OT - basketballs are too noisy?

[jdmara]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

I guess they can be in some circumstances.

West Linn neighbors battle over noise of children playing basketball | OregonLive.com

BTW - West Linn is a Portland suburb.

Unbelievable Mark. Thanks for sharing this nonsense.

-Josh

[Bad Zebra]

Here's an extreme case of basketball hatred. I direct you to the beginning of the paragraph titled "Nightmare Begins"

Anger Remains 20 Years After Cruse's Rampage - Orlando News Story - WKMG Orlando

[Camron Rust]

Sounds like they were playing late at night. I'm not so sure I disagree with the family that was complaining....particularly if it was a regular occurrance. Most people have jobs and listening to a basketball bounce as you're trying to get to sleep is not something you can tolerate.

[tjchamp]

Not just in Oregon. My brother had the same situation happen to him in the Minneapolis area. He put up a fence of arborvitae trees to deaden the sound, didn't play every night, but when they did, the neighbor had a fit. She would throw stuff over the fence to get them to stop. They always quit by 9:00.

[tref]

Sounds like Bruce never got over being cut from the middle school team

[Mark Padgett]

I'll stay off topic with this comment about another totally different story. A woman who works for a courier service around here apparently had been stealing checks from some of her company's clients and depositing them into her personal account. When her bank figured out what she was doing, they closed her account. She decided to turn herself in and sent an email to the county sheriff's department. At the end of her email (according to the local paper) she asked that if she had to go to jail, could she just go on weekends.

Funny.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

I'll stay off topic with this comment about another totally different story. A woman who works for a courier service around here apparently had been stealing checks from some of her company's clients and depositing them into her personal account. When her bank figured out what she was doing, they closed her account. She decided to turn herself in and sent an email to the county sheriff's department. At the end of her email (according to the local paper) she asked that if she had to go to jail, could she just go on weekends.

Funny.

They do that in some places for misdemeanors. I don't think the state pen will make those kind of arrangements though.