SMOKING RULE: ludicrous and dangerous.

Did you know smoking on the roof tops of the Coral Point condo located at 1400 NE 54th Street in Fort Lauderdale, FL 33334 is absolutely forbidden? We are not kidding and if you are not aware then you have not read the very precise, very descriptive, very authoritarian, and very ridiculous if you ask us, "SMOKING RULE" announcement posted on the information board on top of the mailboxes.

For reference, and a good laugh, please find it below:

Smoking rule notice: overblown, pretentious and laughable.

We don't know about you but we particularly enjoy the thorough description of what constitutes smoking in the second paragraph. It's priceless :) And which one of you goes have a smoke on the roof tops?!? You guys at Coral Point Condo Fort Lauderdale are really out of control!

Seriously now. While we acknowledge the inconvenience of [some not all] smokers leaving cigarettes butts behind them, we find this total prohibition of smoking on all common grounds excessive, abusive and potentially dangerous (more on that later.) Anyway have you seen many cigarette butts on the grounds? Maybe a couple by the pool but really not that many ... Tell us in the comments, maybe we have been blind. As for the idea that people smoking outside may cause "secondhand smoke to drift into indoor common areas, exclusive use areas or individual units" c'mon are you freaking kidding? Whoever wrote this needs to get a life. Tip: if one day someone smokes outside your window, causing smoke to drift in and bother you, well guess what, you go outside and nicely ask that person to please go finish that cigarette a little further. What have we become in the US? Is a country where systematic regulation predominating over human interaction a place where you want to live?

So what do we have? Some cigarette butts. An overblown risk of drifting smoke causing secondhand smoking? Does this justify total prohibition? Again voice your opinion down in the comments. Isn't it a bit excessive, like getting a flamethrower to kill a fly?

Now to finish with our tirade, we see a potential danger to prohibiting smokers to go outside their door, on the parking lot, at the pool or even on the roof tops (LOL). Actually we see two dangers.

1) talking about secondhand smoking, we believe this excessive rule will have for consequence for some of us in the building to suffer more than ever from secondhand smoking. Surely there is a smoker in this building who has kids, a spouse, even pets. Whoever wrote this ludicrous SMOKING RULE, have you thought of them? Have you thought of the fact that by preventing their dad, mum, spouse or friend to go outside for having a cigarette you are exposing them to a LOT of secondhand smoking?! No you have not, probably because you were too busy masturbating over the oh-so-precise and pseudo legal wording of your announcement.

2) now for real danger, what about the building going off in flames, destroying our properties, killing some if not all of us, only because someone will fall asleep laying in bed with his cigarette lighted or drop it in a garbage can full of papers ... Let's face it, smokers can't help but getting their dose of nicotine as much as fascists can't help writing rules and regulations. They will smoke no matter what. And we don't know about you but we would much rather see people being encouraged to smoke outside instead of inside the unit under or above us. Makes sense or are we being over dramatic here? Shit happens and this SMOKING RULE is just a magnet for accidents waiting to happen,

Therefore we think this SMOKING RULE should be revoked or at the very least heavily revised. If you ask us we feel smoking should be prohibited around the pool area period. And also on the roof tops if it makes condo nazi happy - sorry we can't get over it :)

What do you think?