A Georgia man says a city judge told him he would go to jail for overusing his leaf blower.
Kim Treaster takes great pride in his backyard paradise.
“I’m kind of one of those freak guys who likes to work in the yard and take care of a lot of things,” Treaster told Channel 2’s Mike Petchenik.
Treaster said some of his neighbors aren’t happy about him using a leaf blower several times a week.
“They started to come onto my property and told me stop blowing, stop working in your yard and it got really, really ugly,” he said.
In July, Treaster got a citation from the City of Johns Creek claiming he had violated the city’s noise nuisance ordinance.
He said he went to court and pleaded guilty after bad advice from an attorney, paid a $250 fine, and was told he could only use the blower three times a week for 30 minutes at a time.
“If we find you working out of those times we’ll put you in jail,” he said a judge told him. “I walked away going, ‘what country are we in that they could put me in jail?’"
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