It's never a good idea to get into a battle of pettiness with a millionaire, but that's exactly where British man John Turner has found himself.
He's currently in a feud with his neighbor, former police and crime commissioner Stephen Bett who erected a essentially a wall of hay bales on his property, which backs up to Bett's backyard, resulting in a complete loss of view.
John is the full-time caretaker of his mother Maxine Turner. John says his mother "looking out on the horses on the meadow was a real pleasure for her," but she can't do that anymore. "But now all she can see is this wall made of straw," says Bett.
Apparently, Bett installed the hay bales after he first planted 95 leylandii trees, which are commonly used on property edges, but they were torn down by an unknown person at night.
And this isn't the first time Bett replaced those trees with hay bales, but after the first attempt they were knocked down, by Josh Turner, because they interrupted his mother's view.
Still, Turner maintains his innocence in the destruction of Bett's trees.
He says, "I am one of the youngest people around here — but I didn't do it," and he firmly believes Bett placed the bales right up against their property in an act of spite.
Turner says, "Until now the bales always used to be somewhere else on his land. He has only placed the bales outside my mother's home and not any of the other neighbors' houses because he wanted to upset us."
According to the New York Post, the trees grew to a height of about 10 feet before 95 of them were hacked down by the mystery attacker on July 2.
Norfolk police probed criminal damage to the trees but said all lines of inquiry were "exhausted."
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