Owners of a B.C. townhome caused a nuisance when they used the speaker feature on their doorbell camera to yell “profanity and insults” at their neighbours, the province’s civil resolution tribunal has ruled.
Hon Wing Chan and Hung Angela Cheung were disputing $900 in by-law fines for violating a bylaw against unreasonable noise, according to a decision in the case posted online Friday. In B.C. the common assets of condos and townhouse complexes are owned by a strata corporation and managed by a strata council, which sets out bylaws…
“…if you’re engaging in that type of conduct, you can’t be too surprised that eventually somebody is going to say ‘enough is enough, you can’t be doing this’.”
“…having it be late at night, insulting other people, using profanity, those are types of things that we all recognize as unreasonable conduct that seemingly in this case, didn’t have any particular motivation…”
