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Cry-Baby of the Week: A Man Allegedly Desecrated a Grave to Annoy His Ex-Wife's Attorney

Also this week: A family was warned they could be fined $125 for building a box fort.

It's time, once again, to marvel at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world:

Cry-Baby #1: Robert Bonzani

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The incident: A man went through a lengthy divorce.

The appropriate response: Doing everything you can to finalize it, then moving on.

The actual response: He allegedly desecrated the grave of his ex-wife's attorney's deceased daughter.

Robert Bonzani is a 49-year-old urologist in Mokena, Illinois.

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In 2012, he and his wife divorced. Though this was several years ago, the divorce proceedings are still going on. According to a report in the Chicago Tribune, the most recent filings relate to child support payments.

Throughout the divorce, Robert's wife has been represented by an attorney named Edward Jaquays. Back in 2012, Edward's 17-year-old daughter Kiley died after a hiking accident while attending a retreat for troubled teens in Utah.

According to charges being brought against Robert, he has waged a campaign of harassment against the attorney in order to get revenge on him for representing his former wife during their divorce.

Police say that Robert stole photos and an artificial tree from the attorney's daughter's grave site, and vandalized her headstone with spray paint. He also allegedly sent several letters to Edward and his wife that mentioned their daughter. The content of those letters has not been released, but CBS reports they were "designed to cause the divorce attorney and his wife emotional pain."

Robert turned himself into police last week. He is currently free on a $10,000 bond. He faces misdemeanor charges of criminal damage to property and theft, as well as a felony charge of stalking.

Cry-Baby #2: The City of Ogden, Utah

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The incident: A couple built a box fort outside their house for their kid.

The appropriate response: Nothing.

The actual response: They were threatened with a fine by city officials.

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Last weekend, Jeremy Trentelman built a fort for his three-year-old daughter from several cardboard boxes and a slide in the front yard of his home in Ogden, Utah.

On April 1, Jeremy returned home to find a city code enforcement officer had stuck a note to the door of his home. The note was to inform Jeremy that he was in violation of a city ordinance that prohibits storing junk outside your house. The note warned that if the fort is not removed within 15 days, he would face a fine of $125.

The note was reportedly the result of an anonymous complaint made to the city by a passerby.

"I just thought it was an awesome way to use boxes and my kids' imagination," Jeremy told his local paper, the Standard Examiner.

"It's obvious it's not junk," he added. "There is a slide over the side and child graffiti all over the boxes. It looks like a fort."

According to the Standard Examiner, this is just the latest in a string of irrational tickets issued by tyrannical code enforcement officers. The paper reports that another person in the neighborhood was issued a citation on the same day for temporarily parking their car on their own lawn in order to load it up with yard clippings.

Jeremy's wife, Jan, intends to keep the fort up for as long as possible as a fuck you to the haters. "There was never any plan to keep it up for an extended period of time," she told the local Fox affiliate. "It's a box fort, it's supposed to be temporary. We're leaving it up till day 14, and doing repairs if necessary."

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Who here is the bigger cry-baby? Let us know in this poll down here:

Previously: A cop was disciplined for posing for a photo with Snoop Dogg and a gas station attendant was accused of sexual harassment for cleaning a windshield with a plastic "pee pee toy".

Winner: The people who hate Snoop Dogg!!!

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