For Our Next Victim

Last night, after returning from my sons’ basketball banquet, I quickly skimmed through the new Time magazine that appeared in the mailbox.  One article caught my eye as I flipped the pages because of the following blurb which appeared in the middle of the page along with a picture to drive the point home.

"A single noisy motor scooter driving through Paris in the middle of the night can wake up as many as 200,000 people."

When I read that, I wondered how in the heck did they come up with that number.  Of course the number came from some statistical number crunching, but I kind of chuckled and pictured researchers sending “a single noisy motor scooter” through the streets of Paris at night and then phoning neighborhood residents and asking them if they were awakened by a noisy motor scooter that night.

The article begins by lamenting noisy leaf blowers, boom cars, car alarms, barking dogs, airplanes and action films.  Some of those noise makers I dislike myself.  The article then seques into the numbers of Americans affected by too much noise, and postulates possible crisis numbers of too much noise affected individuals.  You know what that means.  More laws and lawsuits.

The article is titled “Just Too Loud."

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