There is no relief from the noise

nuisance

Dear Editor,
On the night of Sunday February 16, 2014 a group of about 10 persons pulled into the restaurant located at the front of the yard where I reside and started playing loud music. I went out to stop them because I was nursing a splitting headache, heaviness and pain behind my neck since Friday throughout to 3 am Sunday morning.
Triggered by noise abuse the pain and heaviness persisted during the day. I also knew what their coming signified. Many times groups of persons both male and female, would pull in on the pretext of buying beers but in fact they would have their own liquor to drink and play loud music and speak and laugh very loudly.
They would even behave vulgar in front of our children on occasions without a care about what they do or who they disturb. They would also litter the premises with food boxes and beer bottles, and even come way down in the yard to urinate despite the fact there is a toilet facility.
It doesn’t matter how low the music appears to be when they would have consumed more than enough the music would be turned up loudly and calls would have to be made to the police sometimes on more than one occasion before one could get any relief. So it is better to have them removed.
As I was walking towards the entrance, I saw a man in the yard vomiting so I asked him what was he doing vomiting in this yard. He rudely replied, “What it look like I doing?” Iit was one of the persons from the group that had pulled in there. I failed to take note whether all but some of them had a bottle of beer in their hand. I also erred big time by not taking the vehicle number.
I asked them seriously to turn the music down and they started disrespecting us. I called the police asking the Inspector that spoke to me to have these people removed, the patrol responded promptly and when I approached the vehicle and requested to have the group removed the rank who appeared to be in charge bluntly refused, harshly telling me that it was a business place and he cannot do that.
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing because by now the police should be knowledgeable that this particular family because of our location, is always under constant noise abuse. Then from the group a particular male started dancing to the music playing from their vehicle completely ignoring both the police and us.
It was gross disrespect and provocation and when pointed out to another rank who appeared committed to doing the right thing he asked who was the owner of the vehicle and made him turn the music off.
The police then drove off slowly. Again I was shocked and astonished that this could be happening so my sister asked if they were really going and leaving these people knowing what would occur after they would have left. The police turned their vehicle and drove a short distance in the opposite direction and it was then I decided that I was going to fight not only for my already battered health but for the right to enjoy peace and comfort in my home because the police were cruelly turning their backs on us.
I faced the group and started screaming that my head was hurting and they would have to kill me because I won’t be tolerating any more noise. The police then turned back and as my nephew was responding to one of the pompous females there who was abusing him the rank who refused to do anything started threatening my nephew to lock him up.
As noise abuse continues relentlessly especially on weekends and holidays both on Sheriff and Seaforth Streets absolutely nothing is being done to curb this lawlessness and injustice and brutality attack on the citizens health and sanity.
If the noise stops for a few days it always goes back to how it was. A heavy rumbling continues to cause discomfort from the entity opposite. It continues to baffle me that there is no cut off point for these entities that operate when they feel like and how long they feel to completely and heartlessly ignoring that there people who have to work that there are children who have to attend school and very young children who cannot and should not be exposed to that heavy sickening, damaging bass and booming that emanates from their buildings knowing as well as the authority that Campbellville is a residential area and not a commercial one.
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