The HOA Banned Children's Chalk And Then Discovered The Local Newspaper
76% BELIEVED
CASE FILE #340
FILED: Apr 16, 2026
CLASSIFICATION: Entitled People Stories
WITNESS ON RECORD: allme
JURY OF 224 READERS HEARD THIS CASE: 171 believed it, 24 had doubts, 29 weren't buying it.
The chalk was a hopscotch. Nine squares. Drawn by a six-year-old called Priya who lives at number 30 and who is, by any measure, the best thing about our street.
The complaint was filed by a man whose name everybody in this story knows and whom I will call R.
Rule 14(c) prohibits "temporary surface markings" on shared paths. It was written to stop a man in 2011 who kept spray-painting arrows to his garage.
R turned up at seven on a Saturday with a pressure washer.
He washed off the hopscotch. He also, and I am not exaggerating for effect, washed the front three feet of the path outside number 30 so thoroughly that it is now a different colour from the rest of the path, which means his enforcement is more permanent than the violation was.
Priya cried. Her father came out. There was a conversation that I could hear from my kitchen, and I want to record that Priya's father was extraordinarily calm, and that R was not.
Then R sent the family a notice of violation and a bill for the pressure washing.
The complaint was filed by a man whose name everybody in this story knows and whom I will call R.
Rule 14(c) prohibits "temporary surface markings" on shared paths. It was written to stop a man in 2011 who kept spray-painting arrows to his garage.
R turned up at seven on a Saturday with a pressure washer.
He washed off the hopscotch. He also, and I am not exaggerating for effect, washed the front three feet of the path outside number 30 so thoroughly that it is now a different colour from the rest of the path, which means his enforcement is more permanent than the violation was.
Priya cried. Her father came out. There was a conversation that I could hear from my kitchen, and I want to record that Priya's father was extraordinarily calm, and that R was not.
Then R sent the family a notice of violation and a bill for the pressure washing.
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Votes on record: 171 believed · 24 unsure · 29 didn't · 76% of readers believe this story