Woman's Yard an Issue

Apparently these neighbors in Sykesville, Maryland are upset about their neighbor's choice of yard decor.

Stuffed animals and signs, some with religious slogans, cover virtually the entire yard, the house and the carport. Used-car-lot-style pennants run between trees.

Plastic reindeer. Smiley faces painted on the driveway. Lampshades tied to bushes. And, protruding from what had been the mailbox support, a bent plastic middle finger. Draped above it is a foot-long belt of rusted bullet shells.

"It is awful. That's what it is," said Jo Ann Norris, Alban's next-door neighbor at the dead-end of Taylor Park Road in Sykesville. "I honestly think she goes Dumpster collecting every day." (Baltimore Sun)

Is this some new phenomenon? Because back in my hometown this type of decorating was everywhere. Some officials, who refuse to do anything about it (according the neighbors), say that it could be art to her. Doubtful. But it very well may be what keeps her busy while she's drunk.