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Noise Ordinance / Disorderly Conduct / Loud Music / Public Nuisance / Common Courtesy / Common Sense / Do Unto Others / AVVO / Michael A. Haber, ESq. **ARRESTED / **305DUI

Q:   Is it legal or illegal to curse in public?  What about stores and such, or if you drive by with the radio loud and the radio says a curse? What about wearing a shirt with a curse on it?

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Answered . You are free to curse and to listen to the radio loudly unless and until your conduct becomes legally disorderly or you violate (as my colleague stated) a noise ordinance.

Noise ordinances can easily be found on-line (for example, following s a link to Miami Beach’s Noise Ordinance:

http://web.miamibeachfl.gov/code/scroll.aspx?id…

Disorderly conduct is governed by Florida Statute 877.03 and holds that:

Whoever commits such acts as are of a nature to corrupt the public morals, or outrage the sense of public decency, or affect the peace and quiet of persons who may witness them, or engages in brawling or fighting, or engages in such conduct as to constitute a breach of the peace or disorderly conduct, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

Basically this requires that you not make a lack ass out of yourself and interfere with other folks by so doing.

Listen to your music, don’t force it on everyone else (for example, I like to listen to the news or classic rock and when some assclown is next to me at a red light listening to house music so loudly that my car vibrates from the bass I am wishing that I had a sidewinder missile at my disposal), play well with others and you’ll have nothing to worry about.

We all have to live in the same society and there should be no reason (other than stupidity, intoxication or sociopathology) as to why we cannot all do so within reasonable boundaries.

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