UnionDemocrat.com - Copper man fights for home addition
Fred Pilot tracked this down. Check out how this fellow got injured, and look how his HOA is treating him.

A Copper Cove man who made Calaveras County-approved additions to his home to make it more handicap accessible may be forced to tear down the improvements if the Copper Cove and Lake Tulloch Owners' Association has its way.Ken Gutman, a 61-year-old retired hydraulic engineer and former peace officer with "a worn out hip," completed the 1,100-square-foot addition to his house just weeks before the association's lawyers told him to stop building. And now, the association board of directors has voted to impose daily fines and suspend his homeowner rights if he doesn't remove the add-on."I'm the kind of guy who obeys the rules, and if I break one I make things right," Gutman said. "But, my contractor followed the rules to the letter on this project, and I just can't believe what the association wants to do to me." Gutman took a bullet in his right hip when he worked as a Santa Cruz County sheriff's deputy in the late 1960s.