Crazy neighbor stealing my chickens and my eggs

[MROO]

In our neighborhood, I am the crazy neighbor ... but not the nasty, destructive kind. My teenagers think it's hysterical that the kids down the street knock on the door all the time ... to ask if I can come out to play!
And y'know, what? Sometimes I do!

 

[Chica'sChickens]

about 10 years ago when I started raising chickens, I had these lunatic neaibhors move in.
They’d play music all day and all night and every now and then we’d catch them peeping in through the fence at our chickens. Weird enough huh ? Well it didn’t stop there. The odd day we’d catch them jumping over the fence running around our yard taking pictures of our chickens.
Two weeks from the moving in, I was starting to notice a decline in eggs. We’d usually get 15 eggs a day from our hens but since they moved in we had been getting 7 a day.
Silly old me thought a rat was eating them so one night a put a mousetrap in the nest box. I woke up to the sound of a person screaming and shouting! So from them on I knew them lunatic neighbors had been stealing them.
I confronted them at their door step about them robbing my hens eggs and I told them “if I have have one less egg from this day on, I’ll call the police” since that day it all seemed fine till one morning 2 weeks prior to the egg stealing problem, I woke up to 5 missing chickens, there was feathers and blood everywhere as if some monster came in and got them. But their coop was fully secure so the only thing that could of got in was a person. So I followed the trail of feathers out the back and what do you know, it leads to the neighbors house. I immediately ran over there, confronted them and called the police right on front of their faces.
They were mortified and they all ran out jumped into their car and theve never returned.
Crazy story huh?
Ugh story of my life.

Police arrive and investigate their house, apparently the only food in their fridge was MY EGGS and water that looked to have been taken from my garden hose as it was in a bucket in their fridge. The police also found my missing chickens the freezer. Pretty darn crazy

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Wow!!! People do crazy things! Keep us posted as to if they come back home.

 

[GrannyHeeney]

Seriously, though, how many of us would tell a person who's genuinely hurting to flake off if they knocked on our doors and asked for a few eggs? Next year, my whole garden is going to be okra and squash for my church's feeding program. Sounds like this passel of peoples had some basic character flaws, though. Send 'em downriver! ;D

 

[GrannyHeeney]

In our neighborhood, I am the crazy neighbor ... but not the nasty, destructive kind. My teenagers think it's hysterical that the kids down the street knock on the door all the time ... to ask if I can come out to play!
And y'know, what? Sometimes I do!

I lucked out this time around and all my neighbors are as "unique" as me! LOL I used to use my being an artist to pass it off ("eccentric") but now I don't even have to do that! W00t!

 

[Shorty22366]

I would have been waiting in my coop with my gun. I would have put buckshot in someone's booty. My husband thinks I am crazy because one of my friends had his chickens and turkeys stole and I said it in front of the boy he thought did it. If my chickens went missing I would be on the persons doorstep the next morning and he better pray the police get to him before me or he was going to be chicken feed.. I was not kidding either miss with me that is fine but bother my grandsons and my chickens there is going to be trouble.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

I would have been waiting in my coop ...

Makes me think of a story my dad's friend told be about growing up in the 50s...

They would cut through this old man's yard and pick a piece of fruit from the trees when they were young kinds, and it was never a problem, but as they became teenagers, the old guy would run them off, and was pretty rude about it.

With no explanation of what they'd done to deserve this treatment, which was probably nothing other than being teenagers, they were offended... so as payback they would sneak over and "swipe" his fruit at night just to be ornery.

Long story short... one night as they were sneaking into the yard they heard the old guy sneeze from within the garden shed, so they locked him in from the outside and ran off!

When they were telling me about this they were in their 70s... and it was funny to hear them reminisce about it looking at it from the old man's point of view then, which they completely understood all those years later.

So if you do wait in the coop... make sure there is a way to get out.. or have a cell phone with you, just in case you sneeze and give yourself away!

 

[Abriana]

At first I thought this was a story someone wrote...that’s absolutely insane. I’m so sorry for your loss. What awful neighbors.

 

[Noellereagan]

In Wisconsin, we have something called the castle doctrine to protect our home, property and family. And with lethal force if necessary. I would’ve hid and fired shots (purposely missing them to scare the $h&t out of them). Especially if they were stealing and eating my animals. It sounds like calling the police did just that. So they never returned? Like ever? Did they have electricity in the house? Have you checked their mailbox (secretly) for a name for the cops (yes, I know it’s not legal but in this situation I wouldn’t really care). This makes me so mad for you. I wonder if they’re on America’s most wanted list or something. There’s something really eerie about this. Be careful.

 

[Shorty22366]

Makes me think of a story my dad's friend told be about growing up in the 50s...

They would cut through this old man's yard and pick a piece of fruit from the trees when they were young kinds, and it was never a problem, but as they became teenagers, the old guy would run them off, and was pretty rude about it.

With no explanation of what they'd done to deserve this treatment, which was probably nothing other than being teenagers, they were offended... so as payback they would sneak over and "swipe" his fruit at night just to be ornery.

Long story short... one night as they were sneaking into the yard they heard the old guy sneeze from within the garden shed, so they locked him in from the outside and ran off!

When they were telling me about this they were in their 70s... and it was funny to hear them reminisce about it looking at it from the old man's point of view then, which they completely understood all those years later.

So if you do wait in the coop... make sure there is a way to get out.. or have a cell phone with you, just in case you sneeze and give yourself away!

Haha. That is funny.

 

[happyfrenchman]

My neighbors are wonderful people.... I am going to bring them a dozen eggs this afternoon..... count your blessings.