My next door neighbor just royally ticked me off. (This is much milder language than I am feeling right now.)
I am saving the voice mail message he left (listened to it after he tromped up to my house to tell me to get rid of "anything that makes noise") because I may play it for a deputy IF I decide to escalate things and call about the threat to shoot my geese. HE "gave" me a week. I countered with "by May 31st."
The geese are nesting, which is why they are so noisy right now. Using profane language, he told me the other neighbors moved because they couldn't stand it any more. Personally, I don't think that's my problem - somebody's decision to move (for whatever reason they deem necessary) is still THEIR decision.
He said, "Now the turkeys are going at it." (Two days ago he told me the turkeys were "okay.")
"Well, you're on the property, and that upsets them."
Whilst standing in the doorway of my covered porch, he referred to the voice mail message I hadn't yet heard; he had said he'd take a shotgun to "shut up the f'n geese." When he relayed that bit of information, I stopped being nice and placating in response to his anger. "No, you won't," I said, quite sharply. He acknowledged he might not shoot them because he didn't want to be arrested, but he WOULD take his f'n knife and f'n slit their f'n throats. (He used the real word quite liberally.). "I CAN do that."
That's when I finally snapped. "No, you can't. You harm my livestock and I'll have your ***. We're done - I said I'd take care of moving them no later than May 31st. We're done now." I snatched the screen door out of his grasp, closed and locked it, turned on my heel and went into the house, slamming the front door as hard as I could.
He'd had the gall to start telling me I could carry five gallon buckets of water for my f'n geese at the new property (in lieu of building a pond for them first, which has been my plan...)
Yes, the geese are really loud and noisy. New people moving in on that side are strangers, with different cars driving in and out, and kids love to run back and forth along the fence to watch the turkeys, ducks, chickens, and geese. That starts 'em off. Yelling at them does NOT make them shut up, though.
I do know that as soon as I have the geese moved to the Ranch, with adequate and secure housing, I will be reporting weapons fire to the Sheriff's Department every time that neighbor starts to "target shoot" with his high caliber and/or automatic weapons. He has several of both, as well as the shotgun he threatened to use. He likes to show off his special guns for visiting friends and relations. Local ordinance says three acre minimum for shooting practice. He has less than two.
The voice mail message just might come in handy then.
