OT RE: [Leica] Golf club life

[imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George)]

Always amazing to hear these stories.
I've heard of new suburban developments going up near large dairy,  
hog and/or chicken farms; then the new suburbanites in their new  
McMansions complain of the odors and dusts from the farm. What did  
they expect?
It's as if they didn't know that farms had odors, tractors running at  
all hours of daylight and night;
that golf courses have golf balls;
that airports have airplanes.

My own property line abuts a church/school on the west
and state highway on the south.
When I bought the property
I expected that the parking lot would fill at least once a week;
that children would be out and about at least 9 months of the year;
that traffic would be relatively high.
Guess what?
I was right.
;~)

Fond regards,
George

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On Nov 10, 2008, at 5:16 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:

> Locally a family bought a residence backing onto a well established  
> golf
> course in a very desirable area. They got to be surrounded by  
> picturesque
> green nature, a small lake and had pleasing views across the well  
> maintained
> and landscaped course. Sometimes a stray ball would land in their  
> property.
> These new residents objected vociferously to these incidents. I  
> understand
> that the golf club apologised but politely pointed out that the  
> course has
> been there for some time. The exchange became emotive with  
> accusations of
> potential assassination of various family pets and visiting  
> grandmas by
> lethal golf balls arriving in a veritable constant hail akin to the  
> beaten
> zone from five machinegun emplacements. Eventually the club erected  
> 20 metre
> high massive posts along the property line and strung dense netting  
> across
> the whole area. The residents are now completely safe from any  
> incoming golf
> balls or views. I grin whenever I drive past.
> Reminds me of some other folks in another city where I lived. They  
> insisted
> that the local authority open up farmland for housing development even
> though it was directly next to the end of the main runways of a  
> military
> airbase. Of course they then complained loudly and campaigned to  
> have flight
> hours restricted because it gets noisy. A little further down the  
> road,
> market gardeners with greenhouses suffered some damage from a sonic  
> boom
> where an aircraft accidentally exceeded the allowable speed some  
> time ago.
> When the military investigated the widespread damages claims that  
> followed,
> they were quite surprised to find that many panes had somehow  
> broken from
> the inside out, much like might occur if someone were to strike the  
> glass
> with a hammer from the inside of the greenhouse. Large wooden  
> support beams
> were also damaged, luckily pottery planters survived unscathed.  
> Also noticed
> were a number of unusual varieties of tomato plants growing amongst  
> the
> market vegetables.
>
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
> Pick up your camera and make the best photo you can.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [Leica] Golf club life
>
> Nathan wrote:
>
> Good thing the golf club has liability insurance:
>
> http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/4253606_netUM#414262401_9fHd6-O-LB
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan, I live on a golf course in Boynton Beach, Florida. Behind  
> my house
> is the first fairway for the gold course. After we moved here, we  
> began
> experiencing broken windows like you just had. Fortunately, we have  
> 4-mil
> mylar film attached to the insides of all our windows to block UV and
> protect the windows. A golf ball will break a window but the ball  
> and no
> glass chips will come into the house. This was especially important  
> when a
> golf ball broke a bedroom window. We would have never gotten all  
> the glass
> chips our of the carpet. But the film worked.
>
> I have since installed clear Lexan polycarbonate sheets over all  
> the windows
> facing the golf course. Now when we get a hit, we hear the bump but  
> no marks
> are left.
>
> A side benefit of the mylar film is to block 98% of UV radiation to
> virtually eliminate fading of my print collection and well as make the
> furniture last longer. This is really important here in South  
> Florida where
> the tropical sun can be vicious and we have sun almost every day of  
> the
> year!
>
> Is mylar window film available in Spain?
>
> Best regards.... Ken Lassiter
>
>
>
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