Dear Editor,

During GuyExpo, a house was broken into in Plum Park, and a woman and her daughter were subjected to a brutal beating. Her screams for help were not heard by neighbours because there was so much noise coming from the exhibition site. During GuyExpo, a man lay dying in his bed, and the music from the exhibition (complete with the most vulgar lyrics) pounded away as his wife watched him breathe his last. During GuyExpo, a sick woman living in Lamaha Gardens had to be taken to the emergency room. As the car brought her home, it was held up for almost an hour in the bumper-to-bumper lines on Duncan Street, and sick as she already was, she had to endure the heat and exhaust fumes of the cars-not to mention the deafening noise from Sophia. And those are just three examples-all of them true-of the distress caused to residents while this event is taking place.

My point, Madam Editor, is that if GuyExpo is to continue in its present form (5 % serious business exhibition and 95% f