BATON ROUGE, LA – Residents of a local subdivision confirmed this week that an ongoing Facebook argument regarding the acceptable height of a backyard privacy fence has officially entered its fourth generation of family involvement.
The dispute reportedly began in 1947 when one resident questioned whether a neighbor’s newly installed fence exceeded the HOA’s maximum height requirement by “at least half an inch.” Since the invention of the internet and the rise in the popularity of social media, the argument has evolved into a sprawling online conflict involving cousins, retired grandparents, adult children home from college, and one uncle living in Gonzales who “just likes stirring things up.”
The subdivision Facebook page has since become dominated by blurry zoomed-in fence photos, screenshots of HOA bylaws from different decades, and residents repeatedly threatening legal action while misunderstanding basic property law.
Several neighbors admitted they no longer know whose fence started the argument but remain actively involved “on principle.”
HOA officials attempted to calm tensions last week by creating a special Fence Review Committee, which immediately spawned a second argument that has resulted in at least 3 posts that include “meet me at waffle house to settle it.”
