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Virginia Beach, Va. – Everything seems picture perfect on Victor Road in the Hilltop Manor neighborhood of Virginia Beach, until you see the sign posted in Jeanine Wenger’s front yard that reads, “Parking reserved for the neighborhood A–hole only.”

“That’s a matter of first amendment rights,” said Jeanine Wenger’s husband Rich.

“That’s not freedom of speech. That’s just hate speech,” said Joanne, who asked NewsChannel 3 not to use her last name. She contacted NewsChannel 3 about the sign. She believes Wenger put it up after a dispute over where Joanne and her husband park the couple’s truck.

“It makes me sick to my stomach,” Joanne said.

“It’s not just about the truck, it’s about everything. They’ve harassed all the neighbors,” said Jeanine Wenger, who said the sign is her way of sticking up for herself and other neighbors who say they’ve been dragged into court for neighborhood disputes with Joanne and her husband Thomas for years. “All the neighbors agree. They come by, they give me the thumbs up, and say go for it!”

Joanne said she has surveillance video from last year that shows someone from the Wenger’s home walk across the street and tie balloons on Joanne and her husband’s truck. Joanne and her husband started to park the truck on the other side of the street in front of the Wenger’s home.

“To be able to see it, my husband moved the truck to park legally on the other side of the street so I could see that vehicle,” said Joanne. “No one has a right to touch my stuff.”

The Wengers said the surveillance doesn’t show anyone from their home tying balloons on the truck. They say they tied the balloons near the truck. They also said they are well aware that Joanne and Thomas have surveillance on their home and wouldn’t touch their property.”

So, the Wenger’s put up their first “Reserved for a–holes only” sign. Joanne asked Virginia Beach zoning to remove it, but officials said the sign’s not considered obscene according to city code.

It reads “The word “obscene” where it appears in this article shall mean that which, considered as a whole, has as its dominant theme or purpose an appeal to the prurient interest in sex, that is, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, excretory functions or products thereof or sadomasochistic abuse, and which goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in description or representation of such matters and which, taken as a whole, does not have serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.”

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