Niet alleen in Nederland zijn de noise criminals een probleem. Bijvoorbeeld in Engeland is er een hoop rumoer:

Maak openbaar vervoer muziek-vrij

Een aantal initiatiefnemers heeft daarom de website Music Free Buses in het leven geroepen. Op deze website is een online petitie gestart, waarmee gepleit wordt voor waarschuwings-bordjes in het Londense openbaar vervoer, waarop gevraagd wordt de muziek af te spelen via de hoofdtelefoon. Volgens de actiegroep wijzen mede-passagiers de herrieschoppers niet op hun gedrag vanwege de angst voor aggressie.

Tot nu toe heeft de actiegroep weinig medewerking mogen ontvangen van Transport For London, de overkoepelende organisatie voor het openbaar vervoer in Londen. Om medewerking af te dwingen is de actiegroep daarom gestart met een online petitie.

BBC News: Call for music-free London buses

A commuter has started a petition calling for a ban on playing music on mobile phones on London buses. Tom Wright said he is fed up with being forced to listen to other people’s music on public transport. “It’s an invasion of privacy,” said Mr Wright, a telecoms technician from Leyton, east London.

BBC News Magazine: Keep the noise down

It’s a kind of musical trespassing. Even though you’re in your own seat on the train, you have to share it with the music from the selfish kid with the fancy mobile phone four rows back. He’s not wearing earphones and he wants to share the bass and hiss of his favourite music with everyone else - and if it winds them up, even better.

“People have become more inconsiderate. They used to only behave that way if they were drunk. Now they feel it’s their right to impose on everyone else the intimate details of their lives.”

Londense reizigers in een petitie

‘If issues like this are left up to the few individuals brave enough to risk abuse or violence to confront those creating a nuisance, they are dismissed as fussy eccentrics, which is extremely socially damaging, especially in the long-term. There has got to be an official policy. This problem cannot be tacitly condoned.’ Charlotte Howden

‘I work as a teacher. This is a stressful and tiring job. My journey is regularly ruined by people playing music out loud. I cannot read or work because the noise is so distracting.’ Mary Stones

‘I am a DJ and love music more than most due to my work. There are times and places for music and transport is definitely not the ideal place. People have enough stress fighting to get onto or off transport without the added noise pollution.’ Ken Martin

‘I have twice tried to ask boys to turn their music down, or use headphones. Both times I have been subjected to unprovoked verbal abuse, intimidation and swearing. Other people get nervous so don’t interfere, so the “attacker” feels emboldened, and I feel this is now becoming a power thing amongst youths.’ TL Rissik

Actievoerders in Londen