[AT] The noise; the noise; the noise,noise, noise!

[Mike Sloane]

I would love to have you for a neighbor, especially compared to one of 
my neighbors: he thinks that weekends were made for him and his friends 
to spend the day shooting their collections of rifles and pistols at 
targets set up on a bank next to his metal barn. They all wear hearing 
pods, so they don't notice the noise, but the sound comes out of the 
area between the bank and the metal barn like a giant loudspeaker! He 
also thinks that quiet snowy nights were made for he and his friends to 
spend the time cruising up and down the lane and woods on their 
snowmobiles. And quiets Sunday summer evenings are perfect for cruising 
up and down the lane on their ATV's. :-( You might suggest to your 
whining neighbor that things could be a LOT worse.

Mike

carl gogol wrote:

> Like right out of Dr. Seuss, I have a neighbor from across the street come
> up to me 11 AM today to complain about the noise from building our new
> machine shed.  This work had started at 10 AM - and there are no sound
> ordinances in the township.  All of the sins of the world were laid at my
> doorstep, culminating in the statement that says it all - "I've been here 18
> years and the neighborhood has just gone to hell since you moved in with the
> cacophony of sounds coming from all the tractors running at all hours of the
> weekend."  Let it be known, that I don't ever run one in the field before 8
> AM on Saturday or 9 Am on a Sunday and probably never after 9 at night.
> 
> This is the same one who came to me last summer when we had the big blackout
> and complained that we had waked the baby and  he couldn't stand the noise
> of our generator. I moved it to the back of our house, away from him - but
> don't know if it helped him any.
> 
> Now some people are more sensitive and all that; and he is a music person,
> but how can the rest of the neighborhood enjoy the sounds or say nothing?  I
> told him that I would take his feeling into consideration in the future, but
> that this 68 acres was destined to be a working farm in an agricultural
> district, and when the work needed to be done and the weather was right, it
> was going to get done.
> 
> Oh, and by the way, I am not telling the two guys finishing the shed to go
> home, - he looked totally frustrated at me and left.
> 
> Would anyone handled it differently?
> 
> Carl Gogol
> Manlius, NY
> (2) AC D-14, AC 914H
> Simplicity 3112 & 7116
> Kubota F-2400
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Mike Sloane
Allamuchy NJ
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Work: none - Retired!

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)