# I pit my asshole neighbors **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 23, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108 "2017-09-23T20:41:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Debillw3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Debillw3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debillw3)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/61 "2017-09-26T05:54:56Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > If it was SOOOO inconvenient then, why not seek a remedy… Once again, as I’ve said repeatedly, I did. I got my errands and chores taken care of. > [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > …instead of making excuses that the universe was conspiring against you? I’m not sure whose posts you’re reading, but they sure as hell aren’t mine in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/62 "2017-09-26T06:05:07Z")
^On top of that those self-same sucky cops and lying fuckers you call neighbors may come and save you from some dire emergency, someday? How can you even ask them for help when they wouldn’t even let you out of your driveway ? For crissakes man how do you dare to even reside in the same neighborhood with these cretins? You are your own problem. Next time pit yourself! ---
**Author:** ![Debillw3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Debillw3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debillw3)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/63 "2017-09-26T06:10:37Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > For crissakes man how do you dare to even reside in the same neighborhood with these cretins. I don’t. I assume you’d know that if you read the thread. I also assume you’d know that they weren’t blocking my driveway, since I made that clear as well. Of course, if everyone participating in the thread actually read the thread, I wouldn’t have to repeat myself so many times. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Next time pit yourself! I did. Go nuts–this was fun, but I’m out. Happy Friday!! (Again…) ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/64 "2017-09-26T06:19:08Z")
> [@Debillw3](#): > > I was surprised by that too, but since the permit said I’d have free and clear access to my driveway and all the affected houses signed off, I didn’t really care. > > When they illegally closed the street in a manner that took away my street access, that’s when I got pissed. > [@Debillw3](#): > > I also assume you’d know that they weren’t blocking my driveway, since I made that clear as well. Clear as mud. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/65 "2017-09-26T07:07:03Z")
Do you mean to say you don’t even live in this neighborhood? Wha???@! There is something seriously wrong here. Are you on crack or something? BTW it ain’t Friday. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/66 "2017-09-26T07:10:41Z")
I have never seen a block party where the neighbors had to pay to participate. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/67 "2017-09-26T07:45:28Z")
Couldn’t you just drive up on the sidewalk a bit to get around the barrier? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/68 "2017-09-26T07:54:30Z")
Psycho??? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/69 "2017-09-26T07:56:44Z")
There really wasn’t a block party…or a street, a neighborhood, a police dept, or even an OP, This is the twilight zone or something! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/70 "2017-09-26T12:50:49Z")
I am willing to believe that the OP’s neighbors are indeed assholes. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/71 "2017-09-26T14:08:37Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Couldn’t you just drive up on the sidewalk a bit to get around the barrier? Evidently that wasn’t necessary - he admitted that the police managed to drive their SUV past the “immovable” barriers. And he also said he actually just didn’t want to move the barriers, so maybe they weren’t so immovable after all. I wonder if he misinterpreted the permit in the first place. On the one side we have a block full of neighbors, “ticket takers”, police dispatch, a canine unit, and the sheriff all unconcerned with the street closure. On the other, we have one guy posting on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/72 "2017-09-26T14:21:02Z")
Re-read post #63…he says they weren’t even his neighbors. I don’t even understand. Is he delusional or am I mis-reading that? ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/73 "2017-09-26T17:50:50Z")
I’m pretty familiar w/ block parties, but never ones that resembled the OP’s. The requiring payment and barring entry seems somewhat over-the-top, tho I’ve seen times that the organizers requested a per-household donation. But I find it hard to imagine that a neighbor couldn’t have simply asked for assistance getting past the barrier. Hell, I’ve seen that happen even when someone needed a car out smack dab in the middle of things, simply because they forgot they were going to need their car and forgot to move it ahead of time. Without exception, IME block parties are pretty laidback events; the one time neighbors go out of their way to prove how friendly and helpful they can be. I admittedly have not researched this, but I always assumed the barriers were (primarily?) to prevent through traffic. Not to completely prohibit ingress/egress by residents. And add me to the list of folk who don’t understand why you didn’t just move the cones. If it was such a hike down for you to ask someone to move the truck, you think they would have known or cared whether you moved the cones and your car for a minute or 2? If I had been in your shoes, I imagine I might have been ever-so-minimally miffed at the barriers being other than where they should have been. But I couldn’t imagine calling the cops or starting a Pit thread about it. ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/74 "2017-09-26T19:03:27Z")
> [@Covfefe](#): > > Back in the summer of 2011… People are entitled idiots. My wife’s house, back when we were dating and living separately, had a long backyard that separated the houses behind from a cross street. Rather than walk around the property, they would just walk straight through the backyard. The first time I experienced this I was BBQing in her backyard, and someone passed almost within arms reach. Eyes to the ground, iPod on blast. I gave them the best “get fuckered” look I could muster at the back of their head (I hope they felt it). I asked my wife about it, and she said “meh, people have been doing it since before I was a little girl, I don’t begrudge them.” She’s a better person than I. I wanted to build a fence, a moat, and a catapult. ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/75 "2017-09-26T19:14:21Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > This thread is bizarre to me. This guy is pitting a legitimate grievance. Some people are blocking the street in front of his house. He’s having to have someone else drive by and get him so he can leave. He flat out told you that part of blockade is a vehicle, and you can’t move someone else’s vehicle. It is the #1 Pit Pastime. Tell the Pitter that _he’s_ actually the idiot, and that makes you superior, and you win everything. The last pit thread I started, I preempted that sentiment buy putting a inb4 message to all of the Pit Winners. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/76 "2017-09-26T20:35:03Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > Clear as mud. Really? They aren’t blocking his driveway, but blocking the road past his driveway. He can get out into the road, but not past the barricade. This is not remotely hard to understand. So not only has no one contradicted anything I said, showing he has a legitimate grievance, but you guys are now playing stupid to attack him. It’s clear to me that there must be some underlying animosity against this guy. So what is the deal? I literally don’t know this dude, other than he made one post I thought was badly argued a bit ago. Before that, I was wondering why I didn’t even remember him. He seems a perfectly innocuous poster to me, who has a legitimate gripe about people abusing a permit and blocking his access to the road. The assholes don’t even live on his street, but the next street over. These assholes care so little about other people that they will block off someone completely uninvolved in the “party.” They are selfish assholes, and thus I 100% approve of this pitting. I hope that the reason you guys are upset is not that you have also done this, and thus have to find any excuse to prove that the OP’s the _real_ asshole. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/77 "2017-09-26T20:53:27Z")
There seems to be some idea here that pittings in the Pit have to have **weight**. They must be ponderous and serious. I mean, yeah, we pit Trump here, and he would be well served by drowning in a toilet because he forgot which of his shit-spewing holes is which. But not all posters are Trump. Sometimes a dude can just get mad that his driveway was blocked for a night. It’s not strictly necessary to lose your goddamn minds over it. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/78 "2017-09-27T02:25:47Z")
^Look…It is not in the least bit the idea that his pit has no weight…He seemed genuinely upset (read his opening post) and put upon. My response was at worst alittle flippant. But he wasn’t having none of it. He took no ones advice. He argued ad nauseam, that he could not, would not, or even should not go out and talk to the actual officers on the scene, for various reasons. Then in the end all of a sudden, he magically had not one problem. In fact he had a great day with friend. My understanding of the pit is too roast the offending…whatever…that you are pissed about! I just don’t understand why he even said anything. I get miffed about 20 times a day about something or another, usually to no avail. But seriously read his first posts, they are full of hate, vitriolic cursing and name calling. I was really feeling his pain and ‘poof’ it was gone. Don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/79 "2017-09-27T02:40:16Z")
And BTW, I don’t have any knowledge of the OP either. And I have never been to or seen a block party. I know about road closings for some reason or another. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108/80 "2017-09-27T17:23:48Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > ^Look…It is not in the least bit the idea that his pit has no weight…He seemed genuinely upset (read his opening post) and put upon. My response was at worst alittle flippant. But he wasn’t having none of it. He took no ones advice. He argued ad nauseam, that he could not, would not, or even should not go out and talk to the actual officers on the scene, for various reasons. Then in the end all of a sudden, he magically had not one problem. In fact he had a great day with friend. My understanding of the pit is too roast the offending…whatever…that you are pissed about! I just don’t understand why he even said anything. I get miffed about 20 times a day about something or another, usually to no avail. But seriously read his first posts, they are full of hate, vitriolic cursing and name calling. I was really feeling his pain and ‘poof’ it was gone. Don’t get it. Well, this _is_ the pit. You have to fucking say the damn irritant is fucking awful, due to protocol here alone. (And I in fact agree with him - having my car blocked in would be irritating, even if it wasn’t quite irritating enough for me to grab a shotgun and fire it into the air a few times to get everyone’s attention before calmly asking them to move the obstruction.) As for him calming down later, perhaps venting and the passage of time helped. After that the only irritant would be people sniping at him in this thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-asshole-neighbors/797108.md?page=5)