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Please make them stop. Why are they still legal? My neighbor has been using a mower, weed eater, and leaf blower for 5.5 hours. Nobody else ever notices the noise but my auditory sensitivities make me want to claw my skin off.

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[–] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh I hate leafblowers so fucking much. The noise is penetrating everything, and, especially with the loudest gas ones, the worker adjusts the throttle constantly. So the brain doesn’t get a second of at least monotonous noise to concentrate on something else, it instantly revs up and commands attention.
And the whole concept is so stupid. Stir up all the polluted dirt so it can get into people’s lungs, houses, and all kinds of surfaces. Blow leaves from the curb on the road, so cars can keep stirring them up, and push them back to the curb eventually. Blow the shit on the guy next door’s driveway, because poor overworked and underpaid landscaper, standing out there in the heat and sun, deafened by the fucking thing and getting lung cancer from the fumes and dust, cannot care less they just need to be done with that one driveway before getting a heatstroke.
Either get a broom or rake for small stuff around a residential property, or the sweeps-and-vacuum machine to actually clean up stuff in larger areas, like parking garages, roads, etc… ban fucking leafblowers, and ban all 2 stroke gas power tools in public places. Amen.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ban them. And if we can find the person who invented them, kick them in the balls, or vag...

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Harold Weedwacker and Lyle Leafblower are the culprits! I'm no fan of doxxing but I think in this case it's justified

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Johan Wheedwhakker.

It's always some guy named Johan.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Don't forget William Whippersnipper