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| Chatty Pensioners Banned From Park Bench For Being Too Noisy |
| 2008-11-03 |
| "The seven pensioners, including a 96-year-old and her friend who dedicated 40 years of her life to the NHS, have been told their teatime chats are a 'noise nuisance' which disturbs nearby residents. Housing Association bosses have now warned the group the four benches in Mottingham, south London, they sit on will be removed if they don't tone down the volume of their conversations. Being 'hard of hearing' is now punishable? The pensioners meet up once a day to talk about such every things like the weather, their families and the cost of living. Ann Reddy, 69, who is recovering from a stroke and has had 45 operations, said she was horrified about being branded a trouble-maker." "But someone has complained and said we are making too much noise." Her friend, 96-year-old Rose Anderson, a great-grandmother of nine great, said she would "go mad" if forced to sit in her flat all day by herself. She said: "I'm so old now and I have got nothing else to do with my day. "We all deserve to be treated with a lot more respect than this." No, you're just a pensioner - Broomleigh Housing Association |
| Posted by:Mullah Richard |
| #5 Compare that to survey of quality of life for mooks on welfare and I bet you'll feel even worse. |
| Posted by: bgijim-ky 2008-11-03 17:02 |
| #4 This is the saddest part of the article: Help The Aged report last week found that a third of people over 65 in the UK - 3.6 million in total - now live alone and have little contact with their friends and family. Latest figures show more than a million pensioners half a million leave their house less than once a week, and that 300,000 feel like prisoners in their own homes. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-11-03 15:19 |
| #3 So why is there a park bench there? You can sit on it but not talk? What a f*cked up country. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-11-03 15:07 |
| #2 But Broomleigh Housing Association are refusing to back down. Julie Schoon, assistant director of supported housing at Broomleigh, said: "As a registered social landlord we are responsible for ensuring that any complaints of noise nuisance or other forms of anti-social behaviour are acted upon." So what's it gonna be, Julie? Soylent Green? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-11-03 13:36 |
| #1 You overage peasants are just a burden. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-11-03 12:37 |