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05/07/09
(from a radio show)
'My band plays originals, all these other bands merely
play covertunes.  They suck.
(slightly edited for dramatic effect)



05/07/09

Dear Editor:
While I am sure many Roswell residents enjoyed themselves for a while during the weekend's celebrations in Cahoon Park there were some of us who did not.

Those of us who live across the street from the bandstand became a captive audience subjected to two continuous days of a thousand decibels of a cacophony of sound euphemistically called "music" that pierces our ear drums, rattles our windows, and scares the bejeebers out of our pets.

That level of noise for that amount of time in the workplace would bring a hoard of OSHA inspectors in to shut the place down. Indeed it is just this kind of "music" played at that level of volume over that period of time that is used to "torture" inmates at Guantanamo Bay.

Why is our neighborhood not afforded the same protections under Roswell's noise ordinance that every other neighborhood in the city enjoys? The last time I read it, it said that noise is too loud if you can't hold an ordinary conversation 75 feet from the source. I live three or four times that distance from the bandstand and there is no way I can hold a normal conversation in my back yard or anywhere outside of my house. And I even have to turn the volume up on the TV set inside the house to hear it over that "music" being played in the park.

Is there no place in the entire city of Roswell these celebrations can be held without disrupting an otherwise peaceful neighborhood? Cielo Grande and the fair grounds immediately come to mind.

Name Deleted-
Roswell