Revenge Of The Week: The Long Game

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mattstaff
Jul 24, 2020 10:00 AM EDT

Man, oh, man, this entitled neighbor was in way over their heads. Dick thought he was dealing with some easy pushover, and got a serious wakeup call. Bam Bam is a legend. 

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    Text - r/ProRevenge u/PJMurphy • 17h + Join 1 The Long Game TL;DR: Don't be a shit, and you won't have to deal with shit. This is a long story, so settle back and relax. I love this sub, and I have taken to asking friends about great revenge stories. This one comes from my boss, who lives in the small town where it occurred.
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    Text - To set the stage, many decades ago, Barney and Betty immigrated from Europe and bought a farm. A few years later they had kids, and sponsored Wilma from the old country as a nanny. She met Fred, a local boy, fell in love and got married. Wilma stayed on as the nanny, and Fred worked as a farm hand. Their kids and Barney and Betty's kids grew up together, and it was pretty much a big, blended family. Years go by, and Barney and Betty decide to sell the farm fields to Farmer Frank, but kept
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    Text - More time went by. Barney and Betty passed away, and their house was inherited by their son, Bam-Bam. Fred also passed away, and Wilma stayed in the house. She was an angel. Everyone in the town knew and loved her, she was like the town's Grandmother. She was active in the church, and liked nothing more than crocheting booties for anyone in town that had a baby. Sadly, Wilma passed away too, and her house was inherited by her daughter, Pebbles. She was well stablished in a nearby metropol
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    Text - To give you a better idea of the setup, here is a rough diagram. The parcel for sale is the yellow bit, which backs on to protected park land, and is bordered by Bam-Bam's land, and Farmer Frank's fields. It was purchased by a builder from the city, which we'll call Dick. The name suits him. He wanted it as a country getaway, as he already had a place in the city. He got approval to improve the place, and his plans were to convert the barn into a multi-car garage with a man- cave and an a
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    Text - Bam-Bam asked the contractors not to do it, but they didn't stop, so he approached Dick, and the conversation didn't go well. Dick was an entitled big- shot, dealing with what he thought was a country bumpkin. To give you an idea, Dick once went to the local diner, and asked for the wine list. He was aggressive and disrespectful, and this pretty much set the tone for all future interactions. Bam-Bam had enough, these contractor trucks were tearing up his ground, so one weekend, he built a
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    Text - This caused no end of trouble with the build. There was no room to park in the yellow for the contractors without getting in each other's way, and they couldn't park in the driveway which was only wide enough for one vehicle at a time. Contractors were pissed off..they had a long walk from the road to the build site, and had to carry tools and equipment back and forth, either that, or take turns dropping materials..waiting hours for the carpenters to finish unloading the lumber so that th
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    Text - The following weekend Bam-Bam irrigated the area where the contractors were parking. Irrigated it long and continuously. He probably had to get a water delivery to make it happen, as the well had a limited capacity. On Monday, the first contractor to arrive turned off Dick's driveway to go through the fence, and immediately sank up to his axles in mud. Did I mention that Bam-Bam owned the local service station, and knew every tow truck company within 100 miles? As it turned out, everyone
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    Text - Time went by, and Dick's house was completed. It was a low-maintenance setup, with interlocking brick over the compound, tall hedges separating Dick from Bam- Bam. They kept out of each other's way, but they certainly weren't pals. Dick's kids would come up on the weekend and have a party now and then, but Bam- Bam put up with it. One issue that arose was when Dick decided to fill the small swimming pool that he had installed. This drew the well dry, and caused some sand to be pulled into
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    Text - Years passed, and Dick decided to list the house for sale. That's when Bam-Bam made his move. He cut the water and capped the septic line leading from Dick's house. Then he informed the real estate agent of what he had done. Well, that induced a thunderstorm, for sure. There's no way Dick could sell a house that had no water, or any way to dispose of waste. He couldn't build a septic field on his property, it was too small. He approached Farmer Frank to buy some of his land, but was rebuf
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    Text - Dick tried to argue in court that he was entitled to access to the well water and the septic field, but Bam- Bam won, arguing that the Wilma and Fred were given water and septic as a courtesy, and that there was no contractual obligation to provide Dick either well water or septic access. There was nothing in the deed to Wilma and Fred that could be grandfathered in, and Dick's emails refusing to pay for maintenance to either system was the nail in the coffin. The property sat vacant and
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    Text - Finally, Dick did receive an offer from a numbered corporation, an offer that was about a quarter of the asking price. As is, with a statement that the buyer was aware that there was no water or septic service to the property. Without much choice, Dick accepted the offer. And that's how Bam-Bam bought himself a beautiful, modern country home, at a steal of a price. He reattached the water and septic in an afternoon, and moved his furniture down the driveway. He rented his old house out, f
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