Wearing a bathrobe and a holster on his hip, the owner of a $1.1 million Florida home threatened to shoot his next-door neighbor and the man’s dog in retaliation for the victim's 7:45 AM leaf blowing, according to police.
Investigators allege that Curtis Manfred Franz, 51, initially fired a pistol into the air seven times yesterday morning as a neighbor on Sunnybrook Lane in Largo used a blower to remove leaves from his roof.
Good neighbors don't use a leaf blower at 7:45 am. If a neighbor is within 300 yards, waiting until after 9:00 am is a good rule of thumb. That said, if someone threatened my dog, he'd only do so once.
For the most part, yes. It depends on where you live. I figure it's okay for me to use my mower or weedeater at 7 AM if my neighbors are doing their tractor work at 6. When I lived in the San Joaquin Valley, it wasn't unusual at all to hear people in town mowing their lawns at 6 in the morning during the summer. It's a lot easier to do it early when it's only 80 degrees than it is at 10 AM when it's already 100 degrees.
Same in North Texas. Most of our neighbors who do their own lawn work do so between 6-8 in the morning, because of the heat in the summer, no one thinks anything of it, it's just the way it is.
Yep, it's not uncommon here in FL for construction and yard work to start before 7am from about now until November. It's too hot during the day. By May, 9am has a heat index already near 100.
If you work 12 hr graveyard shifts, you're used to it and either use earplugs or have your bedroom soundproofed. The world doesn't adapt your your shitty schedule, and you know it and adapt.
Sorry, but while I'm up before 6, I'm damned sure not 'running' so I guess I'm a worthless POS, huh? Now let's hear your insults on people that work rotating shifts - a week of graveyard, a week of days, then a week of swing.
"a week of graveyard, a week of days, then a week of swing"
A friend of mine has worked for many years for a company that makes industrial chemicals and compounds. Many years ago in response to whining from relative newbies that it wasn't "fair" that shift choice was based on longevity the company decided to set up such rotating shifts. I told my friend it was a terrible idea, that production would go down and accidents up immediately, and I hoped the company went back to the way they'd always done before someone got killed.
No one got killed, thankfully, but it was indeed the decline in production and rise in accidents that caused them to rescind the new policy two months later.
Now, as for ruralcounsel (BKA the dickhead who sneered at people like me who work nights) - Fuck you, asshole. I'm nocturnal by nature and *like* working nights. Just because you couldn't handle it doesn't make it a shitty schedule.
Shell, I spent many years on swing and graveyard and that was my choice - less management to deal with. Then there are those that pick those shifts in order to save on child care or just to take care of the kids while the other spouse is working.
I live in the sticks, we don't hear leaf blowers in the morning. Now we do hear chainsaws, tractors and hunters. Leaf blower wouldn't be worth going to jail over. I will shoot you over my dog, if she had a gun I feel sure she would do the same for me. Still, I'd rather live in the country than in a city full of Karens.
Seven shots in the air that came down through sone bodys' house roof car roof or person. Good neighbor rule of thumb is no power tools before 9 am and quiet time is at 9 pm.
Before 9 AM on a Sunday, we're going to have words. Otherwise, during the week, the fucking Mexican gardeners are revving their leaf blowers and lawnmowers at daybreak anyway.
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ReplyDeleteI respect gun rights, but you don't get to act like an idiot because you own one. You just give sensible gun owners a bad rap.
I substituted leaf blower every place you had gun and it still makes sense.
DeleteGood neighbors don't use a leaf blower at 7:45 am. If a neighbor is within 300 yards, waiting until after 9:00 am is a good rule of thumb. That said, if someone threatened my dog, he'd only do so once.
ReplyDeleteFor the most part, yes. It depends on where you live. I figure it's okay for me to use my mower or weedeater at 7 AM if my neighbors are doing their tractor work at 6.
DeleteWhen I lived in the San Joaquin Valley, it wasn't unusual at all to hear people in town mowing their lawns at 6 in the morning during the summer. It's a lot easier to do it early when it's only 80 degrees than it is at 10 AM when it's already 100 degrees.
If you aren't up and running by 6AM, you're a worthless POS and shouldn't have any reason to complain. F*cking welfare mindset.
DeleteSame in North Texas. Most of our neighbors who do their own lawn work do so between 6-8 in the morning, because of the heat in the summer, no one thinks anything of it, it's just the way it is.
DeleteOr you just went to bed because you work 12hr graveyard shifts. Not everyone who doesn't rise with the sun is a welfare leech.
DeleteYep, it's not uncommon here in FL for construction and yard work to start before 7am from about now until November. It's too hot during the day. By May, 9am has a heat index already near 100.
DeleteIf you work 12 hr graveyard shifts, you're used to it and either use earplugs or have your bedroom soundproofed. The world doesn't adapt your your shitty schedule, and you know it and adapt.
DeleteSorry, but while I'm up before 6, I'm damned sure not 'running' so I guess I'm a worthless POS, huh?
DeleteNow let's hear your insults on people that work rotating shifts - a week of graveyard, a week of days, then a week of swing.
"a week of graveyard, a week of days, then a week of swing"
DeleteA friend of mine has worked for many years for a company that makes industrial chemicals and compounds. Many years ago in response to whining from relative newbies that it wasn't "fair" that shift choice was based on longevity the company decided to set up such rotating shifts. I told my friend it was a terrible idea, that production would go down and accidents up immediately, and I hoped the company went back to the way they'd always done before someone got killed.
No one got killed, thankfully, but it was indeed the decline in production and rise in accidents that caused them to rescind the new policy two months later.
Now, as for ruralcounsel (BKA the dickhead who sneered at people like me who work nights) - Fuck you, asshole. I'm nocturnal by nature and *like* working nights. Just because you couldn't handle it doesn't make it a shitty schedule.
Shell, I spent many years on swing and graveyard and that was my choice - less management to deal with.
DeleteThen there are those that pick those shifts in order to save on child care or just to take care of the kids while the other spouse is working.
Bad idea. Should have just pushed the noisy bastard off the roof onto the dog.
ReplyDeleteI live in the sticks, we don't hear leaf blowers in the morning. Now we do hear chainsaws, tractors and hunters. Leaf blower wouldn't be worth going to jail over. I will shoot you over my dog, if she had a gun I feel sure she would do the same for me. Still, I'd rather live in the country than in a city full of Karens.
ReplyDeleteSeven shots in the air that came down through sone bodys' house roof car roof or person. Good neighbor rule of thumb is no power tools before 9 am and quiet time is at 9 pm.
ReplyDeleteNote that the article linked to has an ad for a leaf blower next to it.
ReplyDeleteWhen you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk. Warning shots are only fired in the movies.
ReplyDeleteNemo
Before 9 AM on a Sunday, we're going to have words.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, during the week, the fucking Mexican gardeners are revving their leaf blowers and lawnmowers at daybreak anyway.
Solution for next time: leaf blowers can only be operated by 18 year old daughters wearing a see through. Thank you.
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