Dude Turns Terrible Neighbor's Own Games Against Them, Takes Them On in All-Out Warfare

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Feb 2, 2022 3:00 PM EST

This neighborly relationship really devolved into a no-holds-barred border battle in a hurry. What's that old saying… "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." What's closer than next door? The only thing left to do is invite them in and give them the spare room to sleep in at night. 

When u/ChickenFashionShow and his partner moved into a new neighborhood, they were immediately introduced to the "block captain" and his wife. They immediately got really bad vibes from the couple and noticed a few red flags in the stories they told.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the new neighbors to start making absurd demands and insane threats should those demands not be met. u/ChickenFashionShow made every attempt to ignore their behavior but the neighbors would soon make that impossible.

As the conflict began to escalate the warfare began to take on a different shape. Trees weren't safe or sacred. Colonies of feral cats were the ultimate weapon. Soon restraining orders would be filed and code violations would be issued. 

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    I did to my neighbor what they did to others.

    Font - r/ProRevenge Posted by u/Chicken FashionShow I did to my neighbor what they did to others. To start, I bought a house with the intention of doing a flip. When I moved in the self appointed "block captain" let me know who they were the first day. Sadly, they were my next door neighbors. I tried to be friendly but listening to them I realized how horrible they were and tried to keep still be civil. My significant other kept saying "just wait for it to be our turn."
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    Font - They bragged about, though their contacts with the city, forcing people to make improvements on their houses, getting undesirable renters out of the houses and just harassing people in general.
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    "They bragged about, though
    their contracts with the city,
    forcing people to make
    improvements on their houses,
    getting undesirable renters out
    of the houses and just
    harassing people in general."

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    Font - As I worked on flipping my house the wife became a worse thorn in my side. To start, she demanded I put up a fence so people would quit cutting though my yard and scaring her. Then, her and the husband demanded I take care of the weeds in the yard or they will do it and bill me. After that a storm a tree scraped their shingles and they asked for $1,200 to replace them. The tree was there before I moved in and by coed they are responsible to cut back the branches to the property line. When
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    Font - Needless to say I began to ignore to them so she became a constant gnat and moved onto another target. Then one day as I was tearing down my deck for a patio I realized she put a feral cat colony on a section of my property, I had wondered why all the stray cats were around and I finally found out. I reached out to the city and demanded it be removed, but they said she followed the law on getting it in place. As I tried to to get it shut down
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    Font - she began unhinged behavior from standing in her windows staring at me, yelling out the window at me to hitting the fence with items to scare my dog. Here my revenge started.
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    Font - I started by filing a HRO/Harassment Restraining Order against the wife and had it granted ex parte with the evidence I provided, or course she contested as it was 'defamatory to her character." Before the hearing the husband tried to physically intimidate me. So I filed one against him and it was also granted ex parte. In the hearing it came up that there was and HRO against the husband as well, they dogged being served until I had it published as a means of service.
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    Font - I started to make complaints about them and their house. Also, I made police calls when necessary. As I did this the other neighbors began to realize they could do to them what they had done to them and others.
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    Font - For example, as I was having my front door replaced, needing a building work permit. I knew they were doing internal remodeling so I called a city inspector and they were fined for not a having permit. As she ranted at the inspector he looked at my window and saw I had mine displayed. Their back porch became horded so I a made another call to a city inspector and they had to clear it out. Then they had a broken window on the porch door so I called an inspector and they had to replace the
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    Font - Through all this they had up cameras to prove they were not doing the things I said i.e. hitting the fence. They also pointed a camera at my back yard. As it was legal to point camera into my yard and a part of my HRO was her intrusive watching behaviors I
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    Font - gave the camera the middle finger on my way to and from my garage. When she complained, with the city tiring of her, their response was she was admitting to intrusively watching me.
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    Font - The fight over the cat colony came to an end when I realized one of the cats had a serious disease and I began to capture them and turn them into animal control. Don't worry, animal control was part of the feral cat program so they would not be put down but the neighbor would have to pay a fine to get each cat out or have the colony closed. Finally I caught the sick one and it had rabies, part of the program was for her to capture each new cat have it vaccinated. Something she admitted to
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    Font - The city now had to act to close the colony, the person at animal control who wouldn't respond to my complaints was fired. The neighbors called in a city mediator who we met with presented all the evidence and said we would not meet with them, and provided extremely racist tweets they made about neighbors. The city cut ties with them as "community leaders."
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    Font - With their power to bully gone and having spent what I can only imagine in fines and repairs, like they did to numerous other neighbors. After fourteen years they sold their house and moved out, way out to the suburbs where they only have one neighbor about fifty yards away. They knew I was wrapping up my flip and would be out in less then a year. Without being able to bully their neighbors, with people having their back, they seemed to have no further reason to stay. Needless to say I di
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    Font - Finally, when I listed my house it was sold while theirs was still on the market. As a final F-you to them I reported to the county they had both the new and old house listed as their homestead, meaning they were paying less in property taxes so they got hit in with more fines on my way out.
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    Font - -MarshallMellow- · You flipped the house, you flipped them off, and you flipped the tables on them. What didn't you flip? 4.2k
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    Font - llcooljessie · Cut down your trees? Where are all the amateur tree lawyers at? 2.1k
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    Font - khuldrim I know right? That's a lot of money you could've gotten... 754
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    Font - DominionGhost It's Treeson then. 509
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    Font - DoneScutch Curios in how someone can "put" a coboly of stray cats somewhere like that 439
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    Font - Demonwolfmaster You basically adopt a colony and move them to some where near your location so they can be fed and kept warm and safe while still living outside, since many are too feral to he moved inside safely. Your job then becomes make sure all are fixed all kittens are taken in to a foster, any new cats that may join are checked and fixed as well. Make sure you have proper care and warm housing for them to go to in bad weather. A lot goes in to it but basically you adopt a crap ton
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    Font - The_Spongebrain This ticks every box on the "how to legally f. ck with a public nuisance neighbor" and I love it 241 <
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    Font - WAHgop Next week on r/ProRevenge; "New neighbor is flipping house next door and harasses me legally to no end, here's what I did when I found his actual home"
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    Font - massageenvious2019 You described my next door neighbor to the "T". The "block captain" did all the same things and fi ked with people for no reason. Ex cop mentality and guess wHat. I slapped up cameras all over the house (only 2 were real) and the bullst t stopped immediately. New chick moved in next door and she started right out the gate with blocking my driveway with a bumper of a car. Tried to be nice but nope. She got ghetto with me and I pointed to The camera and the shit stopped w
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    Font - puhleez420 Thats not pro, my friend, that's nuclear. 149
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    Font - securitysix they had a relative jump my fence and cut the trees down. This is massively illegal. Trespassing aside, in most jurisdictions, destruction of someone else's tree is a crime and carries a massive civil penalty to boot. 4 94
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    Font - ChickenFashionShow OP . That is one of the things that allowed me to get an ex parte HRO. I let them take the rope they needed for things like that. 4 89 5
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    Font - hereforthegoss I love this! OP you are a legend! And as for them- they made their bed, hope they enjoy lying in it.
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    Font - Kestrel8924 This was so cathartic to read. Bravo to you! 29
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