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A woman picked her car up from a wheel alignment and drove home with a three-foot ball python wedged in the front grille. Animal control declined on the grounds that it only handles domesticated animals, so police took the bumper off.
Fined for a small garden fence, a homeowner read the rulebook carefully and then filled his yard with everything the rules did not happen to forbid. The HOA got exactly the letter of its own bylaws.
Pelham, Alabama, is writing $100 tickets to Walker Road residents whose vehicles hang over the sidewalk at the end of their own driveways, and the city says it cannot grant variances. One resident measured 194 inches of parking space against a 243-inch pickup, so compliance appears to require a shorter truck.
He holds a permanent lifetime ban from every Walmart in the country, which is why $1,900 in electronics also came with a trespassing charge. Police put his running total across stores somewhere north of $100,000.
A Boca Raton HOA is being sued for defamation by a resident it used to govern. The association's choice of words has become a matter of damages.
Edmond's parking ordinance carried the same loophole for 72 years before the council got around to closing it. Somewhere a very patient resident is taking this personally.
After a three-year fight, a San Antonio homeowner won more than $32,000 from her HOA — and $12,500 of that came personally from the board president for interfering with her rental contract. Both have since paid.
Five consecutive generations of one Iowa family were all born on the same calendar day. The odds are long enough that the cake arrangements are now permanent.
A driver declined to stop for the traffic stop, then declined to speed up, producing what the department is billing as possibly the slowest PIT maneuver in its history. The original offense was ignoring a traffic-control device.
A magazine borrowed from a New Hampshire library came back 132 years late. Nobody appears eager to calculate the fine.
A 22-year-old was applying stick deodorant while taking a curve on the Polk Parkway and finished the maneuver parked on top of a concrete barrier wall. Troopers were careful to specify that the deodorant was a stick, not a spray.
A coyote wedged itself into the gap between two buildings in a Pittsburgh alley and could not reverse out. Crews had to open up the wall to get it loose.