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Post by TKennedy on Nov 7, 2017 0:02:20 GMT -5
From CNN. There is no compromise on grass clippings. I breaka you ribs.
“According to the neighbor, Paul and Boucher, who share a property line in a gated community, have a long-running dispute over grass clippings and leaves blown onto each others' lawns.”
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Post by Village Idiot on Nov 7, 2017 0:05:09 GMT -5
And they care because?
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Post by aquaduct on Nov 7, 2017 6:49:03 GMT -5
Because Boucher beat the hell out of Paul, breaking 5 ribs. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2017 7:20:58 GMT -5
Well he deserved it! He's a Republican! (C'mooooon. You KNOW some of you thought that...  ) |
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Post by drlj on Nov 7, 2017 8:10:25 GMT -5
Rand Paul is smarmy but that doesn't mean some idiot should be able to jump him in his own yard. Truth is, they are probably both jerks.
I had a neighbor who used to let his leaves blow into my yard and I often thought about hitting him with a rake. Or a shovel. Or a Chevy.
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Post by brucemacneill on Nov 7, 2017 8:25:32 GMT -5
Rand Paul is smarmy but that doesn't mean some idiot should be able to jump him in his own yard. Truth is, they are probably both jerks. I had a neighbor who used to let his leaves blow into my yard and I often thought about hitting him with a rake. Or a shovel. Or a Chevy. I think it was a referendum on Trump. My new neighbor doesn't like my pine trees shedding on his lawn. I've spoken to them about it but they say it's what they do and they were here before he was. When I mow I make a couple of passes on his side of the trees to blow what I can on to my property but the trees appear to prefer pine needles and cones around their bases and just replace the ones I moved. So far, it hasn't come to violence. |
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Post by Fingerplucked on Nov 7, 2017 8:40:28 GMT -5
Leaves don’t break ribs, people break ribs.
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Post by RickW on Nov 7, 2017 9:26:44 GMT -5
My old neighbour was a not terribly bright, alcoholic, bad tempered .... something or other. I got water on her front door one day while watering. She showed up at my front door in her bathrobe and slippers, screaming at me about how I had ruined her door. She moved last year, thankfully, and the new folks are great.
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Post by dradtke on Nov 7, 2017 9:34:14 GMT -5
Great story. We had two neighbors near us with houses down by the river, one an old hippy and the other a retired school teacher. The old hippy liked to feed the birds and animals along the river, but the teacher hated all the goose poop that got left behind. When a flock of geese would land, she would run out banging on the bottom of a dishpan to chase them away. So the hippy, when he took bird feed out, would bang on the bucket while he scattered feed. The geese soon connected with the sound. Then when she beat the dishpan to chase them away, they'd all come running to her.
They've both moved away. That street's awfully quiet now.
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Post by dradtke on Nov 7, 2017 9:35:19 GMT -5
Well he deserved it! He's a Republican! (C'mooooon. You KNOW some of you thought that... ) Overly picky about grass in a gated community? They're both Republicans. |
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Post by millring on Nov 7, 2017 9:37:44 GMT -5
... and the new folks are great. Sure. You haven't ruined their door yet. |
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Post by Hobson on Nov 7, 2017 10:08:26 GMT -5
We have a neighbor who is obsessive about her yard, which is two acres like the rest of us. She is out there every day working on something. Alwasys raking up pine cones and pine needles. She even asks us if she can come into our yard to rake up the cones from her trees. Pine cones don't bother us at all, but it makes her happy, so we let her do it. We certainly don't bother to rake up the ones in the rest of our yard.
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Post by TKennedy on Nov 7, 2017 10:08:58 GMT -5
Well he deserved it! He's a Republican! (C'mooooon. You KNOW some of you thought that... ) Overly picky about grass in a gated community? They're both Republicans. They should let their yard service guys duke it out. |
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Post by AlanC on Nov 7, 2017 10:16:15 GMT -5
Overly picky about grass in a gated community? They're both Republicans. They should let their yard service guys duke it out. There are two kinds of snark in this world: Amusing and Not-Amusing. The above is an example of the former. |
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Post by millring on Nov 7, 2017 10:20:11 GMT -5
Overly picky about grass in a gated community? They're both Republicans. They should let their yard service guys duke it out. They volunteered. If they get hurt they have only themselves to blame in an all-volunteer yard service system. |
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Post by drlj on Nov 7, 2017 11:04:30 GMT -5
We had the good neighbor on the east side of us and the bad neighbor on the west side of us. The good neighbor was, as the term implies, a good neighbor.
The bad neighbor was so bad that it is not possible to describe him using just a few words. I referred to him as the pontificator because if you listened to his wordy brags, you would think he was a human dynamo getting thousands of things done at once. If you looked at his property, you knew he was a fat windbag who never did a thing to his ramshackle home, garage and property. His place was a mess and I hated going out into my lovely backyard and having to look up at his dung heap of a home festering next door.
Moving, even though I loved my old place, was wonderful not just because we got the place we wanted but because we no longer had to live next door to the lazy gasbag neighbor from hell.
Oh, I have stories I could tell. Stories that involve 50,000 bees, raccoons, woodpeckers eating his house, broken windows, mud
holes, loose siding, having to reluctantly recue his sorry ass when he fell in his garage and lay out there for several hours unable to get his own idiot family to hear his hoarse cries for help--we did while sitting on our patio with a glass of wine and Barb had to convince me we could not really ignore it and had to not only help him, but call an ambulance and then let his goofy wife know he was in need of help. She did not seem to actually care. I assumed if we went back inside, someone other than us would eventually find him but Barb felt that was harsh.
Anyway, not living next to that guy has been heaven. Absolute heaven.
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Post by AlanC on Nov 7, 2017 11:10:19 GMT -5
Thanks, I needed that. I don't remember when I have laughed out loud. Your moral dilemma was very amusing.
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Post by millring on Nov 7, 2017 11:13:36 GMT -5
he fell in his garage and lay out there for several hours. I remember when we had two baby kittens camping out under our back porch. It was supposed to go below zero that night and I told Dar that the poor little things would just go quietly to sleep and freeze -- not a bad way to go all things considered. So, it just wasn't that cold when the guy fell? |
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Post by drlj on Nov 7, 2017 11:27:52 GMT -5
No, unfortunately it was mid-summer. He would have had to be out there for several months and, according to Barb, that just was not a good plan.
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Post by RickW on Nov 7, 2017 11:37:52 GMT -5
Our previous house the neighbours on one side were good, the one on the other side, we got along with, but he had a temper. He had a small dog, which would bark continuously while he was out, then shut up when he was there. The guy behind us, this drove him crazy. They started to argue. The guy behind us ended up getting some kind of subsonic dog agitator, which he used in the evenings to drive our neighbours dog nuts, so he'd bark then as well. Our neighbour found out about this. He got extremely drunk one night, saw the guy behind us out on his deck, and went outside. They had a loud verbal altercation. My daughters, quite young at the time, learned some interesting new language. Screaming match went on for quite some time, devolved into threats, which ended up with the police being called.
Fun, fun, fun.
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