Neighbours lobbied for months to get these lights turned off

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Жыл бұрын

For months it was the talk of St. John’s, ultra-bright security lights that a property owner put up and refused to take down. Neighbours rallied, petitioned, and protested, but the city was powerless to turn the lights off. Zach Goudie shows us the view from a neighbour’s window and looks at the big picture of light pollution.
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@therakshasan8547 Жыл бұрын

The owner of the lights is trying to drive out their neighbors so they can buy up the properties . . It is a mean land grab . Currently the only way to fight the light is to sue the owner .

@aftonair Жыл бұрын

That is what I suspected as well.

@captainwilly9793 Жыл бұрын

And where did you get this information?

@Hierax415 Жыл бұрын

I have a different theory. The guy easily has 100k worth of copper distilling equipment in that little shed, not to mention the actual liquor. Maybe a proper door would be a better investment than an outrageously strong light. Unless of course, he has really good fire/vandalism insurance, then obstinately enraging your entire community might be a good idea....but that's none of my business......

@TheOurVids Жыл бұрын

How inconsiderate some people are.

@fatsilver5905 Жыл бұрын

How sad is it when the lack of common sense is so bad governments need to come up with laws to end this inconsiderate acts.

@ninemoonplanet Жыл бұрын

Vancouver may have regulations, but Surrey definitely doesn't. New "houses" built in older neighbourhoods have perimeter lights that outshine anything, including the street lights. Some have high lumen lights on the building, the fencing around the entire property such that inside adjacent hoses lighting isn't needed. Light pollution in cities, especially urban areas, is hazardous to human and wildlife.

@wewantmoreboomboom8313 Жыл бұрын

Perhaps lights should be directed down at the edge of your property instead of out at your neihbour.

@ninemoonplanet Жыл бұрын

Lights brighter like this don't stay confined to the house or property, believe me. I can go down streets with halogen lighting on houses and take photos that are almost as clear as daylight shots. 🤬

@SeanBZA Жыл бұрын

@@ninemoonplanet Well i have had to install lights, because the street lights are not working, and the council shows little regard to actually fixing them.

@wardmclaughlin2123 Жыл бұрын

Never did you ask the most obvious question as to 'why' the lights were put up in the first place.

@eds6889 Жыл бұрын

Some people’s lack of consideration and selfishness never fails to shock me. Hopefully St John’s can get their act together and write some modern bylaws.

@Ynalaw Жыл бұрын

With Canada's new immigrants, there is no guarantee decency, manners, or consideration will be commonly held. Canada is getting to the point of no return. Its a planned destruction. It was designed that way.

@eds6889 Жыл бұрын

@@Ynalaw did you see an immigrant in this story? Don’t be a bigot.

@Ynalaw Жыл бұрын

@@eds6889 He was hiding in the bushes. The lights were too bright, maybe you missed him. He was a real dark, hard-to-spot in the dark, fella.

@eds6889 Жыл бұрын

@@Ynalaw bigot troll

@Lili-xq9sn Жыл бұрын

I'm getting to the point where I hate neighbours.

@Ynalaw Жыл бұрын

Especially when they are from Africa or the subcontinent. We can import those people, but there is no way to mandate human decency.

@nordicvolkan8589 Жыл бұрын

Funny, insane, rude all in one 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@speciallevo3170 Жыл бұрын

There is an even brighter light in our area that is on during the summer for most of the night. Come winter we are wishing it would turn back on.

@chrislapp9468 8 ай бұрын

that shithouse is on the water. Get a good sized truck, get a running start, up to about 40 mph and knock the whole damn building into the water. Lights and all. Problem solved. "Accident. officer. The brakes went."

@hiplessboy Жыл бұрын

My guess is that someone threatened the owner of the light house there and he got scared enough to turn off the lights.

@captainwilly9793 Жыл бұрын

That’s the rumour.

@cdhewko Жыл бұрын

I find it interesting that they refer to cities doing well with light pollution regulation. I think most of the lights that are used are not really needed at night. The population that operates at night is way smaller, they do not really move around much, and operate in a much smaller area of cities in general. When I worked most of my life at night, I always preferred areas with less light. Mostly because people can you know use lights as they are needed and frankly I really liked gazing at the stars. I think a lot of the newer lighting could be dimmed or even turned off with smart technologies to maintain lighting where people need it, instead of keeping them on everywhere all night, every night. Places like highways might be an exception for speed of travel, but neighbourhood lights are not really that necessary. It would save power consumption, and maybe even reduce demand. Besides the stars are way nicer to look at than the yellow or orange haze created by that lighting.

@cdhewko Жыл бұрын

Actually I wonder how much energy we could save if we were smarter with that stuff in general. Would it help us reach energy consumption targets if we were you know smarter with how we use our energy. What do you think?

@adminmovie 29 күн бұрын

I have same kind of annoying neighbor. 😡 just here for searching a solution..

@midasgold4223 Жыл бұрын

I am glad this has finally stopped. I hope people will be more considerate and also think about the environment, not to mention your utilities bill.

@kaycee557 Жыл бұрын

Probably just on pause and not stopped, since the lights weren't removed.

@yougoof Жыл бұрын

This is what happens when majority of people living in town, have been without work living off government checks for the last 60years.

@TagusMan Жыл бұрын

Right behind my house, there's a building where the lights are never turned off. They have giant windows and I've never seen a single human ever walking around inside the place. The lights have been on for years. Who does this?

@SeanBZA Жыл бұрын

Property management companies where the power bills are all under one sheet, not broken down to a building or floor, so that tenants are billed for it, instead all get averaged for it. Till somebody actually complains about the light pollution to the company social media nothing will be done.

@The_Keh27 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like that mayor should not be re-elected for one. Also, why does the owner of that house need such bright security lights? It doesn't look like a house worth breaking into.

@SeanBZA Жыл бұрын

Probably being an annoying ahole is all. But if there is no light ordinance I would have gone, gotten a 5W green laser, put it on a tripod, and methodically burnt each LED out in those fixtures, because "it is just light, no limit on it" as defense.

@Ynalaw Жыл бұрын

@@SeanBZA good idea, but I'd try a squirt gun first, or even just a garden hose... maybe i'd rent a pressure washer and use the squirt nozzle tip.

@SeanBZA Жыл бұрын

@@Ynalaw Yes, but that then is you interfering with the property, the laser is not, as you are merely "shining light" onto the property, and if he is legally allowed so are you. Though if not laser then a call to rent a 20kW Xenon short arc searchlight, aimed at the fixture till it catches fire, will also work, as after all they did not have a max light amplitude, and those lights are often rented out, though with a caveat not to aim them at property within 100m as they might burn it from the intensity of the light beam. Does need to have it's own 50kVA generator with it, and a good amount of cooling water as well to keep it running.

@buyingbricks1184 Жыл бұрын

Don’t get why anyone didn’t just shoot it down or break the lights lol this wouldn’t happen in LA,NY or Chicago 😂

@whyimsmarterthanyou Жыл бұрын

So, why did the guy hang lights that were so bright? Why didn't he respond to the peeps in the neighbourhood? That's pretty much the most important aspect of the story.

@SeanBZA Жыл бұрын

As above he wants to buy the neighbouring lots, bulldoze down and build a set of condos to flip them. But not enough land, so the bright lights to make the neighbours move out and sell cheap. Wonder if anybody has reported him to the IRS for tax fraud anon yet, as those sort of investigations can go back decades, and they will want payment now, argue later on.

@vmitchinson Жыл бұрын

Greed! The bastard is trying to drive his neighbour's out so he can buy their property cheep. When I was a kid we had sling shots that would have made short work of those lights.

@Brave-828 Жыл бұрын

Wear a musk and destroy them. Nip the wires too

@bawintermage8351 Жыл бұрын

Finally, !

@lilmsgs Жыл бұрын

The pizzicato strings are really annoying

@chrislapp9468 8 ай бұрын

shoot the damn lights out.

@abnerromero7158 5 ай бұрын

USE MIRRORS TO REFLECT BACK🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@Ynalaw Жыл бұрын

I'd rather endure those lights than put up with tribal African music my neighbours play 24/7. Some people!

@kaycee557 Жыл бұрын

Every place has noise bylaws, so in fact you ARE enduring.

@Ynalaw Жыл бұрын

@@kaycee557 multiple complaints to the city bylaw....showing up to the landlord's house at 1am.... both I have tried, with little result. I'm still hearing their music all the time.

@B.D.F. Жыл бұрын

Maybe not the best approach, but I’m sure the owner of the light would’ve turned it off if it was vandalized enough times.

@Ynalaw Жыл бұрын

For a small fee, I could have taken care of those lights, and any new replacements.

@carlospulpo4205 Жыл бұрын

pellet gun ftw

@DavidHalverson Жыл бұрын

The lights probably got turned off by the owner due to his inability to continue payment of his electricity bill. $12,480 per month should be the flat rate charged by the local electric company for 24hr use.

@MichelleFrets Жыл бұрын

Is there not a civil law remedy?

@rickystarduster Жыл бұрын

there is a very simple solution its called put up some curtains and close them. they are called shades for a reason as they block out the light and if you get a good set it will not be a problem. if this is what people have to complain about then they should get a life. I live on a street where the city light post is right outside the house and it shines in my bedroom window and i put up a thin blanket to block out the light from outside so i do not have that problem anymore. so learn from my solution as you have a similar problem and stop complaining about what happens on someone else's property as those lights are a security feature that people use so they can see who is coming on their property and to deter criminals who would rob their home.

@shari9721 Жыл бұрын

Those lights he was using were extremely excessively bright . If they were just lighting up his property and not other people's property and into other peoples home it wouldnt be an issue . He purposely bought huge very bright lighs and pointed them directly at his neighbors and into their homes because he was trying to force them to move so he could buy up the property around his .

@Ynalaw Жыл бұрын

Intensely bright lights pointed directly at your neighbours, with no history of such intense lighting having been installed ... and, if your neighbours are bothered by the lights, why not be courteous and turn them off? Why upset the people you live next to? Everyone has different things that bother them. Intensely bright lights are unreasonable in my opinion. You're a ding-a-ling, Rick.

@kaycee557 Жыл бұрын

Your response is ridiculous. Good thing you're not on their city council.

@rickystarduster Жыл бұрын

@@kaycee557 nor would i want to be as i look at both sides of the problem security vs public nuisance. it did not say in the video that it was pointed right at the neighbor's window. all the video complained about was that the light was too bright. if it was pointed at the neighbors window that is public nuisance and the light needs to be moved or removed. there needs to be a balance in that.

@mired914 Жыл бұрын

As someone that has a crackhead problem in my neighborhood, the more lights the better. I have great privacy blinds ;).

@Beth-ve7ob Жыл бұрын

Why are there no curtains on the windows inside that house? Do exhibitionists live there or something? That said, there isn't a reason for lights like that to be on 24/7 ... I'd have to ask, however, if there is a problem with burglaries and vandalism in the area? The lights are overkill but some of the claims made in this video are overkill too.

@fluffykitten992 Жыл бұрын

Yes that’s the first thing most people would do if they had lights like that bothering them.

@ninemoonplanet Жыл бұрын

Those are what are called "blackout" blinds, curtains. Absolutely necessary for getting some sleep. More every day are soled for houses, condos, and people are being deprived of sleep, especially children.

@LeeMorgan07 Жыл бұрын

Slow news day?

@christopherrichardwadedett4100 Жыл бұрын

Buy blinds

@misty4483 Жыл бұрын

#Climatescam

@fluffykitten992 Жыл бұрын

Could have gotten dark curtains

@fluffykitten992 Жыл бұрын

@@bgeery I mean while dealing with the situation could have got curtains instead of the light bothering them keeping them awake that long

@kaycee557 Жыл бұрын

Did you not watch the beginning? There ARE blinds. Additionally, the lights were on 24 hours a day. If the blinds have to be used all day and all night, the people would be living in constant darkness and no ventilation in warmer weather. It also means that entering and leaving your house you're blinded and could have retina damage. Maybe you could live your whole life like that, most people can't.

@fluffykitten992 Жыл бұрын

@@kaycee557 talking about the big windows in the phulia and upstairs with no curtains you could leave them open in the day since your awake.

@kaycee557 Жыл бұрын

@@fluffykitten992 What's a phulia?

@fluffykitten992 Жыл бұрын

@@kaycee557 sorry don’t know how to spell what they call the space when you walk in the front door was it that weird name they call that space by their front door

@meggtokyodelicious Жыл бұрын

Be positive. The way electricity bills are skyrocketing, you should be glad there's some lights inside your House. Get some thick curtains, and dark film sheets to cover your windows.