Here's a fun, small scale one. A family friend runs a trailer park in a small town. He asks the city council to annex the property so he can hook up to the cit

Here's a fun, small scale one. A family friend runs a trailer park in a small town. He asks the city council to annex the property so he can hook up to the city sewer and add more units. One of the council members opposes because he thinks a trailer park in the city limits would "cheapen" the town and doesn't want to be associated with it. (Keep in mind, the actual trailer park wouldn't move or change size in this scenario). So he threatens the trailer park with a city ordinance he dug up that says people cannot live in a trailer for more than 30 days at a time, and draws the city boundary around the trailer park. But as a bit of schadenfreude, it turns out that two of the other city council members have family members permanently living in trailers on their property. So by digging out this ordinance, this city councilor inadvertently created a rash of zoning violations that everyone is mad at each other about.