[no92]

I honestly don't get the leaf blower analogy of the article.

A bit of a side note, but leaf blowers are the stupidest invention I can think of off the top of my head. They are noisy, polluting, inefficient machines that serve no purpose other than to annoy neighbors of lazy people who feel like using a rake is beyond their physical capacity.

[nonameiguess]

They're mostly used by municipal and industrial landscapers for which it would take weeks to sweep every sidewalk in every park in the city by hand.

[manzanarama]

Let me guess, you don't do your own yard work or don't have a significant area to sweep or rake? You realize they many electric blowers, right?

[olyjohn]

Electric blowers and trimmers are super loud too.