Have you ever tried to make a neighbor move?

[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.

Hahaha!

When I read your original post, my first thought was "Texas?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Will check in again Tuesday. Its not me. My friends (2) are in a neighborhood of mostly knockdowns and the owners of old houses are not happy with the owners of the new houses.

Some being built, some already built. Fights being picked in the neighborhood (these are grown adults) that don't really make sense otherwise. Similar to PP, old neighbors complaining about everything and anything, really irrational. Slander, libel, vandalism, harassment, stalking, and other charges involved. My friends have first class litigation lawyers, so are not concerned with legal advice. They have won cases to date, which has just made the old neighbors more upset with their own lives (if that is possible).

I was just wondering if anyone has heard of this or if it is just the area. Was it like these cases or different? What happened?

It seems to me, as PP said, they will have a nice, young successful couple move in next door (in the new houses) no matter what. Generally, I don't know of any UNsuccessful people that live in the new houses (!!!), so what do they expect? If it were me, I would issue a restraining order. But its not, so they are lucky. I haven't asked about the other charges, but it seems they have it under control.

I was wondering if this is a common occurrence. It seems so outrageous that grown adults would be so UNhappy in their own lives as to do such a thing. I know my friends are too busy to move in the near future, and probably not as outraged as I am about it (just listening to the story!).

Hmm. So let me guess: your friends are the proud owners of the sunlight and neighborhood killing Mickey Simpson-type new homes. The entitled princes and princesses probably drive way too fast, have backyard parties where they and their friends get sloppy on wine laughing and having great (inane) conversations late into the night, spray for mosquitoes regardless of their next door neighbors' organic veggie garden, etc., then when the neighbors who have been there for 20-50 years gently suggested/requested some changes, your friends sued? Or the old neighbors sued?

I side with the old neighbors. You're painting them as toothless dumb hicks with nothing going on in their lives other than their various axes to grind. I doubt it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Will check in again Tuesday. Its not me. My friends (2) are in a neighborhood of mostly knockdowns and the owners of old houses are not happy with the owners of the new houses.

Some being built, some already built. Fights being picked in the neighborhood (these are grown adults) that don't really make sense otherwise. Similar to PP, old neighbors complaining about everything and anything, really irrational. Slander, libel, vandalism, harassment, stalking, and other charges involved. My friends have first class litigation lawyers, so are not concerned with legal advice. They have won cases to date, which has just made the old neighbors more upset with their own lives (if that is possible).

I was just wondering if anyone has heard of this or if it is just the area. Was it like these cases or different? What happened?

It seems to me, as PP said, they will have a nice, young successful couple move in next door (in the new houses) no matter what. Generally, I don't know of any UNsuccessful people that live in the new houses (!!!), so what do they expect? If it were me, I would issue a restraining order. But its not, so they are lucky. I haven't asked about the other charges, but it seems they have it under control.

I was wondering if this is a common occurrence. It seems so outrageous that grown adults would be so UNhappy in their own lives as to do such a thing. I know my friends are too busy to move in the near future, and probably not as outraged as I am about it (just listening to the story!).

Hmm. So let me guess: your friends are the proud owners of the sunlight and neighborhood killing Mickey Simpson-type new homes. The entitled princes and princesses probably drive way too fast, have backyard parties where they and their friends get sloppy on wine laughing and having great (inane) conversations late into the night, spray for mosquitoes regardless of their next door neighbors' organic veggie garden, etc., then when the neighbors who have been there for 20-50 years gently suggested/requested some changes, your friends sued? Or the old neighbors sued?

I side with the old neighbors. You're painting them as toothless dumb hicks with nothing going on in their lives other than their various axes to grind. I doubt it.

Wow, talk about jumping to conclusions... How the hell did you get to inane conversations and bug spray from what OP said??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Will check in again Tuesday. Its not me. My friends (2) are in a neighborhood of mostly knockdowns and the owners of old houses are not happy with the owners of the new houses.

Some being built, some already built. Fights being picked in the neighborhood (these are grown adults) that don't really make sense otherwise. Similar to PP, old neighbors complaining about everything and anything, really irrational. Slander, libel, vandalism, harassment, stalking, and other charges involved. My friends have first class litigation lawyers, so are not concerned with legal advice. They have won cases to date, which has just made the old neighbors more upset with their own lives (if that is possible).

I was just wondering if anyone has heard of this or if it is just the area. Was it like these cases or different? What happened?

It seems to me, as PP said, they will have a nice, young successful couple move in next door (in the new houses) no matter what. Generally, I don't know of any UNsuccessful people that live in the new houses (!!!), so what do they expect? If it were me, I would issue a restraining order. But its not, so they are lucky. I haven't asked about the other charges, but it seems they have it under control.

I was wondering if this is a common occurrence. It seems so outrageous that grown adults would be so UNhappy in their own lives as to do such a thing. I know my friends are too busy to move in the near future, and probably not as outraged as I am about it (just listening to the story!).

Hmm. So let me guess: your friends are the proud owners of the sunlight and neighborhood killing Mickey Simpson-type new homes. The entitled princes and princesses probably drive way too fast, have backyard parties where they and their friends get sloppy on wine laughing and having great (inane) conversations late into the night, spray for mosquitoes regardless of their next door neighbors' organic veggie garden, etc., then when the neighbors who have been there for 20-50 years gently suggested/requested some changes, your friends sued? Or the old neighbors sued?

I side with the old neighbors. You're painting them as toothless dumb hicks with nothing going on in their lives other than their various axes to grind. I doubt it.

Ignore this one because the life path of failure was picked that didn't allow for the mcmansion

[Anonymous]

20:15 - Thank you! Op here. Wow, are all of the old house owners this hostile? I would say *no wonder* they are angry about their own lives! Wow.

But I do thank the hostile PPs for inadvertently providing some insight

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Had a similar situation next door: loud parties, fights in the street, drug use on the deck, and eventually dealing out of the house, all by the owner's nephew and friends who lived with him while going to school. We didn't try to get the owner to move, but we started calling the police on every single infraction so that the users/dealers eventually got the message that this was not a good spot to set up shop.

I think this is apples and oranges comparing to the fake made-up drama OP was mentioning. Your case is a real reason, you would want to do something like this, when peace and safety are at stake and when the only other choice is to move yourself. But petty situations OP describes with old owners vs. new home owners sound really fake to me.

[Anonymous]

There are other threads about the same issue, PP. Welcome to this planet and this era.

[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.

This sounds fake. If it's not fake, you sound like a complete moron, what if someone got hurt in the house, I am surprised, the neighbors let you go unscathed and didn't lawyer up to take you for a ride of your life for almost burning down their home. Why would anyone resort to such method when you could just go and talk to your neighbors, or figure out some other civilized way to resolve this small conflict. I am surprised you didn't get arrested. Your neighbors are stupid for not suing the sh** out of you.

[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.

I effing love you. Can you move next door to me! Omg, this is brilliant. And I thought my idea of putting hamster poop in the newspaper bag that my neighbors kept stealing was fun.

I don't think, putting hampster poop on a newspaper located on your doorstep is quite in the same category as deliberately trying to destroy neighbor's property and endangering their lives.

[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.

ITA, this is absolutely a troll post, funny how people are buying into this and even admiring the ridiculous story.

[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.

Ok, I'll play. Lets imagine it happened and let's imagine it was the wild wild west, like you describe. Then why the hell didn't your neighbors not try to shoot you for destroying their home and almost killing them or doing some sort of damage to your property as an eye for an eye type of thing. This would have been a natural thing to do, and I am sure the police would just laugh it off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Will check in again Tuesday. Its not me. My friends (2) are in a neighborhood of mostly knockdowns and the owners of old houses are not happy with the owners of the new houses.

Some being built, some already built. Fights being picked in the neighborhood (these are grown adults) that don't really make sense otherwise. Similar to PP, old neighbors complaining about everything and anything, really irrational. Slander, libel, vandalism, harassment, stalking, and other charges involved. My friends have first class litigation lawyers, so are not concerned with legal advice. They have won cases to date, which has just made the old neighbors more upset with their own lives (if that is possible).

I was just wondering if anyone has heard of this or if it is just the area. Was it like these cases or different? What happened?

It seems to me, as PP said, they will have a nice, young successful couple move in next door (in the new houses) no matter what. Generally, I don't know of any UNsuccessful people that live in the new houses (!!!), so what do they expect? If it were me, I would issue a restraining order. But its not, so they are lucky. I haven't asked about the other charges, but it seems they have it under control.

I was wondering if this is a common occurrence. It seems so outrageous that grown adults would be so UNhappy in their own lives as to do such a thing. I know my friends are too busy to move in the near future, and probably not as outraged as I am about it (just listening to the story!).

Hmm. So let me guess: your friends are the proud owners of the sunlight and neighborhood killing Mickey Simpson-type new homes. The entitled princes and princesses probably drive way too fast, have backyard parties where they and their friends get sloppy on wine laughing and having great (inane) conversations late into the night, spray for mosquitoes regardless of their next door neighbors' organic veggie garden, etc., then when the neighbors who have been there for 20-50 years gently suggested/requested some changes, your friends sued? Or the old neighbors sued?

I side with the old neighbors. You're painting them as toothless dumb hicks with nothing going on in their lives other than their various axes to grind. I doubt it.

Ignore this one because the life path of failure was picked that didn't allow for the mcmansion

Are you trying to insult me? Or reinforce my beliefs about the people who a) choose to live in McMansions and b) are too stupid to realize that McMansion is an insult. Or maybe you're agreeing with me?

[Anonymous]

OP (not PP) here. I, for one, have never known anyone stupid to lives in a big, nice, new house!

How do you think new house people got where they are, by being stupid? Doubt it! When I hear the Mc-whatever word, I think the user of the word is frustrated with their own life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Will check in again Tuesday. Its not me. My friends (2) are in a neighborhood of mostly knockdowns and the owners of old houses are not happy with the owners of the new houses.

Some being built, some already built. Fights being picked in the neighborhood (these are grown adults) that don't really make sense otherwise. Similar to PP, old neighbors complaining about everything and anything, really irrational. Slander, libel, vandalism, harassment, stalking, and other charges involved. My friends have first class litigation lawyers, so are not concerned with legal advice. They have won cases to date, which has just made the old neighbors more upset with their own lives (if that is possible).

I was just wondering if anyone has heard of this or if it is just the area. Was it like these cases or different? What happened?

It seems to me, as PP said, they will have a nice, young successful couple move in next door (in the new houses) no matter what. Generally, I don't know of any UNsuccessful people that live in the new houses (!!!), so what do they expect? If it were me, I would issue a restraining order. But its not, so they are lucky. I haven't asked about the other charges, but it seems they have it under control.

I was wondering if this is a common occurrence. It seems so outrageous that grown adults would be so UNhappy in their own lives as to do such a thing. I know my friends are too busy to move in the near future, and probably not as outraged as I am about it (just listening to the story!).

Hmm. So let me guess: your friends are the proud owners of the sunlight and neighborhood killing Mickey Simpson-type new homes. The entitled princes and princesses probably drive way too fast, have backyard parties where they and their friends get sloppy on wine laughing and having great (inane) conversations late into the night, spray for mosquitoes regardless of their next door neighbors' organic veggie garden, etc., then when the neighbors who have been there for 20-50 years gently suggested/requested some changes, your friends sued? Or the old neighbors sued?

I side with the old neighbors. You're painting them as toothless dumb hicks with nothing going on in their lives other than their various axes to grind. I doubt it.

Ignore this one because the life path of failure was picked that didn't allow for the mcmansion

Are you trying to insult me? Or reinforce my beliefs about the people who a) choose to live in McMansions and b) are too stupid to realize that McMansion is an insult. Or maybe you're agreeing with me?

Hhahahhahah , hopefully they don't tear down your home