Heavenly
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Love David Thorne actually. I read this quite a few years ago now. Click some of his other stuff on the left bar.
The neighbor in this is you, isnt it?
http://www.27bslash6.com/halogen.html
I've never had a bad neighbor.
I have a hoarder lady next door. 1700 sq/ft house and 3 car garage packed to bursting with stuff. Front and backyard covered in carpet. Scrounges cardboard and stacks it in her carport and back patio. Catches and saves rainwater everywhere around her house for her mosquito breeding project. The carpet and cardboard have become her pack rat and termite breeding project.
This last year, myself and some of the other neighbors have begun a campaign of complaints to the city. This year we'll be adding some county health department complaints also due to the mosquito boom lately.
You know the one that has absolutely no clue how annoying they are...even when you politely tell them? Note: It's summer, it's hot, I have no A/C. So we have to keep the windows open to keep cool.
So my next door neighbors dog will usually bark for about 30 seconds somewhere between 10pm and 6am. So every night while I'm enjoying my slumber my wife and I are rudely awakened by this beast with the loud bark. I usually have a hard time getting back to sleep, especially after I'm forcefully awakened. My nerves are heightened and the adrenaline is pumping. etc.
We're in city limits and this guy also has chickens. These buggers start going off every morning at about 6am. He's been saying for a year now that he's getting rid of them in a few weeks. :cross:
I'll continue. This guy owns 5 cars, a long pop up trailer, and "stuff". The "stuff" is in his garage and I would guess about half of his driveway. The pop up is also on his driveway. The cars are mostly on "my" curb. I never park on this curb because a car makes the view from my backyard look bad. It's a long story. But, he never parks his cars on his curb.
The last thing. He is building himself a nice little collection of junk and clutter in his backyard. Our view of the beautiful city is tainted by what looks like a full time day care with all of these toys scattered about, a redneck stilt setup for stinging lights, rotting trellis work, things thrown up on his trellis and roof, raw wood exposed, It's absolutely terrible.
I kindly spoke to him about these matters a few weeks ago. He seems to have forgotten our conversation. Anyone have a bag of dog**** I can light on fire?
Every time I hear someone go off about Home Owners Associations I think of stories like these. I'll gladly put up with restrictions if it means I don't have to live next to Jethro Bodine and the traveling circus.
As for the barking dogs, look into the local statutes. Unless you are in an unincorporated area there are usually codes that govern that. After I got on one of my neighbors about his dogs he trained them with one of those shock collars, it only took a couple weeks and they got the message.
My neighbors latest assholeness.
We have a monthly street sweeper come by in our city. He always has a car or 2 of his parked on my curb so the curb doesn't get cleaned. Yesterday when he heard the sweeper coming he raced out and moved his 3rd car that he parks on the curb in front of his house over to my curb. His curb got nicely scrubbed, mine is a dirty mess now with 3 of his cars on it.
When he got out of his car after moving it I was yelling out my window at him. The sweeper was pretty loud so I don't think he caught most of what I was saying.
What if Jethro made his own beer and had his dog hang out while he brewed? Would he get an automatic pass because he brews? Would it make things different if he could brew 15 gallon batches and said you could use his system anytime as long as you provide yeast, grain, hops and beverages?
I don't think Santa Rosa gets much snow, just dirt & debris to sweep up. The last thing I want is somebody telling me I can't live how I want when I'm not hurting anybody else so I choose not to live in town. If I had other priorities I might live in town so that what goes on next door is to my liking. But, not everybody is in a position that they can freely choose to live where they best fit. Jethro is welcome to bring his hounds, cars and other stuff to my neck of the woods but I doubt he could find a decent job within an hour drive.
Jethro might have grown up in the mirrors towns outside of Santa Rosa where you'd expect a Jethro to live but earned a scholarship to Stanford/Berkley/SF State/Davis/UCLA/etc and earned himself a degree where someone will pay him enough to commute around the North Bay. Even Tiburon has some people that don't drive a Mercedes or bike to work. What in the OP's post do that hurts anyone? Nothing. Yeast if the neighbor has lived there for 3 generations and the OP wanted to escape the city and bought a house in the new development built in the country where his neighbor who irritates him lived?
Maybe when the dog barks it is dog language for "will somebody please come over here and feed me some of that sweet nectar that is used to keep engines from freezing in the winter!!".
I squeezed real hard, but I couldn't get any English out of that...
Maybe Jethro grew up outside of Santa Rosa, went to Stanford, earned an MBA, and now has a job in the North Bay and likes living in Santa Rosa with his dog. You said Jethro couldn't get a job within an hour of you but I can't imagine why what I said couldn't be possible.
This thread only serves to confuse me more and more. I'm becoming more curious about this Jethro person...
Pilate: "He has a dog, you know?"
Pilate: "Would you like to know her name?"
(guard shakes his head)
Pilate: "She is called 'Incontinentia'... Incontinentia Buttocks"
How about those neighbors who spy on you morning, noon and night while you're in your shed? Sheesh.
That will just make it worse. Eventually someone will end up shooting someone else. I've seen it on 20/20 a million times.
Why don't you just fill out a bunch of magazine subscriptions in his name? You could have 20 pizzas delivered to his house at 10PM? That's old school harassment - and nobody gets hurt (except for the pizza guy who doesn't get paid for 20 pizzas.).
How does a siren hurt anyone? Ordering pizzas is worse than that.
He won't know where the pizza came from. He'll know where the siren came from - as will all your other neighbors.
Oh no. He'd never be able to find it.
Short blast and hidden. Random times.
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