Well yes the officer was called, but it wasn't something that should have been an issue. The guy was washing his own car on his own property. If that's against the law, then there's something wrong with the law.
The founding fathers are no doubt rolling in their graves right now regarding how backwards America has become
though im sure if Sheldon Cooper played Blockland, he'd come in this thread and give me a detailed rebuttal about how it would be physically impossible for century-old corpses to "roll in their grave" because all the muscular tissues they would need to physically do the rolling would have already decomposed long ago