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[Charles2222]

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Charles_22

Ah, a first person case of geezerdom to report here. Some jackass next door decided too drive his SUV through my lawn. Yes, he was a young punk too; maybe 25. I had seen some of their ilk drive through my yard before, I think the only reason I noticed him because it made a loud clunk when he hit my only front yard tree. He didn't explain it to me this way, but I heard it from somewhere before, that some of the next door neighbors see my corner lot as something of a driveway for them to park in their front lawn. Nevermind it's illegal to actually do that in your own front lawn without a driveway, much less mine. I thought I was angry about this, and as I walked over to his yard a bit later had more reason for anger still. There wasn't just one set of tracks in my yard, but I guessed at least 5 or 6. Apparently they think the slight reduction in the crub at my corner is worth being a barbarian for. They also have some work they have done on the side of their house, that might arguably be more easily done hauling it out the front.

They have a two-car garage that they have multiple cars parking at it usually, but today it was only that SUV, I went and looked. I guess habits are hard to break. I told him how I seen, some time ago, some other of his acquaintances pull the same stunt. What's more, this same damn SUV had also ran into my curbside mailbox once. I guess it was his wife. She gave me the lame story of her gearing got tricky. What that had to do with the steering or brakes, not to hit it, is anybody's guess (this of course made me think she hit it deliberately or was drunk - she conveniently didn't speak english, but her son did and he talked to me afterwards). I'm now guessing she too was trying to run through my lawn then too, but she hit it from the street side. I'm starting to think they have think they have to drive through lawns, and it's much better it be my own than theirs. It's obvious as hell that they had been doing it recently, but since I haven't mowed in a long time I hadn't noticed it. What really shocks me is that I've been at home so much these days (unemployed) and didn't notice this till I had a loud sound. I guess I better start opening my blinds a bit during the day. I just didn't realize my neighbors were this much of crude dipsticks. They and I have been here since at least '89. I was an inch from calling the cops, but decided against it.

I just basically told him, that it could ruin my pipes, etc, and he was trying to apologize for hitting the tree. Aside from the pipes, I told him the yard doesn't mean so much to me, but just in case he didn't understand my plight, I told him, regardless of anything, just do not drive through my lawn anymore (he certainly didn't deny it) because it really pisses me off. He said alright. Whether he tells the rest of his clan we shall see. Anyway, they have been warned; cops will be the next time. I have a little hope here anyway. About 8 or 9 years ago they were taking their rifle and shooting it up into the air every blasted New Year's eve. Unfortunately in this interracial area this is very common. I called the cops about it, I think just before a New Years was coming around because I got sick of them waking me up with that, and also because I wasn't too keen on the idea of somebody, or my dog, getting hit when the bullets return to earth, and I haven't heard any shots, not even fireworks coming from that house even on 7/4 since then. I suspect the cops gave them an earful and at least they are keeping to it. Fireworks, though I'm not sure I mentioned it to the cops, don't bug me very much, as they generally are over and done by the time I go to bed, and they're usually not loud enough to pierce the sounds of my noise maker, but yes, gun fire does. Fireworks used to have my dog scared for like a week after they were through, but as I don't have one anymore that doesn't matter so much.

So what's my line? Hey, get your punk SUV out of my lawn!!![:D]

Get a block of wood, stick nails all the way through it till it looks like a hedgehog, making sure that the pointy end is out. Either don't mow the lawn , or somehow camoflage the "device" and place it were they will run over when they cross your lawn. Let them run away! Tires are expensive! They will learn! [:D]

I had a similiar problem with the neighbors cutting the corner and driving across my lawn to cut off about 10 feet of distance so they could get home sooner. I discovered that CalTrans still had the boulder I ran into back in 2001 and that they had no problems with me coming and getting it. I hired a flatbed towtruck, got the rock and put it on my lawn right where the neighbors kept running over. I figured if it could destroy my truck, it should do a smash up job on their truck. Haven't had a problem since and I got a nice decorative rock that reminds me of what I can survive when I put my mind to it.

Pretty funny, but I haven't hit anything that ended up being institutionalized later. Oh here's a rich one for you guys. Some idiot kid, with his parent, came to my house a few years back and accused me of running over their mailbox. I didn't go too detective on him to remove the fact that he probably couldn't even slightly identify what sort of car I drove, but I just brushed them off and said I have never run into a mailbox in my life, and why anybody would be driving off the street to hit them is a mystery to me. I never heard from them again.

[pasternakski]

ORIGINAL: Charles_22
I never heard from them again.

I'm kinda feeling the same way about your mailbox problems, Chas...

[JeffroK]

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

Since you don't care about the lawn, just buy a bunch of old 55 gal barrels and build a makeship fence...

Filled with concrete

[bradfordkay]

Now you're getting the idea... 

[Charles2222]

ORIGINAL: JeffK

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

Since you don't care about the lawn, just buy a bunch of old 55 gal barrels and build a makeship fence...

Filled with concrete

Now at first that sounded good, it would kill the weeds for a time anyway and save from all that mowing. But what better way to invite them to more yard violating? No, spikes are better than that, even if you have to maim a few vandal school kids along the way.

Ohhh, I see, you meant the barrels, I thought you meant the yard [X(].

[Charles2222]

ORIGINAL: pasternakski

ORIGINAL: Charles_22
I never heard from them again.

I'm kinda feeling the same way about your mailbox problems, Chas...

Oh, I'm not the only one. Mailboxes being destroyed to one degree or another was quite rife once the area got filled in pretty much. I bought the house when a lot of people moved out due to the economy in '89. Since about '95 it's been booming ever since. I've seen a number of brick ones destroyed too. I'm hoping my stone one, with a foundation, and backed off the curb by three inches, might help a bit.

[JeffroK]

Caltrops!!!!!

PS Our letter boxes have to be on our property, about 9ft off the gutter.  Makes the Posties work for their pittance.

[AW1Steve]

Why not use one problem to solve the other? Pay said vandal school kids to deal with vandal neighbor? [:D]

[RevRick]

We had a problem once with people driving over out mailboxes with jacked up four wheelers. They usually smashed them flat and by the time you found out about it, it was way to late to do anything. So, we got about 6 feet of 132# rail road rail, set it in five backs of sakrete, and boxed it in with wood to disguise it. Set the mail box up. We woke up one night to the sound of a loud crash, as usual. What wasn't usually was the jacked up 4X4 Ford Pickup with half of it's front wheel drive ripped out dangling over the rail...

[sventhebold]

RevRick you are indeed a geezer!!!!!!!! My humblest bow to you....
 
I moved back from Kalifornia to Minn. The cost of living is cheaper here now that I am retired.
I had not one but two neighbors from hell. They even coordinated causing problems. Broke three different
windows amongst the MANY things they did. The first response they had when i came out was "Did you see
me do it?" When I couldn't say anything they would just laugh. Calling the cops was pointless they
didn't care. Besides if we had to of stayed there another year I would be in prison for multiple homicide.

[rockmedic109]

ORIGINAL: sventhebold

RevRick you are indeed a geezer!!!!!!!! My humblest bow to you....

I moved back from Kalifornia to Minn. The cost of living is cheaper here now that I am retired.
I had not one but two neighbors from hell. They even coordinated causing problems. Broke three different
windows amongst the MANY things they did. The first response they had when i came out was "Did you see
me do it?" When I couldn't say anything they would just laugh. Calling the cops was pointless they
didn't care. Besides if we had to of stayed there another year I would be in prison for multiple homicide.

Noooo. You don't kill them. Far too nice. Break into their home while they are out and spray pepper spray on their toilet paper. You can do the same thing to their bedsheets and underwear. Climb under their house and take out a small section their toilet drain. If they have a satelite dish you can move that every time they leave the house.

All sorts of things a little old age and treachery came come up with.

[JeffroK]

Not done deliberatly, but....
 
Between Dad & the neighbours, the post on the fence dividing the driveway kept getting clipped.
 
So we got an old fence post, 6" x 6" redgum and cut about a 6ft length and sunk itabout 3ft deep and concreted it.
 
Next door neighbor clipped it a week later and killed their car, post still in the ground some 30+ years later.

[Charles2222]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Why not use one problem to solve the other? Pay said vandal school kids to deal with vandal neighbor? [:D]

Maybe a better idea, would be to grant vandal neighbor temporary license to do what he was doing, thereby running over vandal school kids. I see more power in the SUV than in the kids, plus, how do you ever get rid of a juvenile? Another thing to consider, the kids that do that already think they're hot shots, so no need to encurage them, while my neighbors just appear to be either dimwits or crude. They don't want to destroy my property when they cross it. Can they help it when the ground gives way under the weight of the vehicles, or the fence gets bashed in, or the tree gets hit?

[Charles2222]

ORIGINAL: RevRick

We had a problem once with people driving over out mailboxes with jacked up four wheelers. They usually smashed them flat and by the time you found out about it, it was way to late to do anything. So, we got about 6 feet of 132# rail road rail, set it in five backs of sakrete, and boxed it in with wood to disguise it. Set the mail box up. We woke up one night to the sound of a loud crash, as usual. What wasn't usually was the jacked up 4X4 Ford Pickup with half of it's front wheel drive ripped out dangling over the rail...

We must live in a poorer area, as we get illegal aliens in ordinary pickups to destroy ours.

[RevRick]

ORIGINAL: Charles_22

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

Since you don't care about the lawn, just buy a bunch of old 55 gal barrels and build a makeship fence...

Yes, as I said, I was wondering why a good number of houses had front fences, but then that might be due to school kids. Problem is, it would be a hassle to mow it, but nevermind, they drive on the lawn enough and it will be difficult anyway. OTOH, maybe I should offer them to exceed their prior nuisance level and do so, so well they will kill my weeds? Nah, just the sheer barbarity of it cannot be allowed to stand. Besides, I want it ended once and for all if possible, and I'm not going to keep doing things because I might rather not talk to them. Sheesh, they already ran into my tree and mailbox at least once, I have no guarantee they might not regard a fenced setup as just another challenge to conquer. I think the time for talk with them is over on this particualr issue. The next time I'm talking to them about it there will be a policeman there too.

Oh, I doubt they did it, but from the alley a few years back, somebody literally did what I just said. Yes, they rammed their vehicle into the fence damaging it severely. No burglary or anything afterwards. It must had been intentional, because it was real hard to hit that spot at that angle. I never heard anything from anybody about that. People seem to not see burglaries in the neighborhood, etc, except to call the police the next morning when they see your front door was wide open at sunrise.

Contact your friendly railroad... find out where they dispose of their used cross ties. Then if you have the means, you can either stack them up on top of each other with 1" rebar drilled into them ever three feet or so, or use them as fence posts to mount 2X12 PT onto. You should not have to stack them more then two or three high since that will create a 18-27" high barrier, and unless those clowns are running bigfoots, that will usually prevent such fine activities on their part. Besides, running into that is a lot worse then tangling with chain link or the type of privacy fence they make nowadays, and it's also not subtle. If they want to run into a cross tie set in concrete, let them. The cross tie won't mind - it's been run over by 450,000# locomotives and tons and tons of freight cars. You can also by concrete preformed which would make a nice fence back as well, though they a probably a lot more expensive than regular cross ties.

[Charles2222]

ORIGINAL: RevRick

ORIGINAL: Charles_22

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

Since you don't care about the lawn, just buy a bunch of old 55 gal barrels and build a makeship fence...

Yes, as I said, I was wondering why a good number of houses had front fences, but then that might be due to school kids. Problem is, it would be a hassle to mow it, but nevermind, they drive on the lawn enough and it will be difficult anyway. OTOH, maybe I should offer them to exceed their prior nuisance level and do so, so well they will kill my weeds? Nah, just the sheer barbarity of it cannot be allowed to stand. Besides, I want it ended once and for all if possible, and I'm not going to keep doing things because I might rather not talk to them. Sheesh, they already ran into my tree and mailbox at least once, I have no guarantee they might not regard a fenced setup as just another challenge to conquer. I think the time for talk with them is over on this particualr issue. The next time I'm talking to them about it there will be a policeman there too.

Oh, I doubt they did it, but from the alley a few years back, somebody literally did what I just said. Yes, they rammed their vehicle into the fence damaging it severely. No burglary or anything afterwards. It must had been intentional, because it was real hard to hit that spot at that angle. I never heard anything from anybody about that. People seem to not see burglaries in the neighborhood, etc, except to call the police the next morning when they see your front door was wide open at sunrise.

Contact your friendly railroad... find out where they dispose of their used cross ties. Then if you have the means, you can either stack them up on top of each other with 1" rebar drilled into them ever three feet or so, or use them as fence posts to mount 2X12 PT onto. You should not have to stack them more then two or three high since that will create a 18-27" high barrier, and unless those clowns are running bigfoots, that will usually prevent such fine activities on their part. Besides, running into that is a lot worse then tangling with chain link or the type of privacy fence they make nowadays, and it's also not subtle. If they want to run into a cross tie set in concrete, let them. The cross tie won't mind - it's been run over by 450,000# locomotives and tons and tons of freight cars. You can also by concrete preformed which would make a nice fence back as well, though they a probably a lot more expensive than regular cross ties.

Thanks for the idea, not that I would know any railroad places. I'm sure the city would have an ordinance against that sort of thing anyway. I've had crooks attack the house from the back only once, but you have to get special permission to get 8' fencing (I have 6' and I didn't have a fence around the back when they broke in back there). You also can't run razor-ribbon which was my first idea for the back. Funny, they've ran into my tree, they've ran into my mailbox, all that's left now is the house and the telephone pole. Funny too, because the pole is right at the point where that depression in the curb is. Maybe I should encourage somebody to make more poles over there, as you never know when you might need a backup.

[sventhebold]

Rockmedic109 that idea wont work because they are always home. Second or third generation welfare scum.
they go out and work for a couple weeks claim disability and get operations for free and then brag about it.
One kid used to smoke cigarettes in the driveway then throw them over the fence. He would take care to aim
them at THE GAS MAIN. ^&#^%$&@*!(!@^@!. I would throw them back over the fence inro their childrens
play area. Oh yeah they ran an illegal day care and paid no taxes on it.

BTW -28 below this morning and no noisy neighbors.............Ahhhhhh

[Charles2222]

ORIGINAL: sventhebold

Rockmedic109 that idea wont work because they are always home. Second or third generation welfare scum.
they go out and work for a couple weeks claim disability and get operations for free and then brag about it.
One kid used to smoke cigarettes in the driveway then throw them over the fence. He would take care to aim
them at THE GAS MAIN. ^&#^%$&@*!(!@^@!. I would throw them back over the fence inro their childrens
play area. Oh yeah they ran an illegal day care and paid no taxes on it.

BTW -28 below this morning and no noisy neighbors.............Ahhhhhh

Shouldn't fires just automatically go out in Minn. winters?

[sventhebold]

NO this was in Kalifornia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where I live NOW is darn near paradise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AW1Steve]

Grump!


"Hey you punk kids! Get off my lawn!"