‘I just want you to know I know what you did’: Neighbor uses herbicides on man's lawn and attempts to gaslight him into thinking he's imagining things

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Nov 20, 2024 9:00 AM EST

Some of you might fall into the lucky group of folks with thoughtful, kind, and considerate neighbors. The rest of you, well—you know how it goes.

If there's one thing many homeowners take seriously, it's lawn care. HOA or not, keeping up with lawn care is important on many fronts—it's many individuals' pride and joy. A clean lawn is a clear mind, and at the very least, folks hope and pray that they don't have a run-in with an entitled neighbor who takes it upon themselves to use pesticides and herbicides on the land that they pay for.

In this next story, a man's neighbor refuses to admit that he's been using herbicides on his lawn. Not only is there physical evidence on the man's lawn at the base of his prized dogwood trees, but on their own lawn, too. The man decides to confront the neighbor calmly, but the neighbor gets defensive and calls the cops in an attempt to flip the narrative. Luckily, bystanders can corroborate what really happened. Scroll to read.

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    My neighbor ki ed my dogwood trees
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    One Saturday afternoon, I pulled out all my lawn equipment to mow my front yard. I started with my w d eater. There is a three-foot wide piece of lawn on one side of my driveway between my lawn
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    and the neighbors next door. On that stretch of lawn, I had three dogwood trees which I had grown since they were twigs a foot high. At the time of the incident, my 3 year old trees had
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    reached over six feet tall and were about to flower for the first time. As I work my way around the front yard I get to the strip of land where my beautiful dogwoods are and I notice a bright colored yellow
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    grass around each tree. I look at my neighbor's yard and the same colored yellow grass along the front of the neighbor's house. When I saw the yellow in their yard I knew what had happened and I
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    should have called the police. There was plenty of proof to charge and sue them for property damages. Instead, I went and knocked on the door. I knocked loudly but did not
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    pound the door as the neighbor claimed. He shamefully answers the door holding his daughter for protection. When I saw this I knew the type of man I was dealing with. I told him I knew he sprayed
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    my trees with the grass and w d ki er and pointed to the yellow around my tree and his house. He says, "I can't believe you want to accuse me of this. I thought we were friends."
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    told him, "We are not friends we're acquaintances. You earn a friendship." "I just want you to know I know what you did." Then I walked away.
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    I went back to my yard work when ten minutes later the local police drove up to his house. The p y called the cops. I stop. what I'm doing and walk over to them while he proceeds to tell them his
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    story of how I banged on the door scaring him and his daughter and then screamed at them almost making his daughter cry. There were neighbors directly across the street, who saw everything, and
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    shouted his story was not true. I pointed out the color match around my trees and the front of his house. The neighbor says dogs are known to ki trees when they p on them. The police tell me
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    that dogs have been known to ki trees. I wasn't about to swallow that and told them if that were true there wouldn't be many trees around because dogs p on ALL trees. I also pointed to the
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    neighbor's house and exclaimed, "And I guess the dog had to go bad when he got to the front of the house and peed the whole length of the wall. I respectfully decline your rationale of the "dog"
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    theory." "I wanted him to know I knew what he did." One policeman asked me, "So this is over?" I told him it was over when I walked away.
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    Three months later new neighbors moved in. The neighbor never put up a for-sale sign. The new neighbors are a gem and have been next door for over 15 years.
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    Original-Dra... 3h ago. Since the neighbor called the police and lied. You should have made them write a report for the destruction of property and sued him for the cost of replacing the trees.
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    Junkrat... 11h ago • Are they actually de d or do you just assume they are going to di because the grass is de d??
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    I maintain public parks and use w d ki er to ki grass at the base of trees, literally thousands of them, and ive never seen a tree di from w d ki er being sprayed on the grass at the base of the tree.
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    Leather-... OP 10h ago • • I assure you they were quite de d when I cut them down a month later. The base of my trees were only about one inch thick. I am assuming you can't hug your tree and touch your hands.
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