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this is not oniony. This isn't the first person to figure about problems of their newly acquired or rented residences, and to me goes to show how we still need to improve on urban planning and regulation for noise.
Bunch of old rich folks buys expensive apartments built next to the Sydney Opera House (which also hosts outdoor concerts on the forecourt) complains about "noise". >

I used to work at an airport that was built during ww1 every single house in the whole suburb was built after the airport.
Get noise complaints daily.
There are no planes before 7am and none after 8pm, you knew the deal when you moved in. This is your fault. >

Airport in my city has had a planned extra runway for something like 60 years. People have since bought and built under the flight path. They are upset that there property will be affected and lose value. Ignoring the fact that they got it cheap as it was under a future flight path >

Normally I'd hate people like that, but the way you tell it, nothing had changed in 60 years. With no further information, I suspect this is a Hitchhiker's Guide situation:

“But the plans were on display…”   
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”  
“That’s the display department.”  
“With a flashlight.”  
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”  
“So had the stairs.”  
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”  
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.” >

"What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams." >

"Better bring a towel." >

My old boss moved into a new build condo on the biggest party street on the island. He has lived on the island all his life, and it has been party central all his life. He knew what he was getting in to. Yet he and his ghastly second wife are still trying to impose noise restrictions on the bars that have been there forever.  
Go fuck your hat, Greg. >

"go fuck your hat" i actually love this, im going to start using this now. thank you >

Reminds me of people who move next to airports and then complain about airplane noise. >

Or people who move next to concert venues and complain of noise and traffic >

That makes me think of people who move into the city and complain about all the people around >

Or people who move out of the city and complain about tractors on the road and the occasional smell of fertilizer. >

Or the people who move in next to a college campus and complain about all the house parties, noise, and drunk people. >

Or the people who move next to the coast and complain about hurricanes >

Or move underwater and complain that they’re always wet and can’t breathe. (That happens, right?) >

Or move to the middle of nowhere and complain about how far away everything is. >

Or move to one of those golf courses that have houses lining the fairways and complain about golf balls breaking stuff >

Or move to Florida and complain about the heat. >

Rich guy moved up from London and built his retirement house right next to my joinery shop. From his property you can read clearly a very large sign that says ‘Joinery Workshop’ about 8 feet away from his front door. I rent a building that has been used continuously for commercial purposes since the 1920s when it was built. He is threatening to take me to court because of the machine noise. What does he expect me to do; nibble my timber down to size? It is a bit stressful- especially this mention of court - but I am trying not to worry about it too much as I do a lot in the community and have done so for years and have had nothing but support so far and he is an entitled arsehole. But where do these people get off feeling they can show up somewhere new and begin to dictate terms to all and sundry. >

If he makes any moves on his threats, then take your story to the local news. Pull on some of them heartstrings: Tell them how he's threatening you, a humble small business owner, by ruining your livelihood. Dig out all of the info of your building to show it's long history of business brought to your town. 
It might be a bad idea for all I know... But man would it make for a great story. >

Donald Trump tried this on a Scotsman. Did not turn out in his favour. Forbes's farm, which is said by Trump to be in a state of disrepair
See also Freedom!
Edit: The last post I made suggesting Trump was a crook got me a message from Redditcares asking if I was suicidal. I suspect this time it will be suicidal, homicidal, and a pedophile grooming my dog. You know the truth. >

Every abusive use of Reddit Cares is a badge of honor, and it means that you really got under the skin of some fragile man-baby. >

I did report it, don't know if that works. They should at least provide the message that reports it. >

Reddit really dislikes misuse of the Cares feature and will ban anybody misusing it like that if reported, so you're in luck. >

I don't know about in luck, but good to know something might happen. I also don't have any proof that's the post that triggered the Cares message, but I can't think of any other one that would lead someone to think I was suicidal. >

Dude looks like a discount mexican version of Reverend Kane from Poltergeist II >

Or a ventriloquist dummy come to life. >

Oh shit. I can imagine drawing lines from the corners of his mouth down to his chin. Fucking ace! >

Perfection! >

Saw a TikTok or something recently where this guy was checking out this absolutely beautiful house, that was listed for incredibly cheap.  
He took the viewer on a tour, and it really was an amazing house.  He kept wondering like WTF is wrong w this house that it's sat on the market for this long and nobody is buying it?
Then he went outside....
Train tracks literally right next to the house, with a train going by as he was recording.  
Even without the horn, it was incredibly loud. >

Just pasting my comment from below.
You get used to the sound, I lived with train tracks behind my house, amd a freeway just next to it.
If you got nice insulation and a house made out of brick, you're gonna be just fine.*
You could feel the train passing by, but they changed the tracks and we added a wall in our backyard next to the tracks, you don't feel anything anymore.
*thanks for the correction, my English was lost. >

Insulation* >

I live in a trailer 30 yds from a train track and maybe less than 1/4 mile from the highway. Highway is worse but neither are a real issue. >

Live in a rural area and this is like 75%+ of the people that move in from the city. My favorite complaints:

Raking your yard is too much work we shouldn't have to do that that town should (often followed by them cutting down the beautiful old trees in their yard)
They shouldn't be able to how cows this close to town I can smell the manure sometimes
How am I supposed to get my car out of the driveway after it snows? They only plow the streets
They shouldn't be able to drive farm equipment on the roads, they go too slow
They need to do something about all the wildlife. I saw coyotes in town and I'm afraid to let my cat out.
The trains stop at the grain elevators too much. >

The tree one we had.  Neighbor behind us moved in a couple years after us and complained about the 25 year old tree on our property that had been planted near the property line and she didn’t like cleaning up the pine needles.  She would only accept immediately chopping it back to the property line, which would have killed it, or cutting it down.  If you don’t want trees around don’t buy a backyard completely shaded by one and expect other people to fix it. >

In a lot of places, your neighbor would have been within her rights to cut the tree branches at the property line.
I had a neighbor who did that once to a tree planted near our property line by the previous owner. I didn't want to cut the tree down, so he cut off every branch that crossed the line. Didn't kill the tree but it looked like hell on his side of the tree. 
I didn't care. I didn't have to look at it. 😂 >

Usually you can only do that if you don’t kill the tree in the process.  That’s the difference.  If there’s a few branches you can cut them, but you can’t destroy someone else’s property. >

You are also not allowed to throw away the cut branches away without permission as they are still the tree owner's property. >

You know a lot about tree law it seems. >

We had a lady move from the city into our rural farm town and complain about the smell of cows, horses on the road, and people not speaking English. 
We celebrated when she left. >

Sounds like Florida.
There are people who moved near the Miami metro rail tracks which is elevated heavy rail that runs every 10 minutes that was built in the '80s are suing over train noise and these people just moved to Florida, People moved near the CSX and FEC extremely heavy used freight lines and commuter rail on the East Coast of Florida who recently moved to Florida and are suing over train noise. >

Any house effected by train/aeroplane noise is likely significantly cheaper than other houses so it's a bit rich to move there and then complain/sue >

If you are not familiar with Florida and everybody moving to Florida, they are building luxury condos multi-million dollar condos next to Metro Stations so that people can get to downtown since there is no parking downtown and the only way to get around downtown is on an automated people mover or you sit for an hour in traffic.
The same people demanding condos be built at a metro station are bitching about the noise and the PA system at the metro stations [loud alert tone] "a northbound orange line train" and so on In English and Spanish and Creole. Then the train pulls in.
So build a metro system in the 1980s, demand multi-million dollar condos In 2015 be built next to the metro station because traffic is atrocious downtown and then bitch about the condos being so close to the metro station and the metro station and the metro trains.
BTW several American cities are just the opposite, New York apartments cost more that are within a block or so of an underground station, unless you're living on Miami Beach condos cost more in the Brickell area of Miami and wynwood area of Miami where they are building rapid rail or had rapid rail since the 1980s.
Welcome to Florida >

Would be funny if they said "OK, we'll close the metro station". Good luck getting anywhere now. >

Actually that did happen in Coral Gables and South Miami, Those two cities bitched about train brakes and loud PA systems. The county said okay we will run express trains after 10:00 p.m. that only stop at those stations once an hour... Immediately that turned into "our taxes pay for these stations" how dare you disenfranchise the poor workers who clean people's condos and work in grocery stores and all of that stuff. >

Tbf those are probably different groups voicing those complaints
Group a is the ones who hate the train sounds and don't want them stopping there.
Group b is the ones that were putting up with it and using the trains, or at least understood why they were there, and only started to complaining once they were taken away >

Well then there is also group c that's in my county a semi rural county in Florida.
"Express buses to Fort Myers and Palm Beach would bring in undesirable people and put your grandparents and grandchildren at risk"... >

Or people who move right beside a garbage dump and complain of the smell ( this is a thing in my city) 😂 >

Or people who move next to a high school and complain about the traffic congestion every morning and afternoon. >

This one is a bit more forgivable. There really shouldn't be traffic around a school unlike trains around a train station or rubbish in a rubbish dump >

What? How do you suppose people get to and from the school?  Magic? >

Americans discover public transport >

For 5 year olds. >

The school bus, also if you live in a safe neighborhood you can send your kids to walk. I went to school by myself every day in the 5th grade since it was nearby, and walked home through all of middle school. I took the bus home in high school. Other parents would sometimes have their kids come with me since they didn’t feel safe sending their kids out alone >

My grandparents lived right next to a train track and the sounds of trains always helps me go to sleep. >

I rented at a place right next to train tracks for a while and I got used to the trains fairly quick. It just kinda becomes background noise like the HVAC system kicking in. >

Yeah same here. It’s been 6 months and I’m used to them. Except when work is getting done, and they literally ring this bell to alert all workers a cart is passing through. It is crazy loud and obnoxious especially at 2 am haha >

I grew up on a farm.  Our closest neighbor was about a mile and a half away.  He was a nice farmer in his mid 60s who had worked his farm his entire life. In addition to the typical crops he had Angus beef cattle and about a 40 pig operation. Some urban idiot bought land directly across the road from his farm and immediately started filing complaints about the smell. This was not any sort of huge agricultural complex. This was a farm that had not really changed since the 50s, but that jerk managed to shut him down completely. He had 400 acres but he was no longer allowed to have any animals on the land that he and his father had farmed since the mid-30s.
If you don’t like the smell of a farm then don’t move next to a working farm. >

Must have had some wild infractions if he was able to shut him down. >

Had a guy who moved into an apartment next door to an active, 120+ year old church that's been doing noontime bell ringing since before 1900. Spent 10 years bitching to the church, city hall and anyone else he'd catch the ear of about it. I think he finally moved, but I'm an asshole and kind of hope he died (you'd've had to have listened to his rant; he was an utter dick; the bells were far from the only things in the world that he was unhappy with). Ironically, about 5 years after he stopped bitching, the church replaced the bells with much, much quieter electronic chimes - almost inaudible beyond about 500' (152 m). He'd probably still bitch about 'em. >

Noon? Who complains about noises at noon? >

There's dozens of us daysleepers! Dozens! >

I'm a daysleeper myself, but daysleepers respect that it is active time for the world and know better than to complain >

People moving next to something they don’t like, and then complaining they live next to something they don’t like, happens often enough that there’s a legal term for it: coming to the nuisance. >

What on earth made him think trains stopped at 11.30? That has never been the case. >

This kind of BS killed nightlife in DC. People move in next to bars and start having babies and expect the bars to keep quiet because their little-ones need to go to sleep at 8PM. It's ridiculous and the city catered to it. >

Pretty sure it was the trains catching fire that did that. They haven't ran to 2am since the emergency repairs that summer. >

We moved into a place near Vancouver. The rental office pointed out the active rail line and suggested it may make a little noise, and that's why it's $100 cheaper a month to rent (4%) for its size. 
Yeah, no. They don't just move through the area. By comparison, the (very active) subway station nearby is nothing. The blowing of a 100db whistle four times with every passing train in either direction is a huge issue for a line that seems to run a train 4-5 times an hour, 24 hours a day. There are 5 different organizations, some of them international, using that stretch of track. 
It's not a noise people can expect to understand on paper. It's a "hearing projection required if you're not indoors" noise that is airline-engine loud. 
It takes a LONG time to get used to. >

Same type of bitch that moves in next to a venue, then gets it shut down. >

I live fairly close to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.  It's amazing how many people move into the hills surrounding the stadium, then complain about the noise from games and concerts, heavy traffic when an event is going on, and the weekend fireworks scaring their pets.
No sympathy.  Get to know something about the area BEFORE you move. >

We were looking at a new home lot and right behind it, was a baseball field.  I knew that was going to be a problem but the salesman was all like, "Nah, they shut down early, you'll never hear it."
We didn't go back there. >

Realtors lie all the time. Things like "oh the airport is going to close" when the house is near a small municipal airport. Also if you are considering a house near a regional or municipal airport remember, if you are in line with the runway expect elevated led levels. This should hopefully change soonish with the phase out of leaded fuel but the contamination will stick around for quite a while. >

We have lots of people like this in my hometown if you replace trains with Navy jets. >

This is a perfect r/nottheonion post. This 100% feels like an onion article >

People who moved next door to a pub complained about them showing football and having live music, ended up getting and injunction banning both and limiting opening times because of the noise of people leaving the car park. almost destroyed the business. 
Fuck these people >

Did this dude really think that trains go to sleep at night >

He's been watching too much Thomas the Tank Engine.
(children's TV show about trains) >

Some lawyer built a house on our local golf course. Right at a spot where everyone slices drives into the woods. Stupid dickhead was bitching to the course, the golfers, the town and everyone within earshot within a month of moving in. Even filed motions to try and force the course into a redesign. The course is 50+ years old.  I hit an extra shitty ball over there on purpose most times. >

Send your location so I can send you a box of balls. >

They gotta be all scratched up worthless precepts and noodles and shit tho. The guy fancies himself a bit of a pro (he's horrible). >

Jagged edges and covered in dog shit. Got ya. >

There is a new subdivision the next town over from me right next to the train tracks.  Someone in the new houses had some political connections so he talked the commissioners into spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on upgrading the rail crossings so that a quite zone could be established.   Now the neighbors complain about the bell that rings at the intersection. >

Gets into the ocean "There's sharks in here!" >

I used to live near a high school. People would move into the neighborhood and then complain there were teenagers round. The only way some people know how to deal with their stupidity is to share it with other people. >

In the 1980s my school sold the land leading up to the school to build homes and the purchasers of the homes turned around and forced the school to heavily restrict how many people could actually drive to the school. Everyone had to find someone to carpool in with. They had a car counter by the entrance and if we went over the allowed number they would allegedly shut the school down. >

Omg this is constant in my city. It’s soooo annoying! People move beside the tracks and whine about how no one cares that they experience noise. No sh*t Karen, you bought a house with single pane windows across from a rail yard but still the surprised pikachu face? I live across from a noisy crossing, and I wouldn’t dare complain because 1- they were here first and 2- that’s why it cost less. >

Dude’s head looks like he grew up next to a nuclear power plant >

Oh no, he "Slammed" the companies! My god, when will the violence end? >

There was a court case in my province about this.  Lady moves in beside a farm.  Long story short. Farmer 1 cidiot 0 >

I mean, it's comical how much he looks like the type to complain about that >

My husband is a high school band director very close to a major city and the football stadium is bordered by a neighborhood. Many years we have the cops called on us when we are rehearsing before 9pm. It's like when you moved next to a high school you didn't expect anything to happen there... >

Obviously he knew there would be noise but apparently he was told they dont run after 11:45pm. Sounds pretty reasonable >

Not running scheduled service is what they meant by “don’t run”, that would exclude maintenance operations, moving/reassigning rolling stock, etc. >

The good ol ‘fine print’ >

Indeed! >

It's very tempting to insult this guy, but oh-so difficult to decide where to start.  
The eyes are naturally drawn to his, to begin with. It's part of human instinct, we're a social creature after all, but to look into his eyes is to look into a pair of soulless orbs. Like looking at the oddly-highly-detailed testicles of a glass bull that have become dusty because nobody wants to be caught fondling a glass bull.  
What then? The smile? The smile of a man who has come to terms with his own small-minded lack of contentment with the world in such a way that might be described as "Zen" if doing so wouldn't immediately put every Buddhist in a ten-mile radius into attack mode. A smile creepy in its' confidence and confident in its' creepiness, as if he put serious time and effort into learning how to smile in the most child-terrifyingly way possible.  
The rest of his face? I'd probably lean into my own creepiness too if my cheeks resembled the tits of a sixty-year-old stripper and my chin had such sculpting, shape and depth as to betray a constant desire to look down my nose at everyone I met, even if the person I'm talking to is taller than I am.  
Would it be sporting to discuss his hair, then? Someone who somehow manages to have less hair than he'd like but still more than he knows how to manage. The guy's head looks like a loony tunes character getting grabbed round the neck by a cartoon strongman, his fringe looks like he desperately wants to be Clark Kent and yet instead makes him look like he's wearing a wig, even though he probably isn't.  
This is a man who has been put down a lot. You can tell by how he ties his tie. Pre-pulled, unable to be tightened anymore by the wandering hands of a school bully despite him having gone to school at about the same time as Queen Victoria, choosing a tie-dye-esque design I'm sure he thought would be very cool sometime around the seventies, he was wrong then and he's wrong now. To say nothing of his clothing. Clearly he's been told blue is acceptable as formalwear and never bothered to examine why or in what shades, resulting in the only two garments in the world that clash despite broadly being the same colour; a cheap, frayed-looking suit over a shirt that if it could speak would beg for death.  
To look upon this man is akin to looking upon shame if shame had a face and a skin tone and a terrible haircut and an awful suit that could for all I know cost thousands of pounds and yet still looks like the cheapest possible option.  
This is a man who would scramble into a lifeboat of a sinking ship, stocked with supplies, equipped with heating and GPS and medicine, and while the hands of the drowning hammered at the sides he would lie down on the floor and sob about how hard he has it.  
This is a man who asks for receipts whenever he makes a charitable donation,
I'd say I pity the people who know this man but at the very least he has the courtesy to live close to a set of train tracks so a relatively quick, painless opportunity for suicide is as close to hand as it can be. >

Jesus. >

Beat me to it. >

I moved next to train tracks 10 years ago. Spoke to neighbours about them before we bought. Tracks were used a couple times a day and the trains were pretty short. Fast forward 10 years and now we have one every about every 90 minutes, over 200 cars close to half are tankers with a flammable symbol on them. Because our neighbourhood is the edge of town the trains are starting to speed up and they cross 2 major roads so long blasts of the whistle are required. There is nothing like being woke up at 3 am with your house vibrating due to a passing train. >

This is why I am more sympathetic to people with complaints. There is a housing shortage in this country. Some jackass might start a business next to your house with a dusty gravel lot and a bunch of massive diesel trucks that fire up at four AM. 
Airports expand. Incinerators start incinerating way more waste. Railroads become busier and start transporting chemical or highly flammable tankers. 
If you don't manage to buy up 1000 acres, you never know what could pop up near your home. Zoning and local governments are the only defense. >

Yes, you can’t stop progress, sometimes only slow it down. Luckily I love in a community were I can voice my concerns. >

While most people in this situation deserve what they got, sometimes there are claims made such as an airport claiming only to allow flights between 6am and 10pm, but then they get a lucrative FedEx contract and start flying later and the planes go over your house, and you complain because they didn't get a  zoning permission for that new traffic. >

Near where I live there's a paper factory-cum-trash incinerator built less than 50 meters from a village. Because of bureaucratic bullshit and the economic recession of 14 years ago they were allowed to expand and pollute way past what was lawful or even healthy, and they still constantly break the law by polluting above healthy levels right next to a fucking village. But whenever I bring this up, there are always people butting in and saying "if people don't want to live next to a factory, you shouldn't have moved there." Like, what? >

Wait, we're supposed to incinerate our cum-trash? I was just flushing it. That's not bad for the water supply, is it? >

They should just make it come by so often he stops noticing >

Yeah, he looks like the kind of person to do that >

This is why planning is a thing >

Jesus, train noise caused that forehead? >

See this a lot on Nextdoor in my area of Atlanta. When I lived in Los Angeles people would move close to LAX and bitch about airplane noise >

The guy is 72, which probably explains his strange appearance. He’s obviously trying to look significantly younger. 
The article is pretty shitty. It says he thought the trains stopped running after 11:30pm, but the article doesn’t clarify if that was ever true or who told him that (the sellers? Simply a bad assumption? Did they start running later?) >

He (or his solicitor) probably looked at the public timetable. Last Chiltern service is 2332.
He's complaining about passenger trains that are stabled there overnight and engineering trains. >

That's common.
People move into an apartment above a bar and complain about the noise.
People move to rural areas next to a farmer and complain about noises, smells,...
There are tons of examples.
In North western Germany they want to build a tunnel from Germany to Denmark. In Denmark no issues. Where the tunnel ends in Germany tons of people who moved there are against it and the ones who live there their whole life or a very long time are for it. >

I worked for a railway for 15 yrs and the amount of complaints for noise are going way up. Most retail yards were built in industrial areas and as those develop into new and pricey real estate, the new tenants are often ignorant of how loud a rail yard can be. 
Worst was in Vaughan where they are building multiple high rises right next to the yard. Noise travels up unimpeded, so… >

Welcome to every airport in the US
NIMBYs encroach on airfield, complain about noise, demand it be closed >

Strongly dislike these people, happened with my local race track Brands Hatch. Never been a problem until the past few years where they can no longer do races that go into an evening. 
Like do these muppets moving in locally not see a fucking race track on google maps when they look? local authorities should tell them to fucking deal with it. >

"who put all these sharks in these shark-infested waters?!?!" >

WHY IS THIS WATER SO WET?!?! >

There is a short track Speedway (1/4 mile) near where I live. It has been in its same location since opening in 1948. As can be expected, developers built subdivisions nearby, and as you can also likely guess, these homeowners complain every year about the Speedway. Really? You bought the house with the full knowledge that there is a fucking racetrack across the main drag, and now you wanna bitch? Idiots. 
Of note, when covid was peaking and they weren’t running their Saturday night spectaculars, it was eerie - 40+ years of that track being part of the sounds of a summer night, it becomes pleasantly familiar. >

Reminds me of one of my friend's neighbors. They showed up at his house with a petition about the noise a nearby lumber mill makes. He looked at them and said, "you moved to a community called "______ Mills", named for that mill. That mill has been there for over a hundred years. So, no, I'm not signing your petition." >

People do this with car racetracks constantly. Move in near it, complain to the city it is too loud and get it bulldozed. Like thanks, you chose to move near it and ruined things for those who actually enjoy it. >

I lived about 50 ft from a busy railroad and it sucked at first but, after about a month you don't even notice except stuff shakes when they are going by. >

It reminds me of people who smell my farts but don’t know it was me because they’re silent but deadly. >

Can we next apply this to people who live and pay good money to live on golf courses, just to hate every golfer that walks by? >

I think it's just a shame that Alan Carr's parents kept his brother here locked in an attic for all those years. >

Here they move to our rural areas (to areas actually zoned for Agriculture not residential) and complain about dust from tilling, bird shots, generators during business hours, hoop houses block their view, seasonal workers existing, trucks moving produce.... just anything agriculture.  Honestly a bunch of Karen's moving to the country zones they don't belong in because they lost money.
Our board meetings are packed with them every spring and summer. >

dude looks like what ai thinks humans look like >

A driving range I used to go to, that had been there for years, had some fancy condos built next to it. People complained that the balls were hitting their condos. The town made the driving range put up a big net. The same people now bitched about this big ugly net. The town then made them take the net down. I moved before anything else happened. I never found out if they were eventually forced out of business. >

I used to work at a school where a dude bought a condo across the street from the schools playground.  The school had about 500 kids, and he was less than 50 yards from it.  He complained to the admin that the kids needed to keep it down as it was disturbing his sleep.  Of course they smiled and nodded and nothing happened because how do you keep 200 grade school kids quiet on a playground?
So then he took to petitioning the school board, who dutifully heard him out, and informed him that they would not infact order the school to keep the kids quiet.  Apparently the dude didn't get the thunderous applause memo from the parents present at the open forum board meeting.
Because a few weeks later these flyers showed up on every vehicle in the parking lot citing noise ordinance laws (which we were not in violation of), and claiming it was happening as early as 6:30 am.  What kid shows up an hour and a half early to school?
Anyhow he was confronted, because that is littering if it is done repeatedly.  He denied that it was him, and claimed it must have been other neighbors upset about the noise.  No one but him ever complained.
So we caught him on camera, and the police came out later that day and cited him $500 PER PIECE OF PAPER.  There were at least 40 of them.
Dude got ticketed for $20,000+, and last I heard the judge reduced it to just one $500 fine, and a warning that a repeated offense would carry community service.
The flyers stopped, but he still complained for a couple years.
Some people are just bored or stupid, maybe both. >

People do this all of the time with race tracks. 
There will be a race track that has been around since the 1950s-60s. The cars race on Saturday nights until 11-12. A housing development will pop up nearby. Residents of the new homes complain to the local government about the noise, a noise ordinance is passed, and the race track has to shut down. >

And then when people start street racing those same homeowners start saying things like “take it to the track” >

All that forehead space and not a thing in it. >

Reminds me of that scene in The Blues Brothers -
JAKE: How often does the train go by ?
ELWOOD: So often you won't even notice ! >

Get him a comfy pair of noise-cancelling headphones >

Yes, because he bought the home and the tracks were installed the next day.  What an ejeet >

In Las Vegas there was a pig farm up in the northern valley that recycled all the waste food from the casino. For decades they were there.  People built up around them, bitched about the smell and forced the family to leave town and sell their property. Now all the food waste just gets sent to the landfill.  And people complain about it being wasteful >

Man jumps into volcano and complains about the heat. >

We have a notorious intersection in Portland, Oregon (SE 11th between Division and Powell) where the trains can block it unannounced for up to 30 minutes at a time. Union Pacific built a switching yard in 1865, back when SE Portland was nothing but farmland and wilderness. The city grew around it, but the railroad is immune to most concessions to the city DOT, due to prior use rights. 
“It’s not our fault your city planing sucks.”
So those in the know just avoid that intersection at all costs. I drove an Uber for a bit, and if a rider asked why I was making an unexpected turn I’d say it might be faster to walk if I don’t go this way. >

The situation is not exactly as the headline implies -
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‘My bedroom is very close to the tracks, but that’s not the main issue.  
Barry claims the trains can stand there for more than 15 minutes with engines running, which happens especially on the weekend mornings and late evenings.A spokesperson for Chiltern Railways apologised that Barry had been disturbed by the trains ‘in the sidings near Amersham Station’.

Here is the full article which OP's post summarised from.

Key Point:  
A spokesperson for Chiltern Railways apologised that Barry had been disturbed by the trains ‘in the sidings near Amersham Station’.  
They said: ‘During periods of industrial action, some of our services start and terminate at Amersham, meaning that trains need to be shunted between sidings and platforms to continue service.  
‘This is a short-term operational necessity and does not routinely happen outside of days affected by industrial action.’ >

People in our neighborhood complain about the racetrack.  People where in lived in Leith complained about the prozzies.  People in the arts district complain about the noise from the people who come out for last Thursday.
Every single one of them bought cheap and are whingeing about stuff to increase the value of their property. >

People don't understand that spending 15 minutes in a house is nowhere near the amount of time needed to figure out it's right for them. Unfortunately there's no real option where you can spend just a night at the house before choosing to buy, unlike cars and test drives. >

When hipsters move into the hood in LA and then complain about hood things >

The closest race track to me was built out in the middle of nowhere. Then people bought the cheap land nearby to build houses. Said people now are trying to get the race track shut down because of the noise. You really just cannot fix stupid. >

Guy looks like the ventriloquist’s dummy >

My parents have had to drive to a yard waste disposal location in a sketchy area 10x farther away from their hoke because a bunch of people bought houses newly built immediately next to their local location. 
These people complained about the smell of the decomposing yard waste at the yard waste site they just moved in next to.
I hate people. >

Fuckin Master Billy Quizboy over here. >

Is that a wax figure because that dude looks horrifying. >

Reminds me of one of my rich friends who bought property and then built a mini-mansion near Laguna Seca...then proceed to complain about car racing noises.  I can even see his house in google maps.  My response was "FFS man, you live like 3 miles away from race track built and used since the 50s.  Might as well move to Compton and proceed to complain about too many ghetto people." >

Arizona State University built a Retirement Center across the street from an outdoor concert venue in downtown Tempe.  Then the retirement home sued the concert venue for playing music... >

A family bought a house right nextdoor to the pig farm of my village. They quickly started to complain about the smell and demanded that the farm moved away 50 meters from their house, which they used as a vacation home. 
This beats all noise complaint stories I've heard. A pig farm, smelly? No kidding?
Or the >

Had a coworker do this.  She wanted the tracks moved but they connect to the countries border.  So the other country would also have to move theirs too.
The town she lived in only exists because that train had a stop there too >

I have a train track that travels right next to my home. It's both a freight and passenger line. We used to complain if they would blow their horn at 3:00 in the morning. I think that was fixable and justified. But the sound of the trains themselves is something you have to live with. You either live with it or get the hell out of the kitchen. Years later I don't even notice them anymore. Especially since they made them stop using their horn after certain hours. >

That's what they did in Florida, after 11:00 p.m. ground level trains reduce speed after 11 p.m. til I think 6 a.m. and don't use horns in residential areas. Then the mile long trains got moved to overnight so not to impede traffic They still bitch and these are people who just moved here. >

I live right next to train tracks and what I wasn't expecting is the low-frequency noise coming from the trains as they idle, it makes me shiver like I am freezing and there is no way to stop it. It is absolutely brutal and I can sympathise with him >

Man eats dog shit with a side of toenails, complains it's undercooked.