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Property owner devises a plan to get back at the county after they tried to steal 3,750 square feet of his land: ‘They won’t be extending the road after all'

Property lines are sacred. Even in the frontier days when cowboys were hijacking their neighbor's land over a sack of potatoes, the two most important things about land ownership were that you had your name on the deed and that the property lines were drawn extra dark on the map. Without property lines, how would we know when our enemies have trespassed? For the dude in our next story, he learned quickly that his land was in danger of being encroached on by the one office he could trust to back him up in the case of a property line dispute: The county bureaucracy. 

After scraping together plans to start a construction project on his land, this homeowner was flabbergasted when the county presented him with an ultimatum. They would only approve his renovation plans if he gave them 3,750ft2 of his property. On a 250ft stretch of land at the edge of his property line, they needed an extra 15ft to build their new road. 

Sounds like if this happened in the 1800s we'd be witnessing a Jessie James scenario. 

Scroll for the entire story of how this modern property owner used petty revenge to have his cake and eat it too. 

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Posted by Jesse Kessenheimer
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