'When they passed this rule, I was livid': HOA passes vague policy about holiday decorations, neighbor tests rules and finds loophole

Sometimes, it feels like the whole purpose of an HOA board is for them to find the little things that bring people in the neighborhood joy and then take them away just for the demented fun of it all. When it comes to holiday decorations, what is the point of enforcing bogus policies? Unless neighbors are displaying dangerous material as a part of their decorations, no one is getting hurt. And if no one is affected, then folks who are members of the HOA can learn to mind their own business!

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by u/jaxmagicman, whose HOA decided to randomly enforce that holiday decorations can only be left out for a specified amount of time. What OP came to realize was that the HOA never specified which holidays and what can be classified as decorations. So he decided to purchase red, white, and blue lights and use them as decorations for the Fourth of July. By the time the decorations were meant to be taken down, he kept them up and found obscure holidays on the Internet that he could claim the decorations were meant to celebrate in the subsequent weeks and months.

Keep scrolling below to learn how folks responded to this and how drawn out this plot actually was. For more stories about HOA drama, here's one about a homeowner's parking debacle.

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