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What the heck is going on here? Did the rude neighbor hit or knock down the woman? or did she fall? That is one ugly fence made from junk roofing. I'd be pissed if My neighbor put up a fence like that too but would not react like this Old SOB.
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One Thing I can always be sure of is that things will never go as expected.
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Thanks for your concern, Carrie and others. I'm sorry you were in a similar situation lquade.
Yes, the fence is not very pretty, but it was a necessity. We hired two guys to put up an unobtrusive field fence. After the fourth day of attempting to put up the fence, only to have our efforts sabotaged and vandalized each evening, this fence was a last resort.
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Well, your neighbor is obviously a jerk, but I still don't understand why your husband did not pick you up and carry you or help you walk back to safety instead of video taping for so long.
Why didn't the guy want the fence there anyway?
I am sorry for you Moto that you have a neighbor like that. He seems like a bully. Since that was posted on April 9th, what was the outcome of this whole mess?
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To MsMoto: If I lived next door to him I would put my house on the market, or rent it out and move. He is not going to change. Save your sanity and leave that property. Nothing is worth staying next door to that. I can't see any other way to resolve it, as he looks unbalanced, and possibly might act out more violence.
oh, I'm so sorry for you. I had a scary neighbor like that. He got charged with terroristic threatening. I did sell my house and move because of him. He is still there!
Re the fence, I don't know what to say. It is a hideous fence and if my neighbor put up a fence like that I would be beside myself (although not acting like that). (What I would do is immediately screen it with plants or my own fence, but that does cost money. However, I understand that he vandalized your earlier fence so this was the best you could do?
It is very important with neighbor tensions that whenever it is a unilaterally installed fence that you make it something inoffensive. There is a whole bunch of Nolo's Neighbor Law devoted just to the anger that arises over fences, and spite fences.
That does not change the fact he was horrible, violent, and scary, and I feel really bad for you.
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What an awful, upsetting thing to watch and listen to. My sympathies to the victims. The neighbor comes across as being a very disturbed and dangerous person. So much for the notion that good fences make good neighbors.
Samdooby, thanks for sharing the video but for you to equate me with this maniac, even jokingly, reinforces my opinion of the kind of person you are.
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If you haven't yet, I would get a copy of the police report. I would also follow through with the State's Attorney or whatever they are called in Hawaii and express your interest in following through with the complaint, if the officer actually filed a complaint. If the Police Officer that took the report did not ask you to burn a copy of your video to disc to submit as evidence he/she was lazy or ignorant. Make sure the State's Attorney gets to see it. Are you certain that the Police Officer actually filed a report and submitted a complaint. Find out. If he/she didn't, you need to file a complaint to his supervisor and insist that the proper action be taken. At least the police supervisors ahould be aware that they, the police, take on sizable liability for failure to act should injury result from a future incident.
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From what I can gather here, it seems to me the best course of action may be to hire an attorney and become the new owner of this jerk's property.
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quote:
Originally posted by kimo wires
That is one ugly fence made from junk roofing. I'd be pissed if My neighbor put up a fence like that too but would not react like this Old SOB.
Thats exactly what I was thinking when I started watching the video. While I really don't care what people do with thier property, this is a huge eyesore, and I can imagine it really pisses other people off to see a pile of junk in thier backyard.
Does it excuse him from acting like a lunatic and assaulting someone? definately not. He should go to jail. But I have a suspicion there is a bit more to the story than we're getting. Not always, but thats typically the way it goes. I've seen these kinda of disputes before, and they usually are escalated by both sides for a while before it comes to **** like this.
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I know this all seems so crazy, and you all have alot of questions. We are still trying to understand how/why this is happening. Unfortunately, this has been going on for a year, today actually. It's a long story, but basically we bought 3 acres next to this couple who built there home on one acre, 10 years earlier. We became friends with them, even spending Christmas with them. Things began to sour around the time we began to build. Around this time, the neighbors started to clear a driveway or large path where our properties meet at the street. We were a little shocked as we were certain he was in fact clearing our property too. So we called him and left a friendly message telling them we believed he miscalculated the property line and suggested we go out and measure together. As he used a bobcat to do the clearing, the pin was now nowhere to be found. We never heard from him again. A professional survey later confirmed that he had indeed cut down some of our ohia trees and had encroached on our land.
A few weeks later, our dog Sissy got loose and disappeared. An hour or so later, a lady called and said she was wandering around the community park a few miles away. When I found her, she was hot , tired, scared and had a piece of rope tied around her neck. Someone had deliberately taken her. We had our suspicions, as I had seen the neighbor drive off while I was searching for Sissy. Our suspicions were confirmed a few days later when a mutal neighbor told us of a disturbing conversation she had with our neighbor, in which he told her he took Sissy and tied her up at the community park, hoping the assoc would fine us for a dog on the loose, without water and after the assoc closed at noon.
Two weeks later, my husband was working on his backhoe near our mutual property line when he was assaulted with rocks thrown at him by the neighbor, one of which hit him in the leg. Police came out and filed a report, but told us without a witness and or a video, there was not much they could do. They suggested a temporary restraining order, which we got the next day. The neighbor's attempt to get a TRO against my husband was denied. Another assault, this time a rock to my husband's head, witnessed by me, yet still no arrest. When we went to court for the restraining order hearing, the neighbors showed up with a high profile attorney, while my husband represented himself, the result was a mutual restraining order or none at all. The neighbors refused mediation.
We keep documenting and calling the police for the continuing harassment and vandalism to our property: fence posts stolen, survey stakes removed, nails littering our driveway, loud banging (sounds like gunshots) in the middle of the night. Police show up at our place regarding a complaint the neighbor's made against a light on our property. We do the neighborly thing and change it.
The police told us they could not arrest someone for trespassing until we had a survey, which we did. Then it became, they could not arrest someone unless we had a fence up as a clear property line marker. The fence, no matter how ugly, was necessary for the safety of our family. Keep in mind, a simple field fence was our first choice.
Things seemed to quiet down right before Christmas. The neighbor was finally charged with assault and had his plea hearing in March. My husband attended and was dumbfounded when judge immediately dismissed all charges. He was told by the prosecutor it was connected to the restraining order hearing, the one where he had no attorney.
The following week, a very blatant restraining order violation happened as our neighbor walked right up to my husband cussing and flipping him off, all caught on video. The police came and charged him, but again no arrest. He continued harassing us all day, with the police coming out 2 more times. Another neighbor witnessed him pulling out yet another survey marker and spoke to the police as well. He went on to tear down some of the fence that day, kick in our mailbox and bang on the fence.
Two days later, when we went to repair the fence, was when the assault occurred. Later that same evening, the neighbor began banging on the metal fence at all hours of the night. We finally caught him doing his banging on videotape, Easter morning at 6 am. Obviously he was trying to disturb us, but didn't care he was disturbing the entire neighborhood. It wasn't until our other neighbors, two families in particular, got behind us and started calling the police, demanding that something be done, that the harassment has subsided. Perhaps the police got stern with the neighbor, or maybe his wife got sick of the banging and police coming to the door? We really don't know, but are enjoying the peace.
Hopefully, this time he will be charged with these crimes, as we have video and outside witnesses. Yes, the police were given discs of everything we have, and we have been trying to follow thru with the prosecuting attorney's office.
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