Neighbor Starts a Full-Blown Neighborhood Feud Over a Trash Can

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    ||||||||| "Had a great neighbor below me, but then she moved out, and HE moved in..."
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    It's the little things... Bully neighbor
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    I lived in the upstairs unit of a 2- unit condo (converted house) nearly 20 years ago. Had a great neighbor below me, but then she moved out and a horrible man moved in. The first thing he did was leave a note that the garbage can I
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    had just moved back from the street was his, and claimed that he had moved it. I ignored it, because w f, but his anger increased with another note saying I'd better not use "his" garbage can and to move the other one back "NOW!!". He put
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    the note on "his" trash can and moved it to the middle of the walkway so I couldn't miss it. I did what he wanted because I was pretty unnerved by that point, and thought it would end the bizarre exchange. No such luck. It
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    happened again, but then he was yelling in my face instead of leaving notes. He was a big guy and scared me enough to give in. After that I went to stay with my bf for a while. Before I left, I decided
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    on some petty revenge.I set my alarm for 4am, turned the volume all the way up, and set it on the floor of my bedroom. It was an old radio alarm that stayed on for an hour after the set time. I wasn't
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    sure if he would be able to hear it since I'd never heard either neighbor. I wasn't even sure if his bedroom was below mine. Tbh, I figured it probably wasn't going to work and forgot about it for a few
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    months until my bf and I decided to make the move permanent. I went over there to start packing and found his outraged voice messages. He didn't know my phone number so he had to
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    contact the owner. There were no messages a few weeks prior, so it took that long for him to get my number. He must've pounded on my door many, many times before the owner finally gave him my number. She only had my land line so he had to wait until I was there to get the messages.
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    SheWho LovesToDraw • 5 hr. ago Landlord had no business giving your phone number to a total stranger.
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    Practical_Magic- OP. 4 hr. ago My thoughts, too, but he probably hounded her so much that she gave in like I did. For that I can't blame her.
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    And she was an older woman, which ~20 years later I can now also appreciate .
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    CoderJoel 6 hr. ago Automated vengeance. All he could do is phone in his anger.
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    AcrobaticSource3 - 5 hr. ago I was hoping that you took the bin with you!
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    Practical_Magic- OP. 4 hr. ago I wish I thought of that! I'm cracking up reading these responses.
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    Eternal_Koevoet. 4 hr. ago When I was in the Army, my wife and I lived off base. I had a neighbor who always used my garbage can to dump his trash rather than pay for the service. It got so bad
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    that we didn't have enough room for out trash. My wife went to speak to him and the police were called. FYI, don't off a Puerto Rican woman as he found out. So, now he wants to file a restraining order, Yada Yada Yada.
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    The police spoke to him and he quieted down. And yet, he starting adding MORE garbage. I was in a unit that didn't normally wear uniforms and had just come from field training. Among
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    some of our field gear was CS powder; Tear Gas. I had had enough, so when I went to the base at 0400 in the morning with my trash (It was halfway due to being dumped
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    yesterday).Along the top, I sprinkled some CS powder. The powder works when stirred up. When I got home, he still hadn't hit my can. At midnight, I awoke to a cussing and screaming neighbor outside. The next day, the police were
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    called and the neighbor was accusing us of Assault. I asked how that could have happened and he actually told them I poisoned him. I took them to my can and opened the top. I explained to the officers that I was exposed to
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    tear gas during training. I was asked which unit and I told the officers that I was assigned to a Special Operations unit on the base. My neighbor didn't even know I was in the Army let alone the unit. The officers were cool about
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    it and we never had another problem with him again. He moved out 3 months later
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    Educational-Ad2063. 3 hr. ago While stationed in Germany, we had guy that left his alarm on when he went on leave. 30 days of his alarm going off from 5am to 6 am. Drove everyone nuts. (Luckily I lived off post).
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    I don't know why they wouldn't let anyone go in and turn it off. Could have been just a simple welfare check. But nope 30 days of ring ding ring ding for a hour.

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