I totally need to vent about something.
Ok, I live in an affluent, agricultural zoned area and own 1.5 acres of land, most of which is timber. Two other people own land that join ours.
Well, tonight, I had a party, complete with good food, homebrew, and paintball in our timber.
Well, our neighbor, who's land joins ours, got pissed off that we were playing paintball, came and yelled at us (we were on our land), then called the damned cops. Mind you, we are in the frickin country here.
Well, the cops came, told us to stop (we had stopped 2 hours earlier), and then left. The cop actually acted embarrassed that he had to knock on our door. To make things worse, I am also an auxillary county Deputy.
So, after our company left, I drove my happy little emboldened-by-homebrew ass over to our neighbors house and knocked on his gay little door. I read him the riot act, told him how g#@ Damned embarrassing it was to have one of our county deputies knock on our door for something that wasn't illegal. I told him, that as his neighbor, I would appreciate it that if he had a problem, if he would come over and talk to me personally about it. I did apologize if we were indeed on his property. He then told me that "I don't believe in paintball guns, and I don't believe in guns, and you WERE on my property, and I'm not very happy that my trees have paint on them now." His wife actually seemed sorry for her husband.
The point is:
1. He is my neighbor, and he is not very neighborly.
2. We did nothing wrong, and I'm not sure if we were actually on his land. If we were, we weren't on his land more than 30 seconds.
3. Paintballs are water soluble
4. I am embarrassed as hell to have the cops come and investigate a complaint when I'm a sworn law enforcement officer while my party was going on.
5. He was being a prick.
6. If we were on his land we never harmed anything, and we weren't anywhere near his house, or his family.
7. It was paintball. Get over it.
I bet he doesn't drink either.
Freak.
Anyway, sorry for the rant, but I had to get that off my chest.
Ok, I live in an affluent, agricultural zoned area and own 1.5 acres of land, most of which is timber. Two other people own land that join ours.
Well, tonight, I had a party, complete with good food, homebrew, and paintball in our timber.
Well, our neighbor, who's land joins ours, got pissed off that we were playing paintball, came and yelled at us (we were on our land), then called the damned cops. Mind you, we are in the frickin country here.
Well, the cops came, told us to stop (we had stopped 2 hours earlier), and then left. The cop actually acted embarrassed that he had to knock on our door. To make things worse, I am also an auxillary county Deputy.
So, after our company left, I drove my happy little emboldened-by-homebrew ass over to our neighbors house and knocked on his gay little door. I read him the riot act, told him how g#@ Damned embarrassing it was to have one of our county deputies knock on our door for something that wasn't illegal. I told him, that as his neighbor, I would appreciate it that if he had a problem, if he would come over and talk to me personally about it. I did apologize if we were indeed on his property. He then told me that "I don't believe in paintball guns, and I don't believe in guns, and you WERE on my property, and I'm not very happy that my trees have paint on them now." His wife actually seemed sorry for her husband.
The point is:
1. He is my neighbor, and he is not very neighborly.
2. We did nothing wrong, and I'm not sure if we were actually on his land. If we were, we weren't on his land more than 30 seconds.
3. Paintballs are water soluble
4. I am embarrassed as hell to have the cops come and investigate a complaint when I'm a sworn law enforcement officer while my party was going on.
5. He was being a prick.
6. If we were on his land we never harmed anything, and we weren't anywhere near his house, or his family.
7. It was paintball. Get over it.
I bet he doesn't drink either.
Freak.
Anyway, sorry for the rant, but I had to get that off my chest.