00:00All right, speaking of bad neighbors, this one's a weird one.
00:09It's out of Ohio.
00:10An Ohio couple is suing their neighbors over their smelly backyard pizza oven.
00:16Look out, Lisa.
00:17What?
00:18Yeah.
00:19Get rid of these.
00:20Smelly?
00:21Like, what?
00:21The wood smell?
00:22They must not.
00:23What's the problem?
00:24Do they not clean it out?
00:26Do you have to clean it out?
00:27You do have to clean it out.
00:28Let's let the story explain itself here from WJW-TV in Cleveland Heights.
00:33This involves a dispute over a pizza oven.
00:36The old saying goes, don't take the law into your own hands, take them to court.
00:40And that's exactly what residents in a quiet Cleveland Heights neighborhood are doing.
00:45Brooks and Mika Jones are suing their neighbors, Mary Lynn Newsome and Paul Shams.
00:50According to their lawsuit in May 2017, Paul Shams built a commercial-sized wood-fired pizza oven
00:57behind a home on Grandview Avenue that he shares with Mary Lynn Newsome.
01:02The plaintiffs live on the second floor of an apartment building that they own two doors down from the pizza oven.
01:08And since 2017, they maintain the oven has been a consistent nuisance.
01:13The smoke and gases travel to their property and into their apartment, causing them physical discomfort.
01:20Brooks and Mika Jones are seeking at least $25,000 in damages, an injunctive relief to prevent Paul Shams and Mary Lynn Newsome from using the pizza oven.
01:30To be a lawyer in Ohio, you have to, the first sort of cases you study are pizza oven cases.
01:37You know, the thing is, I'm surprised there isn't already like five to ten different actual...
01:43Right, as we look back at the case of Williams versus Jenkins.
01:46Yeah, there's a hundred of those.
01:48Okay, so you have nothing this size, but you have an outdoor pizza oven thing.
01:52Can you see how the fumes could be that bad for a neighbor?
01:56No, I mean, I have a lot of distance, so...
01:59But, okay, say people were closer to you.
02:01It smells like a fireplace.
02:02So if you have a wood-foot-burning fireplace, and you smell, and I think all of my neighbors enjoy the smell.
02:08It's not something, it's not getting on their clothes or their pets.
02:12But if it's going right into your, where you live, I guess that's different.
02:15It's kind of a pain.
02:17It just seems nuts.
02:19I have to get rid of my outdoor pizza oven because of you, Effers?
02:21I'd be sitting with them back.
02:22They'd be like, you should be paying me for the delicious smells of pizza.
02:25I mean, I would be pretty, I'd be pretty angry, though, on certain days.
02:30Just give them pizza.
02:31Yeah, you guys don't have the freedom to share.
02:32We want to eat a couple of pizzas.
02:34Close your windows, we'll give you pizzas.
02:35Maybe that, maybe that's it.
02:37That's maybe the deal I'd strike.
02:39And honestly, we have neighbors across the street, we never smell it, really.
02:41But they have an outdoor pizza oven, and they'll just drop off pizza sometime.
02:44It's the greatest thing in the world.
02:46Yeah, see, because they're doing, they know that they could get sued at any, at any point.
02:51Lisa's not a pizza giver.
02:53Keep it all.
02:55Yeah, she's a taker.
02:56I've seen her be a pizza taker.
02:57Yeah, yeah, she's a pizza taker.
02:59No doubt.
03:00Yeah, it could be.
03:01I just wonder how good your pizza is that you never share it.
03:04I never share it.
03:04It's really good.
03:05Sorry, you can come over.
03:06Yeah.
03:07Maybe I'll make you.
03:08Maybe I'll make you.
03:09She didn't even guarantee it.
03:10You can come over and maybe I'll make you.
03:11I don't even know where she lives.
03:12Like, you have a smoker.
03:15Smell the pizza.
03:16You have a smoker, Chuck.
03:17Could you imagine somebody telling you you can't smoke, you know, your meats?
03:20Or if you have anybody that grills or anything?
03:22Listen, I mean, I can see where, I really can see where it would be a problem.
03:28You know, because I might smoke something for 14 hours.
03:33They're lucky.
03:33I mean, I would say they're lucky, too.
03:35I would say that they're lucky, too.
03:38But at the same time, I could also be like, if I smelled it and I didn't have any smoked
03:44meats, I could be very upset.
03:47I could.
03:48You could suck on it, then.
03:48Get your own smoked meats.
03:49I know.
03:50I mean, I kind of see where Chuck's going with that, because, like, Al just made some oatmeal
03:53in here.
03:53See, and you're ready to kill him, aren't you?
03:55I want to taste some of that cinnamon roll.
03:59Oatmeal or smoked meat?
04:00Yeah, I'm going with smoked meat.
04:03But, yeah, like, it is funny.
04:05I mean, I think the issue becomes when my next-door neighbor moves in and decides that
04:13meat is murder, and then all bets are off after that.
04:19Yeah, but you're outside, and you're allowed to do that.
04:21I know, but.
04:22That's your property, and if you want to smoke meat, you can smoke meat.
04:25But someone's suing you.
04:27If I was Lisa's neighbor, I'd sue her for not sharing the money.
04:30Yeah, exactly.
04:32Order!
04:32Order!
04:33I feel like she never shares her pizza.
04:35I smell it once a week, every week.
04:37I want $25,000.
04:39She's claimed it's delicious.
04:42Her and Dave both gave a, if you haven't had a smoked pizza, then you don't even know.
04:48I didn't even know these things existed.
04:50Wood fire.
04:51If you don't even have a wood fire pizza, then you don't even know.
04:54Whoa!
04:56Order!
04:57Order!
04:57Order!
04:57Sue!
04:58Sue!
04:58Sir, you're suing for how much again?
05:00$25,000.
05:01Is that for emotional distress?
05:02Class action lawsuit.
05:03I smell her pizza once a week, every week.
05:07This is ridiculous.
05:08Yep.
05:09She never shares.
05:10She never even had a taste of it.
05:11Never once.
05:11So you're suing over jealousy.
05:14You have $25,000 for the anxiety, the distress, emotional distress.
05:21What if she starts giving you pizza?
05:24Can we reach an agreement there?
05:26Well, then we can talk.
05:27Okay.
05:27All right.
05:28Maybe we can settle out of court.
05:29Maybe we'll settle out of court.
05:31But until then, I want $25,000.
05:33$25,000.
05:34He'll get it.
05:35I will.
05:36Can you imagine, though, one of your neighbors complains, Lisa, you have to deal with that?
05:39That would suck.
05:40Oh, I would be so furious.
05:41Listen, you never know who your neighbor's going to be.
05:43Yeah, you really don't.
05:44Luckily, as you say, you've got some space between you, but.
05:46Yeah, it's vented well.
05:48It doesn't, no one can, it doesn't cause any problems.
05:50If I am on a walk and I smell either barbecue or a wood-burning fire.
05:54Oh, I love that.
05:55Ah, it's the greatest, those are two of the greatest smells.
05:58I just, I can't imagine being in some kind of lawsuit.
06:02Like, you saw the people that are being sued, like, they're holding hands.
06:05And I'm just like, man, they're holding hands over pizza.
06:09Like, and they're pizza love.
06:11Like, they are.
06:12They're like, how are we going to do this?
06:14What if we have to shut it down?
06:16What if we can't ever have a fired pizza?
06:19Like, it's like, wow, like, it's really, they're on the edge.
06:25I'd have a different reaction.
06:26I'd just, I'd be so mad.
06:28Lisa would have it taken care of.
06:31I'll just say this, somewhere in my neighborhood, someone has made a complaint about my wood-fire
06:41pizza grill oven, whatever I've got.
06:43You complaining about Lisa's pizza?
06:46I think it's time to make a visit.
06:47I hear that, uh, you got some issues with Lisa's pizza.
06:52And here's the thing, you don't got any issues anymore.
06:55I think the issues are done.
06:56I think so, too.
06:58And we're going to...
06:59Do we have issues with him?
07:01No, no.
07:01Here, have some pizza.
07:04Delicious.
07:05Yep, that's what I thought.
07:06My God, that's good.
07:08It's like I'm back in Italy.
07:10I'd take that complaint back if I was you, huh?
07:13Yeah.
07:13My God, I didn't know it was this good.
07:15Yep.
07:16Here you go.
07:17Have you some pizza and shut up.
07:20Shut up.
07:21Well, I will.
07:22God.
07:22Yeah.
07:23The smoke is constant.
07:26What'd you say?
07:27The smoke is constant.
07:29It's not just pizza.
07:30How do you feel about it now?
07:35What do you think?
07:35Is it a pleasant smell?
07:37But they use it for chicken.
07:39They use it for...
07:39How about now?
07:44It's not just pizza.
07:45I bet it's a better smell now.
07:47It smells great.
07:48It smells great.
07:49I love it.
07:50I hope they use it tonight.
07:52That's what I thought.
07:53You leave Lisa alone.
07:55Well, I promise.
07:56I promise.
07:57I swear to God.
07:57We're going to move.
07:59We're going to move.
07:59Gives her Uncle Vinny five free pizzas.
08:01And he's on his way.
08:03No worries taken care of.
08:04You're not going to have a problem anymore, Lisa.
08:05Everything's taken care of.
08:06Lisa's a part of a different neighborhood watch.
08:08Yeah.
08:10No more worries there.
