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Car alarms that go off at 3 a.m., hammering noises loud enough to rouse people in the dead of night and the constant, dull whir of floodlights.

It isn’t easy living next to a garage that services taxi cabs 24 hours a day.

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Donna Lewzey has been in Point St-Charles for 22 years, and she can’t remember a time when the noise was this constant. Her apartment is wedged against Téo Taxi’s St-Patrick St. repair shop.

“The workers screaming, the compressors, the loud music — it makes my dogs go crazy,” said Lewzey, who lives on Ropery St. “Then they flick their cigarette butts in my yard. Sometimes I think I should leave my dog poo in theirs and see how they feel.”

Lewzey filed a complaint with the Sud-Ouest borough last summer, but hasn’t heard back.

One neighbour said the racket has become so bad this summer that she no longer sleeps in her bedroom. Instead, she blows up the inflatable mattress and camps out across the hall.