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Re:New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud... by blululu on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:06PM (#30366432)
Like most people in the suburbs the OP could probably answer in the affirmative. My brother does this professionally and he gets by just fine without any such machines. It’s kind of a selling point for people who don’t want fumes, dust and chemicals in their gardens.
Re:New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud... by thepasswordis on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:08PM (#30366455)
How are you getting "fumes" in your garden, which is outdoors?

This just seems like such an obvious class divide thing to me. Those guys out there with the leaf blowers are working their ass off, sorry it's loud for a few minutes per day.

Re:New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud... by deadso on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:50PM (#30367539)
> sorry it's loud for a few minutes per day

It's more than a few minutes. Often times it goes up to a full hour, and it's usually super early in the morning, waking up a bunch of people. Each apartment complex will bring them in at different times, and now people who work late just have to have their sleep interrupted.

> This just seems like such an obvious class divide thing to me.

Why? People who are forced to work late, btw, are usually not upper class. And it's not like we won't want clean streets. If anything, this efficiency decrease will create more jobs for landscaping folks. It will also be less of a nuisance for everyone.

Re:New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud... by ska on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:44PM (#30367463)
> Those guys out there with the leaf blowers are working their ass off, sorry it's loud for a few minutes per day.

So is the real answer pay them better and have them use rakes?