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Resident moans about noise from downstairs
    2019-08-12  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

A RESIDENT in Nanshan District reported being troubled by different unidentified noises from downstairs over the past two years. She suspected that a kind of “noisemaker” might have been installed by her downstairs neighbor, the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported.

The woman, surnamed Xie, said she had heard a number of different harsh noises, such as howling, smashing and honking, in her apartment in Wenzhuyuan, a residential estate in Nanshan, over the past two years. The volume would sometimes reach 70 to 90 decibels at night.

Xie said the noise has seriously affected her normal life, so she decided to move out of the apartment. She said someone suggested that her neighbor’s use of a “noisemaker” might have constituted harassment.

A “noisemaker” is a kind of vibration motor that is sold online as a good way for residents to counterattack if disturbed by noise from an apartment upstairs.

An online seller claimed that the device can produce loud noises. To the people living upstairs, it will sound as if someone is hitting the ceiling with a stick downstairs.

The reporter with the Daily found that several stores sold such vibration motors at prices ranging from 120 yuan (US$17) to 250 yuan on an e-commerce platform, and 2,650 people had paid for one of the top-selling products.

Some buyers commented that they bought the device because the residents living upstairs were noisy and unreasonable.

Xie told the reporter that she had never conflicted with her neighbors and her children had not disturbed any neighbors, so she wondered why she would be disturbed by such unpleasant noises.

Pan Xiang, a Shenzhen-based lawyer with Guangdong Zhongan Law Firm, said vibration motors were originally used in industrial production. A vibration motor that is specifically used to make noise may underemine the safety of floors, and the production and sale of such devices is suspected of violating laws.  (Zhang Yu)

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