Sculptor Charles Saulson developed and owns a six-story condo at 259 Bowery. The property happens to be right next to Sperone Westwater's futuristic new gallery space designed by Norman Foster, a forbidding tower best known for its red elevator-cum-gallery space. Saulson believes that the Sperone Westwater space intrudes 4.8 inches onto his property. The sculptor's response? Start some shit-slinging. Literally.

Saulson, 59, stands accused of tossing some feces from his own property onto the balcony of the adjacent gallery, as evidenced by a stain that the gallery's legal team refers to as a "point of impact." The alleged poop attack occurred during business hours. To defend its building, clients, and art from future bombardments, the gallery hopes to get an order legally forbidding Saulson from having any contact with its property in the future.

The sculptor has supposedly been escalating the duel over the property line for some time now, sawing off part of the gallery's aluminum siding and wedging in some wooden boards to mark off his space. The lawsuit alleges that Saulson "has demonstrated a propensity of resorting to self-help, in unpredictable ways, which no money damages can prevent or alleviate," according to the New York Post.