City Noise

Ending the gas leaf blower trauma was a great start. Now, let’s go after the rest of the noisemakers. Start with the power lawn mowers, which generate about as much noise as the blowers, then turn to the construction teams that start their banging at the crack of dawn, and then the obnoxious garbage trucks, which collect at 6 a.m. on weekends.

After we win those battles, I want to tackle the city, which sends out its power tree-trimming teams to churn out incredible headaches, those irritating police helicopters that buzz seemingly 10 feet above my roof and finally, those agonizing car alarms, especially the ones that repeatedly honk, honk, honk, and the ones that play a series of various sounds.

What is with people? Why can’t they adjust their motion detector so that it doesn’t falsely trigger every time a cat jumps on the car or a large truck rolls by? I have had a car alarm for almost eight years now, and I have only had it falsely trigger about three separate times (once was due to a 6 a.m. large garbage truck rolling by).

HERSHEL REMER

Los Angeles