**AITA for Setting My Neighbor's Karen-Level HOA on Fire With 50 Floating Lanterns?**

AITA for setting my neighbor’s Karen-level HOA on fire with 50 floating lanterns?

I (26M) just moved into a “luxury” apartment complex that calls itself “The Aura” (read: it’s a beige rectangle with a yoga room nobody uses). We got a 12-page email from the HOA about “cultural decorum” and “fire safety” that was clearly written by someone who has never touched grass.

So, for the lunar new year, I bought 50 biodegradable rice-paper lanterns from Amazon (5 stars, “Very romantic, no arson charges”). I launched them from the roof at midnight with some buddies. It was chef’s kiss — floating orbs of hope and passive aggression.

Next day, HOA president Brenda (yes, really) posts a 30-minute video on Nextdoor of my lanterns gently drifting toward her unit. One apparently landed on her $2,000 patio heater and “caused a small char.” She’s demanding I pay for “emotional distress” and a new patio set. The complex is now banning “unauthorized celestial objects.”

TL;DR: Unleashed an army of paper ghosts on my HOA. Brenda is big mad. Now I’m the “Lantern Lummox” of the building.

AITA? The lanterns said “good vibes only.”