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 hes out of town and their strong-smelling pot penetrates everywhere, even into one neighbors 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.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)so no landlord involved. The co-op board is suing one of their own.
Crazy Combo
(7 posts)Much like the HOA, they are fascists.
I'd ignore them.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)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)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)When the apartment purchased the Co-op, he bought shares in a company (I believe the phrase is "Corporations are people..." 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)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)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.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)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)the freedom to pollute your neighbors'.
This kind of a-holish behavior by children towards their parents' neighbors is common across classes.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)Thanks.