This guy in FL has been warned by the county BBQ monitor to keep his smoke and smells on his own property. I didn't know the office even existed.



Florida county tells resident to keep barbecue smoke in his own yard
Published July 27, 2015FoxNews.com
A viral video that shows a Florida man receiving a warning for allowing the smell of barbecue to waft off his property has some smoking mad.

Scotty Jordan uploaded a video on July 22 to Facebook that he says shows Pinellas County environmental specialist Joe Graham issuing a warning to Jordan and a friend for violating the country’s air quality law. The video, which has been watched over four million times, shows Graham telling Jordan that there's too much smoke emanating from Jordan's commercial-grade grill.

“I just took three pictures of smoke,” Graham explains. “I can smell it again right now. You’re allowed to have it smell on your property, so that doesn’t count, but when I’m on the street, that’s when it counts.”

Jordan can be heard laughing in the video as the specialist continues to explain the problem.

“Is that against the law?” one of the man questions.

Graham proceeds to pull out his handbook and informs the men that neighbors are allowed to call in if they have concerns about barbecue smoke. Pinellas County has a 24 hour hotline for residents to call in an emergency air quality complaint.

According to the ordinance, “commercial barbecue cookers are not exempt from causing a nuisance odor. If a sufficient number of complaints, representing different households, are reported and an Inspector witnesses the problem, they can issue a Warning Letter.”

The two men continue to laugh in disbelief and explain that other neighbors routinely cook out but no one appears to issuing warnings to them.

“So everyone in the whole world can cook out except me," Jordan can he heard saying.

Graham also says that in order to avoid a warning, the men should first check wind patterns before starting to barbecue—or upgrade their equipment to a newer model designed to curtail smoke and odors.

Graham's friend, who videoed the entire scene says, "We can't control the wind, God does that."

In an email obtained by Florida Politics, Pinellas County Administrator Mark Woodard says that the inspector was responding 15 smoke and odor grievances against Jordan's grill since September, 2014.

He said that Graham was merely sent out to educate the resident. According to SaintPetersBlog, no citation was issued to Jordan.

I'd be too damned embarrassed to do that job. The man has no shame.

Good grief.

I find the smell of my neighbors BBQ offensive.

Definitely a first world issue.

Probably some bitchy vegan in the neighborhood calling in the complaints.

I wish I had neighbors that grilled out all the time, I'd be making friends and inviting myself for supper instead of bitchin about it. How could anybody be so pathetic as to be complaining to the law about grilling food smells?

Anyone who hates the smell of BBQ is simply someone who needs an ass kicking

What Dan said.

Geez.

How can Bar B Que be offensive?
Jim

The complaints are likely from members of PETA or HSUS.

Sounds a bit like the woman who came to my office in the park, a very large redwood camping park, to complain about the smoke from the camp stoves aggravating her asthma. She wanted all the cooking and warming fires banned. I told her she should immediately leave the park, as there was a inversion layer holding the smoke down near the ground, and that it would break around noon letting the smoke rise. Until then the park would smell like smoke and bacon and eggs being fried up. Further, I informed her that she should never return to the park, as there are many allergens from pollen to molds and fungus that will cause asthma to flair up.

She got on her high horse, accusing me of being insensitive to the needs of asthmatics. I laughed at her, reached into my pocket and pulled out my rescue inhaler, and showed her my epinephrine autoinjector, and bottle of Benadryl in my lunch box. I too have asthma I explained, in fact I was so allergic to inhalants and some foods, that I had been receiving immunization injections for years. My allergist even used me for a test subject to develop new drugs and treatments. They even used my blood samples to develop the allergen-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) test. She harrumphed off.

Soon received a call from the admin office, it was the little twist of a manager who wanted to know if we should ban campfires. I convinced her that was impractical, ridiculous for one person, and explained that I had worse asthma than the complainant. Never head about it again. But you can be assured that somewhere, in some meeting, a little twist of a manager or board member said; "I have an idea, lets outlaw barbecue smoke and odors from leaving a property to protect the health of sensitive people". Morons are everywhere, especially in Florida and California.

Florida is going to hell in a handbasket. Chock full of liberals and more waiting in the wings.

apparently not barbecue chicken wings.

Yeah They are going to acheive permanent blue state status shortly if they are not there already

You know, everyday, it's a foot race to stupid. I believe we just found the daily winner.....


Yet another good reason to live out in the country......



maddog

The man should take the liberal path to solving all problems: Post a sign that says "Smoke Free Zone" at the edge of his property. When the inspector comes back, he can then say, "I ordered that smoke to not leave my property, but the smoke disobeyed. I urge you to arrest that smoke."

RE the "enforcer"

I would imagine he was doing his job before this stupid law was enacted.

At that time you end up choosing between a job and whats right and wrong.

I know I"m getting close enough to retirement and old enough, that if it comes down here I"ll tell city hall how stupid they are, and then refuse to enforce until threatened, and then do my job.

I just don't understand why folks want to live in cities with all kinds of rules. But I'm glad they don't all want to live in the country without...

Still trying to figure out who I should call in the country, I saw a rat last night while shredding and Carolyn caught a 27 inch coral snake in the yard a while back... that just isn't right... but I have no one to file a complaint with. LOL.

Probably started by some candy ass vegetarian who hates meat eaters

Put them on the BBQ. When the county shows up, complain to them.

LOL, no county folks here would ever think of showing up...

I think I'd be tempted to advise the inspector that his car exhaust is offensive, and he constantly allows it to leave his own property.

What Crimson Tide said, Dan said!!!!!!

My favorite line was when "the enforcer" asked if they had anymore questions and he axed if he (the enforcer)would "go over there and shoot the bitch". Got a laugh.

Years ago when I was single and live in a small town north of where I live now I used to drive around in the black section of town in the evenings looking for smoke so I could purchase BBQed ribs, chicken, pulled pork or bologna. Once I got to know some of the cooks I could even purchase some damn good homemade beer. An old local cop showed me how to do this one evening when I was on a ride along getting to know the area.

Perry

My brother lived in Portland. Near his place was a BBQ take-out place that wasn't much more than a shack. I don't know who owned it but all of the people working there were black. It looked like a forest fire during business hours and DANG the food was good! Those folks sure knew their business around a grill.

Took my daughter trick or treating one year when she was about eight or nine. We stopped at the backyard neighbors house, and my daughter exclaimed, " all right, BBQ". The lady of the house looked at her and said, "your dad BBQs every night".

I had to smile on the inside, have been driving them hungry for years.

This is the growing mentality of the tyrannical left. This is but an extension of smelling cigarette smoke. I guess planet Earth isn't big enough.

Fixed

That Florida county where the video was taken voted Democrat in 2008 and 2012. The odds are quite high (greater than 95%) that the black man who is trying to have a BBQ voted for Obama.

I doubt he'll make the connection between his vote and regulations being passed against him...

Nope not one bit

Florida has more than its share of blue haired busybodies. People retire to these developments that have houses butt to butt and then play Mrs. Kravitz complaining and tattling on every perceived HOA violation they run across. Seen it many times. There is often only one or two that make life miserable because their lives ARE miserable.

I could burn an Airstream, naked in my yard.

And that is the ever loving truth. It's amazing how they have nothing to do but spy and complain on everyone in the neighborhood.

I'll bet he could have paid off that fat bastard in ribs and got a pass....

I hate BBQ.

Austin TX was talking about the same with BBQ shacks recently..

The stupidity continues to go on.

That is the problem. The ones that don't play golf have nothing else to do, sans watch TV commercials about reverse mortgages.

My mother was the president in her over 55 community for awhile. When I was there visiting I couldn't BELIEVE the sheit people would call her about to complain. Simply amazing.

prayers be with u , what must it be like to be the 1st person with aids ....

Without even knowing which county in Florida it is, I'm betting liberals are in control of it.

Would they like to buy an annuity?

I wonder how many different people made those 15 complaints.

I keep waiting on my neighbors to call the fire department. Not because I'm cooking but because of all the smoke from multiple cookers and them thinking the house is on fire. Looks like Memphis In May on some weekends with wood smoke pouring out every side of the house.

They'll probably nail me for cooking while hammered.

What dweeb would want the job in that video? Loser job for sure!

We must cater to every minority, the smaller the minority the more they need protection from whatever it is they need protection from that no one else does.....

Liberalism 101

...and everyone who thinks the solution to their problems is more laws and more law enforcement.

`I'm sure that happens a lot in Tennessee.

Fixed it for you.

Pinellas.. and FOsteology was abslolutely right.

When I watch that youtube, I keep wondering how good is the guys bbq. I'm hungry.