One Brick Short

In a sordid tale of suburbia gone horribly awry, the Associated Press tells us that the CFO, that’s chief financial officer, of a Northern Virginia homeowners association management firm shot it out with cops on Saturday and is healing up in the hospital.

He’s also the suspect in three other Saturday shootings, according to the AP.

The shootout came after the man, identified as Jeffry Koger, 38, of Koger Management Group, apparently shot at a Virginia State Trooper near the Springfield Mall in Alexandria.

Mr. Koger is being investigated by the Virginia Real Estate Board and Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation into the theft of about $2 million from condo and homeowners associations. His company collected assessments for about 400 associations in Northern Virginia.

I’ve heard of a lot of homeowners who have been driven nigh onto shooting it out with homeowners’ associations over such issues as mailbox color, trucks parked in driveways and motorcycles in the subdivision, but it’s the first I’ve heard of an agent for the association “going homeowner.” Guess it just proves how mad the world is going.