Re: Smoking noisy neighbour

Apologies the prior email should have said the offender smoking couldn’t be seen as they were obviously standing where they couldn’t be seen by anyone, not that they could.

Update: Monday (Apr 10) I emailed the offending smoker’s R/E Agent via email this morning.  Was told that they would be spoken to again, however they could not be there 24 hours a day to tell them to stop smoking.  I am sympathetic as a) no-one wants complaints on a Monday morning, b) that they have to deal with someone who behaves like this.  Frustrating as it is for all of us my family is the one who is bearing the health impact of this.

I’m assuming the Police will refuse to get involved in the evening as it is a Strata matter…The person was heard screaming loudly from their unit this morning in what I can guess was the call from the R/E Agent or after the call.

To be honest I have been through enough with this unit block over the last 2-3 years and my own personal tragedies which you wouldn’t want to wish on your enemies.  Not to mention not the worst committee up until recently when it was lumped on another person.  Some interference up until not long ago I suspect was still going on from the old secretary who no longer is living here. I believe the proxies rules being changed affected them enough to have a lot less say and this was obviously no reason to stay perhaps on the committee. Only an opinion obviously.  We have two sets of plans for our parking, one our local council has – the real one, and the one that was used by the old secretary as being correct.  Funnily enough some people’s garage measurements were incorrect…

I find it a curious thing that the Government regulates / bans smoking in cars with children as passengers.  However my own personal illness / tragedies and knowledge of second hand smoke killing people every year doesn’t give me comfort to ignore the situation for any further time.  I used to think I was indestructible.  However the smoke is impossible to stop and is a sustained problem day after day.  Perhaps the no-smoking in vehicles with children is a “feel-good law” as they call it, it sounds good, but in actuality most who do this would be fairly hard to be caught perhaps?  The Child Protection Laws in NSW should apply in my opinion to these sustained situations as my child is a minor and I have done all I can do to prevent harm and the offender knowingly continuing their impact on them.  I know that if someone asked me if I sent my child to a friend’s home and the person smoked inside the residence each day s I’m sure many would think that I was not a good parent to allow this.