Department of Irony - Bubble-Wrap
Talk about clueless...
From the Bergen County, New Jersey
The Record:
Firing range has Bubble Wrap maker popping mad
The maker of Bubble Wrap -- the famously addictive packaging that people love to pop, crackle and stomp on � says the popping of gunshots from a nearby police shooting range is giving its employees a headache.
Sealed Air Corp., maker of the cushioned plastic since 1957, says the noise from gunfire at the police department's firing range is "disruptive and unsettling" to its employees, according to a letter sent to borough officials.
Police Chief Don Ingrasselino says developers should have thought of that before building an office complex a few feet away from a shooting range.
So, let me get this straight, the bubble-wrap people were there first and then this big, scary and loud shooting range has just moved into the area?
Bzzzzzttttt -- wrong:
Ingrasselino has fired back with his own letter, arguing that the police training facility, which includes a firing range, was in that location long before Sealed Air moved in. The chief said noise concerns should have been addressed during the construction phase of the project.
"Police officers have trained at that location for over 55 years without incurring any noise complaints until now," Ingrasselino wrote.
We are seeing a similar thing in our neck of the woods -- people moving onto five-acre subdivisions of ex-farmland, building trophy houses and then complaining about the noise and stink from all of the working farms around them.
And then, they sit down for dinner without the faintest clue...
Posted by DaveH at January 2, 2008 10:51 PM