As pickleball fever swept the nation, patience with the game’s obnoxious, unceasing sounds quickly wore thin. Communities soon found themselves in open rebellion against the craze, doing everything in their power to ban the sport so they could reclaim some semblance of peace in their neighborhoods. One California city might become the first in the nation’s most populous state to outright ban the sport.

The obscenely wealthy town of Carmel-by-the-Sea is on track to become the first city in California to permanently ban pickleball, according to SFGate.

The war on pickleball is being fought in a spot that sounds like it could be the name of an actual war battle, Forest Hill Park, home to Carmel’s only pickleball court. Residents say the sport’s signature pop-pop-pop ricochets through window

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