Ted Costas felt weird putting a lock and chain on a neighbor’s gate, but he didn’t have a lot of other options.
For weeks, people had been gathering at the abandoned property on Mulholland Drive overlooking a canyon right below the Universal City Overlook. It was July 4, and Costas was afraid that the people who were regularly gathering at the house might start a fire.
Two days later, the lock was gone, Costas said…