Real Estate & Property Law

Bull Horns Have Their Place, But in the HOA or Condo?

I just did a blog on the other blogsite called "Thinking of Retaliating in Your HOA or Condo?" Here is the link to the blog at Condolawguru.com.

The story was about an incident that occurred in Iowa, and involved a man who got fed up with his neighbors, bought a bull horn, hooked it up to a compression machine of some kind (I am imagining that made it really loud), and blasted the neighbors every two seconds until he was arrested by the police for disturbing the peace. The neighbors "hippie" music had obviously driven him crazy.

That story reminds me that people are pushed into doing things they normally would not do (if they are not crazy already) trying to deal with problems involving other people. It reminded me of a story though of the nutty things people come up with to deal with disturbances, and California certainly has its share of people that are "out there".

A few years back this one came through the door: a board president out here in California wanted to rid "his" neighborhood of pests (the two legged kind), so he talked the board into setting a curfew, and then he bought a bull horn and some amplifiers, outfitted his vehicle, and got the VP to drive his pickup truck around the development while he rode in the back yelling through the amplified bull horn: "It's curfew, go home!" from curfew time on for a couple of hours each night. The other board members weren't so agast at the nightly drive throughs as much as the fact that the President presented a $3,000 bill to the association for the equipment needed to outfit his pickup truck for the nightly tirade, which included a bull horn, amplifiers, and a roll bar (so he had something to hang on to).

What do you think the board did? Approve the equipment? Or bring the President's feet "firmly back down to earth?"

Full post as published by California Condo & HOA Law on August 02, 2010 (boomark / email).