The man managed to get offside with an entire town, his neighbours, his church, the council, the local paper. He was also dumping raw sewerage into a waterway, reneged on agreements to buy his workshop, and just in general sounds like a peach of a guy to be around.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw