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Posted: 10/24/2014 1:00:34 PM EDT

Neighbors angered by home’s Solar Panels

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/10/24/neighbors-bothered-by-north-strabane-homes-large-solar-panels/

Neighbors aren’t happy about a North Strabane Township homeowner’s large installation of solar panels.

One neighbor told the Observer-Reporter that she believes there was a
mistake made in approving the solar panels, saying, "someone needs to
be held accountable.”

But township officials say there’s nothing that prohibits solar
panels on the property and that everything has been approved "in
accordance with the rules and regulations available,”

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:03:17 PM EDT

[#1]

Those would have been fine as part of the roof. They look like crap laying out in the yard.

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:03:25 PM EDT

[#2]

Neighbors need to MTOFB

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:03:27 PM EDT

[#3]

That's why I planted my house square in the middle of 100 acres.

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:03:58 PM EDT

[#4]

haters gonna hate

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:04:13 PM EDT

[#5]

Looks like a good install

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:04:15 PM EDT

[#6]

Ugly ass things but the paperwork is in order so meh.

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:05:09 PM EDT

[#7]

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So?

ETA: Plus, the roof is oriented perpendicular to how they panels need to be oriented for max sun exposure.

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:05:24 PM EDT

[#8]

More dirt solves this

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Posted: 10/24/2014 1:05:53 PM EDT

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That's why I planted my house square in the middle of 100 acres.

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Me too (only 80 acres though). Even in a "nice" area of expensive homes you will almost always have "that guy." I'm sure he's proud as hell of his idiocy. They always are.

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:06:04 PM EDT

[#10]

Are these neighbors bitching because they are assholes or are these panels reflecting solar energy into neighboring houses like that Disney theater did in Commiefornia?

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:06:24 PM EDT

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Yup.............if they don't like it, they should make an offer to buy his property!!!

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:06:47 PM EDT

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So?

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Those would have been fine as part of the roof. They look like crap laying out in the yard.

So?

Exactly what I said. His house, his taste, but it looks like crap.

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:06:53 PM EDT

[#13]

The neighbors are jealous cunts. Fuck them.

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:07:33 PM EDT

[#14]

I don't see a issue. Looks like good use of wasted space to me.

I'd hate to be the house that gets the reflection off of them though.

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:07:48 PM EDT

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I'm not sure, but I don't think that's how solar panels work. In fact, I think minimizing reflectivity would be a design goal.

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:07:59 PM EDT

[#16]

His house...

It's in the back yard for goodness sake! From what I can see, it is not visible from the front of his house. Don't like the look of the neighbor's back yard? Put up a fence!

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:08:28 PM EDT

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+1

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:08:30 PM EDT

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Those would have been fine as part of the roof. They look like crap laying out in the yard.

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looks like the roof is slanted the wrong way. Doesnt look bad IMHO - seems like it is tidy and professionally done, and not just "laying around the yard"

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:09:23 PM EDT

[#19]

I think they look dorky, but there are two positive points:

1. Keeping them clean is going to be a lot easier than a roof mount.

and

2. He has less grass to mow.

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:09:46 PM EDT

[#20]

I'm so glad the wife and I moved from a stuck up preppy suburb where everyone cares more about how their tans look and how clean their cars are instead of just enjoying life. We now live in the country where neighbors actually walk over to the chain link fence and have a conversation with you. Where everyone has a garden and many have some form of livestock and nobody minds at all! There are no zoning laws and no neighborhood associations and yet everyone gets along. Heck we even shoot fireworks in front of our houses on July 4th.

Let them use their solar panels and get a life already!!!

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:09:48 PM EDT

[#21]

Tough shit I say. I do wish my neighbors would rake their leaves though.

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:10:53 PM EDT

[#22]

hahahahahaha

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:11:18 PM EDT

[#23]

Meh. It looks fine.

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:12:39 PM EDT

[#24]

Suck it I says.

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:14:14 PM EDT

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It's in the back yard for goodness sake! From what I can see, it is not visible from the front of his house. Don't like the look of the neighbor's back yard? Put up a fence!

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What I was thinking.

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:16:26 PM EDT

[#26]

Sounds like some of his neighbors need to go join an HOA somewhere.

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:20:59 PM EDT

[#27]

Who cares? I think solar panels look cool anyways.

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:26:04 PM EDT

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Yup.............if they don't like it, they should make an offer to buy his property!!!

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Neighbors need to MTOFB

Yup.............if they don't like it, they should make an offer to buy his property!!!

This.

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:54:54 PM EDT

[#29]

North Strabane, that's just a couple miles away from where I live. I probably pass that house on my way to work and didn't notice it. I don't see a problem with the installation myself.

Roy

Posted: 10/24/2014 1:58:08 PM EDT

[#30]

Yeah, that's butt-ugly, but whatever.

Posted: 10/24/2014 2:06:28 PM EDT

[#31]

Yinzers.

Posted: 10/24/2014 2:08:03 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/24/2014 2:14:36 PM EDT

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Me too (only 80 acres though). Even in a "nice" area of expensive homes you will almost always have "that guy." I'm sure he's proud as hell of his idiocy. They always are.

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That's why I planted my house square in the middle of 100 acres.

Me too (only 80 acres though). Even in a "nice" area of expensive homes you will almost always have "that guy." I'm sure he's proud as hell of his idiocy. They always are.

Like this guy:

Posted: 10/24/2014 2:22:21 PM EDT

[#34]

A simple privacy fence would fix all the bitchin'.

A matter of fact, it'd probably fix a bunch of things. If you have a neighbor "like that", it's not the first time they've
found away to complain about something.

Posted: 10/24/2014 2:27:39 PM EDT

[#35]

His yard his rules. Not for me and I think he is an idiot doing that but again not my yard. The city approved it and he went about it the right way. Fun part of having close neighbors.

Posted: 10/24/2014 2:27:54 PM EDT

[#36]

Minding other people's business.

I just drove a liberal democrat past an apple orchard. She was decrying them having cut down the old trees. They planted a patch with saplings a few years ago to replace them with, but she knew their business better than they did. Then she saw a surveyor and wanted to know what they were surveying for. Etc.

Hey guys, it's none of your business. It should not be the governments business either. You don't own it, keep your hands off it.

Butting in to something that you don't own is theft. Using the law to get control of it is tyranny.

Mind your own business or you will find yourself the target of some other busybody.

Posted: 10/24/2014 2:29:03 PM EDT

[#37]

His property, his rules.

Posted: 10/24/2014 4:45:39 PM EDT

[#38]

Tough shit, his property his rules.

Posted: 10/24/2014 4:58:05 PM EDT

[#39]

Oh well

Posted: 10/24/2014 5:17:35 PM EDT

[#40]

Damn busy-bodies.

Posted: 10/24/2014 5:18:30 PM EDT

[#41]

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A simple privacy fence would fix all the bitchin'.

A matter of fact, it'd probably fix a bunch of things. If you have a neighbor "like that", it's not the first time they've
found away to complain about something.

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Also, this.

"Good fences make good neighbors."

Posted: 10/24/2014 5:27:58 PM EDT

[#42]

Who the fuck goes to the news about something like this? What a bunch of fags.

I remember a local story around here where someone had a wood fired boiler to heat their home and people bitched to the news about it... Really? People burn wood in the winter to keep warm, the horror!

Posted: 10/24/2014 5:33:21 PM EDT

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Neighbors angered by home’s Solar Panels

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/10/24/neighbors-bothered-by-north-strabane-homes-large-solar-panels/

Neighbors aren’t happy about a North Strabane Township homeowner’s large installation of solar panels.

One neighbor told the Observer-Reporter that she believes there was a mistake made in approving the solar panels, saying, "someone needs to be held accountable.”

But township officials say there’s nothing that prohibits solar panels on the property and that everything has been approved "in accordance with the rules and regulations available,”

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I'll bet the neighbors will be real friendly when they get a real bad power outage and run out of all the gas they stored for the generator they probably don't own.....

"But I have sleep apnea, I'll die if I don't have electricity!"

Get bent, asshole.

"I'm a diabetic and my insulin as to be refrigerated, can I leave them in your fridge until the power comes back?"

Nah, maybe you should go talk to the city about it and see what they'll do for you.

God, I'm a vindictive prick in my little mind sometimes.....