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Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, who bought his house with money made from oil drilling and fracking, filed a lawsuit and petitioned his Texas town council to block a water tower that would be used for fracking. Tillerson just vaulted so far into the lead for Least Self-Aware Person of 2014 that by the time December rolls around he'll still be up 45 million laps.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

He and his neighbors had filed suit to block the tower, saying it is illegal and would create "a noise nuisance and traffic hazards," in part because it would provide water for use in hydraulic fracturing.

Also known as "fracking," which the Journal notes drily is "a core part of Exxon's business."

It gets better. In the petition filed by Tillerson and his neighbors (which places the value of Tillerson's home/horse ranch north of $5 million, or one-eighth of his 2013 salary), they also worry about the negative side effects of the drilling operation.

(We included the part about the birds mostly in case you were wondering how lawyers referred to bird feces.)

It doesn't get much more not-in-my-backyard than "I make tens of millions of dollars a year running a company that creates noise nuisances and traffic hazards that I insist be located nowhere near my home." The Journal does point out that there are other fracking operations near Tillerson's house, including one run by a company that Exxon just bought. But they're not bird-dropping close, apparently.