When Will They Ever Learn Dept., Installment No. 2653...

Woman vows to keep her security shutters
Homeowners association says 70-year-old has to play by rules

By Jen Lawson
LAS VEGAS SUN

After burglars ravaged Mae Roy's southeast Las Vegas home several years ago, she saved up her money to get security shutters installed over her back sliding glass door.


But her homeowners association is insisting that Roy remove the shutters immediately, despite a new law making it illegal for associations to keep residents from installing the shutters.


The impasse has resulted in controversy at Sunrise Villas IV, a quiet, 62-unit community near Desert Inn Road and the Pecos-McLeod Interconnect.


"I will not take them down until they take me with them," the 70-year-old Roy vowed.


Lacey Casagrande, president of the homeowners association, said: "We certainly don't want her not to feel safe. ... (But) these are the rules and if you don't abide by them, there are consequences."


Read the whole thing and you'll see I'm not making this up. Thanks to Monica Caruso for passing this story along.

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