EDITOR – I live in the Musgrave area and also have a holiday apartment on the Umhlanga Ridge. What has come to my attention is that youngsters are driving sports cars such as Porsche, Ferrari, and Lamborghini and enjoy giving the extra acceleration especially in the avenues between these high rise apartments.
The noise pollution goes on throughout the day and well into the night. I recall this problem being highlighted by the newspaper some time ago.
I surfed the network sea of information and recall reading how other big cities in the First World have dealt with the problem.
The most interesting bit of information arose from research done by the Research Institute of the Miami RTI where they consciously investigated and apprehended offenders only to come to the conclusion that most of those apprehended were under 25 years old and when investigating them further through the sophisticated finger print recognition system discovered that most if not all were also guilty of many other misdemeanours and some even more serious offences such as parking in bays reserved for the physically disabled, being offensively discourteous, not stopping at a stop sign, beating traffic lights etc.
I suggest that when creating parking bays in future, shopping centres should provide for those with mental disabilities as well.
The psychological assessment revealed that most of the offenders were from very affluent families and very often dysfunctional families, had never worked a day in their lives, were academic failures and had some or other form of Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). The study also revealed that many of these offenders did not need to justify their actions and were generally overcompensating for their lack of achievement in the real world while a sizeable proportion were over compensating for their lack of self-confidence and other sexual complexes.
I then gathered that there’s more than meets the eye and when passing judgement especially of these “noisemakers” one needs to look at their psychological profiles before doing so. We should be feeling sorry for them.
Pro bono publico
Musgrave
