A couple in California is facing criminal charges for refusing to cut down redwood trees in their yard that are blocking the sun from a neighbor’s solar panels. But get this: the idiot neighbor put up the solar panels long after the redwood trees had been planted and matured.

We’re just living here in peace. We want to be left alone,” said Bissett, who with her husband has spent $25,000 defending themselves against criminal charges. “We support solar power, but we thought common sense would prevail.”

I’m telling you, local districts attorney have joined municipal bureaucrats and college presidents as the most clueless people in American society. Of course, we in Durham know all about that.