# Hating my neighbors--once more, with feeling **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hating-my-neighbors-once-more-with-feeling/408719 "2007-06-20T15:05:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hating-my-neighbors-once-more-with-feeling/408719/81 "2007-06-23T17:01:41Z")
I don’t think they bought a bobcat (unless they are seriously rich people) - used they go for tens of thousands of dollars. Well, maybe they did buy it, who knows? Not many people actually need a bobcat so much that they need to buy one though, hence the whole rental market. This sounds so odd - maybe they rented it for a full week, and they aren’t too worried about getting it back early. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hating-my-neighbors-once-more-with-feeling/408719/82 "2007-06-23T17:53:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Honestly, Leafan is just a freak Oh dammit! I insulted **Leafan**. I apologize. I need to work on my MPSIMS manners. Especially for a disagreement that is so inconsequential. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hating-my-neighbors-once-more-with-feeling/408719/83 "2007-07-03T15:59:40Z")
Bump. Where’s the Bobcat now? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hating-my-neighbors-once-more-with-feeling/408719/84 "2007-07-04T19:08:25Z")
The saga of the bobcat is over. It was there yesterday morning. I didn’t check when I got home. It’s gone now. They didn’t come through my yard. You know how in spy movies people will do weird things with a hair on a door jamb? I did the backyard equivalent, and the hair on the door jamb is still in place. However, they didn’t take down any of their trees. I suspect they went through the yard of the neighbors on the other side, but for once the ground in the back is so hard and dry you can’t see a churned up path. It’s a mystery. They didn’t do any further bobcatting, either. There is still a ginormous pile of dirt in the very back of their yard, adjacent to the gap in my fence. The kicker? There’s a pile of dirty diapers on my back sidewalk. Well, that’s an exaggeration. There are two dirty diapers on my back sidewalk. Strangely, any number of dirty diapers seems like a huge number of dirty diapers when they are not, in fact, your own dirty diapers. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2007, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hating-my-neighbors-once-more-with-feeling/408719/85 "2007-07-04T23:59:32Z")
Do they have infants? ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hating-my-neighbors-once-more-with-feeling/408719/86 "2007-07-05T00:55:31Z")
[QUOTE=jsgoddess] The kicker? There’s a pile of dirty diapers on my back sidewalk. Well, that’s an exaggeration. There are two dirty diapers on my back sidewalk. Strangely, any number of dirty diapers seems like a huge number of dirty diapers when they are not, in fact, your own dirty diapers. [/QUOTE] Wha??? What’s this about? Is this some type of payback or threat? Coincidence? How are you interpreting this? When I made a big stink about a party that my neighbors threw one year, I got a dead gecko in the middle of my sidewalk the next day. Luckily for me, those neighbors have since moved. There were those that said that it just happened to die there despite the noise going on at the party. I didn’t buy it. And after those neighbors moved, less “weird” things happen. Weirdly, I was just thinking about that just before I read your post. . . how happy I am that they’re gone. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hating-my-neighbors-once-more-with-feeling/408719/87 "2007-07-05T01:06:38Z")
Heh…“made a big stink”. Sorry. The whole thing is weird to me. I think they didn’t want to hurt their circles when they were using the red lines to get into their yard via yours. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hating-my-neighbors-once-more-with-feeling/408719/88 "2007-07-05T01:22:25Z")
Well that’s shitty. It must have been tramp babies. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hating-my-neighbors-once-more-with-feeling/408719/89 "2007-07-05T04:40:06Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Sorry. The whole thing is weird to me. I think they didn’t want to hurt their circles when they were using the red lines to get into their yard via yours. [/QUOTE] Wow, I didn’t even hear the wind as this whooshed by! What does this mean? I even re-read the OP and most of the thread to see what I missed and I still don’t get it. 'Splain please. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hating-my-neighbors-once-more-with-feeling/408719/90 "2007-07-05T05:22:55Z")
From post #64 [QUOTE=jsgoddess] I tried to construct a picture. My artistic abilities are slim. The red lines are where the tracks are. You can see that there’s no way for them to get equipment in from the front. They simply have too many structures in the front. And they have trees all along the back of the property, while I have empty spaces. [My yard](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/jsgoddess/yard.jpg) [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hating-my-neighbors-once-more-with-feeling/408719/91 "2007-07-05T05:36:58Z")
[QUOTE=Projammer] From post #64 [/QUOTE] Thanks **Projammer**! But if that’s what he meant, then the neighbors didn’t seem to be worried about **jsgoddess** es’ circles since they ran over her lillies circles. They were just worried about their own circles. ETA: Er, and on looking at it again. . . that’s exactly what he said. . . their own circles. Duh! OK, got it now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hating-my-neighbors-once-more-with-feeling/408719.md?page=4)