Rugby: Venue for rugby test air horn-free

All Whites fans brandishing vuvuzelas get in the mood before the World Cup group F match between...
All Whites fans brandishing vuvuzelas get in the mood before the World Cup group F match between New Zealand and Slovakia at Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg yesterday.
Spectators at Carisbrook's final All Black test on Saturday can rest easy.

Air horns - which would include the dreaded vuvuzelas - are banned.

Fans blowing the long, noisy horns have been a feature of the football World Cup matches in South Africa.

But Otago Rugby Football Union operations manager Coryn Huddy told the Otago Daily Times yesterday that even if there were in any in Dunedin, they were not allowed at the game.

Tickets specify that spectators can not take into the ground alcohol, cans, glass, soft drink containers of more than one litre, chilly bins, animals, chairs, stools, furniture, air horns or loud hailers, flares, fireworks, skateboards or scooters.

In 2005, small plastic "trumpets" sold by a Dunedin outlet, mostly to children, "battered" the eardrums of patrons of a Super 12 match between the Highlanders and Brumbies.

While the BBC had received more than 500 complaints about the vuvuzela, TVNZ spokeswoman Andi Brotherston told the Otago Daily Times last night TVNZ had received "less than five" complaints.

She believed the reason was that in the lead up to the tournament reporters had done several stories explaining where the sound originated and viewers understood the situation.

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