Have you ever tried to make a neighbor move?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, we made them move.

One day I discovered my neighbors were stealing my cable tv by splicing into my lines. I disconnected them. Week later they had reconnected. I disconnected again. They reconnected. Third time I disconnected them, I wired a 240v line to their old junction, knowing that if they attempted to reconnect it would blow up all of their electronics. Sure enough, the next night I hear a loud bang. Every tv in their house basically fried itself. One of them caught fire, they had to call the fire department, whom, upon learning of the cause of the fire called police. But only after a pretty sizeable portion of their home was destroyed. Police spoke with me, I told them what I did, and they laughed their asses off. For old measure they arrested the husband, no idea on hat charge. The house was declared unsafe by the FD and razed. They moved, a developer bought the land and built a SFH in its place. New neighbors are nice.

To each his own I guess.

it's a lovely story, especially for people who have POS as neighbors because makes them dream. but it is very hard to believe, especially the part where you told the police what you did and the police pat you on the shoulder laughing. you created a potentially life threatening hazard fully knowing that it was likely the neighbors were going to connect again, basically setting up a trap for them that could have killed somebody and that did a lot of damage to the point of having the house condemned. I don't know what jurisdiction this was, but I find strange that you were not held responsible for the damages and put in jail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, we made them move.

One day I discovered my neighbors were stealing my cable tv by splicing into my lines. I disconnected them. Week later they had reconnected. I disconnected again. They reconnected. Third time I disconnected them, I wired a 240v line to their old junction, knowing that if they attempted to reconnect it would blow up all of their electronics. Sure enough, the next night I hear a loud bang. Every tv in their house basically fried itself. One of them caught fire, they had to call the fire department, whom, upon learning of the cause of the fire called police. But only after a pretty sizeable portion of their home was destroyed. Police spoke with me, I told them what I did, and they laughed their asses off. For old measure they arrested the husband, no idea on hat charge. The house was declared unsafe by the FD and razed. They moved, a developer bought the land and built a SFH in its place. New neighbors are nice.

To each his own I guess.

This is a bullshit story. If you really put 240V on a coax cable connection you would have gone to jail. That is a life threateningly dangerous thing to do.

Troll.

+1. Having a hard time believing the FD and PD would laugh that off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Publicly shame the sex offenders

that's a good way to land in jail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, we made them move.

One day I discovered my neighbors were stealing my cable tv by splicing into my lines. I disconnected them. Week later they had reconnected. I disconnected again. They reconnected. Third time I disconnected them, I wired a 240v line to their old junction, knowing that if they attempted to reconnect it would blow up all of their electronics. Sure enough, the next night I hear a loud bang. Every tv in their house basically fried itself. One of them caught fire, they had to call the fire department, whom, upon learning of the cause of the fire called police. But only after a pretty sizeable portion of their home was destroyed. Police spoke with me, I told them what I did, and they laughed their asses off. For old measure they arrested the husband, no idea on hat charge. The house was declared unsafe by the FD and razed. They moved, a developer bought the land and built a SFH in its place. New neighbors are nice.

To each his own I guess.

So you trespassed on their property?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:no, but i'm not a nasty person. only a really despicable human being would do something like that.

Agreed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, we made them move.

One day I discovered my neighbors were stealing my cable tv by splicing into my lines. I disconnected them. Week later they had reconnected. I disconnected again. They reconnected. Third time I disconnected them, I wired a 240v line to their old junction, knowing that if they attempted to reconnect it would blow up all of their electronics. Sure enough, the next night I hear a loud bang. Every tv in their house basically fried itself. One of them caught fire, they had to call the fire department, whom, upon learning of the cause of the fire called police. But only after a pretty sizeable portion of their home was destroyed. Police spoke with me, I told them what I did, and they laughed their asses off. For old measure they arrested the husband, no idea on hat charge. The house was declared unsafe by the FD and razed. They moved, a developer bought the land and built a SFH in its place. New neighbors are nice.

To each his own I guess.

This is a bullshit story. If you really put 240V on a coax cable connection you would have gone to jail. That is a life threateningly dangerous thing to do.

Troll.

+1. Having a hard time believing the FD and PD would laugh that off.

Agree. I don't think this person knows anything about electrical lines and cables. Someone is bound to be electrocuted if they attempt to do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Publicly shame the sex offenders

that's a good way to land in jail.

thank you child resist

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Publicly shame the sex offenders

that's a good way to land in jail.

thank you child rapist

[Anonymous]

Coax guy here. It was Texas in the 90s. The mindset of property and such is different down there than it is here. This was (probably still is) the type of place where tresspasing meant you might be shot on sight and the cops wouldnt care. Property, cars, wife ... sacred down there. Don't get me wrong, the FD did admonish me, but there were no charges. The PD did just straight up laugh. You don't have to believe it, most people don't. And yes, it was a pretty foolish thing to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Publicly shame the sex offenders

that's a good way to land in jail.

thank you child rapist

Fuck you. Seriously, I hope something really awful happens to you today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Coax guy here. It was Texas in the 90s. The mindset of property and such is different down there than it is here. This was (probably still is) the type of place where tresspasing meant you might be shot on sight and the cops wouldnt care. Property, cars, wife ... sacred down there. Don't get me wrong, the FD did admonish me, but there were no charges. The PD did just straight up laugh. You don't have to believe it, most people don't. And yes, it was a pretty foolish thing to do.

Ah, that explains it. Totally believable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Coax guy here. It was Texas in the 90s. The mindset of property and such is different down there than it is here. This was (probably still is) the type of place where tresspasing meant you might be shot on sight and the cops wouldnt care. Property, cars, wife ... sacred down there. Don't get me wrong, the FD did admonish me, but there were no charges. The PD did just straight up laugh. You don't have to believe it, most people don't. And yes, it was a pretty foolish thing to do.

I guess I keep wondering if you actually first knocked on their door to tell them to stop splicing in and warn them you would call the police if they did it again? Seems like a simpler solution.

My mother always gets into fights with her neighbors, doing passive aggressive things to them, because of things they do that bother her. I never understand why she doesn't go to their house like a grown up and ask them to please stop or find a solution together. If they ignore reasonable requests, then go to plan B.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Publicly shame the sex offenders

that's a good way to land in jail.

thank you child rapist

Fuck you. Seriously, I hope something really awful happens to you today.

Yeah cause I am against molesters, an awful thing would be to allow rapists like you to bully us around. Go away and live in fell you scumbag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, we made them move.

One day I discovered my neighbors were stealing my cable tv by splicing into my lines. I disconnected them. Week later they had reconnected. I disconnected again. They reconnected. Third time I disconnected them, I wired a 240v line to their old junction, knowing that if they attempted to reconnect it would blow up all of their electronics. Sure enough, the next night I hear a loud bang. Every tv in their house basically fried itself. One of them caught fire, they had to call the fire department, whom, upon learning of the cause of the fire called police. But only after a pretty sizeable portion of their home was destroyed. Police spoke with me, I told them what I did, and they laughed their asses off. For old measure they arrested the husband, no idea on hat charge. The house was declared unsafe by the FD and razed. They moved, a developer bought the land and built a SFH in its place. New neighbors are nice.

To each his own I guess.

it's a lovely story, especially for people who have POS as neighbors because makes them dream. but it is very hard to believe, especially the part where you told the police what you did and the police pat you on the shoulder laughing. you created a potentially life threatening hazard fully knowing that it was likely the neighbors were going to connect again, basically setting up a trap for them that could have killed somebody and that did a lot of damage to the point of having the house condemned. I don't know what jurisdiction this was, but I find strange that you were not held responsible for the damages and put in jail.

This is an urban myth. IRL you would face charges of endangerment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Coax guy here. It was Texas in the 90s. The mindset of property and such is different down there than it is here. This was (probably still is) the type of place where tresspasing meant you might be shot on sight and the cops wouldnt care. Property, cars, wife ... sacred down there. Don't get me wrong, the FD did admonish me, but there were no charges. The PD did just straight up laugh. You don't have to believe it, most people don't. And yes, it was a pretty foolish thing to do.

That is true. Some states are very different than the East coast in law.