Further to the letter of November 10, titled Horns Blare Everywhere by Joseph Grech, wherein he listed a veritable and concise litany of the cacophony of horns we have to endure daily in our home towns, may I add another useless and irritating habit that seems to have taken over the ordinary citizen now, besides the gas cylinder truck, the local bread-seller van, the fish-seller etc.

This is the very dangerous practice of speeding up the narrow roads of the towns and villages, especially those that have a grid pattern, and honking at every intersection, ignoring the slow and stop signs, as if honking the horn all the way to your house instead of slowing down gives you a God-given right to proceed on your way and everybody else should stop and let you go by.

This horn-blaring is only the tip of the iceberg with regard to all the other noises mentioned in the excellent article titled Turn Down That Racket! Who is really authorised to stop this whole ruckus? Why does the ordinary citizen have to report the barking of dogs kept on roofs, the excessive honking of horns and a myriad of other aggravations that everybody knows about?

Last month, this paper reported that the EU had rapped Malta's knuckles over this noise business. In my opinion we deserve a good hiding at least.