The noise pollution

Discussion

October 12, 2011

The noise pollution

Anonymous Submitted The Tahlequah Daily Press Wed Oct 12, 2011, 11:21 AM CDT

TAHLEQUAH — Editor, Daily Press:

I would like to know what happened to Tahlequah.

You used to be able to open your windows on a nice day or evening. Those days are gone forever, with the boom boxes, and the altered exhaust mufflers on vehicles. With these vehicles on the roads, you can’t open your windows. It is so relaxing when it wakes you up at 2 a.m., when the bars close.

Does anyone at city hall care? From my experience, and what the public tells me, I can only say no. They won’t care if you don’t have enough money. One councilor laughed out loud and said it was probably her son. It showed me she didn’t care about babies sleeping, or someone just out of the hospital who needed to sleep at midnight.

Should we forget about the people who work for a living to feed their families and pay their mortgages? That councilor doesn’t care about the people who need to sleep at night over the windows vibrating because of road noise.

If you would like to go for a walk in Tahlequah, don’t forget to wear your earplugs. If you do forget them, I hope you enjoy your headache or the pain in your ears from the noise. It can’t help but damage your hearing.

The noise makers and drunken drivers are above the law. One drunken driver broke a piece of 100 year-old history in my front yard, and nothing happened to this person. If you ask the police chief for any help at all, he just tells the homeowner to go someplace else. But this is our home.

It is sad to see children afraid to play outside because of what they have to hear. If you want to feel safe in my area, you have to have a weapon handy, day or night. There are times the noise level is so high you couldn’t hear someone breaking into your house. The people at this one place said the police chief said they could say and do anything they wanted, and they do – day or night.

Yes, there are people out all night long, yelling cuss words, and then here comes another boom box or someone making loud noises by revving up their engine with no muffler. If someone cared enough to stop this noise, they would help to get rid of noise pollution and air pollution at the same time. This noise is one way to keep the people of Tahlequah from going for a walk to see their real home town.

Yes, I’m looking forward to rain and cold weather. It keeps those two-wheeled noisemakers off of the road.

If someone has an idea to clean this up, please speak up. I want my grandsons to know what clean air is – both for hearing and breathing. I have people ask me all of the time about how to stop the never-ending noise. All I can tell them is I don’t have enough money to help them. Move out of town.

Robert Land

Tahlequah

Text Only

Letters to editor

Pray for leaders, too
Dave Thomas needs to be sure he is uttering facts, not claims, before he prays.

May 8, 2013
In defense of the 2nd
There are four reasons why I am against a mandated background check to purchase a weapon. The first is how I read the Second Amendment: “...shall not be infringed..” means that Congress does not have any authority over “arms.” I do not believe a body of fallible men and women should have that kind of authority.

May 8, 2013
STIR incensed at letters
Now we learn that not only have Northwest Arkansas forces successfully weaseled another study of Oklahoma’s

April 26, 2013
Foot patrol needed here
Folks are putting in [the Press] their pride for the police department. If all was so fine, why did we get a new chief?

April 26, 2013
Kudos to Daily Press
I just want to let you know how impressed I am with the professionalism displayed by Tahlequah Daily Press Managing Editor Kim Poindexter during a disturbing incident I witnessed Monday, April 1.

April 24, 2013
In defense of cops
One of my pet peeves is people talking about something as if it’s fact when they don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. In response to Phyllis Wilfong’s letter to the editor, let me set the record straight.

April 22, 2013
CN to be commended
I have to applaud Cherokee Nation’s investment in health care.

April 17, 2013
In appreciation of cops
Wow, maybe we should start dictating to our police force where, when, what time, what type of food, and with whom they should be eating! More often than not, co-workers are often seen lunching together. Why should law enforcement be looked upon any differently?

April 17, 2013
The unfriendly streets
I have lived in the Tahlequah area since 1994, and since 2009, within the city limits of Tahlequah. Since 2011, I have begun running in town, and since 2012, also started bicycling in town.

April 3, 2013
Coming full circle
When I was a child growing up in Tahlequah, the Indian children were looked down on. The “White” kids made fun of their names and accents.

March 29, 2013
More Letters to editor Headlines

What do you think of Sen. McCain's proposal to allow cable TV channels to be sold a la carte (individually, rather than in bundles with a lot of channels no one wants)? Bear in mind some less popular channels could go by the wayside with no bundling support, and that while overall packages should theoretically decrease in cost, individual channels might cost more.

Letters to editor

Search Results

Discussion

The noise pollution

Site Map

Contact Us