Unless you're the Little Drummer Boy, that shake, rattle and boom from your car could get you in trouble this Christmas season in northern Brevard County.
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Acting on a number of complaints, the Titusville Police Department is planning on putting a little more "still" in the night as part of an operation this month aimed at those who crank up the bass in their cars.

Dubbed "Operation Silent Night," police will enforce a new state law that allows officers to ticket those motorists whose thumping car stereo systems can be heard - and felt - by officers at least 25 feet away.

The loudness won't depend on measuring decibels - the unit for measuring sound - but on the noise created by the music.

"If we can hear it from 25 feet away, we'll be stopping that car. It's all based on the officer's merit like every other case or when I see you run a stop sign," said Warren Van Vuren, spokesman for the Titusville Police Department.

Van Vuren also said it won't matter if motorists are caught jamming loudly to the bubbling bass of the Rolling Stones classic track "Miss You" or the hard-core rap rhythms of G-Unit's "Betta Ask Somebody."

"It's all about how loud the music is, not what's being played," Van Vuren said.

The new law aims to lower the boom on a new generation of music aficionados who pack cars and trucks with mega-watt stereo systems equipped with window-rattling sub-woofers.

Police say the loud systems make it impossible for drivers to hear honking cars or emergency vehicles. The law was changed earlier this year from 100 feet down to 25 feet for excessively loud stereos.

Tickets for the violation run $77.50, Van Vuren said.