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City Orders Man to Keep the Smell of BBQ from Leaving his Property
By Justin Gardner on July 25, 2015
Pinellas County, Fl - Who knew that the all-American tradition of backyard barbecue could result in a visit from the State, in the Land of the "Free," giving you a warning for firing up the pit? Well, it happened in Pinellas County, Florida to Scotty Jordan earlier this week.
In a video uploaded to Facebook 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," according to their website. 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.
By Justin Gardner on July 25, 2015
Pinellas County, Fl - Who knew that the all-American tradition of backyard barbecue could result in a visit from the State, in the Land of the "Free," giving you a warning for firing up the pit? Well, it happened in Pinellas County, Florida to Scotty Jordan earlier this week.
In a video uploaded to Facebook 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," according to their website. 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.
Comments
This was the class nerd sitting in the middle row eating his boogers hating everyone else for his faults. He promised to get even with the world when he grew up, so he took a government enforcement weenie job "Environmental Specialist".
The complainers house could always burn....
Wonder if something like this ever went to an appeals court??
Colombia does not have a death penalty so matters like this are settled "Out of Court"
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This product would probably help them stick to their diet and also mask the BBQ smell.
They move to be away from that kind of BS, but then bring it with them.
that is because they are miserable people, and when they move away form it, they realize how much they miss being miserable so they recreate it.
Poor neighbors are probably trying to stick to their diet and BBQ is driving them crazy.
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This product would probably help them stick to their diet and also mask the BBQ smell.
..More likely vegetarians. To them it's a cremation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxPf4jXUSyw
Good Lord- Seriously[?]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxPf4jXUSyw
We went to war with England for less.
I'm afraid I would end up in bankruptcy court over something like this. I would spend every cent I have plus every cent I could beg, borrow or steal.
Where in the law does it say who decides what an objectionable odor is? The way the law is being enforced, all you have to do is find one person out of three hundred some odd million people who doesn't like a smell and you can shut down anybody for anything.
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Paintball?
Mix it with denatured alcohol, put in a balloon and launch with a large slingshot.