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Malicious Compliance @lemmy.world

Residential rules: Balcony cat nets are not allowed, however trellises on balcony are?

Edit: Replaced the cat tax with a still image.

So this is a tiny and very mild malicious compliance on both mine and a neighbour's part. Might be boring for not-cat-owners (or most people) to read.

Me and my neighbour have cats, and we both live in condominiums some floors above ground level. To keep our cats safe, we both had installed balcony cat nets that covered the whole of the open part of the balcony so that our cats can't fall down and get injured. When the condo's board (much like an HOA) members changed to a majority of retired older people, we got threatening notices demanding that we remove our nets as they were against the rules. The nets were apparently considered ugly eyesores and "as blights upon the community".

So we perused the rules, and discovered that the rules indeed specified that any nets spanning the balcony must have the board's permission (which they would not grant), and we're sadly not allowed to glaz