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"I have called the nuissance control out of Frankfort, and they suggested just maybe shooting a couple of birds and leaving them," said Larry Baldock, City Code Enforcement Officer.
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"I have called the nuissance control out of Frankfort, and they suggested just maybe shooting a couple of birds and leaving them," said Larry Baldock, City Code Enforcement Officer.
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“There are better ways of affecting change and creating awareness without creating public nuissance and without the threat of violence.”
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There are better ways of affecting change and creating awareness without creating public nuissance and without the threat of violence.
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I just spent a great deal of the last 2 days bouncing around shelters and friend's couches and floors ... homelessness is not something that one should EVER dismiss as a nuissance just because you don't get it.
Homeless Group Says It Will Protest Salmon Bake « PubliCola 2010
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The purpose: take away money from, or limt the rights of, an un-protected minority that engages in an activity that the majority finds to be a nuissance.
Matthew Yglesias » LA Contemplates Further Smoking Restrictions 2009
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I always thought that sticks were more of a nuissance until I actually tried them myself.
Shooting Sticks 2008
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In general I think drunk people in their 20s (like me) can be just as much as a nuissance as screaming toddlers, cell phone yelling bankers and so on.
What Day Is It Again? Oh, Right: NOT FRIDAY. | Her Bad Mother 2008
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I always thought that sticks were more of a nuissance until I actually tried them myself.
Shooting Sticks 2008
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She will be increasingly viewed as just a nuissance who can't let go, which will bring even more of her one-time supporters into the rally to Obama's camp.
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