I Knew Him When

June, 2009

If your reporter George Prochnik had been truly interested in understand­ing boom-car culture (Boom Car Boom, March), he would have contacted victims of noise pollution—people who suffer from chronic fatigue, mental aggrava­tion, hearing loss and sleeplessness, as well as those who have had to abandon their homes because of boom cars shak­ing them. Instead, he presents boom-car owners as misunderstood youths and antinoise activists as cranks, dismissing our organization, for example, as little m...