@Whitenight - to be blunt it is people like you who turn a blind eye to social ills in the neighbourhood that allow neighbourhoods to become shit holes. It's the little stuff that accumulates and eventually becomes big stuff. So I turn a blind eye to this, then I guess I must turn a blind eye to the drug den and the nearby squat/shooting gallery because they are also just enjoying their own thing. And then I guess I must turn a blind eye to the terrorist wannabe who's planning a nice little bombing or borrowing the truck from work to play jihad skittles. And what about my "thing?" What if I want to play opera at top volume at 3am because its the only time I can enjoy it? Or maybe I can let my dog pack run free on the street so they can shit on the neighbours' lawn and then I don't have to clean up after them - bugger the kids walking to their friends or the bicyclists enjoying an afternoon ride, I mean they can just run or pedal faster can't they?
We have by-laws for a reason. They enable us to live with each other with a modicum of civility.
@carpediem - see above.
