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1
Mudede, this is patently untrue. Loud children do not necessarily become loud adults.
2
As someone living in Berlin, I can say that even loud Berlin children come nowhere close to how loud and obnoxious American children can be.
3
Quite children will lead to quite adults? I assume you mean quiet?
Noise laws are dumb. I'll be as loud as I god damn please, especially on Sunday.
4
Civilization is becoming an unatural burden.
5
Accusations that Charles is advocating child abuse in 3...2...
6
Thank you for showing us the futility of laughter.
7
Thanks for once again proving you don't even read your own blog:
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…
8
quiet quiet true.
9
Everyone still must be quiet all day Sunday, except for church bells. Wow, I wonder what the motivation is behind that dumbass law.
10
@3: I'll do the same with my noise and blast a progressively louder air horn in your direction, 24/7. :)
11
@9 I see your point but honestly church bells are not really an offensive sound. You might even be anti-religious and appreciate that church bells are part of a long history of the look and feel of a town or city.
12
Give them free internet access you won't hear a peep.
13
The first thing I thought about while reading this is music. When I was a kid in Port Townsend, I played in a band. A bunch of the adults in the community got together to try to ram through a noise ordinance to get us (and the other bands in town) to shut up. Thankfully, the ordinance was defeated and we kept rocking. But when I think "allow kids to be noisy" I think "allow kids to be expressive", which, I think, is a really good thing.
14
Hmm. So I guess shooting them for being noisy would violate the noise laws. Well that sucks.
15
Mein kind ist auch Berliner!
16
Oooh, Mudede says something deliberately obtuse and provocatory on Slog.
17
Nice little publicity item, anyway. Here in Hamburg the kids are all drinking beer on the U-bahn anyway.
18
5280

Just use a silencer on a pistol....
19
Children and dogs are the most loyal companions a person can have throughout their life. Charles is going to die very, very lonely and bitter.
20
I suppose it bears pointing out that, whenever the neighbors of a serial killer are interviewed by the media, their first - and almost universal response is: "but, he was such a QUIET man".

The only thing that keeping kids quiet all the time will lead to Charles is a generation of repressed, psychotic, murderous adults.

But hey, at least they'll kill you very quietly...
21
I suppose this means that Berlin landscape maintenance companies will now hire children to operate their gas-powered leaf blowers at 7:00 AM.
22
Considering how loud and obnoxious all Americans (adults and children) are, I definitely agree. Children should be able to express themselves, but not to the point of shrieking and yelling at top volume indoors. What's really charming is when those little bundles of joy explicitly call for their parents' attention, and the parents completely ignore them. I guess they've just trained themselves to tune out their own children rather than take responsibility for teaching their kids proper behavior.

@19,

I'm pretty sure Charles is a parent.
23
Agreed. Children should learn good manners. There's nothing worse than loud people, no matter what their age is.
24
i agree with berlin's parliamentaries because children is usually noisy and we have to be considerate for their rights.

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