Barcelona Man Sentenced to Prison for Terrorizing Neighbors with EDM

A Barcelona man is headed to prison. The crime? EDM.

A magistrate in El Masnou, or Barcelona, sentenced a man to one year and three months in prison for the “serious damages” he caused to a next-door family, for a murderous plague of EDM “boom booms,” as referenced in the court case. This voluble neighbor with a penchant for unce unce and womp womp allegedly tormented his neighbors for not one, not two, not three or four… but a foul five years of drudgery and ruin.

According to the neighbors, sleep escaped them for years. They sought out “sedative treatments” to induce sleep, languishing in agony night after miserable night. From 2012 to 2017, music blared above the levels legally established by environmental regulations. The madman also ignored visits from local law enforcement and explicit warnings from the municipality’s Councilor for the Environment.

One of the victims gave brave testimony, narrating the extreme conditions of the sonar explosion. “El ‘bum bum’ no se podía resistir, me vibraban los huesos,” which translates to, “The ‘boom boom’ could not be resisted for my bones were vibrating.” The victim was essentially claiming that her bones were melting, that the sounds she was hearing were those from the underworld, and that there was no escape from this hellish landscape of war. Even the police testified to the incessant noise from Hades himself. The police bemoaned, “Era un ‘bum bum’ continuo” or “It was a continuous ‘boom boom.’”

In addition to the prison sentence, the offender was ordered to pay the victims a sum of 18,000 euros, a small amount for the extreme havoc he wreaked and the doom he spawned. In all honesty, there should have been harsher penalties enforced, more prison time and larger sums of money – millions if not billions of dollars should have been collected for these crimes against humanity.

To eulogize this extremely sad story please listen to the Spaniard classic, “I Took A Pill In Ibiza,” by the estimable Mike Poser, a man also inflicted with the boom boom, the unce unce, the beep boop beep, wonk wonk, wicky wick, yeah yeah. Our deepest condolences.