Vuvuzelas (relevant!)

[edb49]

So I am sure everyone is pretty fed up with all the news reports about vuvuzelas, but it got me thinking. One report said they produced 130dB, e.g. effing loud.

There's lots of reports about tracks not being allowed to operate because of noise emitted, I think Bedford and Thruxton have some of the harshest conditions enforced on them by the local authorities.

Question is, do the same kind of restrictions apply to football stadiums (stadia?) and other sporting fixtures? I can see lots of people bringing vuvuzelas to football games now, which would make them much louder than track days.

Can someone explain to me why one is allowed and the other not?

[A911DOM]

Because one involves people who murder polar bears with their dirty fire breathing oil burning monsters, and the other simply kill each other in hand to hand combat after 15 stellas or by heart attack from the burger van produce.

I agree by the way.

Have there been any cases where numptys move in to a house next to a football ground and manage to get it closed down cos its too noisy...

[joe_90]

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[edb49]

/me buys a flat next to Wembley and starts writing letters.

(Who gives about the Race of Champions)

[agent006]

edb49 said:

One report said they produced 130dB, e.g. effing loud.

I head that too. No details of how it was measured though, which renders it complete bks.

[edb49]

agent006 said:

edb49 said:

One report said they produced 130dB, e.g. effing loud.

I head that too. No details of how it was measured though, which renders it complete bks.

I bet it's louder than a Radical or Caterham R500 at full chat though, which is kind of the point.

[madbadger]

Presumably 130db is collectively for a stadium full? From 1mm away?

One little plastic trumpet = to a Quo concert / pneumatic drill / tvr at max revs = bks.

[groomi]

Stadiums have this fantastic design feature though, where the noise is all directed to a central point and is completely surrounded by a wall and partial (sometimes full) roof.

I doubt the noise travels like it does at a race circuit.