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[the_siobhan]

the_axel just pointed this article out to me as an example of a couple of really stupid people.

In case you can't read it, it tells the story of a couple of people who moved into a house next to a golf course, and have had high-speed golf balls pelting their million-dollar retirement property ever since. They want the club to close down because it is a danger.

Get this. The club was built in 1923. The house was built in 1999. Developers lobbied to be allowed to build houses on the adjacent land, going to court against both the golf course and the city planning committee.

And now it's the golf course's fault that the house has been damaged by flying golf balls?

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?

I read an article a few months ago about a farmer who is no longer allowed to use a certain kind of percussion cannon to scare birds off his fruit trees. A bunch of people from the city moved next to his working farm and managed to get a judge to rule that against him in a noise complaint. He's expecting to have a shitty harvest this year.

When I used to work at the biomed company there were people in the neighbourhood who complained that a facilities that dealt with pathogens should not be located in the middle of a residential area. A residential area that didn't exist when the company was first located there. A residential community that sprang up after developers bought land off of the company in order to build houses on it.

Toronto has a three-terminal airport just outside of town. It's the biggest city in Canada, so of course the terminal is insanely busy. Planes are not allowed to fly after a certain time at night because of the noise. Because you know, people who move next to an airport don't know that planes are going to be noisy.

ldot bought a house that is located near a railway line. Shortly after she moved in she told me some guy had come to her front door with a petition - to get the railway line shut down. Because it's loud and dirty and bad for the neighbourhood.

the_axel and I bought property that is bounded at the back by a railway line. Commuter trains go by about once an hour during the week and the much louder and dirtier freight trains go by a couple of times a day. We knew that when we moved in. We knew there were trains going by when we bought the place. And we damn well knew there were going to be more trains going by once we had moved in.

And you know what? If we hadn't wanted trains going by outside of our backyard, WE WOULDN'T HAVE FUCKING MOVED HERE.

Jesus, people. Give your head a shake.