Posted on 07/26/2015 9:48:38 AM PDT by Rebelbase
on July 22, Joe Graham from Air Compliance is writing a complaint form for “objectionable odor” from Jordan’s property where he was barbecuing. A neighbor living across the street called to complain, as she has apparently done many times before.
This time she found a willing co-conspirator.
“I can smell it again right now, but I’m on your property,” Graham tells the group. “You’re allowed to have it smell on your property, so that doesn’t count, but when I’m on the street, that’s when it counts.”
“So we’re supposed to control the smoke and the wind and where it’s blowing it?” he asks.
The Environmental Specialist says, “What you’re doing looks like it may be counter to the rule as far as the objectionable odor,” as he looks at his clipboard for reassurance.
“You have smoke leaving…that’s prohibited. I saw smoke leaving your property.” So he’s going to “write it up and send it to our department.”
The ridiculous nature of this visit results from the fact that in Pinellas County, “Commercial barbecue cookers are not exempt from causing a nuisance odor,”. It is part of a larger set of rules regarding air quality, normally reserved for things like asbestos and trash burning.
However, Mr. Jordan should have nothing to fear. The Frequently Asked Questions goes further to state, “If a sufficient number of complaints, representing different households, are reported and an Inspector witnesses the problem, they can issue a Warning Letter.”
According to this, he could not get a Warning Letter unless more than one neighbor complained. And this is unlikely to happen, since, according to Jordan, “Everybody else cooks out around here.”
The cameraman says, “We’ve been living here for 40 years, and this is the first time this happened.”
He is referring to the visit from Air Compliance. Since the neighbor moved in three years ago and began complaining, she has called the police and fire departments. “They tell me to go ahead on” and keep barbecuing, according to Jordan.
Graham has an answer for this too. “The police and the fire department are looking at different parts of the rule.”
And so continues the endless splitting of hairs, red herrings, and absence of common sense that characterizes nanny state bureaucracies
Pinellas County, FL.
BBQ smoke, they will get you.
Marijuana smoke, nobody will do a thing.
We have become a backwards country.
All the neighbors need to work together to make life a living hell for that bitch. She’ll move away.
Oh heck just sue her for harassment already!
Imbecile neighbor! Same principle as buying a home next to an airport, railroad, or firing range — and, then complaining about the noise...
“We have become a backwards country”.
Yep, it’s upside down.
If I was living nearby, I’d take some ribs over and share them with those guys.
There should be a big block party.
In that FAQ, the question was about backyard bbq’s. The answer jumps straight to commercial bbq’s and avoids the question all together.
Sounds like a weekly neighborhood BBQ cook off is in order.
Pickup truck, tarp, lonely country road. Job done.
Pinellas County. I used to live there. Gazillions of blue haired old wrinkled broads with absolutely nothing to do but look for attention by complaining ... about ...... nothing.
Just wait until your outdoor BBQ is banned because the wafting smell of your steaks offends the Hindu neighbor next door.
-PJ
Need to start tar and feathering these bastards.
We’ve stopped being a serious society, culture and nation.
Just say “no”.
I wonder if the complaining neighbor is a vegetarian?
“Any other questions?”
“Yea,could you go over there and shoot that bitch?”
She had called the Police and Fire Dept repeatedly in the past.Just because these guys were doing BBQ on their property.
Wow. But in San Francisco, taxpayers are forced to “tolerate” the stench of human feces and urine because it would abrogate the “civil right” of the homeless to pizz and defecate right outside the door of private businesses.
Was the neighbor a Muslim by any chance?
One faction is serious, serious about abridging our freedom, and this is how they chip away at it, like termites, until the rotten shell crumbles.
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