jake short used common sense to stop a runaway lawn mower, and now the HOA wants to fine him for “unscheduled landscaping.”
Oh, so a lawn tractor rolling downhill with no driver is a “safety hazard” in my neighborhood, but when I park my boat on the driveway for two weeks, that’s the end of civilization? The HOA board—those busybodies in their matching windbreakers—sent Jake Short a $200 fine for “creating an unauthorized hazard zone” after he threw a wheel chock under the runaway mower. The mower stopped, no one died, but now the board wants to hold a “special community meeting” because the act wasn’t pre-approved by the Architectural Review Committee. The guy literally saved a mailbox and a minivan. But sure, let’s argue about paint colors and grass heights while common sense gets run over faster than that mower.