You would think that they world have banned such noise making from the beginning instead of allowing it to go so long without saying a thing. Now is is too late.

a guy and his crew that were around here in Chigasaki/Tsujidou going around in bicycles and plastic speaker-cones (is that the right term) saying “We aren’t using cars, we are saving money and not polluting.”

That’s kind of a tough one. The word for those “speaker cones” is “megaphone.” Edison exhibited an earliest version of the megaphone (it was too ‘obvious’ and ‘non-novel’ for Edison to bother to patent it). Nowadays “megaphone” implies electronic amplification, and I would be forced to use the odd, arcane word “speaking-trumpet” if I was editing a technical paper or patent (that’s my day-job).

Campaign loudspeakers have been banned in most jurisdictions in the United States since the 1950s. And, despite what has been shown in the Blues Brothers movie, I never had the misfortune to hear or see one in use for street campaigning until my UFO crashed here in Tokyo decades ago.
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A vote for Taro is a vote for peace and quiet.

My Platform for a “Utsukushii kuni” (美しい国 – Beautiful Country):

* Tabasco sauce covered weasels up the butt for anybody haranguing neighborhoods with distorted taped announcements for blue plastic bamboo clothing poles
* Public flogging for political campaigning with loudspeakers
* The death penalty for using bull-horns inside supermarkets

This past Sunday was very annoying. They were blocking the already crowded roads when I was driving and up until 7:30pm I could hear them from my house.

There is no amount of waving and pink wind-jackets that could make me appreciate what they are doing.

A vote for Taro is a vote for peace and quiet.