'You're on thin ice': Small town council complains about resident's dandelions and garden, so resident gets farm animals to 'mow the lawn'

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Eleonora Bader
Nov 27, 2023 6:00 PM EST

When you live in a small town, word gets around, and if you have beef with the city council, you had better giddy up for a long ride… of malicious compliance. One woman took on her HOA (that wasn't really an HOA, but more of a city council of sorts, as they were a small town) when they came with multiple complaints on different occasions about her property.

The issue this woman had was not with their complaints, but rather with the fact that they did not bug any other of the neighborhood residents with these petty offenses. So, she felt singled out, and rightfully so. And so began the malicious compliance… She found a way to get around the rules, or straight out break them, even going as far as to bring animals to 'mow her lawn'. To find out what the rest of her plan entailed, scroll down.

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    My fil WILL learn the meaning of malicious compliance! ...by observing me dodging every single complaint from my small towns code.
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    I moved to a small town(LCT: Townvilledaleburgh) in the midsouth USA from a small city in the midwest late in HS, Fell for the boy next door, and settled in for the longhaul the SECOND he gave me the time of day. But im still an "outsider" really.
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    my FIL (LCT: Phil) had been the elected mayor for some years (i think like 7-8) there were some bridges burned towards the end of his final run because he didnt have anything to lose by saying some things. Some were better deeds then those that led to the subject(s) STILL hating him and
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    being petty enough to take advantage of their position. My husband and I recently moved back to Townvilledaleburgh into the older house his parents had built on their property when they had moved to their newly finshed home.
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    So we are living in their house on their property but we do have seperate houses on opposite ends of 15 acres. Those 15 acres....part in and part out of city limits...Me and SO had moved into the home within city limits which we knew. But we hadnt been made aware that Phil had beef with the town
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    code enforcer. I dont think they were ready for my chaos. I wont tell all the little things they tried but this was the begining of these petty attempts to mess with me in order to mess with Phil. Didn't take too long to for them to show they were going to reprimand us for every small
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    infraction even when no one else was bothered for their similarly trivial offenses. Our first spring they started with our dandelions this wasnt a code violation but a warning that we were on thin ice I guess. Keep in mind this isnt a HOA just a small
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    town left its goodoldboys to well, be boys. But they were being Karens AND singling this property out AND for something in about. I like Dandelions and it did effect anyone. : Well, Ive been a pro at weaponzing my competence since birth im told. Because the
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    property is still in parents names they got the town's correspondence as well as us. But I told Phil I'd take care of it. I don't think he believed in me at all... My nieces were over all spring break while their parents worked. I gave them a quarter for every dandelions they wished on during
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    our walks all around town, the public parks and such. Kiddos had a blast and made some dough. I did not spray or "weed' my lawn but everyones was a mess after a few weeks. So they couldnt really say anything to me since it was now the least weedy.
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    Second story since that one was a lot of exposition. Late that summer we had 10 day vacation in which the lawn grew and then we came back during a huge stormy full week of rain. So the fenced in yard had about 3 weeks to run wild. clutches
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    pearls The grass was therefore overgrown, and therefore the Town Council sent me essentially "Mow your lawn or else!" letters but it was too high and too wet to mow easily with my push mower. I could have paid someone or borrowed a neighbors rider but I
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    wanted my petty revenge of doing it in the most annoying and disruptive way. Cue me calling up a few friends asking "Kara can I borrow a goat?" "Ash dont you have a few chickens?" "Hey there Matt can I borrow a sheep or two for this
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    petty bs please? ...Pony?" Yes; I had a friend of a friend who loved like this. (seriously we bonded and when his now exwife got caught cheating I DID pretend to be his new age inapropriate gf) Who dropped off a teensy miniature horse as the piece de
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    resistance of my lawn mowing team after having a trailer pull up and unload 4 other species into my yard one by one for a few hours. The decent neighbors were excited/interested or rolled their eyes at my rediculousness...but I
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    knew id have Karens watching and complaining and the town would jump in the chance. A representative of Townvilledaleburgh delivered a door handle hanger thingy the following morning.
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    Basically "farm animals are not allowed to be owned in town as per ordinance 4.20- 66.669...blahblah" (This was the first time I bothered to look up the code so I could use it against them. It wouldnt be the last.) hmmm nice try. but Im just borrowing them anyway. It would
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    have been great to see the look on their faces when they found out there petty revenge to my petty revenge hadnt worked. Good ol' Phil (or GolPh if you will) was finally impressed by my creativity and "pationately
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    unhinged follow thru". There are more stories where this came from so let me know if I should recount more examples from the last 7ish years. We've had some interesting run ins and spans of months of back and forth childish poking at eachother. It been a
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    great new hobby tbh i dont have a whole lot of drama in my life. TLDR: my fil, Golph, was worried we would suffer for his misdeeds but is now enjoying watching me as I gleefully jump through all the
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    hoops vengeful town counsil demands. ---Town complains I have too many dandelions; I use labour to spead the seeds throughout the town and make every yard worse by comparison. - --Town demands the lawn mowed; I comply, just not with a lawn mower. They were mad about my
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    creative and over the top solution but there wasnt anything they could do. 57 people here 113 Comments
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    GrumpyCatStevens 16 hr. ago "You're not allowed to own livestock on this property!" "No problem. I don't own any of these animals." 516 Reply Share
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