Two feuding Michigan men have such difficulty being neighborly that a judge had to intervene with some unorthodox tactics. For violating nuisance ordinances and disturbing the peace, which violated their probation for earlier misdeeds, the men were sentenced to spend 250 community-service hours pacing opposite stretches of sidewalk, sporting sandwich-board signs that urged people to “Love thy neighbor.”
This was after the men had served three days in jail. Troy District Judge Michael Martone said he chose the sign sentence because counseling for the two men clearly wasn’t working.
Months earlier, Judge Martone ordered a teenager to carry a “Don’t litter” sign.