01:23:56What about those loud car stereos, yeah, excuse me, what did you just say is he talking to me? Yeah
01:24:02Yeah, mr. Owen, we're gonna have a mistrial here. Tell us what you please proceed with your examination
01:24:07I was saying what about those cars with their loud stereos blasting away. You can't hear yourself think
01:24:12They shouldn't be allowed about those trucks that idle in front of your window the noise
01:24:26Over and over again
01:24:52Please proceed
01:24:57That's all I have to say your honor, thank you for your patience
01:25:06We find for the plaintiff and order mr. Owen to pay judge Gilson $100,000
01:25:16Your honor if it please the court, I'm sure mr. Owen and I can come to a satisfactory arrangement
01:25:22Please file a stipulation of settlement within the next 10 days board is adjourned
01:25:26Congratulations, you lost you lost what you want. Now. We have a precedent noise can be assault and battery
01:25:35I should forget about my bill, right?
01:25:39Excuse me. Hey, congratulations. Oh, you're an example to us all
01:25:47You're a hero daddy
01:25:49Hey, listen, you know that fairway sign on hundred and twenty-fifth Street
01:25:54Don't drive. Yeah, neither do I
01:25:59It's cause like I'm five or six accidents distracting motorists. I'm gonna go get a cab
01:26:06Plus you get this giant sign for bananas shoved up in your face. Don't you hate that shit? I thought they took that down
01:26:13There's another one. It's even worse
01:26:16He used to be able to see all those beautiful bows our buildings up on Riverside and now they've just like
01:26:20Blocked it with this giant TV screen
01:26:25Do you know what I'm going to do I'm going to blow the fucking thing up you wanting
01:26:38Let's go
01:26:46You want in
01:26:53No, thanks
01:26:55Well, I get it
01:26:57So suddenly you're this big shot. The rest of us don't matter. Hmm. You just go home
01:27:03Cultivate your fucking garden, right?
01:27:06Exactly
01:27:13Good luck
01:27:16She was right about the sign, of course, but I didn't want to think about that
01:27:21Still it reminded me of something that happened that first time. I was arrested
01:27:26Back at the 24th precinct
01:27:32Who's gonna take him down the central book
01:27:35As the alarm was going off Jesus Christ, what if everybody did that if everybody people would turn off the damn alarms now
01:28:05I
01:28:35I
01:29:05I
01:29:35I
01:30:05I
01:30:35I
01:31:05You