Posted on 12/06/2006 8:10:32 PM PST by IMTOFT
The dispute between the neighbors started seven years ago, but no one can say precisely when it spiraled out of control.
The families have blamed their counterparts on the other side of the pine-studded property line for everything from near-miss car accidents to being followed while on errands and videotaped while doing yard work. Profanities and obscene gestures have been exchanged, as have a plethora of lawsuits and criminal complaints, requiring more than 100 visits to the street by Howard County police.
And, of course, there are the lawn chairs. Once arrayed like white plastic sentries on the border between the Cerny and Elliott family homes on Swift Current Way, a cul-de-sac in Columbia's Village of River Hill, the chairs have become a flash point of their own.
The Elliotts view the chairs, placed 30 feet from their front door in the far corner of the Cernys' property, as a provocation. One judge hearing a dispute between the families referred to the line of chairs as a monument to the neighbors' "evergreen animosity."
Tomorrow, the combatants return to court in their 13th criminal case. Timothy Cerny, 47, faces a second-degree assault charge for allegedly spitting on David Elliott, 47, during an April screaming match that Elliott caught on videotape, according to court records.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
I had to post this, complete ridiculousness, these people have more money than brains, tact, and personal respect...what a complete waste of taxpayer and law enforcement time and dollars...
"3,352-square-foot homes "
More money than brains?
Sounds like the plot of a lame Chevy Chase movie.
"Love the tagline"
Stole it from a bumper sticker.
Put 'em in a locked room, come back 24 hours later. Some form of settlement should be reached...
We have neighbors like that. They recently got caught poisoning the neighborhood pets. Both neighbors ... a married couple are .... prison guards The DA DROPPED the felony charges against them even though multiple witnesses including my wife and I heard them ADMIT to the crime to the ANIMAL CONTROL officer
Cheers!
Your tax money at work.
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