'Enjoy the bunnypocalypse': HOA demands 9-year-old get rid of her pet rabbit, cue neighborhood-wide malicious compliance

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
May 27, 2023 5:00 PM EDT

I bet this HOA jerk was hopping mad over the "bunnypocalypse" he caused! 

Home Owner's Associations are meant to keep neighborhoods looking orderly and neat, but for some reason, the members seems to feel entitled to make crazy demands. One of those great examples is this "HOA a-hole," as u/shuckaladon called them in their post to r/pettyrevenge. This HOA person interrupted a neighborhood with his demand that a child get rid of her pet bunny. Why? All because the rabbit was a "non domesticated pet." He even threatened to fine the family of the 9-year-old if she didn't comply! The levels of entitlement here are off the charts. 

Scroll down to read the whole story — the OP dropped by to answer questions and comments. They write that the rabbits still roam the neighborhood, and enjoy sleeping on warm gravel. Good for you, rabbits! 

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    Rabbit - 'HOA a-hole... smirked, and told his [neighbor's] daughter to "tell Buggs bye bye"
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    Font - r/pettyrevenge. Posted by u/shuckaladon 18 hours ago Force me to get rid of my pet bunny? Enjoy the bunnypocalypse. This was actually my neighbor's revenge. When I was 9, a new neighbor moved in across the street. They had a 9 yo girl who had 2 pet bunnies. I became fast friends with the new neighbor and several of the neighborhood kids would regularly come by her house to play with the bunnies.
    via u/shuckaladon
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    Font - For 2 years, everything was fine. No one had issues and we all lived happily in our white picket fence neighborhood. Enter HOA a-hole.
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    Font - Now HOA a-hole lived on the other side of new neighbors. Our HOA was fairly reasonable (don't paint your house neon pink, cut your grass, otherwise you're safe). But HOA a-hole was high ranking on the board and had a tendency to nitpick about stupid things.
    via u/shuckaladon
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    Font - After 2 years, HOA a-hole had gotten bored and decided it was a problem that new neighbors had bunnies. Why? Because deep in our HOA bylaws, it states that you cannot have any non domesticated pets. Bunnies - even though theirs had never been left outside or hurt any of the kids - were considered non domesticated. HOA a-hole made a stink to the board and insisted that something be done immediately. HOA sends a letter that the bunnies get gone ASAP or fines would start accumulating. New ne
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    Font - What HOA a-hole didn't know is that new neighbors were only a few weeks away from moving back across the country to be closer to family. They'd done a private sale on the house, no signage outside, and most people didn't even know.
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    Font - New neighbor could've just ignored the letter and he would've been gone before the fees could hit. But no, that would be too easy. What did he do instead? He drove to a friend's property in a rural area of town, captured 4 wild bunnies, and set them loose in the neighborhood the day before he moved. And boy did those bunnies do what bunnies do. And where did they do it? In HOA a-hole's backyard, where he and his wife had spent years creating a bushy, flowery oasis.
    via u/shuckaladon
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    Font - Within a month or two the bunny population doubled. A few more and it tripled. Within a few months, our neighborhood was overrun. For the most part they were harmless, stayed out of the way, and added a homey feel to our yards. For HOA a-hole, it was havoc on his beautiful yard and he spent months petitioning that the HOA eradicate them to no avail.
    via u/shuckaladon
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    Font - 20 years later and the neighborhood is still a bunny hideaway. HOA a-hole still lives there and has long given up on protecting his beautiful backyard from the bunnies. All because he wouldn't leave a 9 yo girl's pet bunnies alone.
    via u/shuckaladon
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    Font - Majestic Internet_53 16 hr. ago Let HOA a hole know that rabbits have been domesticated since the fifth century.
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    Font - OnTheSeason Finale. 17 hr. ago Anyone else wanna see pics of this bunny hideaway neighborhood? Sounds adorably idyllic 42 Reply Share shuckaladon OP. 11 hr. ago Lol next time I visit home I'll try to snag some pictures. On cold mornings they all congregate in the middle of the street on the warm asphalt. If you try to drive through you have to honk and go 1 MPH while you part the bunny sea!
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    Font - More-Jacket-9034 +2. 16 hr. ago You'd have to be a special kind of AH to be that vindictive towards a little girl and her adorable bunnies. I would probably meander past his house, as often as possible, repeatedly playing Bugs Bunny sound bites. IE: "Eh, what's up doc". "I can do anything you can do, only better!". "Don't take life too seriously".
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    Product - TinFoildeer 17 hr. ago +1. Bet he was hopping mad!
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    Font - SeattleTrash Panda 15 hr. ago I'm no longer in an HOA I'm out on a hobby farm in the suburbs but we have a giant heard of bunnies in the area. These rabbits would be impossible to eradicate. They will be here long after humans are gone. 6 Reply Share shuckaladon OP. 11 hr. ago Yep! The rest of the neighbors just happily accepted our fate. Our dog used to sun in the backyard with a few of the bunnies.
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    Font - pktrin 15 hr. ago . I'd like to see someone capture wild bunnies. 6 Reply Share PaulBradley +1. 7 hr. ago You trap them you don't chase them. 44 Reply Share shuckaladon OP. 11 hr. ago I remember asking my dad when I was a few years older how the neighbor even managed to get them. My dad told me he'd asked him and our neighbor just laughed and winked. Still never got the answer lol
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    Product - GreyAzazel 17 hr. ago +2. I'm hopping with delight for this story. It's perfect!
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