Questions tagged [nuisance]
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Would xkcd's lawn care business stimulus proposal be legal?
The xkcd comic from February 17, 2024, titled "Treasure Chests," jokingly presents a proposal to increase a lawn care firm's business:
Assume that one had permission to bury the three ...
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Is it legal to place difficult-to-remove deliberately-annoying alarms in a building without permission to do so?
In the UK, a group of unaffiliated people went to a banquet by Just Stop Oil, a climate change activist group, and released electronic alarms tied to balloons. The banquet took place in a building ...
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Are there any laws against either excessively loud motorcycles or riding such motorcycles inconsiderately in residential areas at night?
Loud disturbing motorcycles are awful but occasionally circle around certain roads after midnight up and down gratuitously if the objective is actually transportation. One would hope that there are ...
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Bellowing helicopters in the sky: insight and recourse
Exceedingly loud helicopters seem to regularly fly in the sky where I live in the London Borough of Islington, both in the day and night, and often on Sundays, when noise is supposed to even be ...
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Obnoxiously loud music from a festival
There's a local annual festival that plays their music really loudly. I can hear it from three and a half miles away, and it's really annoying. There are houses just a few hundred feet away; I'm sure ...
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Can a municipality ignore the rules of evidence for charges relating to violation of a municipal ordinance?
My Township has an ordinance relating to grass needing to be cut on a regular basis. The penalties for violating include fines up to $1,000 and jailtime. Presumably the latter is not used on the ...
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Recklessly endangering the English public by throwing objects
Is it a criminal offence to recklessly endanger the English public by throwing objects?
For example, throwing bottles or bricks over the wall of a multi-storey car park. This particularly applies if ...
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London council not responding to calls for nuisance
In this is case we are talking about a London borough.
There is a sandwich shop in my area which is supposed to be open until 01:00 most days. However, they keep it open with the doors open and tables ...
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In general, to who do you report *house* (not apartment) owners who make a ton of noise?
As I took a bicycle trip from the horrible, noisy ghetto where I live, back to the fancy neighbourhood where I grew up, I was shocked by how many loudmouths there were. For instance, one of the ...
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Tenants not told about planned construction work
I have just moved into a new flat in London, UK and there was planned construction work for a shop underneath that me and the other tenants were not informed about. What are my rights at this point? I ...
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Is photographing or recording a person without their consent a “nuisance or annoyance”?
I am interested in the answer in general, but also particularly interested in how Western Australia’s Public Transport Authority Regulations 2003 section 13 would apply:
A person who acts in such a ...
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