My neighbor is a bullying, wife-beating coward and I took him to court today

The BBQ Pit
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Long story short, the sorry sac o’ shit renting the house next door to me (only renter on the street and he lands next to me) has been tresspassing on my property repeatedly. He walks over and does whatever he pleases. It started with him taking it upon himself to mow our grass, then he started looking in the windows, and the latest is that he has been coming over and banging on my deck steps with a stick. I have called the police three times and made reports, taken photos of him on my property, and on the advice of the police, taken out a warrant for his arrest for criminal trespass and also “Good Behavior” warrant.

So today we have our day in court, and… UGH! He has this smarmy, seersucker suit-wearing old geyser lawyer with a Denture Cream smile who proceeds to try and turn me into the defendant!

Excuse me grandpa, but IIIIIIIIII am the victim here, not Psycho Boy. I know it is your job to try and do this for your client you dust-farting antiquated Perry Mason wannabe, but I hardly think your premise makes any sense.

Let’s look at the facts here:

Your client has:
come into my yard and taken photos of me inside my house.
driven his lawn mower right up onto my heels on my property.
flicked cigarette butts into my yard.
thrown baseballs up against my house waking and scaring my children.
banged on my deck steps with a stick, again scaring the kids.
banged on my front door as I stood on the other side yelling at him to leave.
kicked over my trash can.
knocked over my bird bath.
flipped me off in front of my kids.
threatened to shoot the kids for coming in his yard (which they never do, they are petrified of him)

But you say I’m the agressor in this you inside-out Matlock?

Yeah, right. Did I mention that most of these acts were committed when Billy Bad Ass knew my husband wasn’t home? Yeah, that’s real brave… let’s go rattle the cage of a woman and a couple of kids… makes me feel reeeeaaaaal manly!

All incidents have taken place on my property, including his dog (Lab, never on a leash) biting my husband and charging at me with teeth barred.

Psycho Boy’s wife, who is covered in bruises, by the way, felt the need to come to my house a few weeks ago and tell me, “He’s really good guy, if you’d just give him a chance…”
Puh-leeze. I know battered-wife syndrome when I see it. I’m not buying your brand of crazy today, sister. If you can’t see that all he is doing is keeping shit stirred up so that you won’t have an ally the next time he busts you in the head, then there is no saving you.

The judge didn’t charge your client with criminal trespass, but he did impose a good behavior warrant on the guy. AND, I just want you to know, you Barnaby Jones on crack, that when you got up and told me, “You need to understand this works both ways”, nothing gave me more pleasure than looking in your nicotine-stained face and saying, “Good. That’s exactly what I wanted.”

I have a feeling I am going to be back in court again.

I hate greasy, funk-stank lawyers who know their clients are guilty losers who get off on bullying on women and children. I hope you both get buried in a pile of elephant dung from the neck down, and then hyenas come and eat your faces off. Then army ants will come and gnaw your eyeballs out of the sockets, and roaches will appear and lay egg packets in your ear canals. Lastly, both of your lying tongues should be sucked out by the roots and eaten by baboons.

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Good luck with that.

Has your hubby had a talk with him yet? If someone did this to my wife, well, let’s just say he wouldn’t feel too good afterwards.

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Thanks, and yes, we have tried that weeks ago, but it became clear that we were not going to be able to deal with this 'tard in any polite and rational way. My huband confronted him, and the guy said, “So… what are you going to do about it?”

Since he was clearly trying to provoke my husband, hubby just walked away, because he wanted to snap the guy’s neck. We decided to try and handle it the “right” way, but the guy feels he got away with it becasue the criminal trespass didn’t pan out. He’ll act up again, I am sure of it. In the meantime, I have pepper spray, and I am not afriad to use it!

We also have a cop living across the street who has also has his own issues with Psycho Boy. That’s right. This guy has the balls to mess with a cop. He’s just that brazen and stupid. He called the cop’s 13 year old a mother fucker, so I think that I will be going to testify as a witness in that case.

I have also just obtained the information on the rental company, who will be getting a call Monday.

I want to have faith in the justice system, but this just makes me ill.

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Yeah, that’ll show the guy’s lawyer: assault the guy!

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The law and SDMB policy will not allow me to say what I really want to say.

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That was in response to spooje.

In any case, the disntinction of “renter,” while it seems important to me, seems, well, let’s just say it seems politically incorrect to me. Maybe that’s because I’m a renter in residential, houses-only neighborhood.

I doubt if that has created the problem, I’ll hasten to add, but I gather from your tone that you were not overly welcoming to your new neighbor in the first instance. I’m sure he sensed your class prejudice. Now, not to suggest that otherwise he’d have been a perfect neighbor, but even assholes like him have friends; I imagine it might have been possible to have found his good side, once upon a time. Certainly you blew your chance to be preemptively chummy with his wife, who obviously needs allies.

FWIW, I’m no perfect christian example; I doubt I’d’ve behaved any differently. In fact, I have nextdoor neighbors on whom my housemate and I have called the police uncounted dozens of times. So of course I’m the best proof that I might be entirely wrong. But I do wonder if, perhaps, I’d gotten started on a better foot with them, things might not be so animositacious and shit.

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I didn’t say I was going to assault him. If you mean the elephant dung et al, I said I hoped that happened to them, not that I was going to be the one to do it.

I guess you mean the pepper spray? I will use it if he invades my personal space again by coming on my deck or banging on my door. Surely I would be justified in that? I feel I would. Of course, I would then call 911 and he would be arrested for violating his Godd Behavior warrant. :smiley:

I did buy a very special Halloween decoration tonight just for Psycho Boy. It is one of those motion-sensing rocks for your yard that says “stay away” on it and laughs manically when triggered. I am putting it right next to the deck steps he has grown so fond of whacking on.

I think I am going to leave it out year round.

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He meant me.

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Oh, sorry lissener, I didn’t understand you were responding to spooje and not me.

To give a quick back story, yes, I was very welcoming at first. I even gave his wife some info about the area and some leads on finding ajob, which she told she wanted to do. BUUUT, being the classic wife-beater abuser he is, the minute he sensed she was getting an ally, he started being an asshole. My husband was grilling steaks, and he drove his mower up on him, throwing dirt and grass all over the steaks. Needless to say, it went downhill from there. The guy wanted to make us mad at him, becasue we were being nice to his wife.

As for him, no I wasn’t overly nice to him from the start. I got an icky feeling off him from the first moment.

I know all renters aren’t trash, that’s for sure, but in our neighborhood that seems to be the case.

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Ook. Meant “important to you”

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Haha, we are full of miscomunications tonight!

At any rate, my whole purpose and need to rant is mainly that it just blows me away that a lawyer would propose such a preposterous theory when it is clear who the agressor is in this case. I know it is his job, but I still think it stinks that too often the victim has to be made to feel like they were wrong for calling a spade a spade.

Just having to sit there while this pus pocket talked to me like that and made accusations caused me to want to come home and scrub his stare off of me in a long hot shower. He’s the kind of guy that would chastize a rape victim for what she was wearing at the time of the rape and try to somehow make it her fault for whatever outfit she was wearing.

Yuck. Between him and Psycho Boy, I am not sure who is creepier.

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Have you tried unearthing his already dead rabbit?

:cool:

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No! Tell me more!

I must know how! :stuck_out_tongue:
I smudged my house the other day, in an attempt to clear all his negative vibe away from me, and of course he and his wife we watching me as I wafted the smoke around my front door.

I hope it freaked them right the hell out.

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Wow, this kind of has me at a loss. The guy sounds like a total psycho. Why is he banging on your door? Is he trying to scare/intimidate you?

Shit, I’d be digging ‘deadfalls’ in my yard, so as to lure the crazy bastard over one and laugh as he falls ass over teakettle, lawnmower and all.

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Find out who his landlord is, and explain to him that his tenant is lowering property values in the neighborhood.

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I’m wondering.

Could you bring any action against the landlord for the actions of the tenent? Any chance of using it as leverage to get the knuckle-dragger evicted?

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Same here. People like that do it, simply because they can get away with it. Unfortunately, the cure would bring the police down on you. Kep trying with the warrants and restraining orders.

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I almost forgot - do you have a video camera? It would be harder for this guy’s lawuer to protect him, if you have his antics on film. It would also help your policeman neighbor’s case against him. As far as threatening to shoot your kids, aren’t death thrats still a crime? Get some witnesses and some of this on fil and audio tape. Get your neighbors to act as witnesses. There are other solutions but they involve extreme violence and are illegal (unfortunate, since these bullies don’t understand anything else).

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What portions of the law and SDMB policy are interfering?

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The part about advocating baseball bats and shotguns full of rock salt? Just a guess :wink: