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Be careful! We just bought our new house and were so excited...until we met the neighbors. I had put the sprinkler on the berry patch in the corner of my backyard and not 10 minutes later my neighbor knocked on my door. She said quite snarky "You're drowning my strawberries" I was a bit taken back so I mumbled "um okay". She then stormed into my back yard and turned off my sprinkler. I called my dh and he said lock the gate between our yards, so that's what I did. The next morning he knocked on our door at 6:45 in the morning, we live in the city so we didn't realize there was a 6:45 in the morning
Needless to say we didn't answer the door so he (before 7 am) cut the lock off with a grinder and then welded and bolted a new metal lock around the gate
Crazy Right? So I talked to the wife and went with the kill them with kindness method, said sorry for any misunderstanding blah blah and she was a total cow! She said "sorry I touched your precious lawn" in the most grump tone
and I told her it wasn't the lawn it was the boundry she crossed, trespassing is a crime. So they killed our "precious" lawn. Yup we have a toddler, birds, cat, dog and they dumped poison along 150' of our property line. Killed everything within 1.5' of the fence. Psycho's!
Just be careful. and good luck. Remember crazy people do crazy things.
DAMN!!!!
Where I live you can shoot humans for that...Its called the "Make My Day Law" . If someone is trespassing, you have to ask them to leave once. If they don't you just blow them off the lawn( they dont even have to chase the chickens). Still I must be getting to be an old softie, because I haven't yet tried it out.
Anyhoo seems a bit drastic on their part. Did you have any recourse with the law?
Here in michigan it's called the no retreat law, or the castle doctrines. If you have to resort to it, have a printed copy of the law available for when the cops come to take you to the hooch.
Be careful! We just bought our new house and were so excited...until we met the neighbors. I had put the sprinkler on the berry patch in the corner of my backyard and not 10 minutes later my neighbor knocked on my door. She said quite snarky "You're drowning my strawberries" I was a bit taken back so I mumbled "um okay". She then stormed into my back yard and turned off my sprinkler. I called my dh and he said lock the gate between our yards, so that's what I did. The next morning he knocked on our door at 6:45 in the morning, we live in the city so we didn't realize there was a 6:45 in the morning
DAMN!!!!
Where I live you can shoot humans for that...Its called the "Make My Day Law" . If someone is trespassing, you have to ask them to leave once. If they don't you just blow them off the lawn( they dont even have to chase the chickens). Still I must be getting to be an old softie, because I haven't yet tried it out.
Anyhoo seems a bit drastic on their part. Did you have any recourse with the law?
Here in michigan it's called the no retreat law, or the castle doctrines. If you have to resort to it, have a printed copy of the law available for when the cops come to take you to the hooch.
