Saturday, October 07, 2006

Love Thy Neighbor

City councilman, Mark Easton, lives in a neighborhood in Utah surrounded by mountains. He had a beautiful view of the east mountains...until a new neighbor purchased the lot below his house and built, thus obstucting Mark's view.

Apparently, the new home was 18 inches higher than the ordinances would allow, so Mark, mad about his lost view, went to the city to make sure they enforced the lower roof line ordinance. Mark and his new neighbor had some great arguments about this, as you can imagine — not great feelings. The new neighbor had to drop the roof line — no doubt at great expense.

Recently, Mark called the city and informed them that his new neighbor had installed some vents on the side of his home. Mark didn't like the look of these vents and asked the city to investigate. When they went to Mark's home to see the vent view, this is what they found...





8 comments:

Anonymous said...

one of those can't-possibly-make-this-up stories.

i can't figure out who's the bigger jerk.

jared said...

I think it's Photoshopped.

Anonymous said...

not according to snopes.

paul said...

Yea, sorry Jared. I don't get fooled by this stuff too often. I check my sources... years of being a pastor and being sent illustrations about people having their kidneys cut out and left on ice, I guess.

Laura first saw this on CNN... although, tragically, they didn't show the pictures.

paul said...

Although I suspect this really isn't a flying saucer.

Anonymous said...

what??

Anonymous said...

he's got creativity if nothing else.

I wonder what was going through the contractor's head.

Anonymous said...

i'm sure the contractor thought it was awesome...we'd have built it, for sure.