A DREADED vuvuzela is lying on the harbour bed after a man grabbed it from a 13-year-old girl and threw it overboard from a Manly ferry on Sunday.

The girl’s aunt complained to the police but the police decided to take no action against the man because other passengers on the ferry said he had done everyone else on the crowded ferry a massive favour and that sooner or later someone else would have thrown it overboard.

media_camera Vuvuzela’s were popular at the 2010 FIFA World Cup

A vuvuzela is a very loud, brightly-coloured plastic horn that became notorious during the South African FIFA World Cup in 2010, when the mind-numbing torture device ruined an otherwise wonderful spectacle.

On Sunday it was a full load of ferry passengers that were being “tortured” by a 13-year-old girl on the crossing from Circular Quay to Manly about 1pm.

The teenager was blowing the vuvuzela continuously inside the ferry.

Witnesses told police that several people asked the girl to be quiet and sought assistance from the child’s aunt but to no avail.

media_camera The vuvuzela was thrown from a Manly ferry.

When one woman asked the girl to be quiet, the 13-year-old blew the vuvuzela in the woman’s face.

The woman’s husband was so infuriated that he grabbed the vuvuzela from the girl and threw it overboard.

The girl’s aunt complained to ferry staff about the man’s actions and police were called to meet the ferry.

Police spoke with a number of witnesses who told them that if the man hadn’t removed the vuvuzela it was only a matter of time before someone else would have done so.

After ruining the World Cup in South Africa, vuvuzelas were banned from the FIFA World Cup in Brazil in 2014 and from the Asian Cup held in Melbourne last year.