I have been living in Żebbuġ for the past 40 years and while I do not mind discos being able to stay open into the early hours of the morning over the weekend, why is it that they are allowed to pollute the night with high volume music?

Imagine if you will (and I know that everyone has experienced this at some time or other) it is midnight and a car passes right under your window with its stereo blaring at full blast. Very distressing. Now imagine if this car parks on your street and leaves the stereo blazing away? Noisy huh? Well now if this were the case, no doubt you would go out and ask the person to turn it off.

What has this got to do with discos? Well a few nights ago a famous disco, Gianpula, situated about a mile and a half from where I live, managed to wake a lot of Żebbuġ residents with music blaring away at about 2 a.m. So I ask the minister charged with noise pollution abatement, what is the highest decibel level allowed to become noise pollution?

What effect would it have on people attending the disco? Perforated eardrums? Perhaps the minister of health would like to enlighten us.

Why is a disco allowed to function in the open air? When they decide to pump up the volume, should they not do so in a sound-proof environment?

Playing loud music in the car risks a fine.

Why does Gianpula only get a slap on the wrist and be told by the police to lower the sound (which incidentally was done at 2.45 a.m.), which could still be heard clearly one and a half miles away?

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