Noisy weightlifter fined for grunting

A grunting weightlifter has been fined £70 for making his neighbours' lives a misery – by exercising too loudly.

Giran Jobe's two-hour training sessions in his top-floor flat were so loud they reached 100 decibels – the same level as a rock concert.

The 36-year-old's neighbours suffered sleepless nights because of his loud grunts and the sound of his dumb-bells being thrown to the floor, a court was told. Jobe had been previously warned by council noise officers not to use the weights but continued to work on his 95kg (15st) frame.



Doris Fox, 68, who lives beneath the father-of-four, said: 'The noise was so loud that I thought he had an angle grinder up there.'

Another neighbour said: 'It was a constant bang, bang, bang every time he put the weights down. It was unbearable.' Jobe, from Thanet, Kent, admitted 47 breaches of a noise abatement order but said: 'I don't play loud music, I don't have parties and I don't stamp around.

'All I do is exercise and work out with my weights. I am trying to keep fit. I cannot believe I got taken to court for exercising.' He told Thanet magistrates court that he would ditch the 10kg (22lb) weights in favour of push-ups and sit-ups.