A Reddit user’s response to a neighbor’s baseless complaint about their mom’s backyard shed—which turned into a $40,000 lesson in minding one’s business—has gone viral on the online forum.
The incident was detailed in a post shared by u/Mel_Melissaa, which has garnered 58,000 upvotes and hundreds of comments since it was uploaded on April 17.
The post was titled: “Neighbor tried to get my mom fined over our shed. So I got his $40K pool filled in.”
“I live with my mom. She’s quiet, keeps to herself, never bothers anyone,” the poster wrote. “A few months ago, our new neighbor decided to report her to the city for having an ‘illegal shed’ in the backyard.”
The poster said the accusation was unfounded.
“It was total BS, the shed’s been there for …