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To: GSWarrior
Felicia Zeiger, who lives in Merced Heights, has made the club a crusade for years. She says she can't garden on weekends because of the noise, and is often forced to drive to the other side of the city to walk her dog, who is terrified by the cacophony.

"When the club was originally built ... there was nothing but a couple of farms and sand dunes, and now there are residents all around," she said.

Sounds like she made a pretty stupid decision on where to live, then, if she doesn't like hearing shotgun noises on the weekends.

One of my biggest busybody pet peeves is the morons who move next to an establishment that has undertaken a certain activity (usually for many years) and then demand that the establishment cease its activity because it bothers them. Usually it's some noise that activity makes, but it could be the "types of people" a certain place draws, or its late hours, or rowdy crowds, or just some activity that someone else doesn't care for. But it's never one of these places opening up in an existing neighborhood; it's always some idiot who bought property right next door (and probably got a good deal because of the supposed "nuisance") and then turns around and tries to use the government to shut down an established business.

13 posted on 03/20/2008 12:34:41 PM PDT by Turbopilot (iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
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The pistol and rifle club I frequent is being surrounded by development. We’ve already endured the “I found a bullet in my backyard” claim. I’m thinking it’s just a matter of time before we’re shut down. The good news is the land is worth millions. The bad news is, so is every other place we could buy to put up a range.


26 posted on 03/20/2008 1:12:35 PM PDT by saganite
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She says she can’t garden on weekends because of the noise, and is often forced to drive to the other side of the city to walk her dog, who is terrified by the cacophony.


Her dog is as big a nutcase as she is.


34 posted on 03/20/2008 1:41:31 PM PDT by kenth
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