[QUOTE=californianinkansas;7817533]
Oh, so you’ve met my husband?;)[/QUOTE]
YOUR husband? Are we married to the same man?
[QUOTE=PeteyPie;7817542]
YOUR husband? Are we married to the same man?[/QUOTE]
:DI’m willing to let you have primary physical custody of him as long as I get to borrow him back for horse-related building projects. I also need him back once every 8 weeks so he can catch the feral Evil Mini Pony for the farrier -Curt’s the only one who can get anywhere near him. Other than that, he’s yours. 
Marriage: a constant negotiation with a foregone conclusion.
One night I came home and DH was cooking taco meat, which can go in a couple of different directions.
DH: “Do you want taco shells, burritos, tortilla chips…”
Me: “I’d prefer the tortilla chips”
Time passes… DH goes to the pantry…
DH: “Was it shells or chips?”
Me: “The Chips”
DH: “No, I want the shells. There is taco sauce or salsa. You prefer the salsa right?”
Me: “Yes please”
DH: “No let’s save that for the chips.”
Me: “Don’t even ask me what kind of cheese I want, I.Will.Get.It.”
[QUOTE=merrygoround;7814849]
Sometimes this is the only way some of these authors can publish. :D[/QUOTE]
My favorite reply! Love it! Thanks for posting it!
[QUOTE=PeteyPie;7817542]
YOUR husband? Are we married to the same man?[/QUOTE]
You both married my ex-bf? Small world… !
Wait! Isn’t this post the definition of Troll? I’m so cornfused!
[QUOTE=chancellor2;7816601]
And then there was the incident last winter/spring.
There are three houses on a common driveway. We have all let our dogs roam along the common driveway into each others yards.
Well, last year, after their kids moved out, Ken would leave his dogs outside in their kennels. The Plott Hound Jack would bark and howl CONSTANTLY. Sometimes for hours on end. My neighbors on the other side of me were trying to sell their house and the realtor commented SEVERAL times about how his dogs were barking when she was there showing the house.
I called the dog officer a few times about this because it was just too loud but nothing ever got done.
We lost our old dog on the same day as the Boston Marathon bombings. My other dog Scarlett went into a VERY deep depression. She wouldn’t eat and didn’t want to be left in the house alone. So, sooner than we were ready, we got another dog.
To the best of our knowledge, he is a plott hound/labrador mix. In fact, he was a miniature of Ken’s dog Jack.
Fast forward a bit. My other neighbors sell their house and Ken rehomes the barking dog but still has 5 other dogs including an 11 year old intact GSP with a history of stroke and a blown ACL. This dog regularly came over to our house and we did like him.
My husband has a VERY difficult winter including bilateral pulmonary emboli with hospitalization for 7 days. He comes home for a few days and the old GSP comes over to our house and I let our young dog out. They had previously gotten along and I didn’t think anything of it.
Well a fight broke out. We have no idea who started the fight. I went out and broke up the fight and their older GSP goes running home on his own power. We immediately call asshole neighbor and tell him about the fight. Ken calls back and tells us that his wife looked at the dog, there was just cuts and scrapes but that the dog was fine. We encourage him to take the dog to the vet and that we would pay for any vet bills. We hear nothing else til the next morning. Ken texts my husband and says that the dog hasn’t moved all night and that they were taking the dog to the vet and it doesn’t look good. Did I mention this was the day of one of the biggest snowstorms in the Northeast…that had been predicted for a week?
So, we hear nothing for a three days. During those three days, my husband develops compartment syndrome and we have spent time in the ER and going back and forth to the orthopedic doctor. During an emergency visit to the Orthopedic doctor, my husband receives a text from Ken telling us that they were going to have to put the dog to sleep. Michael responds and says that he is going in to have emergency surgery in which his leg will be cut open from ankle to knee and left open. He tells Ken to put the bills in the mailbox and that he will pay the bills once things settle down after surgery.
Michael pays the bills which include the bill for private cremation and an urn with a check from the bank on Monday. On Tuesday, Ken texts Michael and asks where his check is. Michael responds and tells him he should be receiving it in a day or two and also lets Ken know that we are installing a five foot fence around our back yard.
As it turns out, Ken was waiting to file a dangerous dog complaint against us until he got his check and cashed it.
So, Ken files the dangerous dog complaint against us and we have to go before the board of Selectmen about this. Remember that HIS dog came into OUR yard (in fact was ALL THE WAY ACROSS OUR yard away from his house). Remember also that he denied his dog veterinary care for 16 hours. How long do YOU wait to bring your dog to the vet when an older dog gets into a fight with a SIGNIFICANTLY younger dog especially when the young dog’s owner pays for it?
Meanwhile the fence has been installed. BUT, the morning of the hearing, suddenly the gate nearest Ken’s house is suddenly open. My husband and I did not open it and generally will not open that gate at all.
During the board of selectmen’s meeting, Ken tries to make our young dog out to be a pit bull even though we told him that we were told he was a plott hound/lab mix. We DO own a pit bull who was in no way implicated in this fight. She was in the house.
Ken ALSO gets the new neighbor to stand with him and say that our dogs are vicious. Mind you THAT neighbor’s kids have played frisbee with my dogs.
However, the best part? Well, in the beginning of the meeting the chairman asks the people who will testify for Ken to stand up and be sworn in. Two people stand up and are sworn in. Then, the chairman asks those who will testify for us to stand up. 20+ people stand up. Ken testifies. Shawn testifies. Shawn is caught in a lie during his testimony.
Then it is our turn. Person after person goes up and testifies that my dogs are NOT dangerous. In fact, both my dogs regularly go to work with me. We submitted 40+ OTHER documents of people who couldn’t be there that night including the CEO of my company and our dog trainer.
To make a VERY long story somewhat shorter, our dog was declared a nuisance dog. This means that he cannot be off leash anywhere in our town unless he is in our fence. If there are no other incidents in two years, our dog will no longer be considered a nuisance dog.
Again, you can’t make this stuff up. This is the honest truth.[/QUOTE]. Long post? Check. Too many details? Check. Kinda sorta improbable? Check check. Isn’t this what we are defining as a troll post?
[QUOTE=allpurpose;7817726]
. Long post? Check. Too many details? Check. Kinda sorta improbable? Check check. Isn’t this what we are defining as a troll post?[/QUOTE]
Um, no.
No, because its true. Not the same. Not the same at all.
[QUOTE=allpurpose;7817726]
. Long post? Check. Too many details? Check. Kinda sorta improbable? Check check. Isn’t this what we are defining as a troll post?[/QUOTE]
No, in this instance poster was specifically asked to detail the tale of woe, I believe. And warned that it’s an improbable sounding one, hence not volunteering it as a troll would.
Hmm. I almost like the idea that the threads that me think “trainwreck ahead!” were written by trolls, because then I don’t have to feel sorry for everyone involved, and worry about the future of humanity so much :lol:
[QUOTE=Coanteen;7817834]
No, in this instance poster was specifically asked to detail the tale of woe, I believe. And warned that it’s an improbable sounding one, hence not volunteering it as a troll would.[/QUOTE]
Coanteen is correct. I asked Chancellor2 to tell me all the gory details. I work in dispute mediation (I’m not an attorney); her story is entirely plausible to me. Plus, she’s been on CoTH since 2006 and has a high number of posts.
[QUOTE=californianinkansas;7818077]
Coanteen is correct. I asked Chancellor2 to tell me all the gory details. I work in dispute mediation (I’m not an attorney); her story is entirely plausible to me. Plus, she’s been on CoTH since 2006 and has a high number of posts.[/QUOTE]
Wouldn’t that be just the craziest thing, though? Someone who’s been here for 8 years turnin out to be a troll biding her time?
[QUOTE=allpurpose;7817726]
. Long post? Check. Too many details? Check. Kinda sorta improbable? Check check. Isn’t this what we are defining as a troll post?[/QUOTE]
You would think, right?
But, no.
I just noticed a new characteristic:
The main topic is something very common which makes it seem initially very plausible BUT it is one of those topics which are instantly incendiary. Something which would not SEEM to be provocative on the surface, like…
Feed. (Gasp)
or…
Neighbor Problems.*
or…
…the Topic Which Shall Not Be Named…
(Said with a breathy, snakey, creepy, whispery exhalation)
Hoooooves.
I’m pretty sure the new one on hooves is a troll.
- (It can be a controversial issue, but I just threw that in to see if people are paying attention and reading the whole thread. No offense, allpurpose. I often don’t read the whole thread either.)
As I said, it DOES sound implausible. But it really happened.
http://www.telegram.com/article/20140311/NEWS/303119914/1116
There are more details too…
Between the time that we got notice of the hearing, Ken’s dogs were STILL coming over to our house. We had put up security cameras to catch his dogs being here to prove that it was happening. If you think that your neighbor has dangerous dogs, do you continue to let them wander?
Ken started the hearing with “People gotta know about pit bulls (again trying to claim our dog involved in the fight was a pit bull and he isn’t)…I’ll be moving in the fall (we can only hope)…but people gotta know”
Well we put a sign up at the end of our driveway that said I love my pit bull. Basically proclaiming in fact that we have a pit bull in the house.
People looking at his house would have to drive by our sign when looking at his house.
A week after putting the sign up, his house goes on the market. And a week later, he threatens my husband with legal action to get the sign removed.
PS. this is why I told the story. It sounds completely made up and WAY TOO OUT THERE. But it really happened. Suz from the board can attest to the snowplowing story as I told that story to her in person (but I guess it’s plausible I could have lied to her then). And there are a few people on this board (and a WHOLE LOT MORE on TOB) who know the dog/neighbor story happened because they were some of the people who attested about our dog.
"…the Topic Which Shall Not Be Named…
(Said with a breathy, snakey, creepy, whispery exhalation)
Hoooooves."=Petey Pie
Ah Yes! It does meet the criteria.
[QUOTE=californianinkansas;7818077]
Coanteen is correct. I asked Chancellor2 to tell me all the gory details. I work in dispute mediation (I’m not an attorney); her story is entirely plausible to me. Plus, she’s been on CoTH since 2006 and has a high number of posts.[/QUOTE]
Oh, yes, I know YOU aren’t troll-like, I was just pointing out the similarities in your post to those characteristics that ya’ll were discussing regarding actual troll-posts. Jus’ sayin’ :winkgrin: All in good fun!
[QUOTE=vicarious;7818385]
Ah Yes! It does meet the criteria.[/QUOTE]
Which is precisely why I posted this story here. To show that just because the entire story is OUT THERE, it isn’t necessarily a troll or a lie. Sometimes, you just can’t make this stuff up!
Yup, that one. If you can (force yourself) to wade through the whole thing there is a marked stylistic difference between the first rambling post that reads like a very young non native English speaker, who says she’s in Europe, without a lot of horse experience and later shorter replies disagreeing with suggestions and opinions. Those are totally diffent grammar and no misspellings with use of the idioms and expressions common to a native speaker as well as the vocabulary of an experienced horse person. Then it reverts to the rambling offshore style of the original when presenting the latest vet visit results.
Then they get upset, in proper English, when euthing it comes up despite putting “end of the road” in the thread title. That’s what I originally thought the question was.
I am sure there is a complicated and convoluted explanation coming…
[QUOTE=PeteyPie;7818260]
I just noticed a new characteristic:
The main topic is something very common which makes it seem initially very plausible BUT it is one of those topics which are instantly incendiary. Something which would not SEEM to be provocative on the surface, like…
Feed. (Gasp)
or…
Neighbor Problems.*
or…
…the Topic Which Shall Not Be Named…
(Said with a breathy, snakey, creepy, whispery exhalation)
Hoooooves.
I’m pretty sure the new one on hooves is a troll.
- (It can be a controversial issue, but I just threw that in to see if people are paying attention and reading the whole thread. No offense, allpurpose. I often don’t read the whole thread either.)[/QUOTE]
Petey Pie,
Hey, maybe you’re really The Troll, using various alters…
I’m basing this off the theory of “She who smelt it, dealt it.” :winkgrin:
