I’ve heard that the opposite is true, that *unsolved * murders are in the minority and that most people who are murdered are killed by someone they knew.
Anyone have any stats on this? (my searching skills suck)
I would definety set up a video survailance of your property. Make sure it is your property on tape as videoing the assholes property is probably against the law. If possible have the cop across the street set up a video of your house from that vantage point. You could probably set up several web cams and then you could watch the outside of your house from the saftey of the inside.
However…
THIS GUY IS FUCKING INSANE AND DANGEROUS! GET HIM THE FUCK OUT OF YOUR LIFE TODAY! DON’T PUT UP WITH HIS SHIT ANYMORE! AS SOON AS HE LOOKS AT YOU FUNNY CALL 911! DON’T SAY ANYTHING TO HIM EVER AGIN TILL HE IS IN HANDCUFFS IN THE BACK OF A PATROL CAR AND THEN YOU CAN TAUNT HIM!
BTW Sumdged your house? Are you a medicine woman?
Word to the wise. It’s generally not a good idea to taunt someone who will likely be released in a couple of hours…
Do not taunt angry asshat neighbor.
You can buy motion-sensor activated web-cams for about $100 or less. Also, i picked up a sprinkler that was also motion detector activated. It’s called The Crow. Do a web search and check out the videos. I will personally vouch for its abilities. It’s great for keeping animals away from things, and also for kids to run through.
You could set that up to monitor the edge of your propperty and squirt him from 30 feet away. I’d keep the camera out too though, so you could tape him all soaking wet stomping over to the sprinkler and breaking it.
Is there a homeowner’s association for the neighborhood? If there is, light him up with them.
Most associations take stuff like that very seriously and will compel the owner to throw his tenant out for screwing up the neighborhood.
Am I the only one a little worried that the OP hasn’t posted to this thread in a few days. I mean she is living next door to Max Cady.
Yeah it’d be nice to hear from the OP.
People that look in windows in Brooklyn get tend to get shot.
I understand your frustration level, truly I do, and I can understand any violent fantasies you might want to entertain in the privacy of your own head. You are in a sucky situation, and I truly hope it gets better, and I hope that that guy either goes to prison or at least moves out. I hope you can leave this nightmare behind you.
But you understand that the asshole still has a legal right to representation, and the defense lawyer is only doing his job. He doesn’t get paid to make you feel comfortable, he gets paid to defend his client, and do the best job he can. In the long run, it’s what makes the system work. But I know it can seem terribly unfair to you.
I’m not sure if you’re simply being obtuse or didn’t understand what aaslatten meant. If the latter, the OP “lost” him or her by implying that living near someone who rents is undesirable, regardless of any other traits that person has. I thought that was pretty lame and snooty of the OP as well, although I do sympathize with her plight.
That’s just because they got in the way of a drive-by 
From your neighboring borough.
Ah, touche neighbor. 
I’m amazed at how much you understood of what aaslatten meant, given as how there was no hint to him/her thinking any of that. It read to me like a simple lack of comprehension.
I read this as, "should be sucked out by the roots and eaten by balloons"
Funniest damn thing I’ve misinterpreted in awhile.
Sorry for your situation, though. That creep of a neighbor sounds like he’s just seeping with the milk of human kindness. :eek:
I just figured she meant that a renter is less worried about lowering the property values than a homeowner because the renter hasn’t invested anything. Mr Jerk’s behaviour might be a little different if he knew that giving the neighbourhood a bad reputation would affect his own resale value. Is that an offensive sentiment? I do speak as an ex-renter, though not as someone who has ever set out to devalue their neighbourhood.
Another thing that occured to me is that renters often move on in a shorter period of time, which means you have more neighbours going through than you would otherwise, and that gives you a greater chance of winding up next to a jerk.
In my own experience, our first set of renting neighbours were excellent, but the second set were really young kids who just moved out of home for the first time, and they were jerks. They held a party and their guests trashed the entire street. They had rubbish all over the property which used to blow into the street. They did a moonlit flit, and weren’t missed. There are good and bad in every bunch of course, but renters do not have the discouragement of devaluing their own property, and so some of them treat their rental homes worse than they’d treat a home they owned. I don’t belive that this is a big enough problem to make it undesirable to live near a rental property, but it happens. Yes, there are homeowners who are as bad, but they are more likely to be held in check knowing it’s going to cost them money if they ruin their home, and they also don’t have the “temporary neighbourhood” mentality that some renters have.
Perhaps (although I have a hard time picturing Mr. Jerk thinking “Golly gee, I really want to act like a flaming psychotic today, but it may make it harder to sell my home in 5 years…” ;)) Also, renters do have security deposits and references to lose. I likely just haven’t had as many negative experiences with renters as you…
The thing I found really odd about that statement was the ‘right next to me’ part. The Renter is going to end up in the rental property. That doesn’t move about the street. It’s a pretty fixed location. I guess if after she moved in the owner next door decided to move out and rent the place that may have been disappointing. What she should have said is ‘Wouldn’t you know it, the loony on the street ends up next door to me’.
If the neighbor is this bad, I think the rent/own situation is totally irelevant. A jerk is a jerk, regardless of whether they rent or own.
Yeah, it could be interpreted as against renters but probably not.
I live in a close-in neighborhood which is transitioning to mostly owner-resident and it really goes both ways. My next door neighbor rents his home and he is a super neighbor. Some homes I am not even sure what the ownership status is…who cares if they are neighborly neighbors. We have one house down the street rented to students who leave invites to their parties on our door…“Free beer! Please come!” 
We call them “Please don’t call the police invitations!” We haven’t been able to go to one of the parties yet but it’s kind of neat to have them on the street…we hear them laughing and carrying on and hear a little of the music from the back deck…that’s part of why we like this neighborhood.
On the other side of the coin, we have one house on our street which was turned into an off-campus fraternity house, Animal House-style, no less. Seems the fraternity got kicked off campus for bad behavior and rented the house in our neighborhood as their “frat house”. After a couple of “parties” of about 75-100 drunk kids in the street and all our yards with most of us calling the police we have finally calmed the situation down. In fact, the owner decided to sell the house instead of going to the trouble to rent it correctly and be an active landlord. None of us were really sorry to see it flip over to owner-resident.
But I would really hate to see the house next door sell if my current neighbor could not buy it. So it all depends.
There is no escaping The Island.
Sincerely,
#1.