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Florida man fired up after being told to keep BBQ smoke in his own yard

By Joe Ruble
July 28, 2015

A Florida man got a warning from Pinellas County recently because his barbecue smoke could be smelled off his residential property.

The county said 15 air-quality complaints have come in against Scotty Jordan, who uses a commercial barbecue smoker at his home.

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Of those complaints, all but one has come from one neighbor.

The ordinance states that "commercial barbecue cookers are not exempt from causing a nuisance odor. If a sufficient number of complaints, representing different households, are reported and an inspector witnesses the problem, they can issue a warning letter.”

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Although Jordan did not get a citation, he took a video of the encounter with county employee Joe Graham and posted it to his Facebook page.

>> Click here to watch the video. (WARNING: Graphic language)

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