I had a guy in base housing years ago who had 2 Rottweilers that he NEVER picked up after. I'd take my dog out for a walk at night behind the carports and would inevitably step in the poop.

I confronted him a few times about it and saw that it was going nowhere so I talked to the Housing Office. They told me to work it out with the Rotty owner or they'd throw us BOTH out of housing. That just pissed me off.

So, I finally decided to pick up his dog's poop with my pooper-scooper. One pile per night. And then, when I knew no one was watching, I'd sling that poop right against his back door and run inside.

After the third time I did it, he came and confronted me. I played ignorant to the events but suggested that it might be someone fed up with him not cleaning up after his dogs. I had to do it a couple more times and then I noticed that he actually started picking up after his dog.

I guess his wife got sick of seeing and smelling dog shit across the back of her quarters - particularly across her back door.

The point is that I had tried to be reasonable. I tried to use the system to resolve the issue. Both times I failed and felt like I had been smacked for doing so. I knew I could get away with a little pay-back without anyone being able to prove (suspect yes, prove no) I had anything to do with it. And while it was disgusting and unsanitary, there was no real harm to the people or quarters - nothing that a garden hose couldn't resolve.

Mess with me and mine and I will find a way to even the score.

Stuart - threatening the HOA with a lawsuit against them and the female board member for theft and menacing (under CO law, if you feel menaced, that's all that's required to be guilty), and creating an intimidating living environment might get them to (a) get you a new light, and (b) get them to put a leash on the b!tch. Since she's a board member and they allow her to get away with such behavior they de facto endorse this behavior, or are at least complicit in it.