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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lipool0620,0,5937.story?coll=ny-main-bigpix

A Bayville couple could face jail time because angry neighbors claim their daughters play too loudly in their backyard.

What. The. Fuck.

What?



But, how?





What?

People R Stoopid.

Seriously, I hope the judge throws this out and laughs in that woman's face.

Noisy, figureless subadult humanoids bouncing their fleshbrick bodies pleases your OVERLORD, apes.

That's... horrible

People R Stoopid.

Seriously, I hope the judge throws this out and laughs in that woman's face.

Or maybe order the parents to buy her some ear plugs.

......
Because clearly people don't have the right to do things on their own property, like allowing their kids to play....

Or maybe order the parents to buy her some ear plugs.

Or maybe just remove their ears.

......
Because clearly people don't have the right to do things on their own property, like allowing their kids to play....

Apparently not. I guess if your kid makes a sound of laughter you get your ass arrested.

It's amazing what people are actually willing to sue over.

Uh... WTF??

How is that law firm of yours going Wilgrov? Seriously, start it NOW. Oh, didn't you not wanna be a teacher? Sue people for not hiring you and ruining your life.

It's amazing what people are actually willing to sue over.

They aren't suing, they're pressing charges.

The neighbours should be forcibly relocated next to an international airport.

that's messed up.

although......the kids down the street from me are really loud all the freaking time, I wish I could do something about it, but I can't, until they start shooting of fireworks, or shooting off guns, then I can call the cops

*can't wait to move onto her land in her pretty house where nobody lives within 5 acres of her*

I say we all go sit out on the street with pots and pans and bang them together until the bitch's head explodes

The couple is charged with violating a noise code aimed at "the shouting and crying of peddlers, hawkers and vendors which disturbs the peace and quiet of the neighborhood.

theres a big difference between children playing and street vendors.....if you are that big of an asshole you deserve to have a UPS shipping plant AND and international airport built in your back and front yards

that's messed up.

although......the kids down the street from me are really loud all the freaking time, I wish I could do something about it, but I can't, until they start shooting of fireworks, or shooting off guns, then I can call the cops

*can't wait to move onto her land in her pretty house where nobody lives within 5 acres of her*
5 acres. Sounds great.......
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On an unrelated topic: your sig is huge. Sigs are limited to 8 lines.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lipool0620,0,5937.story?coll=ny-main-bigpix

Thrown out. The judge recognized it was too stupid to prosecute, esp. since the law they cited was one used to keep vendors, peddler and other commercial folks from being too loud -- not preteens.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lipool0621,0,71474.story?track=mostemailedlink

really because I've seen much much longer ones than mine

Your sig, Gataway, is eleven lines by my count. The limit is eight. Please revise it.

This is actually a little hard to judge without more information. We don't know how loud the kids were, and I can definitely imagine kids that are out of control and loud enough to warrant a fine.

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Because clearly people don't have the right to do things on their own property, like allowing their kids to play....

Well.. not with megaphones after midnight. But that wasn't the case here.

Isn't it sick that we hate the sounds of our fellow mans' offspring? We hate the natural sounds of the next generation, of the younger of our species... :(

Holy. Cinammon. Bun.
I gotta turn dowm my stereo NOW!
on another note: The Neibours who complained must be from some weird country where children are put to work in coffee mines to please their alult overlords.

Depends how loud they were, just because they're kids doesn't give them carte blanche to be as noisy as they like.

On a side note, it's nothing compared to a legal case in the UK.

R vs Doughty 1986

A man was successful on appeal in having his sentence reduced from murder to manslaughter after court of appeal decided trial judge should not have told the jury that the crying of a 17 day old baby could not constitute provocation to murder.

Not as sensational as it first appears, since the judge should have told them to think how the reasonable man would have reacted. But in theory anything can constitute provocation to murder.

Good think I'm not their neighbor. :p

Kids are unreasonably noisy and annoying, I think it's perfectly justified to get upset. The little bastards never shut up!

Although adults can be just as bad. *Sigh*

This is a clear indication of how far frivolous lawsuits have gone, and should demonstrate that...

...Wait...















WHAT THE FUCK?!

What's wrong with these people?! Did we fall asleep one day and find ourselves in fantasy land?!

What's wrong with these people?! Did we fall asleep one day and find ourselves in fantasy land?!

the obvious answer is: yes, most of the world is full of idiots

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lipool0620,0,5937.story?coll=ny-main-bigpix

Idiots. :rolleyes:

Kids should just be....oke, not loud, but they should be allowed to play

Kids should just be....oke, not loud, but they should be allowed to play

Agreed. I used to play out and probably made a bit of noise in the street. The trouble is that now kids seem to be out later and be noisier than ever.

Where I used to live it was the norm to be kept awake by 'chav kids' at all hours.

Kids need safe clean areas to play. Parents need to keep them from upsetting everybody else.

Large stereotype coming - the parents of the kids out late probably didn't want them in the house disturbing 'adult time' and did not have to get up at 7am after a broken night sleep, but had the luxury of sleeping all day. In some areas these people are virtually nocturnal.

This is one of the greatest arguments for year-round schooling I have ever seen. Stupid, loud kids. My mother-in-law's neighbors have kids like this that throw rocks on her property, ride their bikes in front of cars, and stay out screaming and behaving like hoodlums until after dark. Kids like that belong in boot camp learning to be responsible adults, not in pools playing like little heathens.

The parents should not have been charged. The kids should have. Someone has to teach the little bastards some respect for authority. Kids have too much freedom and too much "oh, just let them be kids" bullshit going on. The world's too big, complicated, and hard to let kids be kids. Kids who don't go out and do something responsible with their time, like go pick up trash on the side of the road or wash people's cars, deserve everything bad that happens to them.

Bravo to those who pressed charges. May the charges be re-pressed against the kids.

This is one of the greatest arguments for year-round schooling I have ever seen. Stupid, loud kids. My mother-in-law's neighbors have kids like this that throw rocks on her property, ride their bikes in front of cars, and stay out screaming and behaving like hoodlums until after dark. Kids like that belong in boot camp learning to be responsible adults, not in pools playing like little heathens.

The parents should not have been charged. The kids should have. Someone has to teach the little bastards some respect for authority. Kids have too much freedom and too much "oh, just let them be kids" bullshit going on. The world's too big, complicated, and hard to let kids be kids. Kids who don't go out and do something responsible with their time, like go pick up trash on the side of the road or wash people's cars, deserve everything bad that happens to them.

Bravo to those who pressed charges. May the charges be re-pressed against the kids.

I do hope you're joking. Or at least trolling.

I do hope you're joking. Or at least trolling.

Nope. Not joking. I flat-out hate kids. And I'm not trolling. Maybe ranting like a grumpy old man, but not joking or trolling. I just plain don't like kids. And I'm not making up the bit about my MIL's obnoxious neighbors, either.

I don't have any kids. But when I do, I expect to have them as fully-functional adults by age 10, though I guess I'll settle for 12.

This is one of the greatest arguments for year-round schooling I have ever seen. Stupid, loud kids. My mother-in-law's neighbors have kids like this that throw rocks on her property, ride their bikes in front of cars, and stay out screaming and behaving like hoodlums until after dark. Kids like that belong in boot camp learning to be responsible adults, not in pools playing like little heathens.


They're playing in traffic, it'll sort itself out pretty quickly.

This is one of the greatest arguments for year-round schooling I have ever seen.

So is this. :p

I do hope you're joking. Or at least trolling.
Why?
Not everybody likes listening to the "little darlings" incessant screaming, you know.

They're playing in traffic, it'll sort itself out pretty quickly.

Unfortunately that just means the poor sod that solves the problem will be sued or have their driving licence revoked :(

This is one of the greatest arguments for year-round schooling I have ever seen. Stupid, loud kids. My mother-in-law's neighbors have kids like this that throw rocks on her property, ride their bikes in front of cars, and stay out screaming and behaving like hoodlums until after dark. Kids like that belong in boot camp learning to be responsible adults, not in pools playing like little heathens.

The parents should not have been charged. The kids should have. Someone has to teach the little bastards some respect for authority. Kids have too much freedom and too much "oh, just let them be kids" bullshit going on. The world's too big, complicated, and hard to let kids be kids. Kids who don't go out and do something responsible with their time, like go pick up trash on the side of the road or wash people's cars, deserve everything bad that happens to them.

Bravo to those who pressed charges. May the charges be re-pressed against the kids.

just go the extra mile youre hinting at


free executions for all children, courtesy of the jackass in aisle 5!

I saw the video, they were kinda loud. But definitely not pressing charges loud. Apparently it was more then one person that had a problem too, like 5 of there neighbors did.

Still bullshit.

Why?
Not everybody likes listening to the "little darlings" incessant screaming, you know.

Yeah, I know. I hate babies. However, that statement was so over-the-top, hilariously campy, and Jim Carrey-esque that it couldn't be taken seriously.

Nope. Not joking. I flat-out hate kids. And I'm not trolling. Maybe ranting like a grumpy old man, but not joking or trolling. I just plain don't like kids. And I'm not making up the bit about my MIL's obnoxious neighbors, either.

I don't have any kids. But when I do, I expect to have them as fully-functional adults by age 10, though I guess I'll settle for 12.

You're the grumpiest old sod I've ever met. I hate babies, but that's about it.

To all the adults who say they don't like kids, I'd like to remind them of the undeniable fact that THEY WERE ONE! And although they may have had the mindset of an uptight 40-year-old from kindergarten, who's proud of that? Law Abiding Criminals- do you spend all of your time washing people's cars and picking up trash on the side of the road? The best reason I can think of for people hating kids having fun is that their own lives are so miserable they think everyone else's should be too. Maybe the world would still be a big complicated place, but a little less hard if people remembered how to be as carefree as kids sometimes!

They should fine the neighbour who complained for wasting the court's time and being a nusiance.

If you don't want to hear kids yell and scream when you're at home, don't move to the suburbs.

WTF....

"This is it for me," said Kostakis, whose wife, Angie, is listed as one of the complainants on the summons. "I don't work 12 hours a day to come home and listen to this -- -- ."

But Albert Brunetti, 74, who lives next door to the Poczateks, said he thought the children were well-behaved.

"The kids are nice kids," he said. "Children are supposed to play and have fun."

I guess those guys are just a bunch of assholes

To all the adults who say they don't like kids, I'd like to remind them of the undeniable fact that THEY WERE ONE!
Just because he had my name does not mean that the child of decades past is who I was. I am who I am because of the experiences I have endured. That being that others once referred to by my name is someone that no longer exists. I destroyed him.

To all the adults who say they don't like kids, I'd like to remind them of the undeniable fact that THEY WERE ONE! And although they may have had the mindset of an uptight 40-year-old from kindergarten, who's proud of that? Law Abiding Criminals- do you spend all of your time washing people's cars and picking up trash on the side of the road? The best reason I can think of for people hating kids having fun is that their own lives are so miserable they think everyone else's should be too. Maybe the world would still be a big complicated place, but a little less hard if people remembered how to be as carefree as kids sometimes!

Or...we don't like children because they can be vile, obnoxious little buggers with no respect for authority or other people besides themselves. We get sick of watching them throw tantrums in public, drive the noise level up several notches whereever they go, and otherwise act like brats while their parents just look on and say "They're just kids, let them be kids" Then, of course, they grow up to be bratty teenagers with an overinflated sense of entitlement and no sense of personal responsibility. And on top of all of that, the rest of us just have to deal with it. Why? "They're just kids."

I'm with Myu, except not only did I destroy that little brat I once was, I burned the body as well.

Actually, why shouldn't the kids be restrained in the amount of screamin and yelling they produce?

Why should the law discriminate vendors?

Usually there is a "silent zone" around when people use to sleep, where barely any sound should be heard, and for the rest of the day there's a quite high threshold.

If You're not able to educate Your children not to disturb the others, then You shouldn't have any.

This should be plain clear to anyone who wants to sleep at night, or read a newspaper in a sunday afternoon.

What seems to slip to most here, is how hellish and loud some untaught children can be.

*and after they complain when someone runs them over*

Or...we don't like children because they can be vile, obnoxious little buggers with no respect for authority or other people besides themselves. We get sick of watching them throw tantrums in public, drive the noise level up several notches whereever they go, and otherwise act like brats while their parents just look on and say "They're just kids, let them be kids" Then, of course, they grow up to be bratty teenagers with an overinflated sense of entitlement and no sense of personal responsibility. And on top of all of that, the rest of us just have to deal with it. Why? "They're just kids."

Yeah, this.

Yeah, this.

I live to serve :p

Then, of course, they grow up to be bratty teenagers with an overinflated sense of entitlement and no sense of personal responsibility.


And then they grow up to become adults and generally turn out just like everyone else

And then they grow up to become adults and generally turn out just like everyone else

And, if we're lucky, they stay that way.

More likely, as soon as they become parents the cycle repeats itself.

But Albert Brunetti, 74, who lives next door to the Poczateks, said he thought the children were well-behaved.

You know the neighbors complaining don't have a leg to stand on when the grumpy old man next door thinks the kids are well-behaved!

You know the neighbors complaining don't have a leg to stand on when the grumpy old man next door thinks the kids are well-behaved!

In all fairness, if I came home from a 12 hour shift to noisy kids next door, I'd be peeved too.

But ask their parents to rein them in a bit peeved, not press charges peeved.

If you don't want to hear kids yell and scream when you're at home, don't move to the suburbs.

Exactly. I have no sympathy for the neighbor. If the sounds of children at play are so unendurably horrible that you have to spend three years bitching about it, why the hell did you choose to live in an area with large numbers of families with small children?

Just because he had my name does not mean that the child of decades past is who I was. I am who I am because of the experiences I have endured. That being that others once referred to by my name is someone that no longer exists. I destroyed him.

As did everyone who once entered puberty.

I must confess there are days when I want nothing more than to repeatedly kick children who make excessive noise, all day, every day, for six weeks. Firstly, they have no right to be noisy before midday; nobody should, when off school, be in any state to do anything before then. Secondly, there is a difference between noise and screaming; the latter, from 9 until 9, is frankly vexing. Thirdly, I don't have a choice about living in the suburbs. I'm 18, I don't leave for university until October, and I cannot be held to account if my father lacks the ambition to take a sodding promotion.

However, sueing does seem excessive; a simple letter, or, indeed, a visit, ought to have sufficed.

The neighbours should be forcibly relocated next to an international airport.

They should be handcuffed, stripped naked, and thrown out of a helicopter into a large body of water.

And then realize that the body of water is only 5ft deep and they've been punk'd (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypYZIxvppqg)! :D

I'm 18, I don't leave for university until October, and I cannot be held to account if my father lacks the ambition to take a sodding promotion.


You think it's going to be quieter at university? You obviously haven't had the pleasure of a 3 a.m. fire alarm, or your wall being rattled for hours by the (excessively) horny couple next door, or having to step over several drunks to get into your flat

Just because he had my name does not mean that the child of decades past is who I was. I am who I am because of the experiences I have endured. That being that others once referred to by my name is someone that no longer exists. I destroyed him.


I'm with Myu, except not only did I destroy that little brat I once was, I burned the body as well.

Melodrama much? What on earth did you people do as children? This sounds like nothing so much as an ex-CIA/KGB agent who tortured people and toppled governments during the Cold War and then gave up their jobs and faked their death because of the stain on their conscience.

Who now has a happy family life, but after terrorists obtain a devastating experimental weapon, his old agency contacts him once more for a final mission, and the demons of the past return... in theatres this November...

Melodrama much? What on earth did you people do as children? This sounds like nothing so much as an ex-CIA/KGB agent who tortured people and toppled governments during the Cold War and then gave up their jobs and faked their death because of the stain on their conscience.

You know too much...

*Prepares cyanide syringe*

You know too much...

*Prepares cyanide syringe*

Hey, hey, what about all that conscience stuff? :eek:

Hey, hey, what about all that conscience stuff? :eek:

For the Greater Good...

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lipool0620,0,5937.story?coll=ny-main-bigpix

yay for tort law.

I'M MORE ADULT THAN YOU!!! NEENERS NEENERS NEENERS!!!!

Fixed.

BIG BOLD TEXT MAKES EVERYTHING RIGHT!! LOL!!!11!!

Right back at ya.

Actually going to contribute, or have you reached the pinnacle of your rhetorical abilities?

WHAT THE FUCK!

I've always said how happy I am that I grew up in a time when children played outside, and didn't have to worry about PC rules and crap like that. But are things so bad now that I actually have to add to it how happy I am to have been legally able to play outside as well.....?!


EDIT: WTF! x 1000

POLL: Is it fair to impose penalties for noisy kids?

45.0%
Yes, I don't want to hear any excessive noise near my home. (19789 responses)

9.9%
No, kids will be kids. Let them play! (4357 responses)

23.1%
Yes, if you can't work out an agreement with your neighbor. (10138 responses)

22.0%
No, the parents should quiet their kids and apologize. (9651 responses)

43935 total responses

NO.. F***ING... WORDS!!!

WHAT THE FUCK!

I've always said how happy I am that I grew up in a time when children played outside, and didn't have to worry about PC rules and crap like that.

What PC rules govern children playing outside?

What PC rules govern children playing outside?

I think he's talking about the stuff like schools refusing to give out failing grades because it might hurt the children's self-esteem.

I think he's talking about the stuff like schools refusing to give out failing grades because it might hurt the children's self-esteem.

Kids have to worry about such things?

Kids have to worry about such things?

*shrugs*

Ya got me. When I was a kid my biggest worry was getting thru world 7 in Super Mario Bros 3.

Actually going to contribute, or have you reached the pinnacle of your rhetorical abilities?

I'd argue, but I have some very important nothing to do.