I don't know if this is the right section of these forums, so sorry if
it's not and thank you in advance! I'm sorry if this is long but I need
to have someone understand the gravity of the situation.
We moved into our
house a few years ago and were immediately confronted by our neighbor
about our dogs barking at him. I invited him over to meet them, so they
would stop, and in the meantime we moved their "area" around the back of
our house to make it better.
We were eventually going to put up a
privacy fence, but we'd just bought a major money pit and we were VERY
broke. So that was the best we could do and explained to him if it
continued to bother him to let us know - but coming and meeting them
would be the best solution. He never did.
He then called and accused my son of stealing and breaking into
his garage when they were gone on vacation. - then he CONFRONTED my son -
alone (and he was 8) and threatened to call the police on him "the next
time it happened" Which was ridiculous - we live on acreage and my son
was terrified to go beyond our front porch alone. - not that I let him
anyway.
I would find 3 or 4 missed called on our caller ID from his house, and when I'd call back he said he was calling the dogs to make them quiet. (??) IT's voicemail, not like they can HEAR the thing.
We stopped talking to them after that. (Him, Her and 3 kids) Then a
horrible
thing happened and our dogs got out and chased his horse. We apologized
profusely and said it would never happen again. It didn't
We had a
windstorm and some of our shed came apart and blew onto his property. I
came home to find it piled up in our driveway. Fine. it was ours,
but...whatever.
In another windstorm I caught him stealing a bin
off my property by leaning over the fence and taking it. I confronted
him about it and he gave it back - lamely making the excuse he was
"keeping it for us"
A few months later we go on vacation, and the
man taking care of our house calls us to tell us the dogs are missing
and that the gate had been vandalized to allow them to escape.
One
dog came home shot and beaten, the other was bagged up, collar removed
and placed in a plastic trash bag and dumped in the river.
Guess
who WE thought it was?
We asked our other neighbors if they had
heard or seen anything unusual - especially on our property,
and told them what happened.
She being like me was mortified and
was worried about her own animals. After all she, along with me had
several cats go missing. I found one at the humane society.
So one
day he lets of some explosion, and sends the other neighbor into the
dirt on her back (and she's an elderly lady) by way of her horse running
her over. She yelled and screamed and called the police (in vision
granny clampett) and gave him the what for - including our suspicions of
our dog going missing - and that he was possibly the culprit.
Well that opened up Pandora's box.
Ever since this man has
stopped at NOTHING to make our lives miserable. He lies to the police,
INCESSANTLY..... If something is wrong on his property - he calls the
police and tells them it's us. He tells them we come in the middle of
the night and turn on his headlights on his vehicle and leaves the
blinker on, on his tractor. He says my older son (because he's a
teenager) is a criminal, (says he's seen the arrest record - something
of which my son does NOT have...I don't get this guy - he even lies to
US when we know it's not true.....) says my son has taken his fence
apart, shot his headlights out with a bb gun, (something we don't even
own - except a little red ryder, that would barely pierce your skin
because my son left it in the rain and it's all rusted out) and bashed
in his mailbox. We shoot at hi horses and He even screamed at us he had
pictures of all this - but has never produced them to us or any
authority. His new accusation was that my older son was "driving around
our property wildly, honking the horn and screaming obscenities at him"
He also drives up and down the valley and tells everyone that we're "bad
people"
He works for the city and when he spotted my Son at the park, called
the police and told him he was setting off illegal fireworks.
He called the division of wildlife and said we were trespassing and
hunting illegally on the neighbors property (we
weren't)
He says we point guns at him, threaten him, hire helicopters to chase
his
horses, and god knows what else.
He has cameras set up all over his place, yet we still
somehow according to him, slip past and put dead mice in his horse tank.
He also called our other neighbor's son an arsonist and told an
organizer to some club they both belong to that he had threatened to
burn it down and needed to be kicked out of it. He's called the Health
department and said the other neighbor was dumping raw sewage on their
property (when all they did was get their septic sucked out)
I've
found dozens of glass bottles and jars in my front pasture, and dead
animals in my mailbox.
I bought a security system and caught him
on tape tossing out illegal fireworks to scare my dog. I've caught him
spraying in 50 mph winds - a toxic weed and grass killer that killed a
large section of my grass and the entire section on the south side of my
driveway, and made my dog sick. HE even got the spray all over some
workers that were building a garage on my property.
He burns trash
on windy days, so the smoke goes right into our house - I have that
recorded dozens of times.
I've caught him on tape trespassing and climbing the fence onto
my property
He went to court and filed a restraining order against
our party we have every year, and lied that we had over 400 people,
that we were shooting erratically while drunk and were drag racing on
the road in front of our houses.
I would love nothing more then
to move away from this guy but the economy just won't allow it.
We've
installed an 8 foot fence between us and him for about 100 feet, and
hope to finish it another 100 then probably the rest of the 1/4 mile be 6
foot. It'll take time, and I'm afraid he'll vandalize it.
We plowed our driveway and he said we got snow on his fence on
purpose, and even called and harrassed the poor guy doing the snow
plowing - saying "we set him up to do it"
He later posted signs Stating "no dumping" on the fence, and claimed
the snow had eventually snapped a post and broke it, because it was
piled too high on the fence (If that's the case every fence in the
northern US would replace their fences every season)
We had a bucket of oil in front of our shed and it ended up all over
his fence, and shed. We called the police telling them we didn't know
what happened, but we were afraid to talk to him because of all this. -
well he put up another sign saying "thanks for spraying my shed with
oil" like it was on purpose. We weren't even home so god knows if HE did
it himself!
No
charges have been filed against this Yahoo - although I'm fairly certain
the Department of Agriculture will be filing SOMETHING.
I can't
take much more of this. If we say black he says green polka dot with
creme filling. I mean the guy has no problem lying to everyone - and his
psycho wife backs him up! We're getting to the point now we have to
constantly prove our Innocence instead of him proving us guilty! I had
to give up my recorder to the police just so I could prove My son WASN'T
driving around wildly around our house.....IT's
insanity!
I'm scared hes going to do something to my kids or my
remaining dog and cat when we're gone. We've installed a security
system, but it seems like a minimal thing. I see cars pull into his
driveway with various people, and they stand in his drive way and
gesture at our house, and shake their heads. We've never gotten a ticket
- because we've never done anything!!!!
What do we
do now?
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