Yard Sign

[BigusDicus 9,834]

My neighbor is a "lefty" of sorts (Obama bumper stickers, gung-ho

 

Socialized medicine, "guns should be banned", etc.). So this past spring

 

I put this sign up in my yard after one of his anti-gun rants at a neighborhood

 

Cocktail party.

 

 

 

The sign wasn't up more than an hour before he called the police and wanted them to make me

 

Take down the sign. Fortunately, the officer politely informed him that it was not their job to take

 

Such action without a court order and that he had to file a complaint "downtown" first, which would

 

Be reviewed by the city attorney to see if it violated any city, county, or state ordinances, which

 

If there was a violation a court order would be sent to the offending party (me) to "remove the

 

Sign in seven days."

 

 

 

After several weeks he was informed that the sign was legal (by a quarter of an inch) and there

 

Was nothing the city could do, which obviously made him madder.

 

 

 

I tried to smooth things over by inviting him to go shooting with me and my friends at the hunt club but

 

That seemed to make him even more angry.

 

I am at a loss how to reconcile our long relationship (notice I did not say friendship), any suggestions

 

Would be welcome.

 

 

 

Anyway, that's life in our neck of the woods, how about yours?

[kaiser71 30]

Hope your bushes are not 2 inches on his property or something. For sure he can't complain about your lawn - looks like golf course turf.

[Sailfast 503]

Wow, you are certainly slow posting "your" story.

Happened so long ago and you are just getting to it?

Edited April 7, 2010 by Sailfast

[lovedog100 1,372]

So, the next time you come to Patts, he puts up a sign with an arrow that says that you are away on holiday, and won't be back for two weeks. Home depot sells a week killer that will sterilize the ground so that nothing will grow in it for a year. Using a sprinkler can, writing the "word asshole" on that pretty lawn, would piss you off as much as your sign did him.

 

Traditionally people try to make friends with other people that are likely to live next to them for years to come. It just makes life easier. Up to you.