Pages: A17
Section: Letters
Publication date: Dec 1, 1999
ProQuest document ID: 252759096
Copyright: Copyright Southam Publications Inc. Dec 1, 1999
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It's 4 a.m. Sunday, and for the past seven hours the unrelenting, repetitive, bass beat of techno music has permeated my neighbourhood, seeped into my house and pounded inside my skull.
This constant noise is emanating from an all-night rave. Is this rave being held in an isolated, industrial area? No, it's at 75th Street south of Argyll, just a few blocks from a residential area. Why haven't the police shut down this rave, or at least demanded the volume be lowered?
The police are unable to do this because astonishingly, city hall actually issued a permit for this rave. Yes, a permit for an all- night rave, a permit for disconcerting, headache-inducing, throbbing sounds to flood the neighbourhood until the sun rises.
I wonder if those at city hall who approved this event are getting a good night's sleep. I know no one in my neighbourhood is.
S McLaughlin, Edmonton
Publication date: Dec 1, 1999
ProQuest document ID: 252759096
Copyright: Copyright Southam Publications Inc. Dec 1, 1999
Full text:
It's 4 a.m. Sunday, and for the past seven hours the unrelenting, repetitive, bass beat of techno music has permeated my neighbourhood, seeped into my house and pounded inside my skull.
This constant noise is emanating from an all-night rave. Is this rave being held in an isolated, industrial area? No, it's at 75th Street south of Argyll, just a few blocks from a residential area. Why haven't the police shut down this rave, or at least demanded the volume be lowered?
The police are unable to do this because astonishingly, city hall actually issued a permit for this rave. Yes, a permit for an all- night rave, a permit for disconcerting, headache-inducing, throbbing sounds to flood the neighbourhood until the sun rises.
I wonder if those at city hall who approved this event are getting a good night's sleep. I know no one in my neighbourhood is.
S McLaughlin, Edmonton
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