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* ''[[Wire in The Blood]]'': Tony was harassed by a literally paranoid neighbour who had delusions Tony was harassing ''him''. His neighbour played loud music all night as a way of getting "back" at Tony.
* In ''[[Burn Notice]]'', they used this on a captured enforcer from the Russian Mafia in the episode ''Comrades'' .
* On the ''[[
* In a parody of the Manuel Noriega situation (see Real Life), ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' episode "A House Reunited" has Mimi attempting to drive Drew out of his house by loudly playing "Panama" for three days.
* On ''[[The Office]]'', Jim steals Karen's desk chair because his squeaks. So Karen (not realizing who she's dealing with) tries to get back at him by squeaking the chair. He sings the chorus for "Lovefool" by The Cardigans repeatedly to get it stuck in her head. She's begging him to stop in seconds.
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== New Media ==
* In the quest ''[[Conquering the Horizon]]'', the True People declared war on the Evelyn. Because Evelyn is a pacifist, she planned to annoy the crap out of them with loud noise, instead of, you know, killing them. At some point after they showed up in her ally's city she had a mobile sound body and used it subdued the True People's army with noise. The True People's species are blind and navigate through sound. The first song she used was a less than perfect rendition of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_(The_Temptations_song) "War"]. Evelyn notes that it is both fitting and ironic to use that song as a weapon in a war, yet with the intent to end the war as immediately and bloodlessly as possible. Make no mistake though, being on the receiving end was excruciating. The second song was [[Rick Astley|"Never Gonna Give You Up"]]. It's not clear how many more songs Evelyn used, but it did work.
== Newspaper Comics ==
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*** Ironically, the device in question is sold in Ireland and the UK as a ''ringtone'', specifically so teenagers can use their phones in schools without their teachers hearing it.
* One store in England tried to drive away the nastier teen elements in the neighborhood by playing soap opera music and the like. They fought back with standing at the store's doors playing in their speakers... ''Russian marching music, Gustav Holst's ''Mars'', songs of U2 and... Do You Remember Love''.
* Delone Catholic High School in McSherrystown, Pennsylvania, played the Hanson song "MmmBop" over the PA system until a fundraising goal was reached. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121018065709/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/13/earlyshow/main838253.shtml?CMP=OTC-RSSFeed&source=RSS&attr=Entertainment_838253 Story from CBS news].
** Other "Stop The 'Bop" campaigns have since been staged elsewhere.
* A judge known for his unusual sentencing once made delinquent youths attend Opera.
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* An obnoxious feature of dorm life is "stereo wars".
** Another fun thing for dorm dwellers: resonance. A typical dorm floor is a row of identical rooms with the same spacing between the walls. That creates an echo chamber for the one isolated sound frequency that has a wavelength equal to the size of the rooms. That part will rise out of a song and become louder all by itself. If the rooms are about two and a half meters wide the magic number is 140 hz, a nice low note somewhere in the fat part of a bass drum's range. You don't even get the whole song, just the least subtle part of the drum line, and a few snippets of the bass here and there.
* Occasionally happens at protests or similar situations, as competing sides attempt to drown each other out - and may even be a deliberate attempt to cause disruption to communication or drive away business while using the shelter of free speech. One example that comes to mind is anti-Wicca activist Bill Pricer's attempt to prevent the performance of an equinox ceremony by attending it himself. With a truck, and a sound system cranked [[Up to Eleven]], and a CD of Christian rock. And, just to be sure, a group of friends who walked around chanting Bible verses. The attempt was a success: [https://web.archive.org/web/20140919143503/http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_article.html?a=cabc&id=8514 One cannot conduct a ceremony if the words are inaudible]. I also recall reading of an escalation of the Muslim call to prayer in some areas following the introduction of amplified speaker technology - as mosques competed to have the loudest call, the arms race led to some in areas of high mosque-density reaching the levels that can cause hearing loss to nearby residents.
* Some airports use loud rock music to keep birds away from the runways.
* Some law enforcement officials, when wanting to discourage patronage of a bar that's been the center of much trouble in a community, have had success with leaving loud classical music playing in the vicinity.
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