Karen Makes Neighborhood Miserable, Gets Fined, Goes Bankrupt

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mattstaff
May 14, 2020 1:00 PM EDT

Man oh man, this Karen was on one. Sounds like she was running around the neighborhood meddling in everyone's affairs, and bringing all kinds of negative chaos to the otherwise peaceful neighborhood. Well, eventually Karen took it too far. She shouldn't have messed with those orchards. Fast forward, and she ended up being fined, going bankrupt, and having to sell her property. Ouch.

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    Text - r/NuclearRevenge + Join u/gustavotherecliner • 332d Was told this belonged here. Bitch tries to destroy my orchard, i destroy her life. Sorry, might get a bit long. TL;DR at the bottom. Well, lets start a few years in the past. My great grandparents planted an orchard, it is now at least 120 years old. My grandparents and my parents were really proud of the peach trees growing in it and did their best to keep them in good health and well. We always threw a big party when the peaches were
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    Text - The neighbours on the property to the south of our orchard were particulary fond of our peaches. They were a bunch of fine old people and me and the old man, Sam, were pretty good friends. He tought me a lot about woodworking with handtools only and we had some great evenings in his workshop and we finished many a good whiskeys in there together. In return he got a lot of fine peaches, marmelade, homemade peach liqueur etc... Sadly he died a good ten years ago, cancer is a real asshole. H
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    Text - In comes Karen. The name speaks for itself. Haircut, attitude, bitchiness. The whole deal. She bought the property of my late neighbours. We hadn't had the kind of money to buy it at that time, as we had met some dire straits the years before and all our savings were gone. The first thing she did (before she actually moved in), was to go round and making demands of the neighbours on the surrounding properties. When it was finally our turn to listen to her gibberish, she told us
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    Text - that we needed to remove half of the trees, as the leaves were blowing on her property. We told her in a polite way, that we won't comply to her demands as the orchard is a vital part of our family heritage/tradition/life and has been there for at least 120 years. She was pretty pissed, but did nothing for the time being. There are some things you need to know before i continue with the story. The workshop i mentioned before, was situated right at the border to our property. It was a smal
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    Text - hefty fine. To get the permission to build a new building, it has to be up to code and you have to ask your surrounding neighbours and if they agree, you're good to go. Except there is one speciality in my county. You have to keep a certain distance to the border of the property to allow emergency services full access to your property. If one of these requirements isn't met, the building is illegal or at least only partially legal and can actually be ordered by court to be torn down. That
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    Text - the attack. The dog was the sweetest and most innocent dog you could imagine. A bernese mountain dog, big, but a real teddy bear. Anyways. She later got us to stop doing our annual peach parties, as she called the police every time for various reasons. Noise complaints (we had a band playing there in the afternoon), arson (we lit a fire in a desginated fire pit in the middle of our property), she called the ATF on us (allegedly making moonshine, my dad had a licence to destill for our own
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    Text - and law enforcement agencies every time we threw the party and we decided to quit. After she had reached this goal, she resorted to pestering us to remove the orchard. We didn't cave in and some things started to get really fishy. Somehow the tires of our trucks got slashed, eggs got thrown on our farm house, our cat disappeared and surfaced a few days later in pretty rough condition. It looked like somebody had tried to cut his tail off. Don't worry, he healed up completly, but we actual
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    Text - garage/recreational center/house right where the shop was, but she missed one fine detail, which got pretty important later on. She didn't ask for our permission, nor for the neighbour's. A short while after, the trees right next to her property started to get sick. The leafes turned brown in the middle of summer, and the branches started to die. We lost four trees, before we figured out the cause. Somebody had driven long copper nails into them. We had a suspicion, but we couldn't prove
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    Text - I had some friends at the administration of our county and asked them to do some inquiries. Turned out she hasn't applied for permission to tear down the old shop, nor for permission to build a new building. I further did some inquiries on the borderline of our property. Turned out, the old markers vanished over time and her building was about 3 feet on our property. After i had gathered all this information, i presented it to my
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    Text - parents. At first they were reluctant as they didn't want to start a neighbourhood clash. But after i recalled all the things she did to us and our neighbours, they were in. So let the games begin. First we called the authorities on her for tearing down a protected building and presented them with all the evidence we gathered. Then we called the building authorities on her for building a building without permission, not up to code, and not only didn't she keep the required distance to the
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    Text - Long story short, turned out the workshop hasn't only been protected because of its age, but also because it was a historical landmark, which played a vital role in a conflict back in the 1860s. She got sued for this, and had to pay a fine of an equivalent of about $150,000. She further had to demolish her newly built building, costing an additional $50,000, got fined for this too (about $83,000), and had to rebuild the workshop on her own expense, which was another whopping $154,000, as
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    Text - cost her an equivalent of $437,000 plus further expenses as lawyers etc... This caused her to go bankrupt so she had to sell the property in the end, which my parents bought, by the way. Last i heard of her was that she moved back to the big city. TL;DR: Karen makes living in our neighbourhood miserable, almost destroys an 120 year old orchard, destroys a 180 year old buidling, builds an illegal house, gets fined, goes bankrupt and has to sell her property. EDIT: Yes, the Peach Parties ar
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