People like this make public service a total nightmare for many. How about the effect they have on the workers that have to field the calls?

I remember an MP I knew saying that the one thing he detested about his job were these obsessive nutters that would show up at every meeting and every surgery making the same complaint.

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Heathrow another example. I live very near to the flight patb of CNX - I used to lice below it. Yes, there were times when I felt the aircraft were going to land in my condo, but you soon got used to it. I reckon a hundred flights a day go over me - and I probably notice a couple.  First thing in the morning, last thing at night. 

Anyone that moves near an airport should be immediately banned from making complaints - these are national assets and must be able to run efficiently.

It would be interesting to know how many of these airports were in isolated areas when 1st built.

Weird planning laws exist in the UK.  Private dwellings trump commercial buildings. 

We owned a popular bar, founded in 1922.  The previous owner converted upstairs to four dwellings. Two brothers bought a flat each and moved in. They then started complaining about the noise from the bar. One of them was police - my Dad went nuts one night and kicked his head in. 

He was standing on the other brothers neck while punching the policeman stupid.  

What a pallaver.  Policeman took the serious threat against his safety seriously - didn't file charges. 

Reminds me of the time I was in dispute with two police and one reached for his baton. 

"You take that baton out and you'll wake up in hospital next to your pal here. And tomorrow morning you can explain to your wife it was your choice." 

"We'll radio the riot squad." 

"And by the time they get here they'll be radioing two ambulances." 

Man I was forkin furious that day, pair of pricks.  That was around the time I set about four so-called gangsters with a metal bar.  One of their pals got me a belter later when he hit me with a hammer. He ended up knocked out with his head lodged below a seven tonner wheel, took eight guys to drag me away from the cabin as I tried to run over his head. <theduck>. 

Anyway, a petition went in against the pub, and the chairman of the licensing authority said he would only listen to complaints from folk who lived in the street prior to 1922. 

Complaint thrown out. 

On a sidenote, I ended up pally with the four gangsters.  That other prick got blasted in the face by a shotgun, survived, lost an eye, then got slashed on two separate occasions. 

Oh, and the police didn't draw their batons or call the riot squad. I still got a ticket though. 

Bastards. 

On the bright side, due to a court strike, 3000 cases were dropped and mine was one of them. 

Jammy bastid, huh? 

Yes there are noise restrictions, depending on the type of aircraft and the time. there is a rider though that if conditions do not allow a permitted runway to be used a restricted one may be used.  This is probably the basis of the complaints.  Amsterdam has 24 hour operation.  Heathrow is totally closed from about midnight till 6am. I do believe there should be 24 hour operation, anything else makes bad use of aircraft and leads to congestion at peak periods. There does need to be buffer zones though and I do not like the way that in Australia the new private owners can sell the buffer zones that exisited within the airport off for housing use.

I noticed - must have been 20 mins last time. 

That's it rgs, rub it in, rub it in. Those Delft Blue houses are nice, aren't they?