The hidden costs of Summernats?

Yep its all good fun apart from a few dickheads but so be it. Its in the quietest time of the year for Canberra as well. On thing I did notice was a few vacancy signs on some of the hotels on Northbourne where its normally all booked out.

Been using those Bose 3 noise canceling head phones while going for my daily bike ride and they did a great job in cutting out the noise for me even for the loudest of V8s while listening to Roy and HG podcasts from JJJ.

Well it was a novelty to me.

In the past i have told people summernats is fine – and it is better than it used to be. but this year it has been sh*t to live near.

But on the other hand there aren’t burned out bins and smoking piles of garbage on the street any other day of the year.

Just to be pedantic, I have actually seen stuff like this from time to time across various locations in Canberra….

Seepi, you’re in Hackett, yeah? I agree, it has been noisier this year.

Bonfire, I’d say most of us here are chronic whiners.

seepi you are a chronic whiner.

if you want a quiet life, dont live in a CITY – fuck off to the country and isolate yourself from all the conveniences city living provides.

at least it (and you) will be quiet.

It’s not a hidden benefit – we hear about the tourists ad nauseum.
The neighbouring suburbs do pay a price though – streets closed off, rubbish everywhere, no glass sold in the shops, and the really loud revving and music going until after midnight for 3 nights. Last year it didn’t bother me, but this year it is driving me crazy.Why is it louder this year???

The hidden benefit? the $12~15 Million of revenue it brings to the ACT. Please do inform us what else brings this much tourism to Canberra? The Museum which now has a skylight thanks to the storms? And you know you’re more selfish than smart when you start looking to blame others for the voluntary and informed mistakes you choose to make. Stop blaming people for your own problems, you’re in Braddon. Expect things like that to happen around the goverment apartments.

Maybe the locals have gone insane from the summernats noise. does anyone know why they keep playing Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap – do they play it over the pa when someone wins something or what? i hope it winds up by midnight.

FFS!

must be summernats because theres never any crime in braddon outside 2nd week in january.

blame your local bogan junkie.

I hear the Army is going to recruit at Summernats – something about desirable mechanical skills and a “larrakin” attitude. I hope my local hoons are sent to the front line in Iraq or Afghanistan ASAP and die defending democracy.

I reckon it was the ACT Greens who did that, in an alleged revenge attack for not recycling the stubbies…

Yes, we prefer bins when practising with our flame-throwers, as using real people can be complicated if we are caught.

…see Dirty Deakin we had two bins burned about a month ago. Is it bored kids that think this is fun? I thing the Summernats crowd are too busy fussing over their cars to cause trouble! This is a problem with the locals not the tourists.