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Post by Hulkamaniac on Sept 7, 2011 9:56:02 GMT -5
My neighbor may have finally won the battle and forced me to move. I've had an on-going feud with her for several years now. Basically, she goes through phases where she pulls out all the stops and does everything she can to bring pain on my head. I ignore her. Then she goes away for a while. In the past several years she has: - Called Animal control on me at least a dozen times complaining that the dogs are neglected. Animal control has never found anything. - Called the city and complained that my lawn was un-mowed and was causing a public health hazard. City found nothing. - I foolishly invited her to an Easter production our church was doing thinking she'd enjoy getting out of the house and not being lonely. She responded by calling the church and giving the church secretary and earful about how horrible I am. - Some friends of mine ran into her in the grocery store and invited her to something else our church was doing. She made the connection and proceeded to go off on them about how horrible I am. - She wouldn't leave the dogs alone during the day and was constantly trying to feed them and give them water. I built a privacy fence instead of chain link. She now walks around the far end of the privacy fence so she can mess with the dogs. - Had some friends of mine building a deck for me. She didn't know they were friends of mine, but went ahead and told them about how I abuse my dogs, don't mow my lawn, etc.............................. - Has just now started making false reports to animal control about how my dogs are barking all night long. My dogs are in my house at night. If they were barking all night long, she wouldn't hear them. Animal control says if she signs a formal complaint, then I will be cited. It will then be up to me to prove that my dogs were not barking all night long. I have no way to prove this. How do I prove something didn't happen? So I may be forced to move. I simply can't deal with the insanity any more. I love my house. It's not a great real estate market. I just dropped $7k on a new a/c. I want nothing more than to stay in my house and have the neighbor just leave me the  alone. I don't blare music at all hours of the day and night. I don't have large parties. I don't have hookers coming and going all night long. I come home and I mind my own business. I honestly have no idea why she hates me so much. If I did I'd go over and offer a fake apology for it as I'm tired of dealing with her at this point. But that's not an option. If I talk to her, she will be incredibly pleasant. Then she'll go inside and call someone and complain about me. I've talked to two different real estate brokers today about buying something and selling my house. We'll see what happens. I really don't want to move, but I can't think of any other options at this point that don't involve me sinking to her level. |
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Post by sean™ on Sept 7, 2011 10:03:29 GMT -5
What a bitch. I had a neighbor like that once, but she backed into the driver side fender of my car. She was quite the pleasant lady after that.
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Post by ebilbryan™ on Sept 7, 2011 10:05:58 GMT -5
Sue her for harassment?
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Post by Kliquid on Sept 7, 2011 10:14:42 GMT -5
- Has just now started making false reports to animal control about how my dogs are barking all night long. My dogs are in my house at night. If they were barking all night long, she wouldn't hear them. Animal control says if she signs a formal complaint, then I will be cited. It will then be up to me to prove that my dogs were not barking all night long. I have no way to prove this. How do I prove something didn't happen? What kind of cracked-out law is this? Burden of proof should be on the accuser, right? |
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Post by sean™ on Sept 7, 2011 10:16:53 GMT -5
You could go all paranormal activity and just put a camera up, monitoring the room the dogs sleep in. Tape one night or one whole weeks' worth of nights and present that.
I agree with Kliquid on this one. From my experience with a horrible neighbor with 3 pit bulls that bark late into the night, the burden of proof was on me to get animal control out there at a time when they were barking.
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Post by John Zero on Sept 7, 2011 10:21:54 GMT -5
Maybe not exactly sue, but fight back against her. If you're not doing anything wrong and yet she's out talking crap about you, wouldn't that be slander? The housing market is awful (around here at least). Don't let her win. Put up a "No Trespassing" sign on your fence and call the cops if she comes around to feed your dogs again. |
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Post by sean™ on Sept 7, 2011 10:23:08 GMT -5
Maybe not exactly sue, but fight back against her. If you're not doing anything wrong and yet she's out talking crap about you, wouldn't that be slander? The housing market is awful (around here at least). Don't let her win. Put up a "No Trespassing" sign on your fence and call the cops if she comes around to feed your dogs again. Or just feed her to the dogs... "My dogs....are....hhhuuuunnnngggrrryyy" |
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Post by LA Times on Sept 7, 2011 10:33:22 GMT -5
My neighbor may have finally won the battle and forced me to move. I've had an on-going feud with her for several years now. Basically, she goes through phases where she pulls out all the stops and does everything she can to bring pain on my head. I ignore her. Then she goes away for a while. In the past several years she has: - Called Animal control on me at least a dozen times complaining that the dogs are neglected. Animal control has never found anything. - Called the city and complained that my lawn was un-mowed and was causing a public health hazard. City found nothing. - I foolishly invited her to an Easter production our church was doing thinking she'd enjoy getting out of the house and not being lonely. She responded by calling the church and giving the church secretary and earful about how horrible I am. - Some friends of mine ran into her in the grocery store and invited her to something else our church was doing. She made the connection and proceeded to go off on them about how horrible I am. - She wouldn't leave the dogs alone during the day and was constantly trying to feed them and give them water. I built a privacy fence instead of chain link. She now walks around the far end of the privacy fence so she can mess with the dogs. - Had some friends of mine building a deck for me. She didn't know they were friends of mine, but went ahead and told them about how I abuse my dogs, don't mow my lawn, etc.............................. - Has just now started making false reports to animal control about how my dogs are barking all night long. My dogs are in my house at night. If they were barking all night long, she wouldn't hear them. Animal control says if she signs a formal complaint, then I will be cited. It will then be up to me to prove that my dogs were not barking all night long. I have no way to prove this. How do I prove something didn't happen? So I may be forced to move. I simply can't deal with the insanity any more. I love my house. It's not a great real estate market. I just dropped $7k on a new a/c. I want nothing more than to stay in my house and have the neighbor just leave me the alone. I don't blare music at all hours of the day and night. I don't have large parties. I don't have hookers coming and going all night long. I come home and I mind my own business. I honestly have no idea why she hates me so much. If I did I'd go over and offer a fake apology for it as I'm tired of dealing with her at this point. But that's not an option. If I talk to her, she will be incredibly pleasant. Then she'll go inside and call someone and complain about me. I've talked to two different real estate brokers today about buying something and selling my house. We'll see what happens. I really don't want to move, but I can't think of any other options at this point that don't involve me sinking to her level. Kind of like how nobody knows why you hate Carlos Ruiz so much? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2011 11:43:20 GMT -5
Wow buddy, that sucks, I have luckily nice neighbors.
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Sept 7, 2011 11:58:28 GMT -5
- Has just now started making false reports to animal control about how my dogs are barking all night long. My dogs are in my house at night. If they were barking all night long, she wouldn't hear them. Animal control says if she signs a formal complaint, then I will be cited. It will then be up to me to prove that my dogs were not barking all night long. I have no way to prove this. How do I prove something didn't happen? What kind of cracked-out law is this? Burden of proof should be on the accuser, right? That's exactly what I told the animal control officer. He said the law is not written that way. I asked him if I could call and claim that his dogs were barking and sign a complaint and get him cited. He said that since what I would be signing would be a legal document I'd basically be lieing and could be charged with making a false report. Otherwise, I could do it. The burden then would be on him to prove that I was making a false report. It's a BS ordinance. |
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Sept 7, 2011 12:01:40 GMT -5
My neighbor may have finally won the battle and forced me to move. I've had an on-going feud with her for several years now. Basically, she goes through phases where she pulls out all the stops and does everything she can to bring pain on my head. I ignore her. Then she goes away for a while. In the past several years she has: - Called Animal control on me at least a dozen times complaining that the dogs are neglected. Animal control has never found anything. - Called the city and complained that my lawn was un-mowed and was causing a public health hazard. City found nothing. - I foolishly invited her to an Easter production our church was doing thinking she'd enjoy getting out of the house and not being lonely. She responded by calling the church and giving the church secretary and earful about how horrible I am. - Some friends of mine ran into her in the grocery store and invited her to something else our church was doing. She made the connection and proceeded to go off on them about how horrible I am. - She wouldn't leave the dogs alone during the day and was constantly trying to feed them and give them water. I built a privacy fence instead of chain link. She now walks around the far end of the privacy fence so she can mess with the dogs. - Had some friends of mine building a deck for me. She didn't know they were friends of mine, but went ahead and told them about how I abuse my dogs, don't mow my lawn, etc.............................. - Has just now started making false reports to animal control about how my dogs are barking all night long. My dogs are in my house at night. If they were barking all night long, she wouldn't hear them. Animal control says if she signs a formal complaint, then I will be cited. It will then be up to me to prove that my dogs were not barking all night long. I have no way to prove this. How do I prove something didn't happen? So I may be forced to move. I simply can't deal with the insanity any more. I love my house. It's not a great real estate market. I just dropped $7k on a new a/c. I want nothing more than to stay in my house and have the neighbor just leave me the alone. I don't blare music at all hours of the day and night. I don't have large parties. I don't have hookers coming and going all night long. I come home and I mind my own business. I honestly have no idea why she hates me so much. If I did I'd go over and offer a fake apology for it as I'm tired of dealing with her at this point. But that's not an option. If I talk to her, she will be incredibly pleasant. Then she'll go inside and call someone and complain about me. I've talked to two different real estate brokers today about buying something and selling my house. We'll see what happens. I really don't want to move, but I can't think of any other options at this point that don't involve me sinking to her level. Kind of like how nobody knows why you hate Carlos Ruiz so much? I hate Ruiz, but I do not harass him. If she wanted to sit in her house and quietly stew about how much I sucked at playing baseball, I would not care less. If she wanted to call sports talk shows or post on forums about how much I sucked and how I should be traded, I wouldn't care less. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2011 12:05:49 GMT -5
Here's how to shut your neighbor up, kick er in the balls!
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Sept 7, 2011 12:25:14 GMT -5
Maybe not exactly sue, but fight back against her. If you're not doing anything wrong and yet she's out talking crap about you, wouldn't that be slander? The housing market is awful (around here at least). Don't let her win. Put up a "No Trespassing" sign on your fence and call the cops if she comes around to feed your dogs again. That's the thing. If I do that stuff, then I'm just acting as childish and immature as she is. I haven't really won at all. |
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Post by Tim of thee on Sept 7, 2011 12:33:01 GMT -5
I like the idea of recording her doing these things and sending the tapes to the authorities
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Post by extreme on Sept 7, 2011 12:37:28 GMT -5
Challenge her to an 'I quit' match at Night of Champions.
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Post by Cult Member BriGuy on Sept 7, 2011 12:46:01 GMT -5
Maybe not exactly sue, but fight back against her. If you're not doing anything wrong and yet she's out talking crap about you, wouldn't that be slander? The housing market is awful (around here at least). Don't let her win. Put up a "No Trespassing" sign on your fence and call the cops if she comes around to feed your dogs again. That's the thing. If I do that stuff, then I'm just acting as childish and immature as she is. I haven't really won at all.but your're not winning by moving away either |
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Sept 7, 2011 13:00:48 GMT -5
That's the thing. If I do that stuff, then I'm just acting as childish and immature as she is. I haven't really won at all.but your're not winning by moving away either No, but at least I haven't sunken to her level. |
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Post by ebilbryan™ on Sept 7, 2011 13:28:00 GMT -5
but your're not winning by moving away either No, but at least I haven't sunken to her level. While you haven't sunken to her level, you will be sinking to the level she wants you to, if it's enough to make you want to move away. |
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Post by juicewinslow on Sept 7, 2011 13:54:51 GMT -5
Go to the papers if you have to.
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Post by Kliquid on Sept 7, 2011 13:57:44 GMT -5
What kind of cracked-out law is this? Burden of proof should be on the accuser, right? That's exactly what I told the animal control officer. He said the law is not written that way. I asked him if I could call and claim that his dogs were barking and sign a complaint and get him cited. He said that since what I would be signing would be a legal document I'd basically be lieing and could be charged with making a false report. Otherwise, I could do it. The burden then would be on him to prove that I was making a false report. It's a BS ordinance. Honestly dude, I would fight that craptooth and nail. |
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