Images 24 - starring Kiefer Sutherland

[Bob Schroeck]

it's not like the Vegan was being any less of an asshole (though I suspect whoever came up with the idea didn't expect such a large number of participants)

After seeing that meme, I went and looked up the whole story (which took place mostly in 2019).  The woman, Cilla Carden of Perth, was being seriously full-bore Karen about this -- she didn't just take her neighbors to court, she took it all the way up to the Austrialian Supreme Court and the State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia (the latter of which dismissed the case as "unreasonable" and "lacking in evidence").  She literally accused her neighbors of deliberately interrupting her backyard time by enjoying their backyard time barbecuing meat, smoking outdoors and letting their kids play basketball, all of which she insisted violated local residential laws.  And despite the Tribunal basically telling her she was off base Carden insisted (at least as of 2019) that she was going to continue the fight -- and filed a 600-page document as part of her appeal of the decision, which was denied.

The kicker?  The neighbors, who didn't want a fight with her, got rid of their BBQ, kept their kids and pets inside, turned down the level of their patio lighting, and basically gave her everything else she wanted -- and she still sued them to punish them for her oh-so-extreme personal suffering before they gave in to her demands.  She also turned her lawyer on the organizers of the big BBQ, which got canceled because of a mix of the legal threat and the fact that the logistics of the thing apparently got too unwieldy.

As far as I can tell, she fell off the radar after 2019.

And now I tell myself firmly not to hold discussions in an image thread.  <grin>