grown men behaving childishly

[KG]

http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/2003/12/19/Hillsborough/Neighbors__feud_keeps.shtml

Neighbors' feud keeps holiday lights shut off
A popular Christmas display hasn't gone up this year. The homeowner blames a disagreement with a neighbor.
By JAY CRIDLIN, Times Staff Writer
Published December 19, 2003

RUSKIN - Santa Claus is under lock and key.
Mary and Joseph are wedged into a storage shed.
Six rolls of Christmas lights are buried under boxes of giant plastic candy canes.
In fact, for the first time in years, Don Bourdon's Apollo Beach yard is virtually decoration-free this Christmas. Only one light illuminates the yard - a 500-watt halogen aimed at a giant, hand-painted, plywood sign:

"There will be no Xmas decorations this year do to the SCROOGE at 6510 Abaco Dr. who thinks he owns my waterfront. I'M SORRY!"

The sign is Bourdon's salvo in a two-year feud with next-door neighbor Gary Santti, over a dock in Bourdon's backyard waterfront.

It's also his response to Apollo Beach residents who wonder why Bourdon, a three-time winner of the Apollo Beach Chamber of Commerce's Best Decorated House award, hasn't hung a single strand of his 70,000 Christmas lights.

"The whole neighborhood is talking about the sign," said Janice Leverette, who also lives on Abaco Drive. "I've seen people come by going real slow to look at the lights, and they're not there."

Bourdon hopes his front yard will put residents on his side.

For a year and a half, he and Santti have butted heads over a $10,000 boat lift that Bourdon had hoped to install on his dock. MORE>>>


kinda reminds me of the candidate squabbles in GD2004 :)

[prolesunited]

1. Shocked I tell you!

Shocked! Who'd a thunk grown men could behave childishly. :hi:

[KG]

2. ya, what's wit' them guys anyway?

:)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. They must be Freepers. We DUers would NEVER stoop

to such childishness, would we?

[eileen_d]

4. "grown men behaving childishly"

Yes, I am attracted to them. Ugh!