Our resident cranky lady, Janine Edwards, is back, and wants you to quiet down.
Darling Edmontonians, we have a problem. And that problem is noise. You see, our delicate ears cannot handle the terrifying noise that motorcycles make.
Shut-up, ambulance!
Living where I do, it makes sense. All too often, they rip through my neighbourhood, startling myself and my little old lady neighbour next door. They are ridiculously loud, and I was more than happy to hear that the city is telling them to quiet down.
But then, I saw that people are now complaining the sirens on emergency vehicles are too loud. Where do we live? Communist Russia?
The sound of emergency sirens are too loud? You would have hated bomb raid sirens during WW2. The common theme here: sirens save lives.
I live near a fire station, and I’ll admit… Occasionally the fire trucks will awaken me in the night. But rather than get angry at them I consider this: that emergency vehicle is potentially SAVING SOMEONE’S LIFE.
So maybe it jolts you out of your light sleep, but that emergency vehicle is on its way to put out a fire, stop crime, or give much needed medical attention to someone. Are you really that selfish that you’ll whine about the siren sound?
Other people on the road need to know the good guys are on their way, so that they can make way for them. Those precious seconds mean something in situations which can be life or death. So when I hear someone whining about the decibel levels of sirens, I want to push the mute button on them.
Rather than complain about the heroes, let’s stop a real noise menace! I’m talking about drunks and “woo girls.” I’m sick of trying to go to bed and hearing drunk people having their loud conversations on street corners. Of girls ‘wooooing’, and of overly loud laughter. I’m tired of waking up to the party crowd, honking horns, and arguments. Where’s the noise crackdown on them?
I want the loud mouth partiers to shut-up. Is that too much to ask? Go home! It’s a Wednesday night!
Is it too much to ask that instead of punishing the police and emergency vehicles – we give emergency responders duct tape for the jerks who wake me up, while they describe some rad thing that just happened at the club? Or they can taze them. I don’t care, I just want some sleep.
Feel free to use your sirens on the way over to taze the loud drunks.
Hey, that HIMYM clip was upped by DEJANG!!!!! Which is either a really great new sound effect, or almost the name of one TOTALLY RADICAL DUDE!
How about those annoying ice cream truck dudes! If someone needs to stop, it is them! It does not have to be that freaking LOUD! I will take the emergency sirens that need to be louder than my radio any day, thanks!
Janine Edwards seems like a troll.
I have no problem with sirens. They didn’t keep me up at night. The r-tard bar hoppers did. (*past tense, I moved.)
When I heard Jane Batty on the radio talking about reducing the volume of sirens it confirmed two things for me: I won’t vote for her in the next election, and I’m proud to say I’ve never voted for her.
She is a troll, but she’s our troll. We have her on a leash.
Adam, I know!
I really wish Ben Henderson was running in my part of downtown this go-round. I won’t be voting for Jane Batty anyway, but I’ve yet to see a candidate I do like. *sigh*
Excellent points – you covered everything as I would have said it.
Maybe the councillor will need to be saved herself one day but won’t be because the “quiet” sirens won’t be heard by all and the medical response team will arrive too late.
Think about your family and your friends lady! Do you want them to DIE because YOU CHOSE to have the sirens be more quiet? Really?
Food for thought…you appear to be reaching an age where the ambulance will have to come get you at home one day but they won’t make it on time because of the decisions you made. I guess you get what you ask for!
Good luck with that one councillor!
As a resident of downtown/Ward 4, I can honestly say that I don’t know what the fuck Batty is bitching about. Loud sirens waking her up at night?
I get a lot of emergency vehicles rushing through my area (or to my area, since I live in a relatively disaffected community). Yes, the sirens are sometimes loud. But, well, so what? Like Janine said: they’re potentially on their way to save lives.
Plus, in my experience, emergency vehicles are far less likely to use their sirens at night, when the roads are mostly empty. If they’re using the siren (as opposed to just the flashing lights), it’s because they NEED to use them. In fact, this is usually true in the day, too. I’ve talked to a few cops who openly said that they HATE using the sirens, because their even louder in the car than they are for everyone outside. They only use them if they NEED to use them.
In short: what a Batty idea, amirite?
Oh god. I used “their” instead of “they’re.” I am ashamed.
YOU GUYS, WHAT IF WE COULD GET BETTY WHITE TO RUN FOR CITY COUNCIL??!?! THIS Edmonton Indy THING ISN’T WORKING OUT AS WELL AS I’D HOPED, BUT I BET SHE’D BE DOWN FOR A SEAT IN, SAY, WARD 5 IF WE ASKED HER!?!?!??!?!?!
A troll? Have you tried to live under a city bridge lately? I always pictured myself as more of a Luck Dragon like Falcor.
re: drunks and “woo girls.”
Without being too much of a jerk – that’s what you get in certain neighborhoods. I live right downtown and accept that as a the side-effect of having a vibrant night life which I enjoy. If I wanted peace and quiet after nine I would move to a less ‘colourful’ area.
I’m really disappointed that there is not competition for Batty, if she’s the only candidate I’ll skip voting and volunteer in other wards on campaigns that will get some good people into City Hall (IMO: Van Alstine, Ward 7, Henderson, Ward 8, Iveson, Ward 10)
Falcor…awesome.