Noise nuisance from hallow box on vehicles

Oct 05, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
Please permit me to highlight a growing and disturbing trend of public discomfort to your accredited media centre. There seems an upsurge in the number of vehicles equipped with what we refer to as hallow box on to their exhaust pipe to amplify the noise emanating from the vehicle. There are various level of noise decibels that one can adjust their hallow box to, ranging from a humming sound to the extremes of bombing sound.
Whether this is unlawful or not is the reason for this letter. It will be most welcoming if anyone can pronounce on the legality of driving around with these hallow boxes with a letter in the newspaper for the public interest. Hopefully this newspaper will be kind again to publish it.
As it seems, persons are not aware of the rules governing this scourge and there is a stark increase in noise levels on our roads as it almost becomes a toy to many vehicle owners. I am forced to complain here in the public domain because I am daily faced with one such problem from someone in my street. I have to daily endure the constant revving of a vehicle equipped with a massive hallow box that when you speak in your home you cannot hear yourself.
This individual seems deliberate and happy to make it a ritual any time of the day to disturb the peace and even affecting one health due to heart attacks and hearing loss. Regularly in the night, this individual will start revving his vehicle and abruptly ending one sleep and can happen multiple times the same night. Sometimes they will come directly in front of my house as a means of intimidation because once I once ask them to desist from this unruly behavior. The sound is so loud that you can hear it from a mile away. This is what I am daily faced with together with my other neighbours. If indeed this behavior is unlawful, then, the problem lies with the administrative authorities. I wish for some help in this regard.
Angela Bisnauth

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