A theme park has asked people not to scream on a new rollercoaster ride because it's too noisy.
The owners of Big Sheep in north Devon said they erected a warning sign after people living nearby raised concerns over the new ride.
The 400m-long attraction, the Big One, opened at the park this Easter.
Owner Rick Turner said the message to customers was "unless they're absolutely petrified, please please don't scream too much".
The planning process for the ride in the village of Abbotsham had taken four years, and a group of local people had got "very very animated" over the prospect of loud noise coming from the attraction, he told the BBC.
Over £200,000 has been spent building a large noise reduction bank in the middle of the ride, and legal expertise was sought about the noise levels.
Hugh Bone, chair of Abbotsham parish council said he was "pleased" the sign was there, after villagers asked the council to control "the amount of sound" coming from the theme park.
Local people "do worry" about the noise, he said, particularly on weekends "when there may be funerals or weddings taking place" in the nearby church.
Mr Turner said Big Sheep had been in the village for 30 years and it was "somewhat galling" when new residents decided to complain after they had moved to the village.
However, he said the park tried its best to reduce noise for neighbours, and he hoped the sign would discourage riders from "shouting excessively", even if some would inevitably "squark".
This is the second placard to go up at the park - one next to a flying chair ride reads: "We love our neighbours, no screaming please".
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Isn't that always what happens?it was "somewhat galling" when new residents decided to complain after they had moved to the village.
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Relatives, apparently, of the same people who move next to airports or railroad tracks and then complain about the train horns or the jet noise.Big RR wrote:Isn't that always what happens?it was "somewhat galling" when new residents decided to complain after they had moved to the village.

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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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What always galled me was people moving next door in the country and getting Burglar lights put up and having a bunch of nuisance pets and running down the right of way at high speeds and not contributing a penny to its upkeep .In considerate neighbors suck . 

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And the shooting range, and the race track and the Grucci fireworks plant.Mr Turner said Big Sheep had been in the village for 30 years and it was "somewhat galling" when new residents decided to complain after they had moved to the village.
Relatives, apparently, of the same people who move next to airports or railroad tracks and then complain about the train horns or the jet noise.
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There is a type of house you construct under a runway and the noise will not bother you at all .I talked to a Mennonite ,who had an older guy from the North move next door and start complaining about the odor from the manure pond(He threatened to put the boxing gloves on and my Mennonite friend told him to bring it on ) In case you havent figured it out by now ,I really like the Mennonites and Amish 
