Not In My Backyard

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62671364212455323042011-07-31T23:31:51.247+12:00Not In My Backyard - RotoruaAiming to reduce neighbour abuse in beautiful Rotorua New ZealandNimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-31940233520341347872010-02-24T07:21:00.000+13:002010-02-24T07:23:20.023+13:00Money doesn't just talk, it dictates

When you are trying to bring about beneficial changes in society, it helps to be aware of the major role money investments play in all aspects of society. You might be thinking only of making the quality of life better for yourself and others, but for any change you want, there are financial winners and losers involved who will have strong interests in what you want to achieve. Businesses and

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-23891905845040215882010-01-10T11:07:00.002+13:002010-01-10T11:10:43.971+13:00Frugal Living

>>It’s good for the planet>>It saves you money>>It deters burglars.If a burglar looks in your window and only sees an old computer with a chunky monitor, a collection of old lounge chairs, none matching, a small TV, and a dinosaur of a fridge, they will be thinking there isn’t much to steal in your place..Poor people, of course, can achieve this look without any special effort, however you can do

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-15047602960353908012009-12-20T09:24:00.001+13:002009-12-20T09:45:56.176+13:00Christmas gift suggestions

For the person who needs more enemies:>> A barking dog – and if it barks at night, it will add double, triple, or even more enemies than a dog which only barks during the day>> A skill saw – make enemies while pursuing your hobby woodworking projects>> A drum kit – guaranteed to turn your neighbours into enemies at the mere sight of it>> A stereo with jack hammer quality bass-boomer and room

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-33746746072864524452009-12-09T06:39:00.001+13:002009-12-09T06:42:11.932+13:00Kennel fried dog

Summer's here, and I can tellCaged dogs are frying, by the smellIt's not so much like barbequeMore like heated doggy doo

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-33218838491135318062009-10-25T07:01:00.001+13:002009-10-25T07:03:55.113+13:00Moving in to a new neighbourhood

So you’re moving into your new home, full of hopes and dreams about your life in this new neighbourhood. You’d really like to get on well with the neighbours, and hope they are going to like you too. So you begin by smiling in a friendly way whenever you see them. So far, so good.However, from our observations, you also need to be very cautious. If some of your new neighbours are living a

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-20016610545026142632009-10-18T11:36:00.000+13:002009-10-18T11:38:50.510+13:00Everywhere a woof woof

Here is a little social maths sum for you to do.You live within hearing range of 20 dogs. Five of these dogs you only hear barking occasionally, not every day. Ten of them each bark for half an hour a day, none at the same time. Three bark for three hours each day, none at the same time. Two more bark off and on all night.How many hours of barking do you hear each twenty four hours?How angry/

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-7515809571662496352009-10-04T09:40:00.000+13:002009-10-04T09:42:24.805+13:00Retaliation

Retaliation – Don’t go there..It is so, so tempting, isn’t it, at 6.30 am in the morning, when the noisy party finished at 4 am, to point your own speakers at the offending party house, and play a rousing rendition of the 1812 overture, or even to give them a wake up call of several hours practice on badly played bagpipes. So, so tempting.Well, don’t. Do not go there! Yes we know you so badly

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-43051680280431448042009-09-27T10:26:00.000+13:002009-09-27T10:27:24.369+13:00Look at me – I’m an idiot

A party on wheels is coming round the corner, you can hear it long before you can see it, with its noisy exhaust and ridiculously loud stereo. Would you believe that often all this noise is intended to make you look. - "Look at my neat car! All this noise is so you don’t miss out on seeing what a wonderful car I have!".All we see is an idiot breaking the road rules, and putting all the occupants

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-13705431921925989592009-09-12T09:34:00.000+12:002009-09-12T09:37:33.169+12:00B.A.S – Below Auntie’s Standards

Kia ora AuntieIt was good to hear all is well with you. We’re fine, the twins are growing up fast, I swear Hone grows as you watch him, and Hannah is turning into a beautiful young lady as you can see in the photos. Of course, I’m prejudiced!!!Thanks for the photos of your holiday in Paris – I can see you’ve been there, done that, and eaten at all the best restaurants! I wish we could have come

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-33104949933372930372009-09-05T09:35:00.002+12:002009-09-05T09:40:03.645+12:00Chained dogs a danger to children

In Rotorua there are many dogs kept some of the time, or all of the time, tied on a chain. This cruel practice is not only bad for the poor dog, but makes the chained dog so territorial that it becomes dangerous, especially to toddlers and small children; a child wandering within the limits of the chain is in great danger of being injured or even killed. In America, between October 2003 and

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-65529345928315350462009-08-29T09:41:00.001+12:002009-08-29T09:44:24.289+12:00Be brave or be a slave

Some streets in Rotorua have regressed to medieval times. There is the Lord of the Street, and then there are the serfs.Lord of the Street: “I am the only important person around here, and I want to have fun every Friday night by having a big party with heaps of booze, heaps of drugs, heaps of sex, and loud music all night long.”Serfs: “But my Lord, your fun isn’t fun for us. We want to sleep on

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-63327913297717192212009-08-22T07:48:00.002+12:002009-08-22T07:54:27.556+12:00Rotorua needs heroes and heroines

“If you want peace, you’ll have to fight for it”.“Huh?”.“’Fraid so. You’ve got all these rights, see, mountains of them! Heaps of people feel like you do, so many of them that we have laws and bylaws giving you legal rights against all sorts of neighbour abuse, but some of your neighbours just aren’t respecting them. So if you want your right to the quiet enjoyment of your own home, for example,

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-69791045286784395602009-08-15T11:09:00.001+12:002009-08-15T11:15:44.893+12:00How strange is this?

The rebellious, antisocial people among us demonstrate their need to be noticed in many ways. “Look at my tags everywhere – I’m the guy who can’t spell ‘disaster’ or ‘chaos’, or ‘havoc’”. “Look at me – don’t you love my noisy exhaust” “Look at me – entertaining the whole street with my stereo and doing a silly little dance as well” “Look at me – my big macho dog is taking me for a walk” “Look at

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-32942684472888083912009-08-08T11:49:00.002+12:002009-08-08T11:52:31.016+12:00Things your abusive neighbours may not know

>>Sound doesn’t stop at their boundary>>Smells do not stop at their boundary>>Garages are not soundproof>>Garages are for keeping cars in, not for skill sawing, panel beating or band practice>>Dogs are living beings, not just house alarms you have to feed>>Their deck is not a pub.>>They are not living in the middle of a ten acre block, but on a quarter acre section surrounded by other homes>>

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-11873049848969889122009-08-01T10:53:00.000+12:002009-08-01T10:55:50.328+12:00What to expect from an abusive person

While some people responsible for neighbour abuse are just being thoughtless, most are actually abusive people. Typically, abusive people try to protect themselves from being stopped from doing what they want to do or from being punished for abusive behaviours by:.> Isolating their victim> Intimidating their victim> Framing their victim as ‘the real trouble maker’.If you wish to take action

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-38070909378505552232009-07-24T06:57:00.002+12:002009-07-24T07:01:46.854+12:00Say it with flowers

Say ‘KEEP OUT’ with flowersDo you have a fence line where incoming excessive noise is not a problem (lucky you!), but incoming intruders are a problem (oh, sorry, not so lucky)You could grow roses along that fence line. They will look pretty, and yet their thorns will be a kind of living barbed wire, helping to keep intruders out. They cost less to feed than a guard dog, never annoy the

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-68104345145983348422009-07-18T09:29:00.000+12:002009-07-18T09:38:05.221+12:00The power of gossip

Rotorua is a hotbed of gossip. But no one gossips about you, right? Wrong! Of course people gossip about you. If you sneeze in Ngongotaha, they know about it half an hour later in Owhata! Okay, so that’s a bit exaggerated. Let’s say you drive into your own mailbox on your way to work, they’ll know about that all over town by lunchtime.The point is that your life is the subject of discussion and

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-48567489664851605372009-07-16T07:02:00.000+12:002009-07-16T07:04:41.889+12:00The bigger picture

What is the good of having a nice house without a decent planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-26634427947300138772009-07-09T07:03:00.000+12:002009-07-09T07:05:40.212+12:00Wilful damage or future planning?

We have noticed that many of the teenagers in Rotorua seem to be very determined to expose their ears to such excessively loud music that it is truly deafening. Perhaps they are not as crazy as they might seem. Perhaps they are being smart, and deliberately making themselves deaf in order to cope in a world which is full of unpleasantly loud noises. People who have excellent hearing find it very

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-80629581800652578732009-05-28T10:04:00.002+12:002009-05-28T10:07:45.761+12:00Guard dog? - or Neighbour Abuse?

A guard dog should only bark at intruders - not at neighbours going about their lawful activities on their own property.

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-72487064052674347092009-05-16T08:27:00.003+12:002009-05-16T08:32:57.082+12:00Frugal Living

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-21516090598558158642009-05-10T07:08:00.001+12:002009-05-10T07:13:55.501+12:00Beyond the reach of the law

The influences that really make and mar human happiness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and goodwill into their relations.Walter Rauschenbusch

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-7703235308635839752009-05-02T11:51:00.003+12:002009-05-02T12:04:46.415+12:00Annoying noise survey

The National Foundation for the Deaf has conducted a survey on the noises Kiwis find the most annoying, and, guess what, boy racers' loud exhausts and dog barking are the two most annoying noises, with neighbour's loud music taking fifth place..The NFD have published an article which also cites the danger to our health from excessive noise, and the need for more governmental controls to protect

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-72211517963217619862009-04-12T06:24:00.002+12:002009-04-12T06:29:55.992+12:00So you bought me as your guard dog did you?

So you bought me as your guard dog did you?So why are you keeping me a prisoner in your back garden?? Huh?? Huh?? I’m almost freezing to death out here by the way. Did you see that white stuff around me all night long?? It’s called frost and, man, its cold!! Don’t expect me to live a long healthy life in these conditions.So anyway, imprisoned out here, what could I do if a burglar sneaks in your

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-2129542215980385912009-04-04T11:00:00.001+13:002009-04-04T11:03:03.584+13:00The greatness of a nation

"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress may be judged by the way its animals are treated."Gandhi.

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-52212609735917233982009-03-28T09:29:00.005+13:002009-03-28T11:32:42.119+13:00Dogs in jail

Woof woof, what have I done? Woof Woof, why do I have to stay here all day and all night long? Woof Woof, why can’t I be with you? I love you so much. Woof Woof, why do you only come to see me once a day, only when you feed me? Woof Woof, why do you shout ‘shut up’ at me, whenever I try to tell you how unhappy I am? Woof Woof, why do you hit me instead of being kind to me? Woof woof, why can’t I

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-50722953202805702902009-03-19T11:08:00.002+13:002009-03-19T11:11:54.693+13:00Toot his own horn

'A man has the right to toot his own horn to his heart's content, so long as he stays in his own home, keeps the windows closed and does not make himself obnoxious to his neighbours.'.Tiorio.

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-51430666548184407762009-02-10T07:05:00.002+13:002009-02-10T07:11:24.406+13:00You are not alone

When you are shut in your home, trying to settle your children in bed while the dog next door continuously barks, or trying to go to sleep yourself while there is a party in the next house, close to your bedroom window, you can feel very isolated in your distress and misery. However you are not alone in your distress. There are other neighbours all around suffering as you are from the same

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-877570686961826632009-02-08T08:39:00.002+13:002009-02-08T08:43:51.989+13:00Ragamuffin Concert 2009 Rotorua

The decent people of Rotorua who live within hearing distance of the International Stadium suffered 12 hours of severe neighbour abuse yesterday in the form of excessive noise from the Ragamuffin Concert. It is hard to believe that in a civilised society, such excessive noise is not only allowed by the authorities, but was actually planned and executed by the organisers of this concert. We are,

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-79560248223862375242009-01-26T07:06:00.003+13:002009-04-12T06:33:13.631+12:00Keeping your dog safe

Worried asked “A burglar wouldn’t really dope my dog would he?” (See our post ‘Things your abusive neighbour might not know’)Many years ago, one of our team members was told by a criminal, that if a burglar really wants to get into your house, they don’t care about your guard dog. They will just throw it a piece of meat loaf laced with drugs, and come back in ten minutes when your dog is knocked

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-61914854332175423622009-01-19T06:46:00.007+13:002009-07-03T15:42:14.541+12:00Spot the troublemaker

'Spot', the dog, has no life. He spends most of his days and nights tied up on a short chain in his owner’s garden. There’s not much interest to be found in looking at a lawn and a hedge, and no exercise possible on a short chain, so 'Spot' is bored and miserable. He tells the whole world he is unhappy by whining and barking for hours at a time. The neighbour next door is miserable too, because

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-10390331016010567232009-01-09T08:25:00.001+13:002009-01-09T08:40:15.409+13:00Recovering from the silly season

We are still in the process of recovering from an overdose of OP’s:-Other people’s noisy partiesOther people’s smelly barbequesOther people’s bad drivingOther people’s bonfiresOther people’s fireworksOther people’s distressed dogsOther people’s grumpy hangoversEven though we would prefer to have had a pleasant, peaceful holiday season, living our own lives instead of being dragged into other

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-42764348993108727582008-12-24T08:10:00.000+13:002008-12-24T08:12:20.424+13:00Season’s greetings

Tēnā koutou katoaNgā mihi mō te KirihimeteNgā mihi o te Tau Hou

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-26722366256670158172008-12-18T07:19:00.004+13:002008-12-18T07:34:22.722+13:00A Sense of Belonging

Hello Nimby, I live in the perfect neighbourhood but I do help out in a neighbourhood where there is a lack of respect between the people in the street. This is a sad indictment of our Rotorua Society but hardly an unusual scenario in Aotearoa NZ. My opinion is that it is lack of personal commitment to a neighbourhood that is the root cause. 'Just Renting' people say. I strongly believe that we

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-77630588713950266272008-12-16T20:44:00.001+13:002008-12-16T20:49:37.033+13:00Be brave or be a slave

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-77932375814134410422008-12-05T09:49:00.000+13:002008-12-05T09:51:12.516+13:00If we live good lives

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times. Saint Augustine

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-79270563164483392042008-12-03T08:51:00.000+13:002008-12-03T08:52:11.270+13:00I can’t sleep

Small child: “Mummy, mummy I can’t go to sleep.”Mother: “Why not, what’s wrong?”Small child: “There aren’t any dogs barking”

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-59946489002079924822008-12-03T08:49:00.000+13:002008-12-03T08:50:27.598+13:00Text to party

Party houses in Rotorua beware. The text to party menace has reached Rotorua. It goes like this. You decide to have a closed party, but nevertheless someone gatecrashes, then texts all their mates, who zone in on your party at great speed, like flies to a barbeque, and before you know it you’ve got something resembling a riot on your hands with great potential for damage to property and people,

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-7152757847576872322008-12-03T08:45:00.001+13:002008-12-07T07:16:27.030+13:00Anonymous: To be – or not to be

Often on the TV news you will see people being interviewed who ‘prefer not to be identified’. Their reasons are very obvious. They expect they will be subjected to intimidation and threats if they reveal their identity. This is sensible self protection, and a time when everyone understands it is okay to be anonymous. Our team at Nimby Rotorua has decided unanimously to remain anonymous for the

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-27778986705931660492008-11-23T09:22:00.000+13:002008-11-23T09:26:45.207+13:00Connecting with your decent neighbours

If you have an abusive neighbour, you will feel besieged in your own home, and wonder whether others around feel the same. However you may find it difficult to connect with them. Who, you wonder, is it safe to talk to about your problems with your abusive neighbour. Rotorua is such a small closeknit community, that if you complain about one neighbour to another, it might turn out that they are

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-63576282846545496102008-11-23T08:59:00.005+13:002008-11-23T09:21:21.798+13:00Things your abusive neighbours may not know

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-79574933700692872072008-11-21T08:30:00.000+13:002008-11-21T08:32:56.299+13:00Chronic barking = cruel owner

All around us, dogs are kept in cruel conditions, mostly tied up on chains, some in small cages. These are the dogs who create a noise pollution health hazard for their neighbours by chronically barking, sometimes for hours on end, either day or night. We are not surprised they bark. We understand that they are protesting at the misery of their lives when they are so cruelly treated. What we

Nimby Rotoruahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993654152927631353noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6267136421245532304.post-12368588492757249972008-10-25T10:09:00.000+13:002008-10-25T10:12:38.855+13:00Introduction

We live in a small city called Rotorua. It is built in the crater of a volcano, as we can see from the picturesque ring of hills around it. The local council works very hard at keeping Rotorua beautiful, and mostly they succeed, and all the residents are happy.“No they’re not!”“What do you mean?”“They’re not all happy”“Most residents are happy?”“No, most of them are not happy. A small minority

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