C wrote in :

http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/4512146/detail.html

1. Years ago, we had a CBer in the neighborhood that had plywood shutters
over all the first floor windows, with tiny tank style openings to see
from. It is believed that this individual was a habitual jammer on CB. He
was even astute enough to bring the coax out of the second floor wall,
thereby reducing the likelihood that anyone would "pin" or cut the wire.

2. Eyesores, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Whether the people are
lunatics or not, what they do on their property is their concern. I don't
hold to the theory of regulating how another person's property looks.
Increasingly, zoning has gone from control of significant differences in
real-estate to anal control over the permissible length of a blade of
grass or whether or not an Amateur Radio Operator can install an antenna.

We have a lunatic Nazi enforcer of borough laws next door. When we moved
into this house (my wife's house from childhood), the lady next door, the
Borough Council vice president, proceeded to tell me that I should cut
down this tree and that tree and all the trees on the property.
(therefore she would not need to rake leaves). I didn't listen. Another
time she was obsessed with the small roll of cable that I left below my
Direct TV antenna. It was not bothering anyone but her. My son bought a
car to fix up, and it was not licensed. When my wife and I went away for
the weekend, my son called us to tell us that the police had driven up
onto our property and ticketed the car as abandoned. It was on our
property. The idiot next door believed that this would rid the
neighborhood of the car, but my wife out maneuvered her. We had the car
licensed with Classic car plates and obtained insurance for it. So there
it remained, in the same spot, still an eyesore to her, but a legal
eyesore.

If it isn't dangerous, (e.g. rat infested or poses a safety problem to
others), I say leave them alone. A rose is a rose by any other name. My
lunatic neighbor has fine looking property, but she is a nut case that
makes living here difficult at times. Others are not so pristine, yet
much easier to live with. The lunatic neighboors in the link above will
still be lunatics when the steel panels are removed. Is it fair to allow
someone else to move into the neighborhood under false pretenses?


Dr. Artaud