How he lashed out at his HOA after being fined for exposed garbage cans

It all began when fitness influencer Scott Kramer, known on social media as @scottykfitness, got a notice from his homeowner's association about the kind of ridiculous "complaint" that only an HOA could be so petty as to muster: His garbage cans, you see, are "ugly."

As Kramer put it in a video, "Yeah. It's a trash can." The HOA insisted that he put his trash cans in his garage, but that is where Kramer keeps his home gym. The only other option they offered was for him to build a fence around them, which is expensive and also dumb because they are not hurting anything.

Nevertheless, the HOA told Kramer he'd be fined $50 a day for every day his garbage cans are visible from the street. So he decided some revenge was in order.

Kramer seems to have decided that the only real antidote for unreasonable demands is an equally unreasonable response — and one that literally has the full force of the federal government on its side. Revenge is a dish best served with a side of federal law, as the saying goes.

Kramer bought a bat house — similar to a bird house, but bigger and taller and, you know, full of bats. Which most people find terrifying and disgusting (they're actually very cool little guys, even if they are vampires). Presumably, the people who hate bats include the vice president of Kramer's HOA, who happens to live riiiiiight across the street from his "ugly" trash cans and, now, his giant at-home bat sanctuary. This means Kramer's HOA now has a far bigger problem on its hands than his trash cans.

"Some of you may be asking, Scotty, why bats?" Kramer said in his video. "A fun fact: Bat sanctuaries are federally protected." Kramer's HOA will surely pitch a fit about the bats swarming around his house, but there likely won't be a thing they can do about it.