I actually addressed that very point in the other thread, if you care to check it out… 
I went back and read the thread just to find your post. Very nicely put.
Sorry,clarify which part?Are those signs actually enforcible under some sort of law in the way that handicapped spaces are?
Why, thank you! curtsey
catsix–It’s probably against the law the same way burning wood is in Ohio… 
I highlighted your seemingly contradictory statements above.
Seems to me they are only contradictory if we knew exactly what was being burned. I don’t think she ever clarified what she thought*. If Sprocket’s neighbor’s are burning something that doesn’t smell like wood she should at least say that even if she didn’t actually visit the fire in progress.
*eta: or did I miss it?
FarmerChick,
OK.Thought I saw bolding.
My understanding is less than perfect since the OP didn’t identify what was being burned,and may have been one of the types referred to in the second bolding.
Even total assholes breathing burning plastic have my sympathy.
By country/farmland I was trying to indicate a mix of tilled/woodland/undeveloped acreage.
No. Not around here, anyway. There’d be no way to prove how pregnant a woman was, anyway. I can just imagine a sign saying, “Women Six Months Pregnant or More”, or “If you don’t show, you gotta go!”
I can tell you that burning rubbish stinks like no other stink I have ever smelled. My neighbor buerns his rubbish and his oil and his gtease and pretty much anything that burns. Hhe burns it in a firepit under the cover of darkness. Twice a week a garbage truck cruises by his house but it doesnt stop at his shack. No he cannot scrape enough spare change to get his shit picked up. Or take it to the landfill for $10 a load. He is trashy.
I have talked to him, I have sent the township to talk to him and the DNR has talked to him. He must be breathing the fumes of his rubbish because the man doesnt see the connection between his actions and the threat to 1) his groundwater supply 2) the water quality of the beautiful body of water 30ft from his burn pile 3) the air quality of the neighborhood especially on warm nights!
I tell ya, so many ignorant fools are popping in to tell you to fuck off where this man is concerned. You have a right to be pissed off and expect a little fucking respect and civilization from your rude neighbor.
Good luck with the pea brains in your community. Watch out for those good ol boys in blue.
Sorry, to jump all over you, but nowhere does she even hint that there is anything toxic being burned. We have asked her repeatedly but the closest she ever came was post #25 where she shows her real asshattery by describing a fire ring and inferring that if a leaf is in the fire, or if you leave the fire even for 1 second, it’s no longer a “pleasure fire”.
I think all of us know that burning toxic shit is bad. I know I don’t do it, nor do I advocate it. But if my neighbour was doing it, I sure as hell wouldn’t be calling the authorities as my first response. As has been pointed out repeatedly to the OP, it’s common sense when city people move to the country to scope out the lay of the land, maybe get to know your neighbours. Calling the cops everytime you perceive they are doing something wrong is not the way to do it.
Now you I can empathize with! You have stated clearly with no bullshit that he is burning toxic garbage. That guy needs to be charged. Like I and many others have stated, burning of toxic garbage is a big nono and needs to be stopped. But it needs to be stopped through education. And the cold hard fact is a lot of the old timers refuse to listen. So until they retire and die off, short of jailing them all, we may be stuck with trying to educate them.
Only we’re not, see. If he’s burning stuff that isn’t paper and yard waste and such, that’s actively bad.
And you went to talk to him. And half the township went to talk to him. Far as we can gather, Sprockets caught a whiff of something burny, hunted down the neighbor who had something bright and flickery in his backyard, and called the EPA.
These two situations, they are not – at least, with the information we have – comparable. Not that it matters. Apparently disagreement is too mean for words and requiring someone to defend themselves and back up their words is Totally Unfair.
No, the persona comes from your posts here. You come across as a self-righteous busybody. If you are not such a person, then you have only yourself to blame for giving us the idea that you are.
Oh you’d better believe it, babe. My neighbour pulled this nasty passive-aggressive shit on me once. Unfortunately for her, the persona that *you’ve * created for me - that’s the one who wouldn’t be nasty right back irl - doesn’t exist. I went straight round and told her that the bullying would cease and desist. From now on, if she had a problem, she’d deal with me directly. She’s never had a problem since…
To be fair, Alice the Goon was talking about a grandfather. I can imagine that rural living in the Fifties or Forties or whenever was a tad different than it is today, even without the changed outlook about the environment and how to treat animals.
Well, you tell me - do you think she’d brag about her Grandpa’s racist attitudes as much as his un-PC environmental attitudes? Now, I’m not assuming that her backwoods Grandpa was a racist, but if he was, that is certainly under the same “oh, it was the 40’s” safe haven some seem happy to provide for pouring paint in the creek.
And this
**Biography:
Started out as Commonsense **
Is that a prior Dope User name?
I searched but I didn’t find anything resent but I am not sure where the archives are or if they can be searched.
I don’t think you can use a previous Doper name. We do have a** commasense** and an Uncommonsense.
Oh okay, I knew the name looked familar.
I was wondering though if it was a previous doper that used to go by Commonsense but the subscription ran out a while back and signed up with a new name.