Pwned

Utah city councilman Mark Easton, had a beautiful view of the east mountains until Darren Wood bought an adjacent plot of land and began construction on a new home. Easton first called upon city officials to order Wood perform a $3,000 soil test, which delayed construction by four months.

The councilman called city officials again to intervene once the new house was framed, this time because he believed Wood's house exceeded the maximum height allowed by local building code. Wood conceded that his house might have exceeded the height limit by about a foot, but maintained that once the house was completed and the landscaping laid out, the home would fall within the code, and, in any case, the city had already approved his plans. He was required to spend an additional $22,000 to change the height of the roof.

A year later he installed the "decorative vent" you see here.

Wood described it as a piece of "abstract art" representing a cactus.