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TR6BILL

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Know a neighbor that had his mailbox taken out by a car trying to avoid a child on a bike. Most people would simply replace the mailbox and be happy the child wasn't hurt. Nooooo, this guy replaced the mailbox with a custom-welded solid 1/4" thick box welded atop a <span style="font-weight: bold">solid</span> 4" steel rod cemented 4ft into the the ground and had it boxed to resemble a wooden, flimsy mailbox.

Another acquaintance lives in an upscale neighborhood in an nearby large city that has narrow cement alleys behind every home. Because the alleys are quite narrow, construction workers cannot make the tight turn with their utility trailers without cutting across 2 ft of his manicured lawn. He lives in almost million dollar house and the last home in his block still required access to the interior lot to finish the other million dollar home. Live with it, right? Noooo, had had some large boulders moved in to this exact spot of grass and hid them with plants overnight. The next day, the crews came in with the appliances and he gleefully watched from his kitchen as they flipped $10,000 worth of stoves and refrigerators. Sick, but he was within the law. (We are no longer friends)

Another lady had her low brick retaining wall on the corner of her lot taken out accidentally by a car swerving to, you guessed it, miss a child on a bike. The lady rebuilt her retaining wall but instead cut the angle across the corner and left a large triangle on the corner, which she filled with 12 low sharpened steel 4" pipes cemented into the ground, just daring anyone to cut across her lot again. What was she thinking.
 
Welcome to the new reality.

BTW, to go from ridiculous to <span style="text-decoration: line-through">sublime</span> er ridiculous, years ago I had a parishioner who lived on the hiway - snowplow came and hit his mailbox. He called and reamed out the Ministry of Transport (MTO) next time it snowed, guess what? snowplow hit his mailbox. Next time it snowed, he plowed the snow 25 feet either side of the mailbox, guess what? snowplow hit his mailbox. The whole rest of the winter every time it snowed, guess what? yup.

Finally said parishioner gets so angry, soooo angry that he decides he'll show them, so he stomps down to town and turns in his drivers license! (yup that'll learn 'em) and spend the rest of his life either walking or driving his tractor (which doesn't require a license)

Moral of the story?

OK there is none ('cept don't cut off your nose to spite your face) oh and don't p*ss off the MTO
 
TR6BILL said:
. Nooooo, this guy replaced the mailbox with a custom-welded solid 1/4" thick box welded atop a <span style="font-weight: bold">solid</span> 4" steel rod cemented 4ft into the the ground and had it boxed to resemble a wooden, flimsy mailbox.

The lady rebuilt her retaining wall but instead cut the angle across the corner and left a large triangle on the corner, which she filled with 12 low sharpened steel 4" pipes cemented into the ground, just daring anyone to cut across her lot again. What was she thinking.
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Apparently they aren't thinking about the ensuing lawsuits that will follow. Intentionally put an obstruction out and a vehicle hits it and it causes "excessive damage" and it's on THEM!

There is a clown down here that lives in a sharp turn. People ALWAYS go through his fence. This has happened probably 100 times. He puts the fence back up, but no reflectors or any warning there is a turn in the road or a fence there. Instead he puts concrete in the ditch just before the fence. It'll rip out the oil pan of anything that runs across it. All he has to do is call the coounty and they'll come out and put up the reflective arrow signs.

Same clown put one of those fancy cast iron mailboxes in right next to the road. When I say right next to, I mean the box hung over the stripe in your lane slightly. Well, it got taken out. Clown put it back up in the same spot....BAM!! Moved it back a few inches....BAMMMM! You think he would figure it out.

Worst I've seen is the assclown here that parks an 18 wheeler fully loaded w/ sod on the outside shoulder in the middle of a turn. Once again just inches from the road. He parks right where the reflective arrow signs should be. You can't see the turn or the truck at night and if it's foggy......you better know it's there. :eeek:
 
OK, Who here thinks they have a plan to fix STUPID? IMHO, it can't be done.

And what happens when one of those kids on a bike that everyone is avoiding, falls off the bike and onto the sharpened stakes? UHHHH, didn't think about that.

And why are they driving in a manner that requires avoidance rather than an application of the BRAKES!


Back under my rock.....
 
We must be neighbors.... And your only a few states away...
<span style="font-weight: bold">I have those same crazy neighbors in these parts</span>--- nasty and
vindictive, you are right.
They can't give someone a break or help out, they make it harder
for all the folks.
I don't remember that type of behavior growing up.
 
John B. Calhoun was on to something, methinks. :wink:
 
BabaKahawa said:
We must be neighbors.... And your only a few states away...
<span style="font-weight: bold">I have those same crazy neighbors in these parts</span>--- nasty and
vindictive, you are right.
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Me to, I have about $300 worth of parking tickets because a !@#@$# neighbor called to complain that I was blocking MY OWN DRIVEWAY!!!!! :madder:
The local community police officer fortunately was willing to call her up and threaten to bring harassment charges if she doesn't stop. Apparently she didn't appreciate my parking the Herald on the street.
 
And why are they driving in a manner that requires avoidance rather than an application of the BRAKES!

BRAKES!!! they ain't found the brakes yet they to busy playing with the horn button they just found.--Keoke-- :wink:
 
:hammer: O.K. I just have to vent. Neighbor across the street gets all upset because our private gravel road has two low spots that will become puddles when we get a long hard rain. The low spots just happen to be close to our property line. Instead of contributing to a load of road rock, he decided it was the fault of our property grading. We live in the area of a sloping terrain which continues on about a quarter of a mile with his house being below ours. We have never changed the lay of the land and the water has always traveled the same way. Idiot neighbor gets on his John Deere aand digs two trenches approximately ten feet from the edge of the road and clearly on our property. Trenches were abt 4 feet deep and 5 feet long. Does this at dusk and into the night. I come home from meeting and couldn't imagine what happened. End was that he had to put our property back to the way it was prior to his solution to the low spots that became puddles when it rained.

Did I mention that we live in the desert and that the puddles which occur may be 2 or 3 times a year and only last for a couple of hours after the sun comes up?

What was/is he thinking? Clearly he is not!
 
Got a neighbor that likes to cut down things on my side of the fence. I figure, since it's o.k to trim things on either side of the property line, maybe I should take the J10 and snatch her prize azalias out the ground roots and all. I decided to give way to my wife's frantic pleas not to do so. Too bad, I was really looking forward to doing that. :driving:
 
kellysguy, i most often use a more subtil approach, one night during dinner my son being 14 years old at the time explained the older and most vanity consouse women who is at least 70+ years old but wants to look like shes twenty who lives across the street complained to him for over 20 minutes about our having 30 yards of top soil delivered on my front lawn and that it was left there for two days, that was true because i was waiting for a friend to come over with his bobcat to spread it, i kept watch for several days to catch her at her mail box, i very politly requested that she in the future lodge her concerns with the adults in our household, i told her we felt bad that the results of her surgery looked the way it did "fish like" and admired her for being able to appear in public, i expressed that we were very worried about her health and the work she most abviously had gotten, i then handed her a list of some reputable plastic surgens she should and just must contact for corrections, strange its been over 15 years and we were never asked over for tea or coffee. :devilgrin:
 
:winner1: nice vengeance. I'm thinking now. Neighbor runs the same John Deere up and down our private road and blades the surface accomplishing what - I don't know. He carries his 2 year old son in one arm on his hip at the same time. Doesn't seem too bright to me.

Must stop now as I could write a tome with him as the leading character. Good thing he works for his dad. Might not have a job otherwise..
 
What are you doing up at <span style="font-weight: bold">4:09 am</span>..... :yesnod:
 
Isn't everybody? :shocked:
 
4:09 AM......

By then I've been in the rack for about an hour. Have to get some sleep so that I can be up before the crack of noon.
 
The whole idea of a <span style="font-weight: bold">"4:09 am"</span> makes me tired.
 
4:09AM for me is already 5 cups of java for Doc on the east coast
 
Say it isn't so JOE
 
To answer the query - I don't know. Woke up and couldn't get back to sleep. iPad was handy so I tried the distraction solution. It worked. Did I mention about 3 hours later?
:rolleyes:
 
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