'HOA wants me to build a shorter fence? Got it!': Dude forced to uninstall 8 foot fence, maliciously complies by building shorter fence on top of brick wall

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    "He installed a new 6-foot fence that fit every single regulation, but with a 3-foot brick wall beneath it."
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    I'm piggybacking off of the HOA trend going around here. This story was relayed to me by one of my favorite professors over 5 years ago, so my apologies if the details are foggy or inaccurate.
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    My professor was a very, very private person, the sort of guy who would hesitate to tell you his favorite color if you hadn't known him long enough. He had recently had an incredibly nosy couple move in next door and realized the flimsy four foot fence he had got for the dog wouldn't keep out peeping eyes.
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    So he installed a fence. But instead of using a standard size, which he knew his neighbors would peer over, he built an 8 foot fence.
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    It wasn't even a week before HOA was on his threatening every fine they could and claiming he couldn't have a fence over 6 feet tall. So, being a dutiful citizen, he called the fence company to uninstall said fence.
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    While the fence was being taken down, he closely examined the HOA handbook on the precise definition of a fence.
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    He installed a new 6 foot fence that fit every single regulation, but with a 3 foot brick wall beneath it.
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    EDIT: A lot of people are pointing out they've seen a story like this here or on Tumblr. I acknowledge karma farming is a major thing, but I am relaying the story as I heard it.
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    I have plenty more from him, granted they don't fit in this sub. He used them to illustrate points mostly, like one about the horrendous public transport of Galveston where he literally ran through people's yards.
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    I don't know if his stories were true ― honestly I bet many of them weren't. But he was a real man. I'd share his name if I felt it was okay.
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    He served Cuban coffee during office hours. We got a random sub toward the end of the semester because he had a triple bypass that he had told none of us about.
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    Truthfully, I don't know if he's alive even, which was one of the reasons I wanted to share this. I have no way to make people believe that I am telling the truth,
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    but if you look through the comments here, several people say they've heard of or even done similar things.
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    EmbarrassedBlock1977. This reminds me of a guy I worked (as construction worker in his new house) for many years ago. He wanted a huge concrete wall next to his driveway. I'm talking about the entire length of his land-huge.
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    City planning didn't allow it. Not a chance that he was permitted to put something so large on the border of his land. He was a well-off dude and he let his lawyers loose on the matter, he really wanted that wall!
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    A month later, his wall was there with a mailbox fixed to it. All within the city planning law. It turns out that city planning stated that he could build "a mailbox on a fixed structure". They never gave precise size requirements for the fixed structure..
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    Classic_Result . They go low you go high
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    Doxendrie . HOAs are ridiculous. The fence gate here was rotting and falling off, so FIL puts in a new one. The letter from the HOA arrives: the new fence you out in wasn't approved, you can't have that. So he takes down the nice new fence and puts back the old rotting one. Much better! The HOA approves. Isn't the whole point of the HOA to keep everyone's property values up?

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