rant: stupid mean neighbor

Andy

here's what my "bunny habitat" looked like before this past tuesday..


and here's what my stupid mean neighbor did on tuesday while i was out for the day in nyc...



this is the same guy that tried to put his electric dog fence 20 feet onto my property line (near the same area) .... and then a few months later he says to me "i'm gonna clear out this brushy area..." to which i reply "nooooo! that's where all the bunnies live! not to mention that it's a huge buffer zone that offers me privacy from my other neighbor's yard down the way a bit.

well let me tell you: i went out again with the property map, that is clear as day laid out in exact feet and inches as to where the property line is... and i measured three times with a professional wheel-measuring device.. no mistaking the property line, for sure :deal. that entire area that's covered in straw in the second pic is on *my* property.

thank goodness for photographic evidence...

time to place a call to my lawyer :smack

dragon300zx

Andy,

I think you need to take a trick out of a detroiters book and tonight while they sleep plants some new bushes and tear down his fence. Then unlease a heard of geese on his front lawn.

PS don't forget the sugar in the gas tank.

wxwax

Well that sucks. Bummer you have to get a lawyer involved. What a nitwit he is.

Andy

wxwax wrote:

Well that sucks. Bummer you have to get a lawyer involved. What a nitwit he is.

his wife came out to me today while i was taking pictures from *my* property, asked what i was doing, i just smiled back and went about my business...

Tim Kirkwood

Neighbors can suck.......Mine are retired and feel the need to end starvation to all cats. They have cat food all over their property and so we have about 30 strays that all hang out around here. They use my flower beds for litter boxes and they "mark"(pee) on the roof of our cars and then it runs down the windshield and into the air vents. Then the next morning you turn on the defrost or ac and get cat pee smell pushed right into your face. I have talked and talked and talked to them about the problem. Today I brought home grandpas bb pistol. Gonna teach em a lesson. I feel your pain andy. Dont give, not even a little. Give them and inch, they will take a foot.



Tim

devbobo

Always thought it was weird how you Americans don't have fences around your own properties.

David

Harryb

Hey Andy,

Got get that sucker.

soulsun

Lawyer AND SURVEYOR!!!!
Andy,

Obviously laws are different from state to state, but I spent 11 yrs working in a county mapping office in PA. Many times I had one neighbor come in in the morning complaining about his neighbor only to have the other side of the 'soon to be' fence come in in the afternoon. In PA, the only person who can legally say where a property line is located, is a licensed surveyor. You may be dead on w/ your measurements based on the local plat map, but it would never hold up in court in PA. Again, laws are different from state to state, but I suspect that this situation would probably be similar.

Good Luck,

Scott

Angelo

wow, how many gallons of green paint do you think he used?

go get 'im Andy. ever consider launching sulpher bombs on his lawn at night (right under his bedrrom window)?

>>>

ya know, a few miles south in the Bronx, where I grew up, we knew how to handle mooks like your neighbor and we didn't need no stinkin' lawyers. :toni

Mitchell

Where is this located? I would just hire a surveyer and have hime stake out the property lines. All under your watchful photographic eye. With that completed, I would have a "nice" chat with Mr. and Mrs. Neighbor. If they don't agree with the survey, you will then need to get a lawyer involved.


mitch

Andy

soulsun wrote:

Andy,

Obviously laws are different from state to state, but I spent 11 yrs working in a county mapping office in PA. Many times I had one neighbor come in in the morning complaining about his neighbor only to have the other side of the 'soon to be' fence come in in the afternoon. In PA, the only person who can legally say where a property line is located, is a licensed surveyor. You may be dead on w/ your measurements based on the local plat map, but it would never hold up in court in PA. Again, laws are different from state to state, but I suspect that this situation would probably be similar.

Good Luck,

Scott

i have an accurate survey, and all the prop lines are marked. the guy is an idiot.

soulsun

andy wrote:

i have an accurate survey, and all the prop lines are marked. the guy is an idiot.

Then you should be good to go ! Reminds me of The Far Side cartoon where God is sprinkling a salt shaker labeled 'Jerks' over the Earth and saying something to the effect of ' Just to make things interesting...'

Again, Good Luck,

Scott

behr655

andy wrote:

here's what my "bunny habitat" looked like before this past tuesday..


and here's what my stupid mean neighbor did on tuesday while i was out for the day in nyc...



:smack

Holy cow!!! He turned the trees green!!!! I don't think I'd mess with him.

Bear

wxwax

andy wrote:

i have an accurate survey, and all the prop lines are marked. the guy is an idiot.

You forgot to add "bless his heart" at the end. That's how Southerners curse out folks.

Acedia

What part of NYC is this?
This must be Central Park! ?

Andy

*** Update ***
Tonight, my DW and I are having "satisfaction soup" for dinner. The surveyors just finished their job - they had to "re-find" the property lines - and it turns out the actual property lines are even more in our favor - the entire bunny hutch, and then some, was on our property.

It feels good to know, but I'm sorry that they killed the bunny habitat :cry

Anyhow - now on to the restitution part - it'll be interesting to see how they deal with our request - to replant trees and shrubs etc that were the original height - like 10' high!



(not my image)

dragon300zx

I would put up the biggest, and UGLIEST fence possible on the property line. Then wait 6 months to a year after they have given up complaining about it, take it down (it is ugly after all), and let them know if they every touch your property again the ugly fence will be a vacation compared to the new retribution.

Andy

dragon300zx wrote:

I would put up the biggest, and UGLIEST fence possible on the property line. Then wait 6 months to a year after they have given up complaining about it, take it down (it is ugly after all), and let them know if they every touch your property again the ugly fence will be a vacation compared to the new retribution.

you devil you!

hey - how's the boss-lady???

Mike Lane

andy wrote:

here's what my "bunny habitat" looked like before this past tuesday..


and here's what my stupid mean neighbor did on tuesday while i was out for the day in nyc...



time to place a call to my lawyer :smack

HE TURNED YOUR TREES GREEEEEEEEENNNNN!!!!!

oh no wait, there's a fence there.

dkapp

andy wrote:

Anyhow - now on to the restitution part - it'll be interesting to see how they deal with our request - to replant trees and shrubs etc that were the original height - like 10' high!

We had a similar problem w/ neighbors in IL. It will blow your mind how much value they place on that stuff.

Good luck with it. Too bad they destroyed it and now you have do deal with this

Dave

Andy

dkapp wrote:

We had a similar problem w/ neighbors in IL. It will blow your mind how much value they place on that stuff.

Good luck with it. Too bad they destroyed it and now you have do deal with this

Dave

I'll get PETA, and the ASPCA to "dog" them

dragon300zx

andy wrote:

you devil you!

hey - how's the boss-lady???

Blech, to bad the job market sucks right now. But it's helping My acting skills (she thinks I like her).

Andy

Update. Now it's off to small claims. They've ignored my polite request to pay for the new survey. Wouldn't bother, except that the cost of the surveyor was equivalent to a 400mm L

ivar

Andy wrote:

Update. Now it's off to small claims. They've ignored my polite request to pay for the new survey. Wouldn't bother, except that the cost of the surveyor was equivalent to a 400mm L

cost here is not measured in Dollars, or Euros, but in glass
Well, all i can say, is good luck Andy!

Anson

Hey Tim..
perhaps after you finish your fine work with the cats, you can pop over for lunch at Andy's some lovely weekend and thin down Andys bunny herd as well!


Seriously Tim...how about instead of a BB gun...you try this number for possible help http://www.catteam.org/feral.html


...these feral/stray/abandoned cats are struggling day to day trying to make a living, just like you...they had NO say in their circumstance...

Andy

Today is our day in court. 6:30pm. I called the defendant two hours ago, to see if he wanted to settle (one last time) he's ignoring me so now I'm gonna paste him in front of da judge

Stormdancing

You go Andy!
Mean neighbors suck.
Good luck.

Mitchell

Please keep us posted, Andy.
I've been watching this thread closely, and I'm on the edge of my seat. Good luck with your day in court!

Andy

Stormdancing wrote:

You go Andy!
Mean neighbors suck.
Good luck.

Defendant just called and settled.

dragon300zx

Andy wrote:

Defendant just called and settled.

Boring. I wanted to see the photos of the judge smacking him around. So tell us oh great eater of the ribs. How many cows did you settle for?

Andy

dragon300zx wrote:

Boring. I wanted to see the photos of the judge smacking him around. So tell us oh great eater of the ribs. How many cows did you settle for?

I was looking for 1100 ribs in court - the cost of the survey. In a last ditch effort to be magnanimous, I offered to settle for 750 ribs, and he accepted. This is after I dropped off my exhibits A, B, and C last night in his mailbox. Concrete proof, photographic evidence