Gardening should be quieter

This morning I was woken up by the sound of a ridiculously early rising gardener starting up her whipper snipper and hacking away at some weedy looking things less than 2 metres from my window. It was bloody 6:00 in the morning, why was cutting those weeds back so important that it could't wait until after my alarm had gone off? I thought the one good thing about getting up at 6:30 every morning was the notion of undisturbed sleep (besides the alarm clock of course), but it seems even this previously unfathomably early hour isn't enough to avoid being woken by industrious neighbours. I tell you what, whoever invented those little whipper snipper/blower machines has a lot to answer for. What happended to a rake? Using the old heldge trimmers, you know where you don't need petrol or a motor, the good old days were quieter for a reason. Not that I am saying this obsession with noisy garden equipment is limited to Japan, at home there was a neighbour of dad's who'd get up on his roof with the leaf blower every Sunday as though vacuuming the roof was something that should be done with greater regularity than never.