Posted on 04/06/2008 7:20:30 PM PDT by lastchance
Do you smoke? Well, you better be careful where. I don't smoke, and I don't like the smell, but what some people are doing to smokers makes me say give me a break.
For the last 12 years, Galila Huff has owned Caffé la Fenicé, a restaurant serving Italian food on the Upper West Side of New York City.
Smoking there is forbidden. New York state bans it in all restaurants and bars.
Huff's apartment is a few blocks away at The Ansonia, an ornate turn-of-the-century building that both Babe Ruth and Arturo Toscanini once called home.
Huff lives there alone except for her Chihuahua, and her cigarettes. For 40 years, she's smoked a pack or two a day.
But then in October, she got a letter from her neighbors. It said, "Dear Resident, immediately cease smoking in your apartment, unless and until you take adequate steps to properly ventilate your smoke out of your apartment such that none enters the common hallway."
Huff couldn't believe it. First she can't smoke in her own restaurant, now she can't smoke in her own apartment?
"I mean the cigarettes smell, yeah. But I'm not puffing into their faces," she said.
The complainants -- Jonathan and Jenny Selbin -- wouldn't agree to a television interview, but they did file a lawsuit against Huff, saying she is "willfully, intentionally, recklessly and/or negligently endangering the health of plaintiffs and their 4-year-old son. & As evidenced by her refusal to address the grave danger posed to the health of a small child, despite repeated requests and warnings, defendant's conduct is actuated by evil and/or reprehensible motives."
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If I were the defendant, I would keep smoking and start a few kimchi cultures to boil every day.
I think I’m headed to the Philippines: You all enjoy life here in Socialist Utopia. And no, I don’t smoke.
Ping.
I believe this entire movement of...
I’m empowered
My cause is....
started back in the 1980’s.
Now gradeschool kids (mostly female types) feel unfulfilled unless they also have a CAUSE be it global angst or the goodie two shoes Palis or Lets exterminate Joooos.
Ping.
Angeles or Olongapo?
/s
“actuated by evil and reprehensible motives”
Now you gotta admit that’s funny.
Nanny stte Ping.........
I’ll check back in the morning because I’m expecting thre will be several posters supporting this nonsense.
More proof that 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
Most FR posters support gun rights for New Yorkers. That’d take care of this sort of garbage in a NY minute.
Enjoy the Phillipines, where Americans are kidnapped and kept as hostages.
I’ll take the U.S. anyday.
Smart dog.
How about people who fart in elevators? Her neighbors should make sure to have an extra Taco Bell bean burrito before unleashing some methane gas on the elevator on their way to the courtroom for this frivolous claim that clogs up the docket.
She has such a sensitive nose. Call your Congresscritter and get them to ban farting.
While what you say is true in regard to gun rights, there are far too many that will disagree with you in taking care of this particular issue.
More guns, less lawyers.
Time to find the stinkiest incense and light it up for all
in the apartment complex to enjoy.
Restaurants are private property - you are not required to enter, and you can be required to leave at the owner’s request.
Restaurants, while in public, are privately owned and it should be the decision of the owner whether to allow smoking, not the government's. Potential customers can decide whether they want to eat there or not.
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