I think that sort of stuff is illegal where I live. No more fireplaces, BBQs or smokers.
Actually, we can have gas fireplaces, but no smoking BBQs.
Not to completely hi-jack this thread, but as a professional fire fighter, I would like to address this particular issue.....
First and foremost I think laws like that are total bullshit, but this sort of thing happens in many congested communities, and this is how it happens.....
Every community has their whiners and complainers, those people with no life that spend all day figuring out what they can cry about next, these are the same people that have 911 on speed dial, because they can't dial it fast enough, and they abuse the system to no end. These are also the people that dial 911 and report something on fire in their neighborhood every time someone else lights up a fireplace, wood stove, chimenea, meat smoker, or bar-b-que pit.
They go to their city counsel meetings where they whine and cry about these careless people mis-using their (fill in device here)__________and something needs to be done to stop it. Counsel gets tired of hearing these same handful of whiners complain, and they certainly don't want to loose their vote at next election, so they quietly pass a law prohibiting the use of (fill in device here)___________. The next thing you know, you've got your smoker fired up, a couple pounds of brisket in there for it's day long smoke treatment, and the next thing you know the fire dept and a cop show up at your front door telling you to extinguish the source of annoying smoke or we'll have to do it for you.
I've had to be that fireman, and it's one of the most embarrassing things I have to do in my job, to walk into somebody's back yard with a pressurized water fire extinguisher, and put out a smoker, wood burning bar-b-que pit, or chimenea.
The city I work for quietly passed a law a few years ago in an effort to stop people from lighting charcoal bar-b-que's on their front decks...(too close to the structure), but what they did was pass a law that reads...{if the smoke from any device causes an annoyance to anyone in the community, that device has to be rendered inoperable}. At least this particular law did not include a fireplace inside the structure.
The other problem being, for all the good the 911 system has done, it is abused to no end. People dial it for the dumbest reasons, and some folks aren't happy unless they dial it at least 5 times a day. As a professional fire fighter I have come close to disciplinary action because I've told more than one person that if they dial 911 one more time I was going to remove the 9 and the 1 from their phone, and I once told one smacked ass tourist that I was going to confiscate his cell phone because he was too damn stupid to own one.....but I digress.....
The point of this rant is.....always keep an eye and an ear on what's going on in your community and your elected lawmakers, these assclowns will impose the dumbest laws on everybody in that community just to shut up one or two whiners, and not loose their vote, this is how antenna restrictions happen, smoker and bar-b-que restrictions happen, and even barking dog laws.......
Now back to our regularly schedule discussion about smoking brisket......
