When Neighbors Assault Your Senses …

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Nov 6, 2000 | by Stephen Goode

If your neighbors happen to have a thoroughly obnoxious event they haven't invited you to that disturbs your usual hours of shut-eye, there's now a great way to get even. A fellow in New Zealand, who must have had very noisy neighbors indeed, has recorded a 64-minute compact disc of nothing but lawn-mower noise.

The CD (which comes in an "AstroTurf" covered package) has your usual run-of-the-mill lawn mower sounds, but includes added offerings, such as the PLUNKS! made when stones hit the metal blades.

"If your neighbors have a party Saturday night fairly late," CD creator Geoff Marsland told Reuters, then "what you do is you get up at 7 a.m., put the hour of lawn mowing on and go out to a cafe." (It should come as no surprise that Marsland runs a cafe.)

The CD is his second. His first, called Urban Assault, sold 4,200 copies and had, among other assorted sounds, three minutes of a baby crying -- which Marsland described as the "ultimate contraceptive" -- a car alarm sounding and a revving motorcycle engine.