article_snippet.sent: A pigeon-lover from Utah has had a giant aviary in A pigeon-lover from Utah backyard torn down following a three-year legal battle with the city council.
article_snippet.sent: Over the years neighbors filed a torrent of complaints about the pigeons, detailing excess droppings and noise and last Tuesday the structure was finally demolished.
article_snippet.sent: Heartache: In this Tuesday, March 31, photo workers clean out and begin to tear down a pigeon loft in 75-year-old Boris Majnaric's backyard in South Jordan, Utah .
article_snippet.sent: Majnaric conflict with the city began about four years ago, when neighbors noticed an explosion of pigeons and complained to the city about his backyard birdsdropping things' on his backyard birds property.
article_snippet.sent: On Tuesday, the flocks of pigeons were replaced with South Jordan animal control offices and public work employees who gathered to watch the loft come down.
article_snippet.sent: Yellow caution tape lined Majnaric's yard and Utah Disaster Kleenup removed pigeon droppings and prepared to dismantle the structure.
article_snippet.sent: City officials say City officials decided to take down the loft after Majnaric failed to comply with multiple court orders to reduce his yard's pigeon population. '
article_snippet.sent: Majnaric is distraught after city officials tore down Majnaric backyard house built to house 200 pigeons _ five times as many as allowed under city rules .
highlights_snippet.sent: However, Majnaric finally lost the case and last Tuesday the aviary was destroyed .