Good fences make good … well, maybe in poems, but not in real life, when one of the neighbors spray-paints that fence in an ongoing, and to my mind a somewhat exaggerated response to … um, I’m not particularly sure.<\/p>\n
I think the lady (who looks good \u2212suspiciously good\u00a0\u2212 for 82) is pissed off because, she claims, her next-door neighbors have encroached upon her property line. By maybe a couple of feet. But then again maybe not.<\/p>\n
Her neighbors are a young family with two kids. Oh, and the father is the “newly appointed chief of the Public Corruption Unit in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office.”<\/p>\n
The besieged wife is quoted in this Daily News piece: “We have a beautiful home and we would enjoy it a lot more if she weren’t making our lives hell…She takes pictures of us whenever we come outside…She gets on a ladder (and) yells, ‘Bastards! Bastards!'”<\/p>\n
Dare I say that the lady sounds maybe not so compos mentis<\/em>? May the gods keep me from acting like this when I’m 82. (But may the gods help me look that good.)<\/p>\n Do please read the whole article below, with the entertaining hard copy headline\u00a0Paint It Wack: Graffiti gal, 82: Stay off my land!<\/strong>, and when you get to the last paragraphs, see if you can count the number of lawsuits this woman has engendered. I didn’t have enough fingers.<\/p>\n EXCLUSIVE: 82-year-old woman fighting charges after arrest for spray-painting fence in property dispute with neighbor – NY Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good fences make good … well, maybe in poems, but not in real life, when one of the neighbors spray-paints that fence in an ongoing, and to my mind a somewhat exaggerated response to … um, I’m not particularly sure. … Continue reading