Warning parties must end by Midnight!!

sunnyday


Joined: 14/03/2008
Posts: 269

Message Posted:
10/08/2009 20:35

Apparently there is an on the spot fine if you make a noise after midnight. As we found out on Saturday night when the police turned up at 12.30. This was the first time in 2.5 years that we have had an outside party. The locals will be on the phone to the police at 12.00 if you have loud music after then.



Pity it doesn't apply to the loudspeaker that wakes us up at 4am every morning! A year after we moved to a quiet country area louspeakers were put up one day with no notice only 50yds from our bedroom window (& a predominently British Estate). Before then we used to like to hear the call to prayer in the distance. My husband hasn't had a decent nights sleep since!

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
10/08/2009 20:44

RE msg 1, sunnyday: (...) Pity it doesn't apply to the loudspeaker that wakes us up at 4am every morning! (...)



=> Yeah! Let's forcibly convert the TRNC locals to Roman Catholiscm - these RC fairy tale believers only start ringing the church bells at 8 or 9 am. Sleep tight, Mr. sunnyday.

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
10/08/2009 20:48

Msg 1



Bazooka them!



Richard

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
10/08/2009 20:52

sunnyday, you chose to live in they,re country , you must respect they,re laws and beliefs , try ear muffs , close the windows, or go home .

hattikins


Joined: 17/02/2008
Posts: 2793

Message Posted:
10/08/2009 20:56

How dare these people , in their muslim country, disturb our sleep by calling the faithful to prayer, we who are visitors in this country should surely have priority over the local population. Of course, there is an alternative, go back to the UK and live amongst predominantly british people if you are unable or unwilling to integrate into the local way of life.

sunnyday


Joined: 14/03/2008
Posts: 269

Message Posted:
10/08/2009 20:58

Rowlo, I did respect them, but if I had wanted to live next to a Mosque I would have done. Why did they put speakers by 25 British homes after they have all been built & lived in?

pinkchilli


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 689

Message Posted:
10/08/2009 21:04

If you are awake for the first call to prayer, could you pop down to the mosque and do a little survey of your own to discover how many of the faithfull, bother turning up?



Also, armed with your findings, I'm sure many of the "locals" would support you.

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
10/08/2009 21:08

Might it have been wise to do a little more research about Muslim religion before moving to a predominantly Muslim country.

No muslim should have to travel more than 5 minutes by foot to reach a point of prayer, pretty much means that your gonna hear it whether you like it or not, there is of course double glazing and sound proofing

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
10/08/2009 21:11

msg 6 ,sunnyday surely the mosque was always they,re ???

sunnyday


Joined: 14/03/2008
Posts: 269

Message Posted:
10/08/2009 21:19

Yes but the loudspeakers (3 of them) are on a telegraph pole on the old coast road where there are about 6 local houses scattered over 1/2 mile, but they put is outside our new estate of 25 houses, rather than near the locals. You could here the call to prayer without it from the mosque in the village. We have all our windows shut at present, music on, aircon on & I can still hear the call to prayer outside. So imagine what its like with in our bedroom which is the closest room to the speakers. When you live here you can't afford to have the aircon on all night & have to have the windows open.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
10/08/2009 21:26

RE msg 10, sunnyday: First prize for "Problem of the Year".



Who cares about water, electricity, title deeds and what other little nuisances have you... Haha!



Call the TRNC ministry of "Too much Dust and Loudspeakers" and complain.

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
10/08/2009 21:34

hehehe sunnyday ,you,re on a winner , when stavros comes calling he,ll hate that so you,ll be on pre74 ,

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
10/08/2009 21:46

sunnyday

You have two options, you can convert to the Islamic faith or you can go out and buy a pair of wire cutters.

AJ

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
10/08/2009 21:51

I hope it applies to Students making a racket on their balcony's way into the small hours, worse now as they are on a School break, or doesn't it apply to the locals only us Brits ??????

keith


Joined: 03/04/2007
Posts: 272

Message Posted:
10/08/2009 22:45

where abouts are you sunnyday

Keith

scruff


Joined: 15/07/2008
Posts: 1070

Message Posted:
10/08/2009 22:50

Shayna Beach bar in Catalkoy has loud disco music playing until 4am in the morning several nights a week. We are at least a mile away but can hear it on Friday night, Saturday night & other nights too.

Maybe the locals ignore that. The latest time for a music licence is apparently 1am, so how do they get away with that??

MaggieAndBernie



Joined: 26/07/2008
Posts: 2012

Message Posted:
11/08/2009 01:16

Just spent the summer back in UK listening to next doors precocious brats shouting at each other , motor bikes & wagons roaring up & down the road, police & ambulance sirens going constantly , Oh and mustn't forget the pitter patter of raindrops constantly falling!



What I wouldn't give for the call to prayer, the cock crowing, and all the other lovely sounds of Baspinar! roll on a week on Saturday! (Next time I go back to UK I think I'll tape the sounds & play them over a loudspeaker here).



Maggie

minertor



Joined: 14/02/2009
Posts: 1238

Message Posted:
11/08/2009 07:23

After a year you should be used to it. Our local call to prayer used to bother me but now, I don't even notice it. It's like the cockerel, the only person it doesn't bother is the owner, buy one, see if it works



Tony

booitsme


Joined: 04/02/2009
Posts: 667

Message Posted:
11/08/2009 07:27

I believe I know which estate you mean as we have friends living there who are totally fed up with being kept awake until 3- 4am by the british residents on this estate partying and bellowing foul language to each other on a pretty regular basis - even though they are all in the same garden. How come it's ok to not show respect for their fellow residents but noise pollution becomes a problem when it is the locals and their faith? I can understand that you're peeved that the police came to stop your party having had no problems since you moved there (obviously you don't come into the raucous/foul mouthed party brigade) but have you considered apologising to the locals who may have complained as they were rightly upset at being kept awake by the noise? Have you asked that the loudspeakers be turned down slightly so it isn't so intrusive?

cyprusfox


Joined: 13/08/2008
Posts: 119

Message Posted:
11/08/2009 08:58

Message 17





"motor bikes & wagons roaring up & down the road, police & ambulance sirens going constantly"





Sounds like a normal evening on the Bellapais and Karakum roads

kiwikid


Joined: 18/08/2008
Posts: 496

Message Posted:
11/08/2009 13:20

Reg message 16, bar owners are allow to obtain a late night music licence until 3am not 1am, police can not do anything about it until then.