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It's time the boisterous snowmobilers heard ripping down Ross Lake at all hours of the night toned it down, Flin Flon City Councillor Bill Hanson said Tuesday. Councillor Hanson reported at the regular council meeting that he has recently heard a number of complaints about the late night noise pollution. "Hopefully people will tone it down before it becomes a real problem," he said. "We have enough rules already, we don't need to make any more." Some of the snowmobiles are equipped with exhaust canisters, sometimes called "stingers," that are "very, very loud" and violate the City's noise by-law, Councillor Hanson said. "At three in the morning, it's particularly annoying," he commented. The problem on Ross Lake is limited to very few snowmobilers in the view of Councillor Hanson, who estimated that "ninety-nine per cent of the snowmobilers in Flin Flon follow the rules." "But unfortunately, there's one per cent out there that are rocketing down the streets and they're out at three in the morning with their stingers and high performance sleds, and it's just not right," he said. "So hopefully I can appeal to those people to just take it easy. And we know winter's almost over, thank God, but it's becoming a major problem on Ross Lake." Cpl. Leslie Beck of the Flin Flon RCMP noted that her detachment hasn't heard any complaints relative to noisy snow machines on Ross Lake this winter. Overall snowmobile complaints are down this year compared to previous years, she said.
