Janet Bostwick wrote:
>
> My stress began when a CT scan came in last January with a little spot
> (non-pathogenic) on it. I'd been having clear CT scans for several years.
> Then in July my daughter and I had a big time bust up -- serious. In July,
> the dog had a serious brush with death. Then in August a new CT scan showed
> that the January non-pathogenic spot was gone, but there was a smidge of
> something else that was non-pathogenic. Then we (husband and I) lost a
> third of our income due to the economy. Then the crazy b***h lady
> downstream turned us in to the Humane Society and was taking us to court for
> 'excessive accumulation of feces.' We had no idea what that meant. Only
> that it was 60 days and or $1,000. Asking questions at the court elicited
> no answers. When we told the judge (to set court date) we didn't understand
> what we were being charged with, he said it wasn't his problem. We didn't
> find out until discovery, several month's later, that my husband was accused
> of not picking up after our dog on walks. We also found out the Humane
> Society had sent 2 people out to scout the neighborhood for these piles of
> poop and were unable to find anything at all. You'd think that would
> warrant dropping the case, but no, the wheels of justice must grind on. So
> we had to hire a lawyer to represent us. Take time off work. Finally, in
> mid-November the lawyer went to meet with the judge and prosecutor and the
> case was dropped for lack of evidence. That b***h downstream sics the law
> in one form or another on us every 18 months or so, but this has been the
> worst. There isn't a neighbor around her that hasn't had trouble with her,
> but she is able to use the system -- free of charge to her and an expense to
> her victim. Several neighbors have simply sold up and moved because of her
> harassment. I won't.


She sounds as bad as the farmer who used to have an orchard beside me.
He was a miserable ******* who owned several properties along this road.
At one time he had lawsuits going with 6 of his neighbours. He got into
a fist fight with my other next door neighbour when he saw him help
himself to an apple. Crazy farmer had a habit of encroaching on his
neighbours' properties and then claiming the land on squatter's rights.

I had several run-ins with him. One time he sicced the police on me and
wanted me charged with attempted murder, that I had attacked him with an
axe. When the police showed up I explained what had happened. I told
them about his history of squatter's rights claims and how I had seen
him disking the land and I went back with an axe and some stakes that I
sharpened and drove into the ground along the property line and he just
drove right over them. So I stood in front of him.... on my
property...as he was headed towards it. He stopped and told me "Get the
**** out of my way or I will run you over." I stood my ground and told
him to stay off my land. He sped up the engine and popped the clutch and
came flying at me on the tractor. I jumped out of the way but swung the
axe at the tractor, which funnily enough, broke off and went sailing
towards his head. He had to duck to avoid being struck by the flying
headlight.

The police left and I never heard any more about that incident. A few
years later they came out again because he had complained about me
having a shotgun out when he was working in the orchard. I had been out
trap shooting in the afternoon and I was cleaning the gun out on my patio.

The guy was nuts. Thank goodness he retired and sold his farms. We now
have very pleasant neighbours.


I never had any more trouble with him after that. He had been able to
bully the other neighbours, but he realized that I would stand up to him
physically.