Church Bells, aren't they a Violation of your City's Ordinance?

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I called the non-emergent police number to report hearing loud church bells in the city of Eau Claire and they told me they were not going to take a statement, not going to investigate, and not going to "waste time on this."

I then called lawyers after hour and left them a message voicing my interest in suing the city for their violation of "aiding and abetting a noise ordinance violation."

What if it was Islamic people shouting prayers over a loudspeaker for the whole city to hear, or a kid with a car stereo blaring out his music or his religious beliefs?
 
Blasting music is one thing, but church bells or the call of the muezzin would fall would fall under freedom of religion.

Unless they're egregiously loud or coming in the middle of the night or the early morning hours, when they would be a disturbance, it simply doesn't matter.
 
Wow my beautiful internet is being polluted by people wasting their time trying to be clever. Who do I complain to?
 
Somerset, Mich. made their one church restrict their bells to certain times. They would play songs for 10 min. or more starting at about 7am on Sundays. I enjoyed the bells, but not that early in the morning!!!
 
I don't know about town law ,but when I was in New Orleans partying those AM church bells where definitely in violation of my hangover.
 
Are you serious? There's more important things to worry about.

I don't mind the church bells so long as they're not too loud. I actually enjoy hearing them. As for Islamic prayer over a speaker, they've already had that issue at a Mosque in Michigan. They complied with the city ordinance and turned it down. Church bells or prayer over speakers from a church is protected by the First Amendment.
 
If the number was "non-emergent", how did you know it?

By the way, that's a pretty pathetic police department not to publish their numbers.
 
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