You thought airport noise was bad?

[JohnR]

From "The Week", April 13, 2007

Bad week for free expression, after a California amusement park banned screaming on its roller coaster, the Scandia Screamer, to appease neighborhood residents. "If you feel like you might make noise," an amusement park official advised, "cover your mouth."

 

[KennyFlys]

I'd heard about this on radio shows as well as saw a few articles on Internet and TV. It's the Scandia Family Fun in Fairfield, California. The residents interviewed came across as... well, I'll be nice.

I have to wonder what was there first. The park or the residents? The best I can tell, the park has been there at least thirty years.

Either way, I'm reminded of all the people who moved into new developments just south of the new Denver International Airport. Then, they started complaining about the noise. Idiots!