Much to my disappointment I found out that it was a brand activation for [Brand name removed]<\/em> \u2013 a [Company name removed]<\/em> \u2013 that was responsible for making my life just that much more unpleasant.<\/p>\n I was shown documentation from Disaster Management sanctioning the event and spoke to numerous people on site about\u00a0 the needlessly high noise levels.<\/p>\n Still unable to sleep at 4:15 am I eventually gave up and penned an e-mail to all the people involved. As you can see I have removed the parts identifying the people involved in this article.<\/p>\n I then tweeted about my woes:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3 hours after complaining about noise levels down the road from me I am still awake.<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n My message to the venue and company responsible for noise this morning: \u201cLegal rights do not confer moral rights or even good manners.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n I suppose if I had reverted to Facebook some drunken loser would have told me that he loves me \u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n Anyway, this is a little THREAT \u2013 I prefer to call it an EXHORTATION, but some people may not understand.<\/p>\n One of the items that I have asked the people concerned to attend to is to hand deliver a letter of apology to everyone residing within 2 kilometres of the event. The event took place 1.2 kilometres by road from Chez Straton. Now that is an ugly number as if I had to run there and back it would be 2 comma 4 Kilometres \u2013 the damn armies favourite number!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At 1:30 am this morning I wandered on down to [removed] to see if I could try and reason with whoever had successfully\u00a0 managed to keep myself, my family and many of my neighbours awake with an incessant thump thump. Much to my disappointment I found out that it was a brand activation for [Brand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-15952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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My undertaking is quite simple<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n
If the organisers\/company responsible demonstrate that they are good citizens and neighbours by apologising I will NOT use their names in vain. I may even become a staunch supporter of their various products.<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n