NEWS: The Best Way to Piss off Nagging Neighbors

Dude is my new hero.
If only I could go back in time to my youth when my father ordered me to go mow grass on Saturdays.

This guy is the fucking shit.

Yeah, what an amazing guy for making his neighborhood look like a dump. Maybe he should park some rusty broken down cars on his lawn too, that'll show them how rebellious he is.

I love that for that Omaha TV station linked, this is literally the daily Big Story.

Hahahaha, NICE!

Very, very, very sweet

Or it'll show them to keep their noses out of other people's business. Mowed expletives don't really make the neighborhood a dump, either, dumps imply a total lack of effort and mowing words ain't easy.

I had a neighbor once who never mowed his lawn, parked broken-down cars in his yard, and had a broken section of fence that to my knowledge he still hasn't fixed after 10 years.

I think mowing "Fuck You" into his yard would have been refreshing. At least then I would have known he was still alive in his house.

You may say, that I ain't free.. but it don't worry me..

"the daily Big Story"

genius

I wish I had a lawn

heh, i never knew i could love a guy so much

nice one

Preacher did it better.

if he really wanted to piss them off he should have mowed it in the neighbors yard who complained

Have you ever been in Nebraska? I grew up there, and let me assure you it's a vast wasteland of overgrown grass and rusty broken-down cars (hell, stack them on top of each other and they'll call it a monument). He was probably just trying to fit in with the rest of the state.

[Edited on Sep 16, 2005 6:31AM]

Sid, you rock.

Anything, ANYTHING to make fat minivan moms feel uncomfortable gets an A in my book.

I wish the Daily Show would go down and interview these people....

Unfortunately, it's their business as well. Someone with a shitty yard can drag down the housing prices for the entire neighborhood. It becomes an eye sore to all who visit the area. Just like when you drive through a shitty ghetto part of town and see crumbling sidewalks, broken windows, and abandoned ransacked cars all over the place.

I'm honestly surprised that the city is the one doing this rather than the neighborhood. The neighborhood here in the burbs where I grew up had a neighborhood charter with several restrictions about what you could and couldn't have in your yard and so forth. For example, we weren't allowed to fence in our front yard.

On the other hand, D.C. is a lot meaner about the grass. If you let it grow too tall, not only will they ticket you, but they'll send a county work crew out to mow your lawn and then charge you for the work.

hahah.... fuck em... fuck em all, I would have done the same thing. There's this guy that lives in my parent's neighborhood who put up a full size flag pole embedded in concrete. the H.A. asked him to remove it because it was tacky... ol' dude (who is a WWII veteran) said "fuck you... you want my flagpole gone, you come and remove it your damn self... and I'll be waiting for you."

the flagpole is still there 4 years later

That's preposterous!


[Edited on Sep 16, 2005 by Cash]

No...it's clearly not any of their business since there are laws covering the issue. If they want to draw up a neighborhood charter, they should do it. If they want the law to change so that he has to keep it neater, they should work to change it. Nagging someone is only a good way of getting things done if you're that person's mother; in other cases, like this one, it only servers to make the situation worse. It really wasn't any of their business, and if their property values degrade now, they can blame themselves. Slightly unkempt lawns do not drive property values down, but I'll bet the words fuck you do... If only because it will be obvious that there are some pushy jerks living in the neighborhood. Having lived next to assholes like these before, I am right with this guy.