From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 13:09:16 MDT
Got this in the news today:
One Mower Way to Get Even
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Apartment dwellers have a new weapon to use on noisy
neighbors, with a New Zealand man recording a compact disc of 64 minutes of
lawnmower noise.
``If your neighbors have a party Saturday night fairly late...what you do is you
get up at seven o'clock in the morning, put the hour of lawnmowing sound on and
go out to a cafe,'' Wellington noise man and cafe owner Geoff Marsland told
Reuters Monday. The astro-turf covered CD offers listeners general lawnmower
sounds along with feature moments such as the emptying of the catcher and stones
hitting the blades.
Five thousand of the CDs are on the market, of which more than 4,000 have been
snapped up by local retailers, Marsland said.
The album is his second. He previously sold around 4,200 copies of an album of
urban noise such as a car alarm sounding off and a revving motorcycle.
That album -- entitled Urban Assault -- also featured three minutes of a baby
crying, which Marsland described as the ultimate contraceptive.
end...
Now, If I'm on the 10th floor, just exactly how are you annoying people? I'd
imagine most of one's neighbors would be in stitches....
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