Farmer sued for bird cannon being too loud.

[Stranger]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20564433/?GT1=10357

I hope this is thown out of court. If you don't like bird cannons going off, move back to the suburbs. Like the farmer said they'll "not want you to start your tractors until 10 o’clock in the morning?”

[Dan02]

from reading the article i don't think they'll win a lawsuit but it might get the law changed. 120 decibels which they estimate the noise to be at is the same noise level as a jet, i'd be choked it i like 1/2 a kilometer away and this was going off every few minutes as well.

[Clarkey]

Shoot the birds and you have a permanent solution to the noise problem. I stayed in Oliver for one night last summer and those damn things started going off at 6am.

[JohnnyB]

There have been some issues in the lower mainland because of bird cannons being used by farmers in areas with encroaching suburbs as well recently. Certainly a pain in the ass for the suburb residents, but you can hardly hold it against the farmers that suburbs are encroaching. It's not like bird cannons are an unusual practice, and it's part of their livelyhood. Just sucks for both sides to be in that situation.

[killer_carlson]

I'm with the farmer on this one.

Is this poor, disturbed person going to cough up the extra dough to cover the farmer's loss in revenue from the birds destroying his crop? I doubt it.

Blast away.

[Regorium]

Originally Posted by Dan02

from reading the article i don't think they'll win a lawsuit but it might get the law changed. 120 decibels which they estimate the noise to be at is the same noise level as a jet, i'd be choked it i like 1/2 a kilometer away and this was going off every few minutes as well.

How could you miss it if you were buying the house and it was going off every couple minutes? It'd have been an immediate no sale for me.

It's not the farmer's fault that builders aren't respecting their customers by building so close.

[Bobblehead]

It's the developers that are the problem.

One of my summer jobs was at a dead stock removal place (yeah, that convinced me on the benefits of a degree), and it reeked. But with a prevailing west wind, a developer bought up a field directly to the west and proceeded to put a bunch of houses in. I'd be willing to bet they didn't sell any on days when the wind was from the east. A couple of years later, the guy who ran the company finally gave up fighting the lawsuit and shut down.

I also hate people who live in the country and then complain when manure is spread in the field beside them. You moved there - deal with it for the 4 or 5 days a year you smell it.