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Bird Brained Lawsuit.
They say that birds of a feather flock together.
That may be true, but at least a Florida judge has pooh-poohed a man's
attempt to hold his bird-friendly neighbors responsible for excessive
droppings in his yard.
After years of chasing birds out of his fruit garden and scraping
droppings off his boat, Edward Renna filed a bird brain small claims
lawsuit against his neighbors, Marian and Chuck Butler, who reportedly
feed neighborhood birds with 40 pounds of seeds each week.
Renna, a contractor, asked the judge for an injunction to prevent the
Butlers from feeding the birds. Oh, by the way, he also sought $5,000 in
damages to his fruit trees, boat and dock, as well as the mental anguish
he purportedly suffered scooping poop.
Apparently, he did not meet the "bird-en" of proof.
While Hernando County Judge Peyton Hyslop did acknowledge that the
Butlers' ample bird feedings likely contributed to Renna's poop problem,
he said Renna did not prove that the Butlers were the sole source of the
problem.
Hyslop declined to award damages and ordered each side to pay its own
court costs.
Source: Court TV, "Man sues neighbors for feeding
birds," February 13, 2004.
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