Michael Jackson isn't alone in wanting his child-molestation trial to end. The residents of Los Olivos, California, also can't wait for their six-month ordeal to be over. The small farming community that houses the singer's Neverland Valley Ranch has been overrun by Jackson supporters for the duration of the trial, and tensions between the locals and Jackson boosters have begun to boil over in the past few days.

On Tuesday morning, a fed-up driver swerved his pickup off the road and ran over more than 60 large heart-shaped signs that had been planted in a mile-long row outside Neverland, according to the Los Angeles Times. It was the second time in two days that the "Avenue of Hearts" tribute had been destroyed.

In a sign of how tense things have gotten, Jackson fans rushed to their cars to give chase, but were blocked by an accomplice's SUV that parked across the two-lane road a mile south of Jackson's home.

The battle between the 100 or so diehard Jackson fans from around the world who have gathered to support their hero and the farm workers, ranchers and wealthy vineyard owners of Los Olivos who moved to the quiet community because of its isolated nature has been brewing for months. Dozens of the fans paid $5 each to buy wooden stakes, poster board and paints to make the "Avenue of Hearts," which first went up on Sunday.

Until then, fans had stayed close Neverland's gates, but when the Avenue stretched a mile from the ranch, locals took action. English Jackson fan Maria Flynn, 30, did not take the trashing of the tribute lightly, though. She reported the vandalism to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department, explaining that the fans had permission from a property owner to erect the hearts.

"We're not giving up," Flynn said. "We're going to put the hearts out on the road again and again and again."

According to the Times, the fans descend on the town daily, bearing signs that read "We Love You Michael" and "Frenchies for Michael," and dancing to Jackson's music as it blares from their boomboxes. In another pitched battle, when journalists try to file live reports from the scene, some Jackson supporters trip their car alarms to ruin the shot.

The onset of jury deliberations on Friday has exacerbated the clash (see "Michael Jackson Case Handed Over To Jury "). Fans have been gathering outside Neverland before court starts at 8:30 a.m. every morning, then massing again around 2:30 p.m. when deliberation ends, hoping to catch a view of Jackson. The hours roughly coincide with drop-off and pick-up times for the local private Family School, and factions of fans and parents have been reportedly racing up and down the winding country lane in a race to their respective destinations.

"Parents are concerned about the people on the roads," said Family School Principal Eileen Doyle. "These are country lanes, and usually there's nobody on them." The school recently posted "no trespassing" signs to keep the Jackson fans and reporters off their property, and it has put in place a contingency plan for its 175 kindergarten through fifth grade students for the day the verdict is read.

For now, the 60 heart-shaped signs are back up, but with a twist — the third-generation display is bolstered by a homemade security feature of sorts: planks of wood spiked with upward-pointing nails.

MTV News will have live coverage from Santa Maria on-air, online and in Overdrive when a verdict is handed down.

For full coverage of the Michael Jackson case, see "Michael Jackson Accused."