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   Message 8,058 of 8,692   
   Rob to rogerbrown99999@hotmail.com   
   Re: Small plane noise destroyed my life   
   19 Nov 04 19:36:50   
   
   XPost: alt.noise, talk.environment, misc.legal   
   XPost: rec.backcountry   
   From: rob@nospam.com   
      
   I can think of three options:   
      
   1. Surface to air missles   
   2. Anti aircraft gun   
   3. Your own airplane with AAMRAM or perhaps a vulcan cannon   
      
   Oh wait, this is a legal newsgroup, isn't it................   
      
      
    wrote in message   
   news:af084a91.0411191032.1f92fe44@posting.google.com...   
   >I live in Newark (south-east side of San Francisco Bay), and small   
   > plane noise is driving me crazy. All day long, especially on the   
   > weekends, small private planes are buzzing above Newark.   
   >   
   > Newark used to be a quiet town, but within the last year, the airspace   
   > above it has became the training ground for flight schools and private   
   > pilots.   
   >   
   > These recreational flyers can only practice their hobby if they have   
   > someone else's land to fly over. They leave Palo Alto and/or San   
   > Carlos airport and head east. They wouldn't think of causing noise   
   > pollution over their ritzy pennsula area.   
   >   
   > They are not simply navigating from point A to point B. They have   
   > navigated to our back yards and are now loitering above us that serves   
   > no purpose other than to please the pilots and to enrich those who   
   > rented or sold them the airplane.   
   >   
   > When one aircraft departs the area, within minutes another takes its   
   > place. It is not uncommon for this activity to take place from sunup   
   > to sundown. This constant flying in one place creates unreasonable,   
   > unbearable and unhealthy noise to those on the ground, and constitutes   
   > an unwanted and ungranted easement over private property to the pilots   
   > and to their related business interests.   
   >   
   > I can not enjoy my life anymore. I can't go outside during the day   
   > without hearing this buzzing, droneing noise from the planes. Inside   
   > it isn't much better, as the plane noise overrides my TV or stereo.   
   >   
   > These aircraft perform no useful function and can make no   
   > claim to even the remotest socially redeeming value that might justify   
   > destruction of peoples lives.   
   >   
   > My life has been destroyed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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