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City to local dogs: Time to shut up, unless of course you’re scaring away seagulls – then bark away.
An ordinance proposed Wednesday would crack down on dog owners with a 10-minute time limit on barking outdoors. Let your dog bark for more than 10 minutes, and you’ll be slapped with a fine of $50 to $250. And if you leave your dog tied up outside for hours with no food or water, prompting it to bark incessantly, you pretty much deserve it.
But the city is also making good use of a few dogs and their vocal chords. The Chicago Park District plans to use barking border collies at city beaches to scare away the gulls (and their poop), thus keeping the water cleaner and reducing the number of swim bans. Um, OK. Not the most direct approach, but points for creativity.
In another round-about plan, the second part of the new noise ordinance would impound ice cream trucks that play music after 7 p.m. At least one alderman suspects the trucks are selling drugs instead of ice cream. So, just so we’re clear, you think ice cream trucks may be dealing drugs and the best solution you can come up with is to ban their music after 7 p.m.? Seriously? And you’re asking for a $20,000 raise?
What's next? Fighting the dreaded condo boom with a ban on striped shirts and Blackberries in at-risk neighborhoods?
Bryn, Penrhyn Coch Woods, 25-03-06 via DG Jones
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haha. well done. good article.
I loved the unscientific poll on the Tribune that was 90% for "No Raise" for the aldermen.
Bernard Stone makes so much money as a lawyer, it's a wonder he even spends any time on aldermanic duties as it is...
Greed rules in this city.
No ice cream truck music after 7PM? What kinda bullshit is that? At the peak of summer, it's light out till almost 9PM...
The ban on ice cream truck music after 7 seems stupid. I used to drive an ice cream truck, and the after-dinner period from 7-9 is one of the busiest. How are people supposed to know you're there (and buy ice cream) if you can't make any noise? And personally, this is coming from someone who listened to "The Entertainer" for 10 hours a day for several years, isn't ice cream truck music sort of pleasant? Just like how it's kind of nice to hear church bells or trains in the distance? What's the big deal?
I guess it's always possible that people are selling drugs out of ice cream trucks, but isn't it more likely that the trucks are out at 11pm because they're selling to teenagers and adults? Children aren't the only ones who eat ice cream. And they haven't actually caught anyone selling drugs out of an ice cream truck, have they? It seems totally paranoid.
I don't know what song our neighborhood ice cream truck plays, but it drives me insane. Can we get a 24-hour ban on just that one song? I would give all the dope in the world for that truck to switch to The Entertainer.
is this the james of the koh variety? if so, im with you on our nabe truck! ahhhhhhhhhhhh
I'd like to cut the alderman's pay by $20,000. They could get after-hour gigs as ice cream truck drivers to make up the difference. They could sell ice cream and campaign from the hours of 5-7 everyday. So instead of that music, you'd get some guy or gal giving you a lecture as their trucks rides down your street.
I am all for that ban on the ice cream truck music. The ice cream trucks in my neighborhood will park across the street from my house in front of the fire hydrant for 20-30 minute stints playing that stupid fucking song over and over. There are no customers after the first 10 minutes. He will sit out there every night making his last sweep somewhere between 10pm and 10:30. How's that for fucking annoying?
I am all for that ban on the ice cream truck music. The ice cream trucks in my neighborhood will park across the street from my house in front of the fire hydrant for 20-30 minute stints playing that stupid fucking song over and over. There are no customers after the first 10 minutes. He will sit out there every night making his last sweep somewhere between 10pm and 10:30. How's that for fucking annoying?
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