It’s good to know that somewhere, someone is still celebrating in true World Cup style. Unfortunately for Toni Nicholson, she took things a little too far. Her neighbours’ complaints include all night parties, hurtling of things off balconies and the fact that they haven’t slept in a year. Good thing they weren’t anywhere near Cape Town in 2010 then.

The instruments in question need no introduction, but you might like to know that a proper Vuvuzela can bang out 131 decibels – the equivalent of a jet plane passing overhead at 30 metres. So you can imagine the anger and frustration involved.

Nicholson would apparently organise parties on Facebook where she would ask people to bring Vuvuzelas to her flat in Ramsgate, Kent, even after numerous pleas from her surrounding neighbours to quiet down. Many of them claimed they were forced to drink sleeping tablets or leave to avoid the noise.

Some parents even complained about their children being scared to play outside because of broken bottles and passed out weirdoes scattering the passageways near the flat.

Regardless of these issues, and in the true spirit of “up yours”, Nicholson would post her thoughts of the matter on FB which went a little something like this:

“I don’t care if it’s 4am – I don’t consider it tomorrow until I wake up.”

During the World Cup, many of the players, including former Manchester United ace, Cristiano Ronaldo, said the noise affected his concentration on the pitch and the noise was also compared to the sound of a thousand bees or a herd of stampeding elephants.

#Imissworldcup2010

[Source: telegraph]