[Poohbah]

The $30k did not mean they owned the lake. It meant the fence came down.

Wrong. He explicitly offered to sell the lake to the homeowners for $30K apiece.

[Cultural Jihad]

We should generally favor and encourage innovation, risk-taking, entrepreneurship, and self-sufficiency, but consider how the general welfare is realized when the vast majority sense that justice generally prevails. If the majority strongly believe that something is very wrong, won't a sanction be placed upon it in one form or another?