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dsc

(52,166 posts)
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 10:27 AM Jul 2020

So remember the St. Louis couple with the guns

you must read this. They are real pieces of work.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/portland-place-couple-who-confronted-protesters-have-a-long-history-of-not-backing-down/article_281d9989-373e-53c3-abcb-ecd0225dd287.html

Mark McCloskey has run off trustees trying to make repairs to the wall surrounding his property, insisting that he and his wife own it. In 2013, he destroyed bee hives placed just outside of the mansion’s northern wall by the neighboring Jewish Central Reform Congregation and left a note saying he did it, and if the mess wasn’t cleaned up quickly he would seek a restraining order and attorneys fees. The congregation had planned to harvest the honey and pick apples from trees on its property for Rosh Hashanah.

“The children were crying in school,” Rabbi Susan Talve said. “It was part of our curriculum.”

Moreover, the McCloskeys have constantly sought to force their neighborhood trustees to maintain the exclusivity of Portland Place, accusing them of selectively enforcing the written rules for living in the neighborhood, known as the trust agreement.

They filed a lawsuit in St. Louis circuit court to try to force the trustees to enforce the neighborhood rules as written. The McCloskeys dismissed the claim, but the judge would not let them refile an amended version because it “failed to allege a justiciable controversy.”

The McCloskeys appealed all the way to the state Supreme Court to try to make the judge allow them to refile their case, but the effort failed.

One of the rules prohibited unmarried people from living together. Several neighbors said it was because the McCloskeys didn’t want gay couples living on the block. The trustees voted to impeach Patricia McCloskey as a trustee in 1992 when she fought an effort to change the trust indenture, accusing her of being anti-gay.

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EX500rider

(10,849 posts)
6. At least the husband kept his finger off the trigger and didn't point it at anybody...
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 11:06 AM
Jul 2020

...his wife on the other hand did both and should face some charges and have her pistol taken away.

yonder

(9,669 posts)
17. She's holding that pistol like a spray bottle.
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 01:27 PM
Jul 2020

Both of them could use firearm safety training.

Muzzle sweep much?

Grokenstein

(5,727 posts)
18. Self-defense!
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 01:29 PM
Jul 2020

After all, she repeatedly pointed her pistol at his head with her finger on the trigger. Had either one of them twitched at the right moment, it might have brightened up that entire neighborhood.

yardwork

(61,698 posts)
20. She stumbled at one point while aiming the pistol, too.
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 04:08 PM
Jul 2020

In some photos, what appear to be glasses of wine are visible. Who takes their drinks out on the porch when they're afraid for their lives?!

yardwork

(61,698 posts)
19. My guess is that they're so brutal and litigious, people are afraid of them.
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 04:06 PM
Jul 2020

It makes me very angry.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,818 posts)
8. These people are the ultimate "Karen."
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 11:24 AM
Jul 2020

I wonder what it's like to be in conflict with someone all the time. I'd find it exhausting and depressing but I guess these assholes think it's fun.

 

rusty fender

(3,428 posts)
16. Excellent!
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 01:16 PM
Jul 2020

Someone on Twitter called them this and I literally laughed out loud. But Clod is the perfect descriptor

Takket

(21,611 posts)
14. i got about halfway through and just couldn't go on.....
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 12:58 PM
Jul 2020

besides what i think of these people.......... i just goes to show how fucked up the court systems are in this country......... these people have lead an existence just like drumpf....... if you have money from mom and dad to start with you can just sue your way through life and people who cannot afford lawyers can really do nothing but just give in to you. we really need some way of leveling the playing field.........

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