As more machines were switched on, the noise sounded like a ceiling fan, then a leaf blower, then a jet engine. (…) The noise floated miles down the winding Brazos river, through the lush golf courses in the gated community Pecan Plantation and past county lines.

As rock music blares from the speakers and other patrons chatter away, Rosenkranz pulls out her phone and clocks 72 decibels on a sound meter app—the same level that she records in Indigo’s bedroom in the dead of night.

“Imagine if I had vuvuzela in your ear all the time,” he says.

Having to deal with 60 decibels when you want to sleep is already a fucking hassle. 70+ is straight up torture

The mr cop of the place being “a former member of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia whose leaders were convicted of seditious conspiracy against the U.S. government” feels like he’s finally being forced to deal with the shit he was defending