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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Pauline Sammut is scared to go out of her house, and she wants to give those responsible what for.
Or maybe that should be what fore.
Sammut and her husband Charles live about 160 metres from the Islington Golf and Country Club near Dundas and Islington. And for years their home has been pelted by dismal duffers making the kind of shots generally relegated to big screen comedies.
But it’s no laughing matter for Pauline, who has to brave the danger of being hit by a flying tee shot if she dares to venture outside.
“I feel like a hostage in my own home,” she complains. “I cannot sit out in the front, I can't walk out in the front and neither can anybody else. When visitors come, I have to tell them to move quickly.”
To add insult to her fear of injuries, she also has to contend with the damage to her property.
She has a wheelbarrow filled with more than 15,000 golf balls, some of which have left divots in her siding, cracks in her windows and a hole in one on other parts of her house.
Her husband finally put up a gazebo to try and deflect the errant shots, and the club put up a barrier to try to control the incoming missiles. But it wasn’t enough.
In the last week alone, many golfers have missed their mark on the green and left the Sammuts black and blue. “Since they put that fence up a week ago, we've got 11 golf balls hitting the house,” Pauline laments.
No one's exactly taking deliberate aim at them, of course, but not all golfers sympathize with their plight. “Who builds a house on the golf course?” wonders Nick Kenny as he lines up his next shot. "You want a golf course view, you're going to get a couple balls in your yard."
Tired of puttering around, the Sammuts finally took a swing at the courts, suing their neighbour for damages.
They won $14,000 and an order for the club to figure out a way to stop the home wreckers within the next two weeks.
Still, it may be a Pyrrhic victory. It cost the couple $50,000 in legal fees to make their point. But despite all the aggravation, the Sammuts think it’s worth it and they have no intention of leaving.
The reason? “Because I want to live in my home, that's why,” concludes Pauline simply. "Golf ball free."
June 22, 2005 |
What they didnt tell you.... The house has only been there for a few years. The golf course has been there for decades. The fault is squarly on the developer who built the house, the city for approving it, and the idiots who bought it. The golf course should NOT be responsible. But of course this is Canada where you can build a house next to a train track and then successfully stop all the trains because they keep you up all night.
This guy said it best:
| quote: | | “Who builds a house on the golf course?” wonders Nick Kenny as he lines up his next shot. "You want a golf course view, you're going to get a couple balls in your yard." |
I'd elect Nick Kenny for mayor if he ever ran :) |
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| VERTiG0 |
| I'd like to put a solid drive right upside that broad's stupid goddamn head |
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| Pettiscool |
| 15,000 balls, yea im sure......but thats besides the point |
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| Jayx1 |
| What she should have done after realizing how stupid she was for buying a house next to a gold course was set up a huge net, trap the balls, and resell them to the golfers. She could make a side fortune with 15,000 golf balls at $1.50 each. But nope, instead the canadian system lets her get the money the easy way, by suing for her own stupidity and winning. |
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| PartyHarlequin |
What's even more retarded is that they spent 50k on legal fees and only won 14k. Ummmmm if you don't like living next to a golf course that was there before your house was... Why the would you buy said house???? Golf courses are pretty but you'd have to have the intellectual capacity of a naked mole rat to want to live on the end of a driving range. There's a reason there's a cage around the golf ball retriever, I guess that didn't occur to them.
This almost reminds me of the time my neighbour (who happens to share a similar last name [I'm assuming similar ethnicity] to the moron in this article) threatened to call the police on me because my brother had used our leafblower to cover her lawn in leaves the night b4. I had no idea what the hell she was talking about at 8am sunday morning, angry brown woman yelling at me "leaves on my lawn, I call police! Leaves on my lawn!!!!" I had no idea what the hell she was talking about till I realized that my lawn was quite pristine and hers was covered in leaves. Now I know that their grass was clean prior to this because gardening and lawn maintenance is all they seem to do with their time.
Unfortunately for her she suffered the same fate as many a middle aged woman driving a minivan has suffered when encountering me. Yelling of profanities followed by rude gestures and general insults in any form I can think of (when you're 6'2 and houselike this seems to have a very intimidating effect). (Although I guess she's lucky if it had been my brother she woke up she'd probably be in the hospital, I like to talk out my problem he just likes to pound his into the ground). Driving like a moron and waking me up @ 8am both deserve the same treatment. Note: It's best to make sure that the minivan drivers kids are in the car at the time of the berrating, it seems to sink in better when you scream at a mother in front of her children. |
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| Jayx1 |
Whats even less intelligent is our court system that judged in favour of this stupid woman.
Someone needs to reform our justice system and way of thinking. |
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| MarkT |
lol...I was waiting for you to post about this story.
I agree...they owners are stupid. The course was there long before they were...they surely should have known what they were getting themselves into by living there. A simple net on the other side of their fence would solve all problems...but that would ruin their "view"...so they want to have their cake and eat it too.
What's sad is that the course management and the homeowners couldn't reach an agreement on their own. That people just say " it" instead of working together is pathetic. I'd like to see like this sent to arbitration instead of court...we, as taxpayers, don't need to be paying a dime for the stubborness and stupidity of others.
Shame on the owners AND the course owners for letting it go this far...and shame on the leagal system for rewarding the home owners stupidity. |
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| Jayx1 |
| the course owners have absolutely no fault in this. It's not their fault that some idiot built a house next to them. It should have been up to the builder, city or owner to solve this problem, not the golf course. |
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| Irishaddict |
And the sheer fact that she has gotta know everyone else knows SHE'S the moron in the entire situation is kinda rewarding. :)
haha...that's a lot of knowing :p |
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| malek |
| uts the city fault for granting a residential permit so close to the course. |
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| TrickDaddE |
| I'm sure a Golf & Country Club of the Stature of Islington C.C. could afford to put up netting for less cost than the 15 large!!! |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by TrickDaddE
I'm sure a Golf & Country Club of the Stature of Islington C.C. could afford to put up netting for less cost than the 15 large!!! |
But why should they? They didnt build the house next to their course! Tell me how can you justify putting one shred of fault on the golf course?
If this idiot wanted to live in a house next to a gold course, then she should be responsible for any netting, or remedies to solve to golf ball problem, not the golf course.
whats next? Sueing train companies for causing excessive noise on train tracks and forcing trains to stop blowing whistles/using the track past a certain time? Perhaps telling the nation's largest airport when it can and cannot operate so as not to disturb surrounding communities that were also built well after the airport?
Oh I forgot, this has already happened :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip:
What a nation this is :rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
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