Ok, a little background... so I bought my first house a couple months ago. It's on 4 acres in the country (outside of city limits). I work in LE and have a patrol car parked in the driveway. There are like 5 people that live on the same road as me and most of them are quite a ways away...with the exception of one.
This lady that lives right next door lives on undeveloped land in a POS pull behind trailer covered in plastic. There are several tents on the property that might possibly harbor other individuals living there, I'm not really sure.
to give you a clue on how good the property looks compared to everything else here...The previous owners of this house constructed a long ass cedar fence to block the view of her garbage. The rest of my property is fully fenced with horse fence.
The first run in I have with her is when all my family is here checking out my house. We have a BBQ and a fire in a fire pit. My brother and I wanted to shoot something, so we each take about 5 shots at an empty paint can with .22's. She starts yelling from the fence line that she wants to talk to me. Reluctantly I walk over and right away I can see that she's a piece of work. One of those that you deal with daily in my line of work. She starts complaining about me freaking out her "$80,000 lame horses" and asking if I plan on shooting all the time, bla bla bla. I told her I would stop shooting, that day...
Ok so next run in. Me, my GF, my bro and his wife, all have a big bon fire on the back of my property. It's all good fun and the night goes great. 2 days later we find a note stuck in the fence that reads something to the effect of "I have a poultry farm and all the shooting scared my chickens off their nests and the smoke from your fire killed my baby turkeys". It was of course a lot longer than that but that's the general idea.
Few days later I'm spraying ground killer around my fence line, she's outside constructing another eye sore and shreeks, "what are you spraying?!"...I tell her, ground killer. She says "This is an organic farm...". So I say, well it's a good thing I'm not spraying this on your side of the fence... so we go back and forth a few times etc etc.
I of course tell the guys at work all about it and they get a kick out of it. Luckily I had been telling my Sgt about it as well because this piece of work decides to call in and complain to my dept about me. Specifically about me shooting and burning...which is all legal. So my Sgt tells me I didn't do anything wrong and that I should probably not talk to her, which I didn't plan on.
Now every time that I attempt to burn something whether it be weeds in my gravel driveway with a propane torch, or brush in a perfectly legal brush pile, she calls the fire department on me...Well there's a funny part to that.
2 other neighbors introduced themselves to us soon after we moved in. 1 neighbor did so by driving his sweet ass kubota utility vehicle over and gave us 2 japanese maple trees that they raised. Awesome folks. The other one brings over a lasagna. Also awesome folks. So when I go scuba diving for crab, we always bring them some, and we also had them over for a big 4th of july party. So the funny part is when the one neighbor shows up the other day when I am burning weeds in the driveway. Apparently he is a volunteer firefighter and heard the "burning of a noxious substance" call come out so he came and checked it out, told me I wasn't doing anything wrong and went back home.
Then he comes over a second time a day later when we are having another bonfire out back. This time it was called in as an illegal burn. Once again, he checks it out, nothing wrong, and leaves.
I feel bad having him have to come down all the time just to see what I'm doing because this idiot calls me in for nothing. She's got several dogs that bark all the friggin time. I called the animal control officer but apparently for her to enforce anything, she has to get 3 written complaints from separate people or hear the violation herself.
Anyway, this lady is the biggest pain in my a**. All I want to do when I come home is get away from people like that and relax. Any idea's would be great. I am serious about this problem but smart ass answers are always welcome too... I appreciate those as much as the next guy.
This lady that lives right next door lives on undeveloped land in a POS pull behind trailer covered in plastic. There are several tents on the property that might possibly harbor other individuals living there, I'm not really sure.
to give you a clue on how good the property looks compared to everything else here...The previous owners of this house constructed a long ass cedar fence to block the view of her garbage. The rest of my property is fully fenced with horse fence.
The first run in I have with her is when all my family is here checking out my house. We have a BBQ and a fire in a fire pit. My brother and I wanted to shoot something, so we each take about 5 shots at an empty paint can with .22's. She starts yelling from the fence line that she wants to talk to me. Reluctantly I walk over and right away I can see that she's a piece of work. One of those that you deal with daily in my line of work. She starts complaining about me freaking out her "$80,000 lame horses" and asking if I plan on shooting all the time, bla bla bla. I told her I would stop shooting, that day...
Ok so next run in. Me, my GF, my bro and his wife, all have a big bon fire on the back of my property. It's all good fun and the night goes great. 2 days later we find a note stuck in the fence that reads something to the effect of "I have a poultry farm and all the shooting scared my chickens off their nests and the smoke from your fire killed my baby turkeys". It was of course a lot longer than that but that's the general idea.
Few days later I'm spraying ground killer around my fence line, she's outside constructing another eye sore and shreeks, "what are you spraying?!"...I tell her, ground killer. She says "This is an organic farm...". So I say, well it's a good thing I'm not spraying this on your side of the fence... so we go back and forth a few times etc etc.
I of course tell the guys at work all about it and they get a kick out of it. Luckily I had been telling my Sgt about it as well because this piece of work decides to call in and complain to my dept about me. Specifically about me shooting and burning...which is all legal. So my Sgt tells me I didn't do anything wrong and that I should probably not talk to her, which I didn't plan on.
Now every time that I attempt to burn something whether it be weeds in my gravel driveway with a propane torch, or brush in a perfectly legal brush pile, she calls the fire department on me...Well there's a funny part to that.
2 other neighbors introduced themselves to us soon after we moved in. 1 neighbor did so by driving his sweet ass kubota utility vehicle over and gave us 2 japanese maple trees that they raised. Awesome folks. The other one brings over a lasagna. Also awesome folks. So when I go scuba diving for crab, we always bring them some, and we also had them over for a big 4th of july party. So the funny part is when the one neighbor shows up the other day when I am burning weeds in the driveway. Apparently he is a volunteer firefighter and heard the "burning of a noxious substance" call come out so he came and checked it out, told me I wasn't doing anything wrong and went back home.
Then he comes over a second time a day later when we are having another bonfire out back. This time it was called in as an illegal burn. Once again, he checks it out, nothing wrong, and leaves.
I feel bad having him have to come down all the time just to see what I'm doing because this idiot calls me in for nothing. She's got several dogs that bark all the friggin time. I called the animal control officer but apparently for her to enforce anything, she has to get 3 written complaints from separate people or hear the violation herself.
Anyway, this lady is the biggest pain in my a**. All I want to do when I come home is get away from people like that and relax. Any idea's would be great. I am serious about this problem but smart ass answers are always welcome too... I appreciate those as much as the next guy.
