Neighbor called the Law on me for shooting

[ultrarunner]

Well, in Germany you plan your noisy activities around the common good. For them, it means lawn mowing, car washing, noisy outdoor activities in general, and cutting up firewood in the more rural areas. They won't be shooting given the gun ownership laws.

Over time, you and your neighbors will probably have less open space around you. Think of all the members here who live in rural areas but not all that far from the neighbors. The Germans tend very much to live in tightly clustered communities. In most areas, you couldn't just buy an acre or two and build a house, they realize the limits to sprawl to a much greater degree than we do -- yet.

True to some extent...

My cousin operates a 60 heard organic Dairy Farm over there... it's been a farm for 500 years.

The county approved high density housing near the farm and they are getting complaints because they run tractors on Sunday... anyone knows a Dairy Farm is a 7 day a week operation.

As to shooting or shots being fired... it is 100% against the law in my city and that doesn't stop folks... police simply don't have the time or inclination to follow up...

Now... the law was called on my then 70 year old Mom who was working with a pick and shovel on her own property... the complaint was someone was digging on park property... common occurrence... folks are always thinking her land is part of the park which adjoins a fair distance away...

Police always ask for ID.. even on me when I had a pickup load of topsoil I was spreading for her... wanted to see a receipt for the soil to make sure I wasn't dumping contaminated soil... life in the big city.

 

[sodamo]

My wife's Mom is turning 84, health not getting better and lives in NJ, not in city, but outside town proper. As there is no one really close to look after her, we have been urging her to move in with one of the kids - we'd love to have her and have the space. A couple months back while having another variant of this discussion, Mom says she is seriously considering a move here, BUT, she'd have to live in town as it is just too quiet here.

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[k0ua]

We have horses and they can be about 400 ft from where they are shooting and they hardly look up now
they get used to it why can't people get use to it

I can answer that one.. it is because they abhor what you are doing and the fact you have the right to do it.. The noise becomes so much more bothersome when they don't "approve" of the activity, what ever that activity is. And it is not as much anti-gun as it is anti-freedom. "there ought to be a law....".. In my opinion we have too many laws now.

James K0UA

 

[Beltman60]

I agree with James

 

[sodamo]

Ditto James

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[dmccarty]

I can hear the high school marching band when school is in session and I am outside. They must be 2 miles away. Sure is annoying

I think I will call the cops

:laughing::laughing::laughing: I forgot the Marching Band! For a few years I lived a mile or so from a High School and I could hear the football games including the band practices. :laughing::laughing::laughing: When I was a kid, we live in a house that was at one end of a high school football stadium. It was a stadium too! :shocked: Not only were the games really loud but the light was bright enough to play in the back yard. When I was a somewhat young adult I drove through that town looking for the house we lived in. I never did find the house, I think it was torn down, but I found the HS and the stadium so I now I was close.

The same place where I could hear the marching band was on a flood control canal. At least a few times a week, pumps and/or generators would start up with a loud bang. I did call that in to the POlice because they sounded like gun shots and gun shots in the city are usually not a good thing.

Later,
Dan

 

[dave1949]

How can you say that there is no reason that nothing louder than 35dba should leave my property.

This is what I said:
There is no real reason in many cases for sounds over about 35 dBa to leave our properties. That is about how loud a normal conversation is.

I mis-remembered the decibel level of normal conversation. Should have looked it up. And, no it didn't get pulled out of my a**. 35 decibels on the A scale is the recommended nighttime sound limit at a residence established by the World Health Organization for metropolitan areas. Studies showed that noise above 35-40 decibels is the level where sleep disturbance begins.

 

[whistlepig]

A friend of mine had a city neighbor like this. He told him that if he didn't shut up he has going to start a hog lot just across the fence and upwind of his neighbors back deck. The neighbor never bothered him again.

 

[Srb08]

Put in Hogs, as close to his property as possible.

 

[dave1949]

I can answer that one.. it is because they abhor what you are doing and the fact you have the right to do it.. The noise becomes so much more bothersome when they don't "approve" of the activity, what ever that activity is. And it is not as much anti-gun as it is anti-freedom. "there ought to be a law....".. In my opinion we have too many laws now.

James K0UA

Give me a break, James, only a hypocrite thinks their own freedom is more important than the freedoms of others. You have no response to my comment that when noise pollution leaves your property, you may be limiting the pursuit of happiness of your neighbors. I'm all for freedom, yours, mine and everyone's.

Approval has nothing to do with it. Pollution is pollution. You have the freedom to do as you wish on your property, what freedom do you have to pollute the property of others, or force them to share your "freedoms?"

Top 10 Reasons to not "Love Thy Neighbor" - Real Estate Agent, Homes for sale Yorktown Heights, Westchester and Putnam NY
Complaint #6: Noise. This covers several categories. There is noise from loud music, mostly yard parties with amplifiers, which by the way, can go on forever and as loud as one likes as long as it doesn’t last past 11 pm. By that time, however, you may start to have fantasies of engaging the Exterminator to visit the party. Lawnmowers or leaf blowers used after dinner time are particularly challenging to neighbors staying friendly.

Apparently other people think noise is a pollutant too:
Health effects from noise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Noise Pollution | Air and Radiation | US EPA
Just How Bad Is Noise Pollution for Our Health? - Kaid Benfield - The Atlantic Cities