'Your wife was intending to destroy my water lines during a winter storm': Several neighbors discover the neighborhood Karen is freezing pipes overnight, leaving them without running water

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Isabella Penn
Jan 21, 2024 12:00 PM EST

In a quiet neighborhood, there's a strange story about a neighbor who's a bit of a Karen, but not the loud type. Instead of causing a scene in public, she sneaks around at night, quietly planning her revenge. That is, until her neighbor caught her on video, promoting the OP to file a police report against her.

Once the word got out in the neighborhood, it was soon revealed that the OP wasn't the only one dealing with Karen's mysterious actions. It turns out she's been sneaking around to mess with several neighbors who she believes are out to get her. The OP? This all happened to him because leaves from his yard ended up in hers. Even though it's winter and there's a big snowstorm, Karen doesn't stop. In fact, she takes advantage of the frigid weather to freeze her neighbors' pipes over and over again. Keep reading to see what happens next. 

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    Posted by u/throwaway67318 1 day ago New Karen neighbor tried to destroy my water line
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    So I got notice in October that my apartment was raising my rent $200 in a single year come December. I like renting. Genuinely. "Hey my water heater is broken." Come home and it's fixed. Never had a problem, but a 20% rise in rent in one year? Not doing that.
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    The morning I opened up the rent increase notice I happened to see a cute manufactured home with a for sale sign on my way to work. I pulled it up on my phone and called the realtor. This was Monday, she indicated the sellers didn't want it shown until Wednesday and we scheduled a showing. I put in an offer
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    the next day and they accepted 10 minutes later. YAY!! Signed and closed 10 days later. It was an incredibly easy transaction/process and that made me very happy. Well on my move-in day in early November the retiree neighbor on my
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    left comes up to me while I'm helping the movers move my stuff and the first words out of her mouth were "are you going to do anything about these leaves that keep blowing into my yard from yours?" Eventually it came to a head where I told her "I understand that you like to keep
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    your lawn tidy. Can you at least try to understand that I have been working 60 and 70 hour weeks while moving and I am doing my very best". The property management company that runs the park straight up told me I was in the clear and not in violation of anything.
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    I've had no contact since with her when she realized I'm not going to capitulate to her. This most recent Friday when we had frigid temperatures and high winds in the evening I flush my toilet and I realize it isn't refilling. I test my taps. No water.
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    It's already too dark so I go to the store to get water for me and the cats. In the morning once it's light out i put on my coveralls and head out into the -3°f (-22°f windchill) and investigate. The water supply comes out of the ground outside of the trailer skirt then goes through the skirt to the supply. The
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    previous owners had built a well- insulated box around the water supply, but the access hatch was unlocked and cracked open. sigh I call my father and tell him I need to borrow his heat gun. He offers to drive it over but the weather is so bad with blowing snow I told him even in his truck he'd get stuck so I went trekking over there.
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    I'm fuming the whole way. I could have sworn I latched that door when I was checking my winterizing list. I could have sworn. Eventually after 15 minutes of using the heat gun the water started flowing. I get back inside and get under my blankets to get warm after being in the arctic conditions for nearly 2 hours at that point.
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    I still can't get over it. I KNOW I latched the door. So on a whim I propped my laptop in the window and set it up to video record and went on with my day. I woke up Sunday morning to temperatures of -7°f (-33°f windchill) and go to fill up the cat's water bowl. No
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    water. I Put on my coveralls and head out, the access door was cracked open again! I get the heat gun out again and get the water going again. So I check my laptop and not 2 hours after I started the laptop recording the neighbor Karin comes waddling across her driveway and walks over to my
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    trailer and leans over by the water and messes with the door before waddling back to her trailer. I get my coat on and walk over there with my laptop. When she answers "Oh hi [my name], what brings you over today?" All cheery and two-faced. I just
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    open my laptop without saying a word and hit play. She just starts stuttering trying to come up with some b t. I just interrupt her and tell her I'll be forwarding it to the office and walked away. Monday the office called me and told me they will be addressing the issue and it
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    would be incredibly helpful if there was a police report. I gladly called the non- emergency line and scheduled a time for an officer to come out after work. They cops were pulling up just as I was walking home. We came in and I detailed everything and showed them the video. They wanted a copy so I gave
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    it to them. They asked me to show them the water line so we head out around there. They took some photos while we were out there. The whole time we were out there Karen was looking out her kitchen window. They see she's home as well and offer to trespass her. I head back in and they eventually come knock
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    telling me they spoke to her and trespassed her, gave me a copy of the police report number and forwarded it to the office. While we were out there a neighbor couple across the street were out and asked me if everything was OK. I said it
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    was, that I had video proof that Karen had actually opened my water access to freeze my pipes. Their eyes went wide. Their cover over the water line was also removed (broken off) and his water line froze too on Friday and the repairs were broken again on Saturday. Turns out Karen has an ongoing beef with them
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    because they have a pride flag they refuse to take down. So the police went over there to get their statements too. Karen's husband came home an hour ago, came over shortly after to ask me to retract my complaint against them with the office as a "misunderstanding".
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    Misunderstanding? Your f g wife was intending to destroy my water lines in the middle of a winter storm which would have cost me thousands of dollars to fix. He pulls out his checkbook "So what's this going to cost me?" "Well, I bought the place for $40 thousand, so let's call it an even 45 thousand and I'll straight up tell the office i fabricated the whole thing." He said he was serious. I
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    said I was too. He says they're on the verge of being evicted and kicked off the lot and she 'has problems'. "Sounds like the neighbors and I should go in on a bunch of security cameras to ensure that happens then" So we'll see. I wasn't going to set up my server, but I'm going to be doing that
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    tonight with a couple of my Webcams on some raspberry pi computers. I just can't trust this woman. All because of some f a gay pride flag. g leaves, and
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