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Get off my lawn! Stupid jerkwad neighbor

Sho'Nuff

Sho'Nuff

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So as most of you know New England has sustained record breaking snowfalls over the past 3 weeks or so. A lot of the snow has settled, but at one point there was literally 70+ inches of the frozen stuff on the ground, with drifts in many cases exceeding 9-10 feet.

Which brings me to the subject of this post. I have a neighbor across the street. For ease of reference I will call him Doofus. Doofus' driveway is slightly offset from mine, so that the entry to his driveway is directly opposite some flowerbeds on my property. When I bought the house 5 years ago, the first time it snowed I noticed that doofus liked to plow his (150' long) driveway with an $80,000 SUV (a loaded Cadillac Escalade with a friggin monster plow on the front). This is all fine and dandy, until I noticed that Doofus was using his plow to deposit snow into my front yard. More specifically, he was depositing snow right into the middle of the flowerbeds.

Over the past several years, I've had many conversations with Doofus about not plowing snow into my yard. Most of the time I really did not care, except that my wife was bitching at me about how he was destroying the flowerbeds. Despite these repeated conversations, Doofus refused to see the light (i.e., to simply turn his steering wheel 120 degrees to the right and push the snow into his yard). Rather he felt that it was better to make BS arguments to me that he had the right to plow into my yard because the town has an easement on my property for snow removal purposes, because there was "no damage," and because he saw me throwing snow into his driveway (never mind that I was simply returning the snow he plowed in my yard).

Anyway, this culminated yesterday in a screaming match between Doofus and I. While screaming at him felt just darn good, I decided to do what I should have done in the first place, namely to take the issue up with the town. Turns out that there is an ordinance against pushing snow across a public way in my town. And there is also a criminal trespass law that fits the scenario nicely. Just informed Doofus of those facts in writing a few minutes ago. The look on his face was priceless. Being a lawyer and having access to nice legal letterhead has its perks.

Anyone else have to deal with an a-hole neighbor? If so how did your situation turn out?
 
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One set of neighbors is dead...funeral home.

Other former neighbor's dog would shit in my yard. She ran her chiropractic business out of the bottom floor, lived in the top. I started flipping the dog crap on the walkway her clients used to get in. Didn't take long for her to take care of the problem.

Other wise, effing historical society assholes. I'm 2-0 (miraculous) with them even though they did threaten to lock me up over a picket fence.
 
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I don't see anything about dynamite, explosions, 3am or tapping into your experience as a former general master assassin for the Special Ops Rangers in the military - are you new to these boards??
 
my neighbor constantly let his dog shit in my yard, one day my wife saw the fucker with the dog on a leash taking a big shit in the yard. My wife went a little crazy, got a shovel, scooped up the dog s*** walked over to his yard and chucked the shit in his yard while yelling "Here is your shit back", and walked home.

Dumb ass neighbor called the Sheriff's Department on us, the cop shows up I told the cop what was the problem was and that it is a habitual issue. My neighbor has a history of being a hot head and the sherrifs dept has had encounters with him on other things. anyway the cop went back and told the neighbor to quit letting his dog shit in other peoples yard and pick up after his dog or get a citation for violating the town ordinance about dogs defecating in public.

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about 3 months later was outside winding up a garden hose and a cop car pulls up. eventually the deputy gets out and starts walking towards me. im thinking, hummm what did didpshit call them on me now for.....

Deputy come comes up and says that somebody threw dog shit on dipshits car windshield and if i know anything about it. lol lol lol lol lol. nope, i had nothing to do with that. and i really didn't. cop drill more questions at me. like you been talking to him? no, You been keeping your distance, yes deputy, if you have a problem with him you will call us right? Yes Deputy i will call you.

a few weeks later i hear it through the neighborhood grapevine that the neighbor across the street from him did it. just returning the care package his dog left in his yard.

the thing that gets me is that dipshits oldest son graduated from West Point last May. good kid but a crazy ass dad.
 
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I was reno-ing my basement and wanted to put a kitchen in the basement as an overflow for Xmas and parties, etc. I figured I had the space, so why not? Esp. since I could use the space for guests staying over too. (I don't want to rent it out.)

Well, it turns out it is illegal in my area unless you declare it as a separate apt. However, you can get a zoning variance from the city to do this. To do this the city will let the neighbours know, and they can file a protest if they wish. So, over the course of several weeks, I had neighbours come up to me to ask why they should care if I put a kitchen there or not, as it was my house, and I wasn't doing anything to the outside. However, I heard from the city that one of my neighbours down the street complained.

So, I went to talk to him. It turns out he thought I was setting up the house to split it into two separate houses, with one kitchen on one side of the house, and one kitchen on the opposite side, and then I'd seal up the house in the middle to create two homes. I told him that wasn't the case, because my main kitchen was on one side of the house, and the second kitchen was in the basement on the same side. So after I build it, I'd have two kitchens on one side of the house and no kitchen on the other side. I even brought him into my house to show him the work being done.

Well, being the doofus he is, he said he wasn't convinced, and kept the complaint with the city. Because of this, we both had to present our case to the city. So we both showed up. Luckily, his doofishness persisted, and he yelled at the city reps because there was a delay in the meeting, and then stormed out.

Interestingly, when I mentioned my story to some of the other neighbours, they immediately guessed who it was. They said he had a history of being an ass about everything.
 
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Story time?
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Pompous pricks started the historical district after we bought our house. Our house was sucked in as part of a multi block area. State law, 🙄, gives them 100% say so on what you do the outside. Fences, paint, shutters, windows, etc. The only recourse if you don't agree is to sue them...good luck with that. Our house is just old not historic.

Anyway, the wife wanted a picket fence across the front. I put a wooden one up over the weekend sans paint. Monday morning, we got 4 calls and a visit from their own police man telling me that if I touched the fence again without a permit, it was a $400 fine or 30 days in jail.😡

They wanted an application, pictures of similar fences, etc. Had to be turned in 2 weeks prior to the next meeting or else wait until the next month. Of course, I was within 2 weeks of the next meeting so I said eff it. I won't turn in the application or touch the fence.:colbert: So for a couple of months, they called about the application..."I'm working on it."😉 I called the city manager, regularly, bitching about them. Told him I was planning on all kinds of ridiculous crap, toilet bowl birdbaths and the like. Poor guy.

It still would be a stalemate except that the wife did the legwork and went to the meeting that lasted all of 20 seconds. "Approved, have a nice day." Assholes.


The next time was the driveway. Once again, they have 100% say. "It's gravel, you have to leave it gravel." Except it turns out that my drive is completely on the state right of way. Got in touch with the state DOT and they gave me a permit.:awe:

Guess I'm actually 3-0. We needed new windows. They would only approve a high $$ wooden window....that I'd get to keep painting. Ordered vinyl replacements, installed them from inside the house. 10' away, you can't tell the difference.:thumbsup:
 
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My parent's driveway is between their house and the neighbor's bushes/fence, so there is no place to put the snow where the house is. My dad pretty much told my neighbor that he has to sometimes blow snow over the fence/bushes and onto his property. Luckily the neighbor is ok with it, since the snow is so deep anyways the front yard is kinda useless.
 
It would be hilariously awesome if you were to by accident plow all your snow onto his driveway .. then when he gives you shit about it, you could tell him you are a lawyer and that he can go fuck himself. hen just deny you ever said it.
 
highland145 said:
Pompous pricks started the historical district after we bought our house. State law, 🙄, gives them 100% say so on what you do the outside. Fences, paint, shutters, windows, etc. The only recourse if you don't agree is to sue them...good luck with that. Our house is just old not historic.

Anyway, the wife wanted a picket fence across the front. I put a wooden one up over the weekend sans paint. Monday morning, we got 4 calls and a visit from their own police man telling me that if I touched the fence again without a permit, it was a $400 fine or 30 days in jail.😡

They wanted an application, pictures of similar fences, etc. Had to be turned in 2 weeks prior to the next meeting or else wait until the next month. Of course, I was within 2 weeks of the next meeting so I said eff it. I won't turn in the application or touch the fence.:colbert: So for a couple of months, they called about the application..."I'm working on it."😉 I called the city manager, regularly, bitching about them. Told him I was planning on all kinds of ridiculous crap, toilet bowl birdbaths and the like. Poor guy.

It still would be a stalemate except that the wife did the legwork and went to the meeting that lasted all of 20 seconds. "Approved, have a nice day." Assholes.


The next time was the driveway. Once again, they have 100% say. "It's gravel, you have to leave it gravel." Except it turns out that my drive is completely on the state right of way. Got in touch with the state DOT and they gave me a permit.:awe:

Guess I'm actually 3-0. We needed new windows. They would only approve a high $$ wooden window....that I'd get to keep painting. Ordered vinyl replacements, installed them from inside the house. 10' away, you can't tell the difference.:thumbsup:
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The one where they gave you approval doesn't sound like a win, to me.
 
My asshole neighbor likes to take his 5 piece of shit cars and park them on the street even though he has a giant driveway that he can use to park all his cars.
 
Although the OP certainly has a valid complaint, my experience has always been that the people who get pissed off over little things like people taking up public parking spaces in front of their homes, or kids on their lawns, are by far the biggest assholes of all. People who regularly offend their neighbors out of either sheer cluelessness or out of spite, are relatively rare in comparison.
 
highland145 said:
Pompous pricks started the historical district after we bought our house. State law, 🙄, gives them 100% say so on what you do the outside. Fences, paint, shutters, windows, etc. The only recourse if you don't agree is to sue them...good luck with that. Our house is just old not historic.

Anyway, the wife wanted a picket fence across the front. I put a wooden one up over the weekend sans paint. Monday morning, we got 4 calls and a visit from their own police man telling me that if I touched the fence again without a permit, it was a $400 fine or 30 days in jail.😡

They wanted an application, pictures of similar fences, etc. Had to be turned in 2 weeks prior to the next meeting or else wait until the next month. Of course, I was within 2 weeks of the next meeting so I said eff it. I won't turn in the application or touch the fence.:colbert: So for a couple of months, they called about the application..."I'm working on it."😉 I called the city manager, regularly, bitching about them. Told him I was planning on all kinds of ridiculous crap, toilet bowl birdbaths and the like. Poor guy.

It still would be a stalemate except that the wife did the legwork and went to the meeting that lasted all of 20 seconds. "Approved, have a nice day." Assholes.


The next time was the driveway. Once again, they have 100% say. "It's gravel, you have to leave it gravel." Except it turns out that my drive is completely on the state right of way. Got in touch with the state DOT and they gave me a permit.:awe:

Guess I'm actually 3-0. We needed new windows. They would only approve a high $$ wooden window....that I'd get to keep painting. Ordered vinyl replacements, installed them from inside the house. 10' away, you can't tell the difference.:thumbsup:
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they made your house a historic landmark and you had no say so in the matter? something does not add up.

thats like HOA coming in years after you buy telling you what you can do or cant do.
 
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