That is the best damn story ever.....if I were your neighbor I would have helped you decorate the holes in your drive way with things like....plastic pink flamingos or an old toilet used as a planter....
it would have been fun......
The problem is, with no HOA around here, you wind up with washing machines in various states of disrepair on front lawn display. HOA’s (with a good charter) are like governments; if you don’t like them, vote them out; many can be recalled on very short notice.
Nonetheless, I hope the board of the HOA is aware (or is made acutely aware) that there is no more evil, cunning, and vicious enemy than a “bad” neighbor - bad defined here as “someone who really has developed a genuine dislike for you”. Fortunately, this has never happened to me but I have heard horror stories with situations so bad that people have had to move.
I would have a severe dislike for someone who approved of this action, and I can’t believe that I would be alone.
May Neighbor painted them construction orange for me, that orange was so bright, I think the space shuttle could see it.