Vancouver, Beat it !
Donc lu sur CBC ce matin, dans le meme genre d'ouverture d'esprit et de tolerance...
A group of drummers who have been banging away every Tuesday until the sun sets on beaches in Vancouver's Stanley Park have been told they have until the end of summer before they will have to beat it.
The group, called Brahm's Tams, have attracting spectators to Second Beach with their rhythms for the past three years. But this year, the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation said residents who live nearby had been complaining about the noise.
"From residents who go down there, as well as our park rangers, we've been getting complaints," board commissioner Aaron Jasper said Tuesday night, "For some of the residents it is, in their minds, one of the quieter spots to go down in the afternoon, and so to have the drumming is a bit of a disturbance to them."
The board told them to move their drumming circle to Third Beach instead.
However, at the first session at the new location last week, Vancouver police officers shut them down, threatening them with tickets, according to Brahm Olszynko, who started the drumming sessions.
"Some people were upset, and they called the police," Olszynko said when the group returned to Second Beach on Tuesday night, "And a sergeant and five officers came. And they just, they gave me an ultimatum, eh, that I either had to stop or they were going to stop it, and that stopping it would not have been as amicable."
Despite the police action, the board has offered to let the performances continue until the end of the summer. Officials will also discuss alternative spots in the park, including Prospect Point, where it is possible to see the sunset, Jasper said.
Moi ce que j'aime la-dedans, ce sont les commentaires de gens... Comme celui-ci, choisi par le plus grand hasard :D
"Vancouver is the most intolerant place I have ever lived in Canada.
This city is filled with stuck up rich people who dont care about anything except their own personal agendas.
F-YOU! all you NIMBYs - get a life or move to the suburbs if you dont want any noise, culture or vibrancy - we were here before your luxury condos."
Ou encore :
"No one can fault the local residents for complaining about hours and hours of drumming. Seems like common sense."
Oh please, I live right next to first beach, I have had the drummers there for the last two years, I had people juggling fire and doing other cool stuff on it, even some bonfire (occasionally), I literally can hear the waves crashing in the morning, and the music (like the Jazz Combo that set up on that little park on the weekend) is much less annoying than the drunks that stagger out of the bars or the motorcycle and "muscle cars" that feel the need to "let it rip" at two in the morning along the waterfront.
They want to quiet down the neighbourhood? Crack down on those idiots, not on some people making music that others can enjoy too."
Demain, je vous narrais comment un mec a ecrit a 24hours pour expliquer qu'il etait hors de question qu'il laisse sa place dans le bus aux femmes enceintes pasqu'elles ont choisi d'etre dans cet etat et pi c'est tout.
J'adore.