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Contain Your “Smoke Smell” or Else!?
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These are actually the most ridiculous “ordinance and court judgments” I have yet to hear enforced. I personally do actually have some experience with this in Washington state. I live just barely in city limits in a very rural area and once found while having a contained fire on my patio in a chiminea resulted with both the fire department and the police knocking on my door. Not because there was a structural fire, nor was I burning during a burn ban and my fire was legally contained, but because a neighbor complained about the smell! I asked one of the officers if I could then complain about the smell of that same neighbor’s horse’s manure! He said I could indeed!! I of course choose not to play the tit for tat game and did not file a complaint and immediately extinguished the fire on the patio. To prevent beginning what would surely have become an uncomfortable tension between my neighbor and her horses with myself and as it is a rural area the aroma of both my chiminea fire, and her horse manure is to be expected. So, in a way I can really relate to the Florida man told to contain the smoke and aroma of his weekend BBQ to his own property by a state official along with his confusion over the need to do so!
Just how does one contain BBQ smoke and cooking odors? See the implied answer to that and see the video taken of the complaint at the following link.
Even worse for smokers of legal cigarettes and in some states legal pot who have been ruled against in court judgments causing their eviction and in one case I have heard of loss of a condo they legally owned because neighbors could smell the smoke. Read more about that at this link
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