Hey, while I might agree with the idea that HOAs suck, let's look at this from the point of view of the HOA official. He or she gets a complaint. Doesn't matter if it's ridiculous or a gag or the complainant is just a plain old tightassed moralist.
You get a complaint, you have to handle it. You know damned well if you just "file" it, there will probably be repurcussions... and besides, it's probably somewhere in the bylaws that you have to. So you forward the complaint to the respondent. Respondent replies with a reasonable response, i.e., respondent is not in control of snowfall patterns.
But respondent mentions this somewhere on the net and from there, it gets blown out of proportion... especially since it involved (tee-hee, giggle-giggle) a "sex" thing.
HOA minion forwards response to complainant and that seems to be that. End of process.
We see it here and jump on the HOAs suck bandwagon. Which may or might not be universally true, but what an opportunity.
Meantime, HOA minion was just doing what he or she was supposed to do.
BFD.
Terry