Karen calls cops on dude's leaky tire, he exposes her dirty fountain: 'She didn't even live on my [...] street'

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Mar 29, 2024 7:00 PM EDT

Everyone has a dirty little secret hiding somewhere on their property—sometimes it's that project car that hasn't moved for months (and that probably will never be finished), and sometimes it's your neglected fountain in your backyard that has become less of an aesthetic water feature and more of a mosquito breeding ground.

And it's only natural to be vaguely annoyed by these oversights on the part of your neighbors, as—when you're locked eternally into a plot of land in (relatively) close proximity to absolute strangers—you're going to face some disagreements.

Still, before you start pointing fingers, it's always best to look at yourself first and realize that someone could just as easily point the finger back at you. Besides, there are far worse possibilities when it comes to neighbors than simple petty annoyances. 

This Karen picked a battle she wasn't going to walk away from unscathed when she decided to take issue over her back-fence neighbor's truck they seldom drove and had a leaky tire. She kept calling the vehicle to the police as abandoned, prompting the owner to retaliate in kind.

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    "Complain [about] my truck? Enjoy cleaning out your fountain." Oregon WHO 93
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    Posted by u/idahowoodworker 8 hours ago Complain on my truck? Enjoy cleaning your fountain. Many years ago I lived in a development that formed an HOA 15 years after the development was finished. So joining the HOA was optional as it wasn't created when the development was. I opted not to join. I had a truck, sitting in my driveway, that ran but I seldom used since I commuted to work and it sucked gas like Linda Lovelace. It also had a tire with a slow leak so the minute the rim touched the conc
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    the city. Which was stupid to start with, it was in MY driveway. So I'd air up the tire and notify the city, and the notice would be filed under "unsubstantiated". After about the 3rd or 4th time of this happening, I was on the phone with code enforcement and they were getting as annoyed with the complainant as I was. While they couldn't tell me who was filing the complaint, they hinted around enough that I
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    knew who it was. A neighbor whose BACK yard was adjacent to mine and lived around the corner. She didn't even live on my street. She was also the new HOA's president. She also had an abandoned water feature/fountain that would go stagnant after it rained, creating a breeding ground for mosquitoes. Making that call to the city then seeing the fountain cleaned out a couple days later was satisfying.
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    CoderJoe1 7 hr. ago • Mosquitos were gone, but that still left the HOA blood sucker. 268 Reply Share idahowoodworker OP 7 hr. ago Unfortunately yes. 68 Reply Share • • • sanemartigan - 5 hr. ago You can report that mozzie pond again and again. △ 27 Reply Share
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    BeautifulPhantom1 · 7 hr. ago Ugh, people that cruise streets they don't live/work on just looking for violations are the absolute worst. They also have way too much time on their hands. I guess your nosy neighbor found her new hobby in cleaning a non-working fountain. 49 Reply Share . . . Zoreb1 6 hr. ago Had a friend where, one day, an old lady went around with a code officer pointing out all the violations in the neighborhood. He had to replace a door. 19 Reply Share . . .
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    Brilliant_Concert995 5 hr. ago When I was a teen, I had a '68 Firebird that I was working on for MONTHS. It was parked in the street, but that was OK, all the houses in our neighborhood had very short one car driveways, so everyone worked on cars in the street. Firebird had same problem as OP, slow leak in front left tire. Pretty much as soon as the tire became noticeably low, it would get tagged as abandoned (reported by the one down the street). neighbor
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    I didn't have a compressor back then, neighbors DID, but hose nowhere near reaching the car, meaning it up, remove the tire, air it up, rehang the tire. I was 16, It would be a couple years before it occurred to me in retrospect,"Dang, should have just had the tire fixed first time I took it off." What DID occur to me after about the third sticker on the windshield - when I jacked the car up somewhat, tire did not appear flat at all. So I stacked some pieces of 2X4 under the a-arm so the tire wa
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    mr_macfisto 6 hr. ago Who TF forms a voluntary HOA long after construction is done? There's no shared infrastructure to maintain! 12 Reply Share . . . Elbynerual 4 hr. ago Retirees who want to control other people 8 Reply Share
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    Mopar_Poe 3 hr. ago I HATE HOA,s with the burning passion of a thousands suns... Some dickless wonder used to complain about cars in my driveway... I'm a mechanic, I did side work out of my driveway. I never found out who the scumbag was, we eventually moved. I hated it the entire time that we lived there.. . . The afor mentioned cars were only IN my driveway for a day or so, over a weekend. No mess, oil stains, or loud exhaust. Good Times brought to you by people who have no life. 3 Reply Share
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    Kisses4themisses 5/10 on the revenge scale 3 Reply Share jamesinboise This is petty revenge.... 13 Reply Share Kisses4themisses I'm aware. It's my petty scale 6 Reply Share . . . idahowoodworker OP Yeah it wasn't that creative but about all I could come up with. Ha 7 Reply Share . . .
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    chanarang 7 hr. ago Pretty good job, tbh. No one got hurt, except someone's ego, and people actually win by getting rid of the mosquitos. 2 Reply Share . . .
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