Good fences make good neighbors, right? Well, that’s true up to a point. But what happens when your neighbors start tearing down your fence?
If you’re like the father in the story below, you start building a stronger fence.
His daughter shared the following story on Reddit after their family’s fence was destroyed more than once by their neighbors’ cars.
“We live in a small private neighborhood, the neighbors are related to us more or less (distant relatives). Everybody here is a complete nutjob. They were constantly arguing over decades before me or my brother were even born,” she wrote.
“Our property line is kinda like a square and it is surrounded by road from two sides. Keep in mind that on one part of the road we let our neighbors use 1 square meter of the land so they could use the road safer and not damage our property.”
She shared the image below to illustrate the situation.
“This road is made of gravel. The neighbors want my parents and only my parents to pay for the entire cost to lay an asphalt road. My dad and my mother are constantly fixing potholes for 90% of the road, so naturally, our neighbors thought that they will pay for the asphalt road.
“One day my neighbors order a massive truck filled with tons of wood. The truck driver runs over our fence. Nobody wanted to pay for the damage. Our fence is made out of multiple bushes, trees and a little bit of metal fence too. These plants were now completely destroyed and a part of metal fence completely bent. We had to replant these plants and place a new metal fence. My father told me this was not the first time this happened but actually third. I couldn’t believe it when I heard this. So this is where the revenge begins.”
It turns out that her dad is a police officer in a vice department. Knowing the law, he measured his property line and placed a series of plastic drum barrels filled with rocks on his side of the property.
In fewer than 6 hours, 3 of the neighbors came to their front door complaining that they had hit the barrels. They were furious and threatened to call the police, but never did since the barrels weren’t on their property. One neighbor even threatened to attack the land owner with a pickaxe.
As time went on the neighbors continued to hit the barrels.
“My dad was furious and he changed his petty revenge into a pro-revenge,” she wrote. “He cut some wood to use it as a mold. He bought cement, sand and metal poles. One peaceful afternoon my father and I cemented that whole part of the land and placed some lovely flowers on top. So when they hit the concrete they can smell our flowers of victory/defeat.”
“As we expected 5 neighbors in total wrecked their cars on the new fence, nobody came knocking on the door,” she concluded.
Eventually one of the neighbors passed away and things got a little bit better. It just goes to show that sometimes even a good fence can’t improve your relationship with your neighbor!
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