What did those people on that thread being “Mormon” have to do with anything, anyway, bad neighbors or not?
Honestly, I was going to post about my recent neighbor interaction but as I was about to post my long sordid story, I didn’t think anyone would believe it. Alas, it was all true.
Sometimes, you can’t make this stuff up!
Oh come on chance, didn’t you have weird neighbors and a truck thing a few years back? Was that you?
Legitimate or not, if I open a thread and the first post is one long, run on paragraph, I close it. Maybe I have PADD. Paragraph
Attention Deficit Disorder. My little brain just cannot handle that big block of type!
This is the thread about the LDS (“Mormon”) neighbors:
http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?450262-Bad-Neighbors-Live-amp-Learn&highlight=mormon
This thread seems especially trollish to me. If they really are a Navy family, unless her husband is a very senior officer, the amount of money they’ve likely spent purchasing and upgrading her property seems fishy.
Maybe COTH has a secret online dating service and the trolls are breeding? I don’t know, do trolls gat mail order brides?
I’ve been amazed at the number of multiple greenie posters showing up on the same thread (like the Mary Motyl one). How do they know?! It’s like BB magic.
I get annoyed at the bumps of creaky old threads and long rusted train wrecks by somebody who immediately deletes their bump post. I mean, if it’s worth discussing or is entertaining, nobody minds you bumping it. If it’s just resurrecting dead posts that should stay dead? Why bother to search and bump then delete the fact you did?
Just thinking about what is odd about some of the long, usually unpuctuated first posts, think I’ve got it. The vocabulary is that of somebody experienced in horses. The question they ask and actions they say they took, however, are simplistic and stupid full of obvious mistakes on their part.
Doesn’t make sense.
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Oh come on chance, didn’t you have weird neighbors and a truck thing a few years back? Was that you?[/QUOTE]
Yes, and then those neighbors tried to get my dogs removed from our house recently… after THEIR dog came on OUR property and got into a fight with my dog…there is a VERY long story and believe me, it is not particularly believable…But it was.
I think the subject of TBROCKS ire is about to fold their bridge, pack up their rock and sTROLL to another thread. Trolling away for the next innocent answerer, wonder what the lure will be next time.
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This is the thread about the LDS (“Mormon”) neighbors:
http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?450262-Bad-Neighbors-Live-amp-Learn&highlight=mormon
This thread seems especially trollish to me. If they really are a Navy family, unless her husband is a very senior officer, the amount of money they’ve likely spent purchasing and upgrading her property seems fishy.[/QUOTE]
Nothing is more annoying than going into a thread to judge posters and finding the most offending posts have been deleted. argh. >:(
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What did those people on that thread being “Mormon” have to do with anything, anyway, bad neighbors or not?[/QUOTE]
That’s the whole point of my troll suspicions. These long posts always have details like that which can cause a trainwreck as people go off on a tangent investigating exactly your question. So instead of just saying, “I have new neighbors with lots of kids who are getting on my property and throwing things there and yada yada…” the poster puts in all kinds of details which are distracting from the main issue. And in that particular case, the reasonable suggestion that she put up a dense hedge was met with all kinds of objections. I see she has deleted her post but the original was quoted. See post #18.
[QUOTE=chancellor2;7814979]Honestly, I was going to post about my recent neighbor interaction but as I was about to post my long sordid story, I didn’t think anyone would believe it. Alas, it was all true.
Sometimes, you can’t make this stuff up![/QUOTE]
Well, you don’t fit the profile. You’re not a greenie. You would use paragraphs (I hope!) and from what others have said, this is a problem you talked about before. And the thing about these greenie posts is that they are always based on a plausible situation. Lots of people have problems with their neighbors, for instance.
Heh I know my first posts were probably dumb and long winded and I almost got scared off the forum by some of the really harsh replies lol. But yeah I’ve been noticing a fair amount of oddities around here the past few days.
That Mormon thread was really interesting because one iteration of her said her location was “Virginia” and then one said “Chesapeake, Va”, which she totally gave away with the Fentress airfield reference anyway.
I’m familiar with Chesapeake; next time I’m up there, I would love to “troll” around and see if I can spot a farm with exotic animals and an arena butting up next to a large Mormon family. Although I’m not so sure how to spot a Mormon from afar.
Because she did say she had alpacas, etc. on her property, right?
She definitely went from 0-60 pretty fast, asking for help to mad as heck.
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Nothing is more annoying than going into a thread to judge posters and finding the most offending posts have been deleted. argh. >:([/QUOTE]
Cache is your friend: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:U3zbmpwOivEJ:www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php%3F450262-Bad-Neighbors-Live-amp-Learn%26p%3D7814410+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk
ETA: you don’t even need cache. Someone else quoted the entire original post further down the first page.
We really need some direct links 
For the record, it can be intimidating to post for the first time. You just never know what you are going to get. Unfortunately I think a lot of people get riled up about something which gives them the gusto to finally create an account so they can come on and vent, and then realize that not everyone shares their outrage! They are a great source of entertainment (and I’ve been a lurker far longer than I’ve been a poster).
I think the bridge has been set up and the rock rolled in place. The lure was pretty good. :lol: :lol:
Another nom de boom.
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Honestly, I was going to post about my recent neighbor interaction but as I was about to post my long sordid story, I didn’t think anyone would believe it. Alas, it was all true.
Sometimes, you can’t make this stuff up![/QUOTE]
Aww… come on! Don’t tease us! Tell us all the gory details.:D:winkgrin: It’s been a long day. I’d love to hear about someone ELSE’S problems…
Ok. You asked for it.
My husband and I moved into our house 10 + years ago. When we moved in the neighbor Ken said that he would plow all three driveways plus the shared common driveway essentially for free. In exchange, we would buy him a bottle of Jack Daniels and would watch his dogs for him while he was on vacation.
Whenever he would show up at the house no matter whether it was 5am or 9:30 pm (after we go to bed), we hussled our butts out there to move the cars. If on the rare occasion we didn’t make it out there, he plowed us in. When he plowed us in, it meant we would shovel out that snow from behind our cars by hand. About 5 or so years ago, he bought a new truck and said that he wasn’t going to plow anymore. I asked him how much he wanted for the plow and that maybe I would do the plowing. He said, for the price of removing it from his truck and adding it to mine, I could have the plow. Very generous.
Well, fast forward to the first snow storm. I plowed but didn’t do a good enough job for him. He asked me if he could show me at the next storm how he liked it done. Never one to take constructive criticism poorly, I agreed.
Next snow storm, he comes over and shows me how he does it. Well, this is the same truck that I use to pull my horse trailer. He would be backing up and still going backwards and slam it into drive. I bit my tongue.
Fast forward again, my husband and I go on vacation and he says he will plow for us. He leaves a message on my answering machine for my housesitter and he sounds drunk.
We get home from vacation and the plow stand is gone. Completely missing. He forgot to put it back up before using the plow. We replaced the stand at our own cost.
The next snow storm, we go over to plow and no one comes out to move the cars. We do a decent job plowing around them. He calls several hours later and asks when we are going to come over and “finish the job”. My husband goes over and plows the rest of the snow after they move their cars.
Fast forward again, another snow storm. We are over at their house plowing and SEE his kids (adults college age) sitting in the breakfast nook. We plow and there are a ton of cars. Do the best I can, go plow some other friends of mine, come back 1/2 hour later and the cars are still not moved. Ok. well, tough luck. No more.
He calls 6 hours later and asks again when are we going to finish the job. I told him that we were there and that now the truck is hooked up to the trailer and that I cannot come over to finish. He mutters and says he will try with his snow blower.
Two hours later he calls and is obviously BLOTTO drunk. He says he has to come and hook up the plow because the snow blower can’t handle the snow. I said ,“No. I am hooked up to the trailer and about to go pick up a horse”. He say “well, when are you going to come and finish”. I started to say “tomorrow. But this is the last time. Your kids were there and should have moved…” At which point, he calls me a misogynistic slur and tells me that his kids don’t know they should move their cars and hangs up on me.
He then goes out and gets his own plow. And plows himself out…but will plow directly across my plowed driveway. The man is an ass. More in a little bit.
Eek - looks like there might be another one…
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Ok. You asked for it.
My husband and I moved into our house 10 + years ago. When we moved in the neighbor Ken said that he would plow all three driveways plus the shared common driveway essentially for free. In exchange, we would buy him a bottle of Jack Daniels and would watch his dogs for him while he was on vacation.
Whenever he would show up at the house no matter whether it was 5am or 9:30 pm (after we go to bed), we hussled our butts out there to move the cars. If on the rare occasion we didn’t make it out there, he plowed us in. When he plowed us in, it meant we would shovel out that snow from behind our cars by hand. About 5 or so years ago, he bought a new truck and said that he wasn’t going to plow anymore. I asked him how much he wanted for the plow and that maybe I would do the plowing. He said, for the price of removing it from his truck and adding it to mine, I could have the plow. Very generous.
Well, fast forward to the first snow storm. I plowed but didn’t do a good enough job for him. He asked me if he could show me at the next storm how he liked it done. Never one to take constructive criticism poorly, I agreed.
Next snow storm, he comes over and shows me how he does it. Well, this is the same truck that I use to pull my horse trailer. He would be backing up and still going backwards and slam it into drive. I bit my tongue.
Fast forward again, my husband and I go on vacation and he says he will plow for us. He leaves a message on my answering machine for my housesitter and he sounds drunk.
We get home from vacation and the plow stand is gone. Completely missing. He forgot to put it back up before using the plow. We replaced the stand at our own cost.
The next snow storm, we go over to plow and no one comes out to move the cars. We do a decent job plowing around them. He calls several hours later and asks when we are going to come over and “finish the job”. My husband goes over and plows the rest of the snow after they move their cars.
Fast forward again, another snow storm. We are over at their house plowing and SEE his kids (adults college age) sitting in the breakfast nook. We plow and there are a ton of cars. Do the best I can, go plow some other friends of mine, come back 1/2 hour later and the cars are still not moved. Ok. well, tough luck. No more.
He calls 6 hours later and asks again when are we going to finish the job. I told him that we were there and that now the truck is hooked up to the trailer and that I cannot come over to finish. He mutters and says he will try with his snow blower.
Two hours later he calls and is obviously BLOTTO drunk. He says he has to come and hook up the plow because the snow blower can’t handle the snow. I said ,“No. I am hooked up to the trailer and about to go pick up a horse”. He say “well, when are you going to come and finish”. I started to say “tomorrow. But this is the last time. Your kids were there and should have moved…” At which point, he calls me a misogynistic slur and tells me that his kids don’t know they should move their cars and hangs up on me.
He then goes out and gets his own plow. And plows himself out…but will plow directly across my plowed driveway. The man is an ass. More in a little bit.[/QUOTE]
You and your husband are extremely forbearing people with very nice manners for putting up with all his micro-managing nonsense.
