Where there's smoke theres a Lawyer
Smoker sued for lighting up in her gardenAKARP, Sweden, March 9 (UPI) -- A Swedish woman has been sued for smoking in her own garden.
Her neighbor in Akarp in southern Sweden, a lawyer, demands 15,000 kroner ($2,000) in damages for her previous smoking plus another 2,000 kroner ($280) every time she lights up in the future, The Local reported. She has received a district court summons to respond to his complaint.
"It makes me sad and angry," the 49-year-old single mom told Aftonbladet. "Should somebody else be able to control my life?"
The woman said she has already made concessions to her neighbor's dislike of cigarette smoke, including picking a spot to light up that is more than 20 feet from his property.
In court filings, the lawyer complains that he is hit with cigarette smoke every time he enters or leaves his house and has been unable to open his windows.
Her neighbor in Akarp in southern Sweden, a lawyer, demands 15,000 kroner ($2,000) in damages for her previous smoking plus another 2,000 kroner ($280) every time she lights up in the future, The Local reported. She has received a district court summons to respond to his complaint.
"It makes me sad and angry," the 49-year-old single mom told Aftonbladet. "Should somebody else be able to control my life?"
The woman said she has already made concessions to her neighbor's dislike of cigarette smoke, including picking a spot to light up that is more than 20 feet from his property.
In court filings, the lawyer complains that he is hit with cigarette smoke every time he enters or leaves his house and has been unable to open his windows.
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I too would be angry if I had to deal with someone smoking near my house. Cigarette smoke tends to waft quite a long ways - 20 feet is not far enough away. Just IMHO. 0 -
I don't think it would bother me.
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Typical craphead lawyer with nothing to lose and everything to gain! Is he really going to die from second hand smoke because he gets a wiff of the cigarette smoke from the neighbors yard? I hope so but I doubt it will happen. I guess the next time my neighbor starts up his POS Ford diesel pickup and the noise and stink from it drifts through my yard I need to find some idiot lawyer to start legal action against him. Wow! This just might be the next big windfall for the crooks in the ABA, maybe even as big as the tobacco con. 0 -
I say screw em! If I'm in my yard I will light up!
I am a very curtious smoker and try to not bother nonsmokers. But there has to be limits. And me being in my own yard should not bother anyone!0
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