Dear Editor,

I was amazed to learn via the TV that the annual mystifying Car & Bike show is once again on, but more amazing and alarming is the fact that this entertainment is being held at a ground near the St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital which, as every sensible and sane person knows is one of the places where the sick go to recover, people who are weak, in pain, nervous and in need of peace and quiet as they try to recover and some are in a delicate state, fighting for their life and certainly not needing to be jerked out of their senses by loud, very loud, senseless noise!

Yet amazingly the Police have sanctioned this by reportedly providing security after giving permission to the exercise.

Could it be because the ground where this madness is scheduled to be held is one frequented by and apparently associated with government ministers etc and the rental for holding it there is enormous? (I understand millions).

For those who do not know, let me enlighten you – one of the main aspects of this show is the extremely loud, exceedingly loud testing of the participating vehicles’ sound systems. How can this be sanctioned for an area in such close proximity to a hospital?

Are the organizers so insensitive? Are the powers that be in the police force and the government so uncaring?

What is more amazing is that the police are reportedly on a campaign to reduce the disturbance of the peace by loud noise from motor vehicles. Nothing is more disgusting and unnerving to have your peace in your own home violently disturbed by someone with a moving juke box.

Please let good sense prevail and find a ground where there is no hospital, senior citizens home or even residential area in close proximity if this so-called entertainment must be held. We lesser mortals also have a right to exist in peace and quiet or is this really a cowboy town?

Is this not “Deaf awareness week”?

Yours faithfully,
Joan Smith