A man has been left outraged after his neighbour installed a 9ft 'privacy fence' between their gardens and put a camera on top of it.
He explained how his neighbour originally built their fence 2ft in to his garden in 2020 - and was ordered to move it after he paid for a boundary survey.
Annoyed, the neighbour got 'revenge' by not only moving the 7ft fence 2ft back but also making it 2ft higher on their side. Taking to Reddit, the Texan man said: "I've been having problems with this neighbour since they moved in years ago.
"They originally built their fence 2ft into my property. I decided to build a privacy fence and be done with them once and for all. But one month later, they raised the height of their fence and a [camera] pops up facing front to back.
"The police won't do anything and I can't afford a civil suit."
To get his own back, the man has started "flipping off" the camera each and every time he enters his garden - but this only caused him more problems.
"I spend every second possible flipping it off. He's [my neighbour] even gotten a cop to contact me telling me to stop being childish.
"Every police officer I've spoken with has told me it's a 'public facing camera'? They have yet to explain to me what that means."
While most users urged him to save up for an attorney, others slammed the neighbour for being so "rude" and "entitled".
One user said: "Can't you take legal action about this? That's so creepy! Why would they have the camera face your yard - that's basically stalking."
Another user added: "Just remember it's not illegal to be or have naked overweight hairy ugly people in your own back yard."
A third user said: "People are so weird... I would get one of those inflatable wavy guys and put it out there so it just sets off their alerts all day. And I'd back it up with a spot light pointed directly at the camera."
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