bev
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Update: Just to explain the “issue” last summer ... DH was returning from walking the dog one evening, and “cut the corner” so to speak, by taking a few steps on neighbor’s driveway heading into our front yard. Literally 4-5 steps. On concrete. The neighbor said to my DH the next day that he would call the police if he ever set foot on his property again. (Neighbor had cameras obviously.) We had never had any real issues with this guy and tried to be nice when we saw him, talked about the weather, invited him for dinner once and TOOK him dinner once. We never got our Tupperware back.
When we built our house (he already lived next door), we built a small, narrow patio/porch on the side of our house since DH and I use the side door. We did some nice landscaping around it, made a very small brick “pad” from the concrete into the grass, leaving enough room to walk to the gate to the back yard. It was a nice little sitting area for DH and me. His driveway was 3 feet away. We would leash our pup and walk him, out the side door to the concrete porch, across the little brick part, onto the grass and let him do his business in the area by the gate. On our property.
Did I mention that neighbor works for the US Dept of Health? In DC. Yeah, he’s never home. He’d show up every 3-4 weeks to mow his grass until he hired someone to do it. Sometime last summer, I think, was when he put in his Ring doorbell. He also decided to widen his driveway, so now it almost abuts our little brick walkway. If we step off the brick walk, we are maybe 6 inches from his driveway. Impossible to take the dog out that way anymore.
Last time he was home was before Thanksgiving, and we noticed him changing out some of his cameras. One was now pointed almost directly AT OUR SIDE DOOR! It has a light that goes on when we go in/out at night.
So, from the beginning, he made clear that he didn’t like our grands kicking their soccer balls over his fence, but he especially didn’t like DH retrieving them. We had a serious talk with the grands about trying not to kick a ball over the fence, NEVER climbing the fence to retrieve a ball, and NEVER setting foot in his yard or on his driveway. They’ve been very good about this.
Last Saturday, I think, the grands were playing with friends in the back yard and ran through the gate on our side of the house (we’ve told the grands not to use that gate, but their friends didn’t know). This almost immediately put a couple of them on neighbor’s driveway since there’s very little of our yard by the gate. Instantly they heard this booming voice yelling, “If you don’t get off my property, I will call the police!” The kids were scared to death, of course, the little one was crying.
Neighbor is not home. He obviously gets some kind of instant notification if someone is in the sights of his cameras, but this was really fast. Like he was just watching them. Maybe he’s notified whenever we use our door. It’s really creeping me out.
Advice? Thoughts? Would police even come/do anything if he’s not there and there’s no damage?
My alter-ego would like to climb up on a ladder and look right into his camera and say, “If you EVER threaten our kids again...”
When we built our house (he already lived next door), we built a small, narrow patio/porch on the side of our house since DH and I use the side door. We did some nice landscaping around it, made a very small brick “pad” from the concrete into the grass, leaving enough room to walk to the gate to the back yard. It was a nice little sitting area for DH and me. His driveway was 3 feet away. We would leash our pup and walk him, out the side door to the concrete porch, across the little brick part, onto the grass and let him do his business in the area by the gate. On our property.
Did I mention that neighbor works for the US Dept of Health? In DC. Yeah, he’s never home. He’d show up every 3-4 weeks to mow his grass until he hired someone to do it. Sometime last summer, I think, was when he put in his Ring doorbell. He also decided to widen his driveway, so now it almost abuts our little brick walkway. If we step off the brick walk, we are maybe 6 inches from his driveway. Impossible to take the dog out that way anymore.
Last time he was home was before Thanksgiving, and we noticed him changing out some of his cameras. One was now pointed almost directly AT OUR SIDE DOOR! It has a light that goes on when we go in/out at night.
So, from the beginning, he made clear that he didn’t like our grands kicking their soccer balls over his fence, but he especially didn’t like DH retrieving them. We had a serious talk with the grands about trying not to kick a ball over the fence, NEVER climbing the fence to retrieve a ball, and NEVER setting foot in his yard or on his driveway. They’ve been very good about this.
Last Saturday, I think, the grands were playing with friends in the back yard and ran through the gate on our side of the house (we’ve told the grands not to use that gate, but their friends didn’t know). This almost immediately put a couple of them on neighbor’s driveway since there’s very little of our yard by the gate. Instantly they heard this booming voice yelling, “If you don’t get off my property, I will call the police!” The kids were scared to death, of course, the little one was crying.
Neighbor is not home. He obviously gets some kind of instant notification if someone is in the sights of his cameras, but this was really fast. Like he was just watching them. Maybe he’s notified whenever we use our door. It’s really creeping me out.
Advice? Thoughts? Would police even come/do anything if he’s not there and there’s no damage?
My alter-ego would like to climb up on a ladder and look right into his camera and say, “If you EVER threaten our kids again...”
