PENDLETON, OR. -- Here's a story that should make you laugh. Last week we told you about a change to the nuisance ordinance out of Pendleton, Oregon to add the smell of marijuana. Well, one resident wants to add another smell he considers foul and his opinion is smelling up the Internet. 
 
 This wasn't your normal letter to the editor. Peter Walters sent the East Oregonian newspaper his commentary on the new marijuana nuisance law that could fine a property owner up to $500 if they allow the smell of legal pot to spread to their neighbors. 
 
 After that, it went viral, even making it to the number one trending topic on Yahoo for a while Tuesday morning. 
 
 In the letter, Walters uses a little bit of sarcasm and wit to express his disapproval over the "stinky" Pendleton City Council decision. 
 
 Walters said in part, "While farting may be legal in Oregon, many (including myself) are offended by the flatulent stench. Too often, homeowners and businesses fail to contain farts to their property, forcing the rest of us to put up with the smell." 
 
 He went on to say, "Unless our elected officials add farts to Pendleton's nuisance code, it's as if he who smelt it, dealt it." 
 
 On Tuesday afternoon, we met up with Neil Brown, President of Pendleton's City Council. Brown says the city council is having a good laugh about the whole thing, but also thinks this ordinance will help solve a serious issue. 
 
 "You have to have a sense of humor regarding the letter," Brown said. "I think, it's a matter of, is it taken out of context? Absolutely. This is here to protect the public for the public's rights. It's not here to infringe on anyone." 
 
 Brown says the ordinance is meant to give the police some tools to rein in excessive use of marijuana, be it at growing operations, like some Pendleton residents complained about, or in residential areas. 
 
 As my dad always says, "you can either be a "fart smeller" or a "smart feller". I don't know which one this guy is. 
 
 Here's the letter in it's entirety: 
 
 "It was with great relief Thursday when I read in the East Oregonian that Pendleton's city council took the time to pass an amendment to the city's nuisance ordinance banning marijuana odor. Clearly, there has been no issue of greater importance facing the city. Now that this important work has been completed I hope that the council will move on to restricting the other offensive smell that plagues our community: farts.While farting may be legal in Oregon, many (including myself) are offended by the flatulent stench. Too often, homeowners and businesses fail to contain farts to their property, forcing the rest of us to put up with the smell. Some habitual farters argue that they need to fart for medical reasons but that doesn't mean my kids should have to smell their farts. The city council should stop looking the other way and pretending not to notice.I'm not even going to talk about intensity of farts. After all, as Pendleton police Chief Stuart Roberts put it: “It's a very subjective standard in terms of whether people are offended by [smells] or not.”This issue greatly affects me as I have a roommate whose recreational farting has been negatively affecting my quality of life for several months now. He claims that he is taking steps to mitigate the odor after I contacted the authorities. But unless our elected officials add farts to Pendleton's nuisance code, it's as if he who smelt it, dealt it. I call on our city council to set aside all other work and address this problem.Peter WaltersPendleton" 

 Justin Sullivan/Getty Images After the City of Pendleton banned the odor of marijuana, which will become legal for recreational use in Oregon come July, a resident sent a tongue-in-cheek letter to a newspaper asking the council to also ban fart smells. 
 
 The smell of marijuana has been banned in one Oregon community — prompting one resident to demand that the stink of farts be prohibited, too. 
 
 Peter Walters has mockingly called on the City of Pendleton to outlaw the pongy whiff of flatulence as the logical next step in regulating the area's air. 
 
 In a firmly tongue-in-cheek letter written to the East Oregonian, he asked that council members begin regulating what he believes is a more noxious scent. 
 
 "It was with great relief Thursday when I read in the East Oregonian that Pendleton's city council took the time to pass an amendment to the city's nuisance ordinance banning marijuana odor," he wrote. 
 
 "Clearly, there has been no issue of greater importance facing the city. Now that this important work has been completed I hope that the council will move on to restricting the other offensive smell that plagues our community: farts," he added. 
 
 The City updated its nuisance ordinances last week to mean that a person can be fined $500 if someone complains about the smell of pot coming from their property. 
 
 Recreational marijuana will be legal in the state in July, however. 
 
 Walters, whose letter is strongly believed to be poking fun at the new rules, added that: "Some habitual farters argue that they need to fart for medical reasons. 
 
 "But that doesn't mean my kids should have to smell their farts," he ended. 
 
 The City of Pendleton has not commented on the letter, or whether it plans to tackle its alleged troubling stench of toots.
– Earlier this month, the city of Pendleton, Ore., decided to tweak its nuisance ordinance to include a $500 fine for excessive marijuana smoke emanating from a property—though the New York Daily News notes that marijuana itself becomes legal in Oregon in July. "With great relief," Peter Walters saw one scourge on society eliminated, and penned a letter to the East Oregonian urging the council to correct "the other offensive smell that plagues our community: farts." With that, Walters was off to the races, complaining that "while farting may be legal in Oregon, many (including myself) are offended by the flatulent stench," and that "habitual farters argue that they need to fart for medical reasons but that doesn’t mean my kids should have to smell their farts," and that council should stop "pretending not to notice." Walters cites a smelly roommate "whose recreational farting has been negatively affecting my quality of life for several months now." Unless council takes action, "it's as if he who smelt it, dealt it. I call on our city council to set aside all other work and address this problem." The letter is getting some attention, and NBC News reports that the city council president appears to be taking it in stride. "You have to have a sense of humor regarding the letter," he says. "I think, it's a matter of, is it taken out of context? Absolutely. This is here to protect the public for the public's rights," he says of the pot ordinance. "It's not here to infringe on anyone." (And anyway, science says that sniffing farts is healthy.)