SUDBURY, Ontario, April 13 (UPI) -- A Canadian judge has ordered a Sudbury, Ontario, man to end his "shocking" 30-year feud with elderly neighbors and pay them $57,000.
Lucien Desjardins, 78, and his 74-year-old wife have lived beside Ahti and Maija Blick since 1968, although the feud didn't erupt until 1978 when the Desjardins built a garage that the Blicks claimed encroached on their property, The Globe and Mail reported.
Ontario Superior Court Judge Paul Kane heard a litany of things Ahto Blick did in efforts to have the garage removed. They included digging a trench and flooding the foundation of the garage, which began to lean, the report said. Then, boards with protruding spikes were found buried beside the garage. A spare tire on the Dejardins' motor home was slashed and containers of used oil were found beside their well opening.
"Citizens of this country are not required to accept neighbors embedding injurious traps on their property, nor should they require guards of their home during temporary absences," the judge wrote. "The above actions of Mr. Blick are unacceptable and shocking to two 70-year-old neighbors -- and to this court."
