Academic

More Evidence That Christopher Fairman?s Thesis Was Correct

By Ann Bartow

From The Consumerist:

Fed up with a change in flight patterns that made them sleep in bed at night with earplugs, one Philly couple decided to paint “FUCK YOU FAA. NO FLY ZONE” and a symbol for “no planes” on the top of their roof. Note: in real life, it says “fuck” but the newspaper photoshopped it to just say “FU.” Homeowner Michael Hall said they had tried to lodge complaints with the FAA noise-complaint hotline over 20 times, but whenever they called, an answering machines would apologize for not being able to take their message as the mailbox was full.

To learn more about Fairman’s scholarship on this issue go here or here.

–Ann Bartow

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on January 24, 2008 (boomark / email).