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At around midnight last night an alarm went off somewhere and didn't stop for at least 2 hours. I eventually managed to fall asleep by blocking the sound by using both my earplugs and putting a folded up scarf on my ear (I always fall asleep when lying on my side).
This morning the alarm is going on and off again, so I suspect there was a problem with the alarm and they're now trying to solve it.
One thing that will happen in the coming days is that people who live on the block, and especially those living in the apartment blocks come to our store to complain about the noise. Yes, they know it wasn't our alarm, but they do expect us to complain to the person/store/restaurant/café whose alarm it was. It's the result of problems there were about 25 years ago with the cafés. We agreed, with the council and police, that people could come and tell us their complaints and we would gather all complaints and give them to the council and police. It didn't work; after a while the council declared all problems solved because only one person (my father) was still complaining. But it set precedent that people could come to us with their complaints. The people who have lived in the apartment complex for a long time tell any newcomer that they can come to use with any neighbourhood complaints. For years we've been trying to discourage people from coming to us and going to the person/café/business causing the problem, but they still come to us.
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