We bought this house 2 1/2 years ago and it was a nice small rural neighborhood. Not a subdivision. It's actually a (or was) small town. population 400. We have a Post office. That's IT! There are only 5 buildings in downtown. All closed. The town died more than 20 years ago.
Anyway, when we moved in the neighbors were friendly the area was nice. 0 crime etc. The ideal place for a small family to start out. Not long after we moved in, the neighbor on one side of us started to get chickens. I have lived on farms. No problem. He approached me and asked. "do you mind if I let the chickens run loose?" I said, "I don't mind at all. HOWEVER, if they get down there near our Husky they are dinner." He said "that is fine." As the months went by he got more and more birds. Chickens, ducks, turkeys, guinea, you name it. Then came the goats. He only has 3/4 of an acre!
One day, we came home and down in the kennel with our husky was a white layer of something on the ground. I said to my wife, "what is that down there with Roscoe?" Then it started. The neighbor yelling and cussing at us. "I'll tell you what the hell it is. It's a f-ing $300 hen. that's what it is! :swear:"
Next, I re did the grass in the front. The guineas were coming over and tearing into the bags of $200 worth of fescue and eating it all. I went over and asked him nicely. "i have no problem with the chickens. or the ducks. Or the geese. Or the turkeys. or the peacocks. But could you please pen the guineas up?" He said he would. He lied. In case you have never been around a guinea, they are very loud and annoying. So for the next several weeks the guineas would come over, eat my $200 worth of grass seed and sit on my porch and make the loudest and most awful racket ever. I went back over and discussed this with him 2 more times with no results.
A few more days went by with the same ol' thing. The guineas were on my porch about 6 A.M. woke everyone in the house up. Enough is enough! I charged outside with 45 in hand. The birds took off when I opened the door. From about 30 yards fired 5 shots back to back without taking time to aim. Killed 2. Which was pretty lucky considering a 45 isn't much for accuracy. especially considering the distance and my haste.
The neighbor called the sheriff's dept. they sided with me on the shooting of the fowl saying I had every right and there are no laws against firing a fire arm here, but sided with him that he has the right to let his birds run loose.
Now, here it is a year later. We don't speak anymore. his grass hasn't been cut since long before the incident a year ago. he has a collection of 7 old junk cars scattered about. Not even good models that are worth anything. And the worst yet. he bought his 14 yr old son a Mustang II 8 or so months ago. His son mowed grass around the neighborhood (never once mowed their's) to earn money for some subwoofers. so now, every night, his son sits in the car that hasn't left the yard since the day they bought it and booms his rap music shaking my house, while constantly revving the engine for hours on end.
what would you do if you had both Fred Sanford and Old McDonald living in the same house beside you and was uncaring and disrespectful about his neighbors?
Anyway, when we moved in the neighbors were friendly the area was nice. 0 crime etc. The ideal place for a small family to start out. Not long after we moved in, the neighbor on one side of us started to get chickens. I have lived on farms. No problem. He approached me and asked. "do you mind if I let the chickens run loose?" I said, "I don't mind at all. HOWEVER, if they get down there near our Husky they are dinner." He said "that is fine." As the months went by he got more and more birds. Chickens, ducks, turkeys, guinea, you name it. Then came the goats. He only has 3/4 of an acre!
One day, we came home and down in the kennel with our husky was a white layer of something on the ground. I said to my wife, "what is that down there with Roscoe?" Then it started. The neighbor yelling and cussing at us. "I'll tell you what the hell it is. It's a f-ing $300 hen. that's what it is! :swear:"
Next, I re did the grass in the front. The guineas were coming over and tearing into the bags of $200 worth of fescue and eating it all. I went over and asked him nicely. "i have no problem with the chickens. or the ducks. Or the geese. Or the turkeys. or the peacocks. But could you please pen the guineas up?" He said he would. He lied. In case you have never been around a guinea, they are very loud and annoying. So for the next several weeks the guineas would come over, eat my $200 worth of grass seed and sit on my porch and make the loudest and most awful racket ever. I went back over and discussed this with him 2 more times with no results.
A few more days went by with the same ol' thing. The guineas were on my porch about 6 A.M. woke everyone in the house up. Enough is enough! I charged outside with 45 in hand. The birds took off when I opened the door. From about 30 yards fired 5 shots back to back without taking time to aim. Killed 2. Which was pretty lucky considering a 45 isn't much for accuracy. especially considering the distance and my haste.
The neighbor called the sheriff's dept. they sided with me on the shooting of the fowl saying I had every right and there are no laws against firing a fire arm here, but sided with him that he has the right to let his birds run loose.
Now, here it is a year later. We don't speak anymore. his grass hasn't been cut since long before the incident a year ago. he has a collection of 7 old junk cars scattered about. Not even good models that are worth anything. And the worst yet. he bought his 14 yr old son a Mustang II 8 or so months ago. His son mowed grass around the neighborhood (never once mowed their's) to earn money for some subwoofers. so now, every night, his son sits in the car that hasn't left the yard since the day they bought it and booms his rap music shaking my house, while constantly revving the engine for hours on end.
what would you do if you had both Fred Sanford and Old McDonald living in the same house beside you and was uncaring and disrespectful about his neighbors?
