laura (08/16/82)
I have a friend who is a real estate agent who sells farms and other large tracts of land. Recently she sold a 200 acre farm to a man who wanted to raise horses and start up a riding academy. Since he wished to be within minutes of Toronto, she sold him a farm near the Toronto Airport which he was quite pleased with. In no way whatsoever did she hide the fact that there were 747's passing overhead -- indeed she told him of the miraculous technology within clear view of his new home! After he purchased the farm his horses began to lose condition. This was not overly surprising; horses are weird things and a long move might cause them to temporarily lose condition. The horrible thing is that the man is now sueing my friend for selling him a farm where *the noise levels* are bothering his horses so much that they are losing condition! This is *wrong*, as many people who raise horses can tell you. It is perfectly possible for an individual horse to be particularily bothered by the noise and not adapt to it, but generations of horses which graze calmly in field which contain a heavily used train line bear witness to the fact that noise is not a characteristic irritant to horses. Lets hope the judge knows something about horses if this one goes to court. laura creighton decvax!utzoo!laura