April 27, 2023
A man in unincorporated Antioch in Illinois was charged on Tuesday with shooting and killing his neighbor over a noisy leaf blower earlier this month. 59-year-old William Martys was working in his yard with a leaf blower when he was shot in the head and killed during an argument with his neighbor, 79-year-old Ettore Lacchei, who the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said had “various perceived grievances” with Martys.
Ok but leaf blowers actually are fucking heinous and should all be destroyed
Electric ones are great, they’re abut as loud as a hair dryer and don’t have the environmentally unregulated combustion engines
The plug-in blowers have been around for decades at this point. And now with the battery-powered models for suburbanites that don’t want to use an extension cord, in a sane society new gas blowers would be banned.
Idk why average home owner would buy a gas one now. I bought a battery one and it was cheaper then gas, I don’t have to mess with maintaining the engine or starting it or keeping another dangerous fuel around, its very light, and the charge is both pretty fast and enough for basically constantly blowing a normal sized lot.
0 reasons for anyone except lawn companies to own gas. Even then, they sell bigger ones and have fancy multi-battery chargers now. Some companies even advertise as all electric and were charging the same down in Florida.
I switched all my lawn equipment over to electric over the past couple of years. The noise reduction has been great, and I don’t have to smell 2 stroke gasoline in my garage (my stupid gas trimmer would drip too!). The up-front cost is higher for the battery powered ones, but it’s worth it if you stick within one brand’s ecosystem, so that you can share batteries. It takes me about 3 batteries to mow my lawn, and 2 batteries to blow the snow out of my driveway, which isn’t a problem because I have 4 of them now. I don’t have solar panels installed yet on the house, but once I do, I’ll certainly be using them to power stuff in the garage, so that I can power my yard tools without relying on fossil fuels from any source. Electrification is great, because it makes it possible to go green on your energy inputs.
I drive forklifts for work. The electric ones are my favorites. They are quiet and much more precise. The gas ones all have a clutch. You gotta be real careful with that clutch or you can jump it while carrying a palette of 1000+ pounds. Meanwhile the electric ones are smooth as butter.
Way of the future. cough cough
We’ve had a tool for removing dirt and leaves from pathways for thousands of years. It’s called a BROOM.
NTA. they violated nap
Maybe covid is the new lead poisoning…
I unironically believe that we built yeehawd domestically in the same way that we did it to Afghanistan, and ultimately for similar reasons
we built yeehawd domestically
I have no earthly idea what this means. Although I will say I have more faith in the Taliban as people that can be reasoned with than Americans
americans and killing their neighbors over bullshit name a more iconic duo
