Jump to full article: Examiner.com (National), 2009-11-05
Author: Populist Examiner Bruce Maiman
Intro: This is the story of two neighbors and a dispute over secondhand smoke in the Sacramento suburb of El Dorado Hills.
It seems like a minor story, especially with everything that's wrong in California: . . .
In short, the state is a disaster. You'd think with all those problems that a dispute between neighbors over cigarette smoke wouldn't generate much interest but it has garnered more response in the local newspaper than anything the paper has reported in recent memory --and frankly, the Sacramento Bee has been doing a bang-up job uncovering all sorts of graft, waste and corruption in state government. Does this story resonate at the national level? Here's the deal:
A California couple has filed a lawsuit seeking relief from their next-door neighbor's second-hand cigarette smoke.
Richard and Donna Ganguet were the first to move into a gated community for people age 55 and older. That was 2006. Today, they claim the cigar and cigarette smoke wafts into their yard from the property of neighbor has caused an intolerable situation. . . .
The responses --over 600 on the newspaper's website-- are all over the board. . . .
I had a problem a few years ago with heavy smoking neighbors. No amount of pleading would get them to take their smoke somewhere other than directly into my windows.
I fixed the problem by putting an old piece of fish in a bowl, hooking up a small, quiet fan right behind it, and placing the rig right next to the fence. Worked like a charm - inside two days, the neighbors moved their smoking area away from my side and didn't come back to it.
Don't get mad, get even.
What do you think? How do you resolve this problem between two neighbors?
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