More noise in Sana’a

I was walking through the souk on the way to lunch today and heard an awful racket, but a vaguely familiar one. Turns out that it was a “Viper” alarm that I used to sell when I worked at Sound Approach. God, those things (like most car alarms) raise an awful racket. A kid had rigged one up on his bike and was biking around with it going full blast. It was obvious that he thought it was great, most people didn’t pay much attention. I wanted to kill him… The appreciation these people have for being incredibly loud has to be experienced to be believed…