Posted on 04/14/2009 9:34:09 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
It was a special event. He needs to stop being a jerk and let the kids have fun.
Your point illustrates why I would NEVER buy a home near a school.
Even if I had school aged kids.
Too much hassle.
Those kids should be quiet, stay inside, put their noses to the grindstone, get their education and get to work to pay Butch’s social security./s
We thought it would be okay because we were about a block away and not on the same street.
We also spent a lot of time there during the day to make sure it seemed okay.
I never minded hearing kids outside running around. I didn’t mind hearing the marching band practice. I didn’t even mind crowds cheering on Saturday football games.
The parking situation was what really got us upset, especially because the principal did nothing to help us. I was thankful for actually 2 cops in our neighborhood. If there was a problem with a kid, we would write down the license plate. The cops would go over to the kid’s house and talk to the parents. It was a year of the cops working on the situation, but it helped. I don’t think it’s ever been a problem since.
I will say I would have fought having the lights added to the football stadium. I would not have wanted to live with that going on. Our new neighborhood is very quiet is not near any schools.
I have a neighbor who calls the animal control every single time my dogs bark. When they are outside the bark a few times at a jogger but are then quiet. Mostly they are inside holding down the couch. This is a young guy and animal control has called him “as a$$hole”. This guy also complains about the noise the kids make while playing.
The F-22s may be a little louder than conventional aircraft, but they are by far the most quiet super-sonic jet in existence today, even when flying at sub-sonic speeds, including takeoff. FWIW
I looked this School's location up on Google Maps and Street View. If anything, noise and traffic complaints would be coming from the houses on Athenian Dr, which is right across the street from the school, NOT from the school's rear property line which is an open field and 'nearest' to the houses on Ulysses.
And like some noted these house on Ulysses are NEW so all the owners knew their lot backed up to a school's when they purchased and moved in.
And for that goof who said the 'ground shook'... you're full of it.
We have the same idiots here they move close to the race track then complain about the noise, then there is the other idiots who buy a house on the lake and complain about the air boats.
Did not know that. It must be the frequency of engine or something, because I could tell a difference when the AF started flying them, but then I am deaf in one ear and can't hear out of the other.
We literally live in between two schools. Our front door faces the back door of one of the Catholic schools here in town. The other school is on the street behind us on the corner (I can look out my back door and see the school easily)—it’s a public school. (FWIW, our kids attend another Catholic school 1.5 miles away)
We knew when we bought this house 19 months ago that there were two schools north and south of us. The difference between us and this moron in this story is that we know that the noise only lasts so many hours a day and so many days a week and so many months a year. Other than hearing the kids in the Catholic school outside during recess and a bell from the public school now and again, it’s not that bad. I have more issues with the wanna be hoods who drive around blaring their ghetto music in this area late at night than some kids going to school.
those houses are CLOSE to the back of the school. nice houses, too. 'ol butch did well for himself.
I live next to a school, and they are the best neighbors in the world. The school is in session from 8:00 am-2:30 pm, and the’re gone all summer
When I was a kid, schools did not set up too many activities outside. If the man is elderly, maybe he didn’t realize that schools are noisier now.
I know my kids’ schools have had very noisy Walk-a-thons where they play very loud music over a PA system all day long on a Saturday. My kids have been to outdoor movies out in the playground till 10 at night with a loud PA system blaring the movie. I’ve been to a festivals at the kids’ school with PA systems blaring loud music until 9 or 10 at night.
I didn’t have any of that when I was a kid. We basically went to school and played outside. Open house was twice a year inside the school, and we had plays and musicals inside the school.
Also, when I was a kid basically everyone walked to school or took a bus so there wasn’t traffic at schools like there is today.
If the guy is elderly, then he just may not know about schools these days. It seems like the school could tone down the outdoor PA.
My personal favorite is the nitwit from an urban setting in California who moved to a ranch in Arizona. He complained because he could hear gun fire on his neighbor’s property.
Sounds like my kind of place.
The officers could just as well have cited the old coot for making silly/frivolous calls to dispatch.
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