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
I had a problem neighbor once. I made sure I BBQ’d on the day they hung their sheets on the clothes line to dry.
Where do I sign these guys up for a BBQ sauce of the month club delivery?
Well, then. I believe I can now seek charges against all the unwashed third-worlders that I come in contact with on a daily basis just going to and from work (my office is in the Loop, and I take the train).
“City Orders Man to Keep the Smell of BBQ from Leaving his Property “
Did they butcher the facts!
It was the county, NOT the city.
There were no ORDERS! In fact the article says he wouldn’t even get a warning unless there were TWO complaints! There was only ONE!
Ah the idiocy of bureaucrats. They probably also believe that bh0 can order the seas to part
America has indeed become silly.
“3 hours or so for ribs, All day for Brisket or Pork Shoulder.”
Yup.
My analogy is that they’re like rust: corroding everything 24 hours a day.
I’m waiting for the day some tax-leach show up on my property with some BS. It’ll get ugly.
People who make these kinds of “orders” are doing way too many recreational drugs. What a bunch of morons. I hate Obonzo’s New, “fundamentally transformed” America. It really sucks. We lose more and more freedom with each passing day that the boy sits up there in D.C. in his Rainbow Palace.
Now, *why* am I not surprised...
the infowarrior
I've always thought the aroma of a backyard barbecue was one of the great things of Summer. That and the smell of a fresh cut lawn. This nagging neighbor must be a real piece of work.
The BBQers had my support until they asked the air compliance guy to go over there and ‘shoot at *itch’
My neighbor does it once in a while. When he does, I love the smell.
“Where do I sign these guys up for a BBQ sauce of the month club delivery?”
Heck yes! Great idea.
“This one is for sale”.
Wow. Do you know how much they’re asking?
No you wouldn't, you could tell by his posture and his voice that he was merely doing his job and responding to a complaint. He knows its a stupid law but he can't do anything about it.......
I felt sorry for the guy...
Spray a message on her lawn with Pramitol 25E.
“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”.
You are correct. The United States is dying the death of a thousand cuts.
I’m not familiar with this. Non-selective herbicide?
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