"RoseGarden" - - - - - - - from - nscave

Every time I get this blog going on a regular basis, something interrupts the flow. So we will try to establish regular postings once again by starting out with a controversial topic. Backup Alarms or "Beepers" should be banned.

It was bad enough a few years ago when a gentleman who owned a cleaning company lived a few doors down from me. His cleaning of office buildings was usually completed by four or five a.m. in the morning. Without fail every morning of the week we would hear "Beep, Beep, Beep!" as he backed his truck into the driveway, with an even stranger star wars sound as he pulled it out of reverse.

You southern folks can't relate to snow removal, but it has started early here in Nova Scotia. Well sort of, they are not doing a very good job, but that is another story. I live on a corner lot with a street out front and one on the side.

The snowplow comes around all hours of the night. It is bad enough they hit the manhole cover out front without fail each and every time. Good aim those people. Since they don't know how to plow an intersection properly, the job of doing the entrance to the side street usually takes ten minutes or more, with them backing up many times. (If done properly, it could be done with no backing up. I know snow removal.) So at all hours of the night we hear "Beep, Beep, Beep!" for the entire ten or fifteen minutes.

Usually the next night, or at least at a later time period, along comes the small BobCat type loader to do the side walks. Since the snow plow backed up so many times and piled the snow high where the side walk is, the small loader has a tough time, often spending twenty to thirty minutes moving the snow that the big plow piled high. Once again during the wee hours of the morning we listen to "Beep, Beep, Beep!" as the mini-loader does its thing.

Do backup alarms serve a purpose? I would hope they do. But I notice even at construction sites, if you have more than one piece of equipment moving at a time, the general public ignores the continuous "Beep, Beep, Beep!" coming from each machine.

Let's see, we have environmental pollution,  light pollution, and noise pollution all through the night "Beep, Beep, Beep!" ...

-=One Day At A Time=-

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