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If it's OK to shine lights at a building, is it OK to spread smoke towards it?

• abstractbeliefs 10y ago
  From the TFA: "The traditional common-law view was that property injury caused by such things as light, gas, sound, smoke, odors, or vibrations might constitute an actionable nuisance under the right circumstances, but could not support a cause of action in trespass."
  • manarth 10y ago
    Unless the smoke was causing damage: > “a trespass may also occur when intangible matter, such as particles emanating from a manufacturing plant, cause actual and/or substantial damage to the [property].”
    • hughperkins 10y ago
      I dont know about "substantial" but ultra-violet does technically cause damage. You can see this in posters left in particularly sunny shop windows for extended periods of time.
      • ominous 10y ago
        Sir, the gamma rays were set free inside my property. The children happen to have placed themselves in their path, 5 km away.
        • qbrass 10y ago
          It's irresponsible gamma ray owners like you that give all rays a bad name.