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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMy temper is flaring.
I've written ad nauseum about my terrible neighbors.
Years ago, they erected a piece of shit trampoline in their yard, right next to our chain link fence.
There's always a fucking problem over there, and the cops and/or CPS are over there at least once a month.
They don't do jack shit as far as home maintenance, and now the snow is piled so high on the trampoline that TARP IS SAGGING TO THE GROUND the springs are fucking flying off, one by one, and FIRMLY EMBEDDING THEMSELVES INTO SEVERAL INCHES OF THICK, HARD ICE IN OUR YARD.
My wife is trying to keep me out of this, and she is handling it herself. She knows that I'm confrontational, so she is calmly speaking to the woman in the relationship over there herself. I've had several run-ins with them over the years, and my wife is insisting that I don't get involved in this.
I'm reading on the internet that those springs can embed several inches into a human body if they release and hit you. This is a large trampoline...probably 14 feet in diameter.
I guess I'm just going to call the non-emergency police number if that shit isn't taken care of by tonight?
I'm not kidding...the way those things are embedded into the ice, they'll fucking kill you dead if they hit you.
They'll kill my dog if he gets hit by one...
bamagal62
(4,418 posts)Wont insure your property if youve got a trampoline. I know, because we had one when the kids were in middle school. Those springs always worried me.
LuckyCharms
(22,234 posts)The way they embed into the ice is terrifying...
CrispyQ
(40,837 posts)In our area you're more likely to find your neighbor's trampoline from down the street, in your yard from wind.
Go out & get pics with a tape measure or something to indicate size/scale.
debm55
(58,355 posts)trees but we had to pay for it. House is now abondoned and is a shelter for animals and rats. I call the borough and they just come and put a note of the door. It is very frustrating to have neighbors like that.
LuckyCharms
(22,234 posts)My wife politely takes a shovel and moves the dog shit over a few feet so it is in their yard.
I, however, take the shovel and heave it onto their roof, into their driveway, and onto their cars. I've had enough of digging dogshit out of the treads in my boots.
Fucking assholes.
debm55
(58,355 posts)that are sagging into our yard, cut down. I don't see how I can do as they abandoned that jungle of a yard and rat filled house.
Traildogbob
(12,783 posts)Horrible situation.
LuckyCharms
(22,234 posts)I have so many stories...and the town doesn't do anything about it. They don't enforce the town code. Between us and the neighbors behind them, they have probably logged over 20 complaints to the town over the years.
Nothing is ever done about it.
Traildogbob
(12,783 posts)Yall have that crap. Such a way to have to live and I would be just as raged. I live in red hell but have a nice buffer zone around me. Just going to Wallys I see what could be with those superior whites and get raged just seeing those and the numbers of them.
This is Cawthorn Meadows country here.
Wish you good luck with it all.
rsdsharp
(11,887 posts)Its a smaller one, and isnt in the yard now. Its not nearly as annoying as the dogs they let out at 5:30 AM to frolic and bark, or when the jackass decides to roll coal with his big ass pickup.
Lord, I wish theyd move. Im surprised theyd rent from the nice old Vietnamese couple who own the house (and 2 or 3 Chinese restaurants in the area).
LuckyCharms
(22,234 posts)It's so goddamn frustrating.
I've actually considering selling the house, but I've put my heart and soul into remodeling it, and it would break my heart to do so.
They'll never move...the neighborhood is quiet and peaceful, except for them, and no one in the neighborhood will speak to them because they are pissed off too.
pandr32
(14,035 posts)MayReasonRule
(4,062 posts)It's what we've done to survive among the raving lunatics here in Caddo Parish.
I honestly wonder how some of my mouth breathing, knuckle draggin' neighbors ever learned to wipe their own ass.
Document everything you're able to document contemporaneously.
Keep a contemporaneous diary regarding the same.
Meticulously document your contacts with law enforcement.
Potentially Property Standards might be quite helpful regarding some of the issues that you've mentioned.
All my best to you and yours.
May reason once again rule in your world!
Marthe48
(22,891 posts)Maybe the springs that are left will hold, or fly in another direction, less dangerous to living creatures. Recycle the ones you found, there will be fewer to worry about. Eventually, the trampoline will collapse into an eyesore.
Is your dog doing okay?
herding cats
(20,019 posts)I feel your angst.
Mine bought their son a bow and arrow (the type you actually hunt with) and they started shooting the deer I've been taking care of for more than a decade. The worst part is they didn't kill them, they maimed them.
I've exhausted all my legal resources and even thought this only began after their son started target shooting on the back couple of acres I can't prove it's him. 😭
