At 74, Margaret thought she’d seen it all — until she returned from a short trip to find her beloved backyard pond completely filled in. The pond, a decades-old family treasure dug by her grandfather, had been the centerpiece of countless family memories. And now it was gone.The culprit? Her next-door neighbor, Brian, who’d complained for years about the frogs and mosquitoes the pond supposedly attracted.

While Margaret was away, he took it upon himself to have a crew drain and fill it — without her permission.But Margaret wasn’t about to let it slide.Thanks to a hidden bird camera her granddaughter had set up in the yard, they had footage of Brian directing the crew. With that in hand, Margaret called the local environmental agency and reported the destruction of what she claimed was a registered habitat for a rare fish species.