Because of the sharing culture that surrounds social media and Facebook in particular receiving a plee for signatures is the kind of thing that most of us are used to, and ultimately end up ignoring.
This particular petition caught my eye because it claimed that the Honourable Mayor of Atlanta, Kasim Reed has passed a noise ordinance banning drift events from taking place within 1000ft of designated residential zones. The Internet is often a cauldron for hyping issues up and making mountains out of molehills so my presumption was that someone along the lines has blown things out of all proportion; at worse some kind of noise ordinance has been passed that prohibits a certain noise level from being exceeded at a certain venue after a certain time. Drifting wasn’t being victimised, Atlanta was safe, panic over, put down the pitchforks.
A bit more digging around quickly revealed that the petition and the reaction from the drifting community was, in fact, completely justified. The ordinance passed on 7 May by Mayor Reed to amend section 74-137(A) of the code of ordinances of the city of Atlanta states.
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