Or just out of general malice. Think about home owners' associations and the malicious busybodies in those who go around turning others in because of flagpoles, fences, etc.
In my neighborhood there are a couple of a**hole busybodies (retired) who go walk around a couple of times every week looking for things to turn people in about. Captured one of them on my surveilance camera looking in my garage. I didn't say anything, but now I know whose lawn on which to dispose of any waste oil that I might accumulate while working on my car.
Honestly, from reading your posts over the years, I’m amazed you live in a neighborhood covered by an HOA.
With tongue planted firmly in cheek, that an unreconstructed southerner would knowingly and willingly submit to the tyranny of an HOA is mind boggling.
I don’t know who you are anymore.
(obviously since I didn’t know who you were before)