The loud music blasting from the illegal permitted patio of the Flying Monkey have a number of residents in Thurman Alley wishing that the Monkey would fly already. Residents who live in close proximity of the establishment say that the noise goes way into the night - keeping them awake and on edge. Some even told me today that they're having some of the same problems as everybody else with the lack of consideration these nightclubs have in not realizing that people work, children go to school and the lack of sleep keeps everybody on edge.
One working wife and mother told me today that she does not understand how these business owners can live with themselves. She told me that her entire family's lives were disrupted, edgy, cranky and at the end of their rope. She said she wondered how Tom Bell would feel if somebody dropped a patio and all night music (noise) in his front yard in Bay Village. How would he feel if he had crying kids up all night or if he woke up too tired to get out of bed because he hadn't had a good night's sleep for two or three days and he had to call off from work because of exhaustion - and now they want to open up another late night joint on the other side of us.
She said she wanted somebody to ask the question, "why are these businesses allowed to open up so close to where people, especially families live and why do they not hear when we say we can't take the loud noise any more? She said, "I wish we had fallout shelters, we'd go in to get some peace and quiet."