Couple demands halt to neighbor's smoking

Akron Beacon Journal ^ | 1/23/04 | Phil Trexler

[sweetliberty]

"I think its pretty clear the guy is a crank (he won't let his dog and cats outside???)"

That is a good point, especially considering that a cat's sense of smell is 11 times as sensitive as a human's and a dog's is even more sensitive, and yet, neither dogs nor cats seem terribly bothered by smoke as long as it isn't in their face. I think most of these terminal whiners are simply responding dutifully to the conditioning of the smoking nazis.

[mylife]

Its a rainy day here think I lite up, start a fire and curl up on the couch. Aint I a stinker? ;^)

[sweetliberty]

" or have special units set aside"

Yeah, we've seen how well that works having smoking sections in restaurants and other places. The control freak crybabies won't be satisfied until they have invaded every nook and cranny of our lives. I don't smoke, but this really p*sses me off.

[Major_Risktaker]

"It hits you right away, the minute you walk out the door. It catches me, I start coughing, I know she's smoking, I can see she's smoking visually, and I can get the effects of the smoke when I inhale what should be fresh air in my own back patio,'' Zangrando told the judge."

If I was the Judge this would be my answer to Zangrando.
"Buy a fan and blow the smoke back.
Case Dismissed!"

[metesky]

Ah, the super intelligent farting argument! Why next you'll show your superior intellect by comparing smoking to peeing in a swimming pool.

I salute your brainpower.

[sweetliberty]

Not only do you smoke those vile cigarettes, but you actually subject your neighbors to the by-products of burned wood??? It must be true what they say....we FReepers really are evil. < /sarcasm >

[mylife]

"Buy a fan and blow the smoke back.
Case Dismissed!"

Thats to logical and fair.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Odors from farting are just as obnoxious as smoking odors

Actually I consider another person's fart much more obnoxious than smoking odors. Smoke can be washed off or masked with a bit of perfume, but that fart gets in your nose hairs and stays there. Yeeecch!

But I cannot control my neighbor's farts. I cannot control my neighbor's diet. I cannot control my neighbor's alcohol consumption. Nor should I expect to control any other behavior or habit I may or may not approve of.

When did we cross the line in this country? Exactly when did the right to control the actions of my neighbor join the right NOT to be offended?

Lastly, when are we going to take back our country? I am 50 years old. I do not need the government, liberal left, or any other busy body telling me how to live my life or raise my children. I make decisions and take risks knowing full well the consequences may not always be pleasant. I have to live with the consequences, no one else. I do not welcome the do-gooder, public-service announcement trying to put a fullcourt press guilt trip on someone because he/she smokes and has (GASP!!!) children. Nothing will ever change until we demand change.

Sadly, it seems we are content to complain while holding our ankles 24 hours a day.

[mylife]

Yuo and I use a computer powered by electricity produced by coal! MUwahahaha!

[JoJo Gunn]

But that implies working things out amongst yourselves, instead of being like a True Leftist Bedwetting BrownShirt and running off to the State.

[cajun-jack]

the only lung issue he has is that they are full of hot air that keeps blowing out his ass!!!

why didn't the dumbasss judge just tell the old fart to go home and shut up or move??

my neighbor is from just south of cleveland (he moved here a few years back) and this moron can't get along with anyone. everything he does is fine, but everything anyone else does is wrong!! he has called the sheriff dept so much with "neighbor" complaints that the "high Sheriff" himself paid him a visit and told him if he called in anymore "bs" complaints, he was going to arrest him and charge him with filing false and malicious complaints and ask the court to order him to pay restitution for the deputy's time coming over there all the time.

this guy is just a plain idiot and a chickensh*t to boot. I am going to submit him to guiness as the world's worse neighbor.

And, yes, we have tried to get along with him, but to no avail. He will be nice when he needs something, but a horse's patoot when he isn't in a bind.

[mylife]

Sadley we are content to complain while holding our ankles 24 hours a day.

Not a pretty visual but very very true!

[kimmie7]

This particular case is not really the same as the "smoking in restaurants" thing. Here we have a guy on his OWN private property, who cannot escape the fumes from the renter next door.

Ya know what, this is why we will never own property adjoining another. I mean, really, unless you had no choice why on earth would you buy a home where you can control what happens on the other side of the wall???

[cyborg]

I think people can be accomodating, but there IS a limit. This reminds me of schools that outlaw peanut butter because one kind is allergic to peanuts.

[Terry Mross]

You're right. We enjoy it or we wouldn't do it. For me, the drinking "wasn't working" anymore. I got help in 1985 and that was it.

[cyborg]

LOL (that's actually a good idea)

[sweetliberty]

"I think people can be accomodating, but there IS a limit"

Exactly, and in my experience, most people do try to be considerate.

[Johnny_Cipher]

Smoke can be washed off or masked with a bit of perfume, but that fart gets in your nose hairs and stays there.

Maybe it gets in YOUR nose hairs ... :)

[kimmie7]

MY BBQ is going all the time and wafts to the street, thankfully when my neighbors walk by they dont gripe...they say MMMmmmmmm

LOL, even on the coldest of days let one person in my neighborhood decide to BBQ...2 hours later the whole block smells like a steakhouse. mmmmmmmmm is right.

[mylife]

Ya the fan is a great idea, but why should Whiney McCrankwhipple have to pay the electricity costs of the fans opperation? Better get the court to order that Suzy Smokestack foot the bill /sarcasm. LOL