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Reflections
on nuisances
As long as we are pondering
the necessity of a “Barking Dog Ordinance,” I thought it wouldn’t hurt to reflect on some other nuisances which a local ordinance might help correct.
I would like to suggest an ordinance prohibiting that awful noise cicadas make when they are mating. And let’s not stop there! While we’re at it, let’s make the chirping of crickets and the croaking of frogs illegal too. After all, they can both be awfully noisy sometimes...especially at night.
We could just have deputies from the Sheriff’s Department arrest anyone who fails to keep all of those noisy critters on his property quiet. Even with its limited budget and manpower, I’m sure that the Sheriff’s Office wouldn’t mind slipping this most pressing duty in with ill those other relatively mimportant daily tasks, like :atching criminals or enforcng the speed limit.
When Margaret Ann Dhadwell suggested in her etter to the editor an ordinance against barking dogs, [ thought at first that it was i joke. My wife and I shared i chuckle over the idea that someone who chooses to live n the country would have a iroblem with the bark of nan’s best friend, whom we
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