Truce?
The headline says: Truce declared in peace wreath battle.
DENVER, Colorado (AP) — A subdivision has withdrawn its threat of $25 daily fines against a homeowner who put a Christmas wreath shaped like a peace sign on the front of her home.
Homeowner Lisa Jensen told The Associated Press on Monday that the board of directors of the Loma Linda Homeowners Association had apologized, called the incident a misunderstanding and had withdrawn its request for the wreath’s removal.
The Homeowners Association went for the Emily Litella defense, when it became obvious that Ms. Jensen was getting a lot of offers of assistance, including some from people with letters like Esq. LLB, LLD, and JD after their name.
There has been a mini blogswarm on the story, so it wasn’t going to disappear, and, apparently, the board was getting calls.
Technically, we wouldn’t call this a truce in the military, we would call it “run away!”
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Homeowner to association board: “Ye shall know the ‘truce,’ and the ‘truce’ shall make you flee!”
Steve: Oy. And I say that only because I didn’t think of it first.
They fled before the *fleecing* could commence! *snark*
Never a truce — more like a strategic retreat.
I’m glad they saw sense. Better be sensible than be taken to the cleaners!
I know that someone finally figured out that this was going to court if they didn’t back off, but they apparently didn’t want to admit they had caved in, just in case Ms. Jensen decided to go to court anyway.
Those fired committee members should count themselves lucky.
And move.
Small towns never forgive or forget, and these things have all of the problems and none of the solutions of small towns.