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11 years ago @ Longmont Times-Call - Trial opens in lawsuit... · 1 reply · +21 points

As you may have noticed, an overwhelming majority of those in the courtroom were there supporting Mile-Hi, not the "plaintiffs".

11 years ago @ Longmont Times-Call - Trial opens in lawsuit... · 3 replies · +35 points

People who sue, with no hope of winning, just to inconvenience someone they don't like, are the worst kind of people.

11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder home gardeners... · 1 reply · +4 points

Cannabis is "fresh produce", right?
No restrictions on the size of home gardens.
Sell directly to consumers, with a $5,000 per product limit.
That sounds great!!

"Gardens of people who want to sell to their neighbors should be treated like other home gardens."
I agree 100%. Commercial food sucks, just like commercial weed sucks. It's time to respect the home growers, regardless of what they grow. Allow the consumer to decide where they get their tomatoes, and let them get their weed from the same people, if that's what they want. They keep saying marijuana was legalized, but I just don't see it that way.

11 years ago @ Longmont Times-Call - Ingrid Moore: Suggesti... · 0 replies · +8 points

Are you going to post this every week? First time was on the 13th, and now again on the 21st.
Here are a few suggestions for the councilman's wife:

1. Buy earplugs.

2. Stop pretending a significant amount of people suffer from the same "low-frequency drone" you suffer from. Saying it over and over again doesn't make it true.

3. Allow local businesses that operate within the law to do so without harassing them, the airport, or the city council. And allow them to supply their demand, using legal equipment commonly used in their profession.

4. Persuade the tiny organization you support to donate "4-bladed quiet propellers", and hire a mechanic to install them. You know, do something instead of just barking commands.

Finding "creative" solutions requires that all parties be motivated to participate. Will you strive to be a good neighbor and consider adopting such practices? If the past position is any indication, the answer will be a firm "none of the above."

If you think you could run a better skydiving facility, do it. A second skydiving operation at the airport would be great! Competition is always good, and you can use any aircraft you want, saving us all from the imaginary noise pollution.

P.S. My neighbors airconditioner is already on, every day and every night, all night. Can you start complaining about that? Maybe write up an opinion piece about how he should only operate his equipment during weekdays, get a new one, stop using it all together, etc. I realize it's nothing illegal, and only a few people are annoyed by it, but that doesn't seem to stop you from trying to control the world, and everyone in it.

11 years ago @ Longmont Times-Call - Police arrest Longmont... · 1 reply · +4 points

So many times police escalate a situation to the point of homicide, but not this time. Knowing police can sometimes show restraint when dealing with a frustrating situation, and walk away, is wonderful. I hope they learn from this experience, and realize not all people refusing to cooperate with police should be surrounded until they surrender or die. These police officers, in this situation, and most likely against their personal desires, decided to walk away and come up with a less dramatic plan to apprehend their suspect. Thank you! When you show respect, you earn respect.

11 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Editorial: Creative so... · 0 replies · +7 points

The constant drone of the few people (with different screen names) complaining makes me grit my teeth. They need to get earplugs, and I mean really good earplugs, or move somewhere else. Try living near DIA and see how crazy you get. I bet a lot of money people living there complain about planes, but the media ignores them. Why do local media outlets cater to small special interest groups constantly complaining? I am already dreading reading another article about airplane noise, when I used to think it was funny.

11 years ago @ Longmont Times-Call - Be creative with Longm... · 2 replies · +3 points

Earplugs, for the few obsessed with specific airplanes, would be the best noise abatement device.
With helicopters and jets frequently flying in/out/near Longmont, requiring Mile-Hi to use imaginary mufflers, if that was possible, would seem like discrimination.

Should other loud aircraft be suppressed if they spend a significant time near Longmont?
Or is it just one airplane in Colorado we should consider restricting?

11 years ago @ Longmont Times-Call - Longmont\'s Vance Bran... · 0 replies · +12 points

Wow!
850 complaints (16.38 per week) from one person (crazy lady from out of town).
In other words, one obsessive person is annoying the airport more than airport operations annoy the community.

11 years ago @ Longmont Times-Call - Airport complaint log ... · 2 replies · +18 points

By making 59 complaints, Kimberly was the one trying to mislead the city council on the amount of complaints against the airport, but the advisory board caught her, and rightfully defined/deleted her complaints as a statistical outliner. People with neurological disorders, like Kim, who suffer from the hatred of specific sounds (Misophonia), don't represent the general public, and would simply corrupt useful airport data. If I called 59 times, and told them how much I love the sound of airplanes, I would be considered strange (statistical outliner), not useful data regarding the airport or airplane noise.

11 years ago @ Longmont Times-Call - Longmont police arrest... · 0 replies · +2 points

"better citizens" are "terrified" citizens?
I disagree. Sheep do what they're told, good citizens act responsibly without threats. But we're talking about those who don't do what they're told, and how to effectively protect the good citizens from them.

No one went to prison for an ounce of weed before our new laws. And people still go to prison for more than an ounce, growing it, selling it, etc. Our regulations have not reduced prison population in any way.

I don't propose getting rid of jails, I propose more cost effective ways to keep repeat DUI offenders off the street. Giving them a free chauffeur for 4 years would be cheaper than housing, clothing, feeding, and administering medical treatment for 4 years. I understand habitual offenders need to be punished, but again, prison is an awful expensive way to discipline alcoholics. Put drunks on home arrest for 4 years, and pay all their bills, that would probably be cheaper than prison for 4 years. You could even make them work, and profit from disciplining them, instead of paying to discipline them. The prison industry is selling a product, and I'm sick of buying such an outdated, ineffectual, expensive product. Instead of increasing their monopoly on "corrections", maybe we should diversify our investments in public safety.