Some people just really can’t stand loud music.
In 2013, we witnessed a man jailed for spinning Pink Floyd’s classic Dark Side of the Moon after his seething neighbours wanted blood. In a similar case, a Yarraville man was evicted from his property for continually pumping heavy metal from his home.
It would now appear that it’s the Brits whom are finally fed up with their neighbour’s noise pollution, but it’s not from having their heads blown off by Led Zeppelin or AC/DC, oh no, it appears the Grammy-award winning Adele emitting from a teenagers home has sparked quite the uproar.
According to Metro (via NME), Thomas Alock, an 18-year old avid fan of international superstar Adele, is now rolling in the deep after playing “the music so loud it was vibrating the handrails to the stairwell”.
In late 2013 the fresh-faced Alcock received multiple abatements to cease the “prominent, intrusive and very high level” at which his beloved Adele CDs were spun. Despite a visit from the local council on November 7 last year, according to Prosecutor Samantha Lawton, Alcock continued to rock the pop sensation’s sounds. The fan is now rolling in the deep after playing “the music so loud it was vibrating the handrails to the stairwell”.
Pushing aside the warning signs of the Kirklees Council, whom informed the teen they would seize all of his musical properties, Alcock continued to blast the international superstar on two more occasions, one of which was in the wee early hours of the morn. It now seems that the 21 fan may have sung his last Adele chord.
The prosecuting neighbours made no mistake and “could identify the singer as Adele”. Victorious in their quest for silence, the youngster made no excuse for creating the seismic ‘Adelequake’.
Included in the seized musical properties of the 18-year old were over 200 CDs that Alcock claimed were owned by his late father, to which will now be disposed of at the hands of the Huddersfield Council.
In addition, Alcock has since vacated the property in which the apparent Adele sonic boom took place and is rolling in the deep with a further £110 fine, £140 costs and £20 victim surcharge. Perhaps he should make an appeal to Adele herself to cover this so-called victim surcharge?
Let this be a warning to the millions around the world that lay on the ground belting every Adele chorus possible, the ball has begun to roll, it seems you couldn’t have it all.
