Mentally Handicapped Long Island Man Arrested For Laughing Too Loudly
NY Post – There’s no pursuit of happiness for this Long Island man — local cops busted him for laughing too loudly in his own home. Robert Schiavelli, 42, was recently slapped with two “absurd” summonses because his next-door neighbor complained that he could hear his hearty guffaws from across the driveway. “I didn’t know it was a crime to laugh out a window,” said Schiavelli, who is considered disabled because he has frequent seizures and suffers from neurological impairments. Schiavelli was chortling because he says his neighbor often taunts him due to his disability — and his best defense is to laugh him off. But a detective responded to the Rockville Centre neighbor’s complaints and wrote up two tickets for “disturbing the peace” at 6 p.m. on Feb. 12 and 13. Each summons carried a $250 fine or 15 days in jail. “It’s absurd,” lawyer Andrew Campanelli said. “My client faces 30 days in jail for laughing.” Schiavelli, who lives with his mother, was charged with acting “in such a manner as to annoy, disturb, interfere with, obstruct, or be offensive to others.” “The last time I checked, it was not a crime to laugh — except in Rockville Centre,’’ Campanelli said. At Schiavelli’s arraignment yesterday, local Judge William Croutier said he “was not so inclined” to dismiss the charges. When the judge asked why police were called, Campanelli said, “My client is a bit of a gentle giant. The way he responds [to his neighbor] is to laugh.” “I will never let him take a plea on this,” a fuming Campanelli added after court. A return date hasn’t been set. The tickets stem from a years-long feud between Schiavelli and his mother, Suzanne, and next-door neighbor Daniel O’Hanian. O’Hanian regularly taunts and ridicules Schiavelli about his disability, the mother and son allege. “He tries to intimidate Robert” by calling him “a retard’’ and other names, said Suzanne, 65. After years of the alleged treatment, Suzanne said her son “has learned to laugh at him.”
Not sure what this big dumb retard doesn’t understand. You can’t just snort out your window with that fake laugh and not expect your neighbor to want you to shut the fuck up. Like how fake is that stupid laugh of his? The mere fact that he was able to just flip a switch and do the laugh for the cameras lets you know this guy was just doing it on purpose. Not like he was in his living room yucking it up at the television. He was standing in his bathroom leaning his big head out the window guffawing like an idiot on purpose. Now I’m not gonna say I’d snitch on the guy and call the police. But what are you supposed to do with the mentally handicapped neighbor whooping it up all day out his window? Its like having Lenny from Of Mice Or Men living next door just chortling all day long. Not like you can pick a fight with a guy like that. He’s huge with retard strength. Best to just call the authorities and let them deal with it.
PS – Fuckin Rockville Centre. You know any place that spells center with an “re” instead of an “er” is a bougie snobby town. “Can’t have retards laughing in our town! This is Rockville CentRE! Call the police!”

Wow. You’re asshole
Wow. You’re an asshole.
Wow. You’re retard.
Wow. You’re a retard.
Wow, Clancy put on weight.
“you see my baseball”
yea rvc cops got nothing better to do then chase kids with 12′s and arrest mentally handicapped people sounds about right. bougie? coming from the guy who brags about his shore house in jersey/hamptons
anyone else think that chortling is a word you’d find on urban dickionary?
If this guy was my neighbor I’d move…
Pres has bigger tits
Disturbing the peace is the biggest bullshit charge in the history of penal codes. It’s essentially an excuse for a cop to arrest anyone, at any time.
I am definitely on Team Retard.
What do you hardos think of “The Campaign to end ‘the R word’?”
Poor man
this guy is so fat he slurs his words sober
His neighbor is really gonna flip his wig on Sundays when the Jets start back up. This tard is gonna be bellowing for 3 straight hours.
@HarryJohnson, I’m not for ending words and I respect the 1st amendment but there are two reasons why it shouldn’t be used. One, it’s hurtful to people who have children with mental handicaps and two, it makes the person using it look and sound like an uneducated buffoon. And no, I don’t have kids with mental handicaps but I have enough respect for the people that do and the struggles they have to deal with to show them some common decency by not insulting them or their kids…
thats some heavy hitting shit there Imtough. who knew the guy would usually comments first on every blog and says the most retarded comments on here was such a humanitarian
oh and KFC, maybe Robert wouldn’t be laughing out his bathroom window on purpose if the neighbor didn’t call him a retard. idk just a though.
Retard’s position is totally believable. Some neighbor has nothing better to do than wait for the retard to come to the bathroom window to mock him.
Stop the laughing, masturbate and get the shopping carts out of the parking lot.
Fuck RVC. jesus loving church town filled with overrated bars and goon meat heads
Ohhh imtough stop it now… Take a breather… quit being such a retard