patgund | I'll take "world's biggest asshole" for $500.......

There are some people that really need a good swift kick in the nuts followed by a massage with a crowbar.

Chick Edwards is one of those people.

Kennewick reservist faces threats over landscaping

"Burke Jensen moved to Kennewick about a year ago, bought a nice house in the country south of the city and began to settle into a new job at Energy Northwest.

Then came the call five months ago to serve his country in Kuwait.

So Jensen, who says he is an involuntarily mobilized reservist, headed off, leaving behind a pregnant wife, a young son and a 2.5-acre lot with not a spot of landscaping.

Now, Lt. Jensen is being told to get an irrigation system and landscaping on his property as soon as possible or face legal action from the Oak Hill Country Estates Homeowners' Association."

You would THINK, if you had the brains Goddess gave a potted fern, that Burke Jensen would have a pretty damn good excuse, right? Enter Chick Edwards, the developer and the only member of the homeowners association.

""I really don't give a [expletive] where he is or what his problem is," said Chick Edwards, owner and developer of the 47-lot subdivision at the south end of Oak Street in Kennewick.

"It doesn't matter to me," said Edwards, who insists Jensen has violated terms of the homeowners-association covenants requiring that landscaping be completed within one year after an occupancy permit is issued for a home."

(Snip)

"DeAlicante said he has written Edwards to tell him the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act prevents any civil legal action from being taken against someone on active military duty overseas. He also maintains Edwards cannot legally prevent Jensen from renting his property.

But Edwards said he isn't backing down.

"This is a contract. I don't like the way his property looks. This clown gets to do what he wants, and I'm as mad as hell," he said."

Dude, getting called up as a reservist and sent overseas is NOT "GETS TO DO WHAT HE WANTS" YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!!!!!

Thankfully, it looks like the community got pissed off by Mr. Edwards and is doing something about it:

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/340754.html
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/342029.html