Really?
I love Thanksgiving...no presents, no religion, just good food (hopefully:), friends, family and a heaping of gratitude.
But that's not what my blog today is about.
Last Tuesday night I arrived home, ate some dinner and went upstairs to get ready for bed..I was exhausted. As I'm in the process, I hear the familiar sound of a lawnmover rumbling outside. At first I didn't pay an attention, it was just another sound of suburbia. However, there was something strange going on...it was completely dark outside!
I couldn't believe it. It sounded close so I looked out the window and barely spotted my neighbor across the street mowing his lawn. Apart from the noise, I knew it was him because he was holding a flashlight. It was bouncing around as he mowed over leaves and twigs. He could only mow for about 2 minutes at a time because the bag would get full and he would have to empty it out.
I watched him in amazement and wondered out loud...WTF?
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For almost a quarter century, the City's Noise Control Code has banned as "unreasonable noise": "any excessive or unusually loud sound that disturbs the peace, comfort or repose of a reasonable person of normal sensitivities or injures or endangers the health or safety of a reasonable person of normal sensitivities, or which causes injury to plant or animal life, or damage to property or business..." (Funny but last night the issue of this standard got raised at a social gathering last night.)
One might liken that standard to the line about obscenity: we know it when we see it; with unreasonable noise, we know it when we hear it.
Maybe some Long Island locales need that code.
By the way an excellent chapter on noise may be found in The Public Ought To Know. It might enlighten some folks.
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Do you think your neighbor thought this was a good idea? Will you ask? ---
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