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closeupready

(29,503 posts)
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 02:41 PM Jan 2013

Lawsuit over smoking pot, having sex on upper East Side rooftop is ‘racist,' says co-op resident Re

Source: New York Daily News

An upper East Side co-op is suing resident Richard Kempter, claiming his ganja-loving guests fill the luxury building with pot smoke and have sex on the roof.

Kempter, 73, who owns a one-bedroom unit on the eighth floor of the E. 72nd St. high rise, lets his kids go wild when he’s out of town and their “strong-smelling” pot penetrates everywhere, even into one neighbor’s dishwasher, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Manhattan.

t is 10:45 p.m. and my apartment smells like a party was going on . . . the stench of musty pot that is lingering in my closet is unbearable,” a fed-up neighbor wrote to management at The Fontaine last January.

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The co-op is seeking $15,000 in damages, plus payment from Kempter for their legal bills.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/pot-friendly-parent-sued-stoner-kids-toking-article-1.1237008



If I were on that jury, I would eagerly vote to triple damages and award to plaintiff legal fees and costs.

Then see how much longer landlords take to install fire door buzzers/alarms.

If you wouldn't behave like this at your parents, do behave like it elsewhere.

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Lawsuit over smoking pot, having sex on upper East Side rooftop is ‘racist,' says co-op resident Re (Original Post) closeupready Jan 2013 OP
He owns, not rents leftynyc Jan 2013 #1
Ah, a co-op. Crazy Combo Jan 2013 #3
lol closeupready Jan 2013 #5
I would find for the defendant, and tell the plaintiff to move elsewhere. Crazy Combo Jan 2013 #2
It has...and you don't have the right to inflict it on others. brooklynite Jan 2013 #7
Just a bunch of curmudgeonly people cosmicone Jan 2013 #4
Let them have fun somewhere else. MicaelS Jan 2013 #9
Why should I have to pay money to keep YOUR behavior away from me? dbackjon Jan 2013 #14
That's what happens when you don't invite your neighbors to the party. leveymg Jan 2013 #6
I can imagine that would be irritating Marrah_G Jan 2013 #8
Just like cigarette smoke, freedom to pollute your own lungs does not mean geek tragedy Jan 2013 #10
"common across classes" - yes, the lowest ones, I agree. closeupready Jan 2013 #11
but all different economic classes--agreed that it's always low class behavior, nt geek tragedy Jan 2013 #12
Okay, yes, that puts it well. closeupready Jan 2013 #13
 

closeupready

(29,503 posts)
5. lol
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 02:55 PM
Jan 2013

Keep ignoring them. When your bank account gets seized and paycheck garnished to pay for the judgment you ignored, keep telling yourself you are right and the co-op is wrong.

 

Crazy Combo

(7 posts)
2. I would find for the defendant, and tell the plaintiff to move elsewhere.
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 02:49 PM
Jan 2013

Sorry, but even in NYC, pot has been decriminalized.

Wonder how much this guy is paying for his one bedroom apartment?

brooklynite

(93,851 posts)
7. It has...and you don't have the right to inflict it on others.
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 03:07 PM
Jan 2013

When the apartment purchased the Co-op, he bought shares in a company (I believe the phrase is "Corporations are people...&quot and signed an agreement that certainly set standards of behavior, including noise, smells and behavior in common facilities. He hasn't got a legal leg to stand on, and claiming racism isn't going to help.

 

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)
4. Just a bunch of curmudgeonly people
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 02:50 PM
Jan 2013

jealous of kids having fun.

It is not like they were loud, disturbed peace or vandalized anything. If pot smoke is coming into your unit, get better insulation around the electrical outlets and doors.

The lawsuit will settle for about $7500

MicaelS

(8,747 posts)
9. Let them have fun somewhere else.
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 03:15 PM
Jan 2013

If this was about tobacco, the anti-tobacco people here would be coming out of the woodwork claiming they're allergic to tobacco, or hate it, or how smokers don't have the right to inflict their smoke on other people's lungs, etc, etc. But because it's pot, we're supposed to give these "kids" a free pass? Bullshit.

Marrah_G

(28,581 posts)
8. I can imagine that would be irritating
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 03:09 PM
Jan 2013

I know when my friends son smokes the really good stuff in the basement, we can smell it pretty strongly up on the 2nd floor.

Nothing against smoking pot, but some of it smells like a skunk!

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
10. Just like cigarette smoke, freedom to pollute your own lungs does not mean
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 03:21 PM
Jan 2013

the freedom to pollute your neighbors'.

This kind of a-holish behavior by children towards their parents' neighbors is common across classes.

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