‘She thought she could get away with it’: Resident steals yard decoration from neighbors, claiming ‘finders keepers’, they report her

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Mar 20, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

Stories like these make it completely understandable why some people decide to move away and live in the middle of nowhere, with no one else nearby. This is the perfect example of how impossible neighbors can be, which sheds light on the reality of having to deal with some really crazy people right outside your doorstep. 

This Reddit story was told by a resident who saw her two neighbors arguing out on the street. Curious, she went outside to see what the commotion was all about. Apparently, neighbor 1 was angry at neighbor 2 because neighbor 2 was stealing yard decorations from other people. OP (original poster), heard the accusations and then noticed that she had plant pots and even patches of grass missing from her own yard. Neighbor 2, who didn't want to admit to her actions, decided she would call the police on the other neighbors, then proceeded to come clean in front of the officers, claiming she took the decorations because of 'finders keepers'.

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    "She thought she could get away with it"
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    Neighbor helped herself to other people's stuff
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    Several years ago I heard my sweet neighbor and another woman arguing on the sidewalk. I looked closer and noticed they were both pulling a plant pot in different directions
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    and about to fight. No clue what was up but knew my neighbor. If she was arguing, she was right. Me and my husband went over to intervene. My husband wanted to help make peace.
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    Me? I was going to help my neighbor no questions asked. Why the argument? The other woman was a new neighbor. Our nice neighbor noticed her plant pots were missing and
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    were in the new neighbors yard. Yep, new neighbor had stolen nice neighbors plants, plant pots and yard decor and decorated her yard with it. My nice neighbor had hand painted
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    several pots that were in her yard, thus they were easy to identify as hers. We all walked over to the new neighbors yard to get our other neighbors stuff back. When we
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    got to the new neighbors yard we noticed several things looked both weird and very familiar. Oh yeah, and the new neighbor had called the cops on us, or at least someone did.
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    Anyway, the new neighbor had planted patches of different types of grass all over the yard in a checkerboard pattern. As well, mismatched shrubs and flowers. I looked at our house a little closer. Yep, we were
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    missing grass patches from the side of the house and one of our shrubs. When the police arrived? The new neighbor was adamant the plants, pots, grass, shrubs and
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    yard decor were hers. She informed the cop she dug them up from other yards in the middle of the night and planted them. Yep, she claimed "finders keepers". Didn't quite work out.
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    My nice neighbor insisted on pressing charges for petit theft and destruction of property. We just dug up our grass patches and replanted them. Some of them even survived it.
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    Nosy neighbors kept walking by after the new neighbor was arrested. As we were digging things up we explained why to them. Neighbors kept recognizing their stuff from her yard. One neighbor asked if
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    we'd seen a picnic table as his was missing. We hadn't thought to check the backyard. Yep, picnic table and a yard full of her "finders keepers" haul. She moved pretty much right afterward. We didn't miss her.
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    D Scourge12 7 hr. ago I who walks into someone else's yard and just takes stuff. "Finders keepers" not if it's on someone else's property
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    poppieswithtea. 7 hr. ago Lol, who cuts patches of grass out of someone's yard?
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    Scourge12 7 hr. ago IKR, why would you. Isn't there grass already there when she moved in?
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    Sunflower971 OP · 6 hr. ago Dirt and weeds mainly, it was a poorly kept rental property.
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    lunniidolli · 4 hr. ago And then just displaying it in your own garden in full view of the people you stole it from? Like how did she think she was gonna get away with that
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    siouxbee1434 · 7 hr. ago • That takes entitlement to a new level
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    CoderJoe1 7 hr. ago Did the crazy neighbor own the house or was she squatting?
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    Sunflower971 OP 7 hr. ago It was a rental property, likely a legitimate renter.
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    Traditional-Ad2319. 7 hr. ago I am bowled over by that woman's audacity
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    tripmom2000. 6 hr. ago I'm sorry. I can't stop laughing. Showed two of my kids. I keep seeing her sneaking into yards in the middle of the night to dig up squares of grass that she 'found'. My son loved the image of her carting a picnic table down the street
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    Sunflower971 OP. 6 hr. ago I'm glad they got a laugh out of it too! I can obviously laugh at it, then and now. Absolutely no idea how she moved the picnic table. She likely had help? Either that or a wagon or power tools.
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    D Scourge12. 7 hr. ago I'd just wait till she's gone, then start living on her house and say "finders keepers"
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    wdjm. 6 hr. ago She's the kind of neighbor that makes me love my big dogs even more.
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