My wife and I walked around that neighborhood, park and beach a year ago and will again next weekend. The houses loom over the park--more so than it looks in the photos--and I had admired the house and wondered why the vegetation looked odd. Mainers are already leery of all the games wealthy out-of-staters play when they spend time here, but this one was particularly egregious. But for a paltry $1.6M they got the view they wanted, so in the end, I'd say they won.
Architects Behaving Badly: Poisoned Tree Edition
Arthur Bond II (or his wife?) allegedly poisoned a neighbor’s trees to improve the view:
https://www.nenc.news/2024-06-19/poisoned-trees-gave-a-wealthy-couple-a-killer-view-and-united-residents-in-outrage
House of poison!
This is where a good ass whoopin' would be appropriate.
My wife and I walked around that neighborhood, park and beach a year ago and will again next weekend. The houses loom over the park--more so than it looks in the photos--and I had admired the house and wondered why the vegetation looked odd. Mainers are already leery of all the games wealthy out-of-staters play when they spend time here, but this one was particularly egregious. But for a paltry $1.6M they got the view they wanted, so in the end, I'd say they won.
Here it happened a decade ago, although the perpetrator was never found https://www.aspendailynews.com...
Thank goodness their actions harmed someone perhaps even richer and more powerful than them so that something could be done!
Kidding aside. One day trees will grow from their graves and the evil they have done will be forgotten.
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