People living next to Santiago Bernabéu venue say gigs – including those by Taylor Swift – are ruining their lives and are taking action.
Although best known for the past eight decades as the home of Real Madrid, the ground, which has just undergone a five-year, €900m (£756m) refurbishment, has over the past four months been hosting a series of high-profile concerts.
If the gigs have helped put the Bernabéu on the map with visiting singers such as Taylor Swift, Luis Miguel and, for four consecutive nights this week, the Colombian star Karol G, they have driven local residents to despair. Some have taken to referring to the stadium as a torturódromo, or torture-drome.
Fed up with decibels far exceeding legal levels, fans camping out in parks, drunk people urinating in doorways and the blocking off of residential roads, an association representing those living around the Bernabéu in the Chamartín neighbourhood is taking legal action against those responsible, including Madrid city council.
“It’s just hideous – you can’t move your car, you can’t take the dog out, and you’re having to prepare yourself mentally because it’s awful,” says De Pontevès. “It also creates health problems – lots of us are suffering from more frequent headaches, stress, anxiety and depression.”
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Honestly in this age of over cautious health and safety it’s complete madness easily quantifiable permanent damaging volume is allowed.
Like even a warning and free earplugs are not given. Nothing.
“Here you go children. You pay we will give you a life long disability.”
This and super bright car headlights
IMO most car headlights have actually gotten better in recent years. Previously the luxury xenon or laser headlights were absolutely blinding, but modern LED headlights offer a great view of the road at night without blinding others. But I’m only speaking to stock models. Huge lifted trucks with no headlight angle adjustment, massive LED light bars, and shitty super bright aftermarket modifications are still awful
I would disagree. Factory, unmodified vehicles with factory fit LED lights are more often than not utterly blinding. Honda models come to mind first. Stellantis, especially Ram trucks (again, not the lifted or modified ones) and Cadillac SUV’s are all painfully bright from the perspective of my average height Station Wagon.
Even just regular bars. I keep earplugs on my keychain to bring any time I go out. It’s absurd that anyone thinks this is acceptable.
I forgot mine once but happened to have two AAA batteries in my pocket. I looked weird but I can didn’t go deaf. (It was a seated event.)
I use hearing aids since I was a kid and have to take them off when going to the cinema in order to hear normal.