TV and loud music lead to thousands of noise complaints
Monday 30th May 2011, 6:27PM BST.
Thousands of noise complaints are being lodged with councils in the Black Country and Staffordshire each year – with neighbours the chief culprits. In the last three years there were 11,990 reports in Wolverhampton alone.
The majority of the complaints were about blaring music or televisions. Walsall residents have also made 9,690 complaints in the same period, with more than 6,000 relating to ‘domestic’ noise and a further 2,408 about animals making lives a misery.
Figures in Sandwell have remained steady at around 1,200 reports for each of the last three years, while reports in South Staffordshire, dominated by barking dogs, were about 500 a year.
South Staffordshire Council spokesman Jamie Angus said: “The largest number of complaints are about barking dogs.”
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Well we’ve got half the population unknowingly prematurely deaf due to loud headphone usage, and the other half were taught to be selfish in the Thatcher years. The chickens have come home to roost.
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Televisions are loud because of poorly recorded dialogue. Nobody who acts on TV has been on stage any more or have learned how to project themselves – they go straight into TV and just mumble. Producers can’t ask for parts to be re-recorded any more because stars are such prima donnas. They know we can always turn our TVs up. We eat in front of the television too, and you can’t hear when you are crunching and chewing.
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My main gripe is barking dogs, or rather, the inconsiderate owners who leave them barking. The people who do this deserve to have the animals taken away from them, and given to those mature and responsible enough to look after them. It’s a moronic element that does this – not all dog owners – but this element makes life a living hell for the rest of us. We’ve got one such clown near us, it’s like they’re as thick as sludge despite countless polite approaches about the noise they make. Fine them, then remove the dog. Don’t like it don’t have one.
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My headache is these ridiculously-loud exhaust systems, often found on boy-racer type cars. There’s one such contraption near us, it’s up and down the road so many times a day you’d think the owner was in the Lemans 24Hr race. This is so inconsiderate to other people..I think the law should be changed to put a stop to it. Almost everywhere I go here in the Black Country you see this kind of menace, or rather, you hear it many streets away and then when it approaches it deafens your ears. If these twits want attention they should go back to play school or whatever. You’d think that in a region like this, with so many people, this kind of menace would be stopped..but no, Sandwell being what it is..
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I agree john, these boy racers little realise that there car m.o.t is invalid as the car exceeds the noise limit for road use, so basically they are driving around in illegal cars, fools! same goes for the thumping music they play trying to look good.
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If people can’t put up with a bit of noise, get off your backside and move, preferably to the moon or get some ear plugs.
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