WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Lawn maintenance professionals can now lull themselves to sleep to the sounds of their favorite zero-turn radius and walk-behind mowers with a relaxing compact disc of everyday lawn mower noise. Actually, New Zealander Geoff Marsland created the CD with the intention of using it as a device to get back at noisy neighbors, according to a Reuters news release.
The 64-minute artificial turf covered CD offers listeners general lawn mower sounds along with feature moments such as the emptying of the grass collector and stones hitting the blades.
"If your neighbors have a party Saturday night fairly late … what you do is you get up at 7 in the morning, put the hour of lawn mowing sounds on and go out to a cafe," said Marsland, a Wellington cafe owner and noise man.
Five thousand of the CDs are on the market, more than 4,000 of which have been snapped up by local Wellington retailers, Marsland said.
No details were released about how an interested contractor can get a hold of the CD, but it may encourage some to make their own recordings. However, contractors should let customers know what is happening beforehand to avoid questions of integrity when a crewmember is seen following a mower with a microphone.
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