Loud music and the law

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I AM an elderly citizen living in one of the remote country districts where unless there is a murder committed no one sees the police. Disturbances by sound systems and loud playing of tapes cause people like me to spend a lot of money at doctors, the cash we cannot even afford but if one's head keeps hurting and other pains across one's body then we have to make sacrifices to go and get some form of ease.

I understand that the law is passed providing for fines up to $15,000 or three months in jail. Well take it from this sufferer of loud noises that because we are living in these remote areas we are not getting any justice. These noise boxes play from morning till night sometimes seven days a week.

Kindly publish my letter that the Ministry of National Security and Justice may be able to see that it is not only in the urban areas that humans are suffering but also in the remote areas.

I am, etc.,

ONE ELDERLY

CONCERNED CITIZEN

Maidstone, Manchester

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