REACTIVATED IN CT (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-29-11 03:16 PM
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The guy across the street threatened me this morning.
Said " I'll fix you once and for all". I called the cops and it turns out I'm "instigating" because I gave the guy the finger !
It all started during the most recent snowstorm when this guy and the plow he and the landlord hired were plowing snow onto my property. I asked them not to do it but when I went outside later in the day, there it was on my sidewalk (my neighbor across the street witnessed it happening). I had words with the landlord when he came out to shovel . He claimed he was not responsible because the tenant engaged the plow. He had told me during the prior storm that they were splitting the cost. I told him that he was responsible as the property owner. I told him to get the plow back there and remove the snow form my property.
I was getting pretty hot under the collar when the tenant drove up and I used the "f" word a couple of times describing his plow driver and the snow that had been plowed on my property. He didn't like that at all. "Don't you curse at me" he says. The cop said today that I was "instigating" then, too.
I'm an out of shape 63 year old woman and I'm not much of a threat to these guys - both also middle aged.
This morning Mr Tenant waved at me from his car while I was walking my dogs. I gave him the finger and he rolled down the window and threatened me "if you ever approach me again - I'll fix you once and for all".
I'd heard from former tenants in that house that he had a bad temper with his girlfriends. I also don't know if the guy owns a gun.
So I call the cops and learn, much to my surprise, that I am instigating when I shoot off my mouth when someone sh*ts on me or when I calmly, wordlessly flip someone the bird.
REACTIVATED IN CT (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-29-11 03:16 PM"And I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for you meddling kids and your dog!" :mental:
Original message
The guy across the street threatened me this morning.
Said " I'll fix you once and for all". I called the cops and it turns out I'm "instigating" because I gave the guy the finger !
there it was on my sidewalkI thought sidewalks were public property. Unless this DUmmy means 'walkway'.
I thought sidewalks were public property.
backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-29-11 05:41 PM
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49. Lesson learned: The police are ****ing useless.
The police are not your friend.
They're job is not to protect you, but to enforce the order for the rich subhumans that have wrested oligarchic control over this country.
Any raised voice is a threat to order, even if that raised voice is to ask them for help dealing with a person who made a threat of violence.
Oh no, the threat of violence isn't the problem, your raised voice and extended middle finger is the problem - it's a threat to order.
The police are the enemy of liberty. Look how they've been behaving in Cairo.
I'm sure the pig-lovers are going to be howling about my raised voice in 3...2...1...
backwoodsbob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-29-11 03:45 PM
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9. so you cussed him and the next meeting flipped him the bird..
yeah I would react warmly if I was your neighbor..I would probably shovel my yard into your drive.
That's just how I am though...others may react differently
Codeine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-29-11 05:32 PM
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46. I guess I'll be the asshole who points out
that there is almost certainly one helluva lot more to your story than you're divulging here.
CatFancy55 (20 posts) Sat Jan-29-11 05:37 PM
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48. Bingo.
Her version has him saying "if you ever approach me again - I'll fix you once and for all".
If she's admitting he said it in terms of "if you ever approach me again," it sounds like he's just sick of being constantly harassed. She admit he waved at her, and she began screaming and flipping the bird.
We had a neighbor who would do THE EXACT SAME THING. Scream at neighbors, flip people off, call the police constantly, scream about where people were dumping snow. She eventually had to be sent to a mental hospital.
REACTIVATED IN CT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-29-11 07:16 PM
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69. There is nothing more to
this story. Why would you think there was ? I have an inconsiderate homeowner across the street from me. He is inconsiderate to other folks on the street. He has a tenant who apparently doesn't cotton to women cussing him or flipping him the bird. He has allegedly been verbally abusive to women in the past. I've never heard it, but the former downstairs tenants complained about it.
Lucian (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-29-11 09:37 PM
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88. He waved and you gave him the finger?
Wow.
No sympathy from me.
TicketyBoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-29-11 09:55 PM
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90. Flipping someone off Updated at 3:49 PM
is so classless. And juvenile.
There has to be a better (and smarter) way to handle your emotions.
"And I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for you meddling kids and your dog!" :mental:I bet he was twirling his handlebar mustache while he said it.
I thought sidewalks were public property. Unless this DUmmy means 'walkway'.
backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-29-11 05:41 PM
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49. Lesson learned: The police are ****ing useless.
The police are not your friend.
They're job is not to protect you, but to enforce the order for the rich subhumans that have wrested oligarchic control over this country.
I calmly, wordlessly flip someone the bird.
He has allegedly been verbally abusive to women in the past. I've never heard it, but the former downstairs tenants complained about it.
REACTIVATED IN CT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-29-11 07:16 PM
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69. There is nothing more to
this story. Why would you think there was ? I have an inconsiderate homeowner across the street from me. He is inconsiderate to other folks on the street. He has a tenant who apparently doesn't cotton to women cussing him or flipping him the bird.
It depends. Where my dad lives, he is responsible for clearing the walkway up to the house and the sidewalk directly in front of his house.
That's pretty typical, most places the city has an easement to put it in and is responsible for actually fixing it (which is an extremely rare event), but the occupant is responsible to keep it clear.
REACTIVATED IN CT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jan-29-11 04:17 PM
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24. I tried the "discuss the issue like grown ups". Mr Landlord
was told by the plow driver that the town owns 10 feet from the edge of the street, so it was OK to plow onto the sidewalk. I pointed out to Mr Landlord that if that was true, the town owns my front porch since it is less than 10 feet from the curb (19th century house). I asked him to get the plow back and remove the snow. I had asked them when they were plowing, to not put it on my property. I didn't blow up right from the getgo.
I did get a much needed laugh from the YouTube idea !
It depends. Where my dad lives, he is responsible for clearing the walkway up to the house and the sidewalk directly in front of his house.
That being said, I'm betting this woman let her dogs shit on his lawn or something equally as destructive or obnoxious. I'd have plowed her into her damn house when she started cursing at me. Bet the cops just loooooooove her.
You'd be surprised at how often we have to deal with people like this woman. The worst we have is this one middle aged woman (see a trend here?) that raises hell every fall because her neighbor's leaves are trespassing on her lawn when they fall off his tree. She wants the neighbor cited for every leaf that lands on her side of the property line.
What a lovely sight, a 63 year old woman flipping the bird. She is also probably known as the neighborhood cat lady/hoarder.
My Grandmother always said "if they're bitches when they're old they were bitches when they were young".
Well, that's one of her problems. She needs to find a place where the tenants DO cotton to women cussing them and flipping them the bird.
You'd be surprised at how often we have to deal with people like this woman. The worst we have is this one middle aged woman (see a trend here?) that raises hell every fall because her neighbor's leaves are trespassing on her lawn when they fall off his tree. She wants the neighbor cited for every leaf that lands on her side of the property line.I don't know if Sparky and others remember this thread, about one of our co forum members had a interesting neighbor. It was over a tree. One of them wanted to cut the branches of the tree, but the branches would fall in the other person's yard, it was a mess to say the least.
The fact that he can properly nail a word such as oligarchic, but completely fail at the whole their vs. there vs. they're thing in the same sentence tells me the he can properly nail the liberal talking points but completely fails at basic English.
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