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Video: Pinellas man told barbecue smoke can’t leave backyard [NOT in Montgomery Co. MD BTW]
St Petersburg Tribune ^ | 7/27/15

Posted on 07/28/2015 2:36:37 AM PDT by markomalley

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To: GladesGuru

the newly wed, the nearly dear, the poorly bred and the very stuped”.

Pasco County (Hudson) takes that to a whole new level.


21 posted on 07/28/2015 4:58:09 AM PDT by Captain7seas (i)
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To: iontheball

From the Pinellas website FAQ:

Anonymous complaint
“Air Quality staff do not give out information about the individual who filed the complaint during field inspections. However, in the State of Florida, citizen complaints are part of the public record. As such, concerned parties can access citizen complaint records by coming to the Air Quality in person, or by submitting a written request for a copy of the citizen complaint.”

Backyard BBQ
“Commercial barbecue cookers are not exempt from causing a nuisance odor. If a sufficient number of complaints, representing different households, are reported and an Inspector witnesses the problem, they can issue a Warning Letter.”

Everything’s a matter of degree but the problem is that the laws don’t specify a degree. These kinds regs, which are typically for commercial practices, will be used more and more for things like preventing you from smoking in your own home. Burden will be on the defendant to show that there is no actual harm caused, through the appellate process.


22 posted on 07/28/2015 4:59:29 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: toothfairy86
No, really .... I thought you were kidding ....


23 posted on 07/28/2015 5:00:03 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: markomalley

The next time I do bbq’ing, I’ll make sure my smoke will stay in my yard...I might violate building code by putting a dome over my yard.


24 posted on 07/28/2015 5:00:10 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: markomalley

I would go buy about 1000 lbs of Bovine excrement and hope for a favorable wind after I light the grill.


25 posted on 07/28/2015 5:00:14 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Crim

I heard today (yet unconfirmed) the next utility push will be to meter your AC separately and charge extra for using AC.

Of course. AC is “not sustainable” as per Agenda 21.


26 posted on 07/28/2015 5:01:03 AM PDT by Captain7seas (i)
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To: markomalley

I live down the street from an African American lady that has 3 smokers set up on her back porch that is not more than 20 feet from the walking path. When I walk by I can smell the BBQ but there is no smoke escaping. My only complaint is I don’t get to have any .

Could it be the man has an open fire pit because in the vide he makes a comment that now they want me to buy a grill?


27 posted on 07/28/2015 5:01:17 AM PDT by heylady
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To: knarf

Let’s see ... NO vitamin D ... EVER ...... crippled by age 30 !


28 posted on 07/28/2015 5:01:34 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: knarf

You are right on the vitamin D!!! Lots of shut-in Muslim women will not get enough and vitamin D controls calcium in teeth and bone


29 posted on 07/28/2015 5:03:58 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Not at all...he comes off (in video) as a pretty cool guy. But I think he has an informal BBQ business going on


30 posted on 07/28/2015 5:05:22 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Captain7seas
Even Rush said it the other day....AC will be the new “privilege’ to be attacked by the left

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/07/22/europeans-think-americans-addiction-to-air-conditioning-is-stupid/

And the libs love anything the eurocommies do.

31 posted on 07/28/2015 5:06:29 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: iontheball

ha....funny you should say that.....when I saw that the guy was black I immediately thought the lady across the street complained because he was a black guy making BBQ. You could be right, but that county worker who came to his house is a weasel and it’s a bullshit thing to do. If the guy is actually selling BBQ illegally then send a cop and write him up. I think the lady across the street doesn’t like blacks in her neighborhood and found some worthless county ordinance under which to complain.


32 posted on 07/28/2015 5:10:38 AM PDT by irish guard
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To: markomalley

How does one provide evidence of “smoke” to a judge? “Yes Judge, I bagged the smoke up in this little baggie. Oh, well it was here, I swear”.


33 posted on 07/28/2015 5:25:33 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Say what you will about The Donald, but he has all the right enemies.)
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To: markomalley

I hope he doesn’t have a lemonade stand!


34 posted on 07/28/2015 5:28:41 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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To: Pecos

I used to be in Myrtle Beach at least once a week on business and even then there were more and more transplants from the northeast moving in. Some were fine people, unfortunately some were blithering idiots.


35 posted on 07/28/2015 5:55:41 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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