One of my neighbors does this. He keeps them to the point where they get bold enough to slip thru the gaps in his fence and then like 2 days later the roo is dinner.
I have found that it's not necessary to get all the neighborhood Karens on your side to get away with having a rooster, sometimes it just about getting the head Karen to look away. In my hood she really just wants to be in on the secret and only takes a bribe of 1 dozen eggs every so often. I...