Love Thy Neighbour
This is a true story about a dispute between two neighbours living in Utah.
And please promise that you won’t look at the picture until you have read the text.
It’ll spoil the fun!
A local councillor, Mark Easton, had always enjoyed a beautiful view of the mountains, until a new neighbour purchased the land below his house and built a new home.
The new home had been built 18 inches higher than the planning department had approved, so Mark Easton, mad about his lost view, went to the local authority to make sure they enforced the roof line height.
Subsequently, at great expense to himself, the new neighbour had to lower the height of the roof.
Recently, councillor Mark Easton again contacted the planning department to inform them that his new neighbour had now installed some new vents on the side of his property.
Mark didn’t like the look of these vents and asked the planning dept to investigate.
When the plannersvisited Mark’s home
to see what the new vents looked like,
this is what they found . . . . . . .
The Local Authority said the vents can stay since there is no planning law referring to the design of shutters!
Incidentally, although G.O.T. rather likes the new neighbour’s wicked sense of humour he doesn’t care much for Mark Easton’s white fence.
It would play havoc with the ‘peepers’ on a nice sunny day.
Great comeback and I agree about the horrid white fence. Mark Easton sounds like a prig.
Back at home, a solicitor decided ro make his own complaint to the council planning department about a proposed extension to a neighbouring property.
He heard nothing for several months and assumed the matter had been settled to his satisfaction. Imagine his surprise to see the extension being built, with planning approval.
He enquired at the council about why his e-mailed complaint was not heard. After a lengthy search, his e-mail was found in the ‘trash’ file, filtered out by the anti-spam software for using the word ” erection “.
(laughs)
Brilliant!
And I bet he found that hard to swallow!