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Originally Posted by matese  Even if the property is not yours, he is harassing you, I would definitely call the police and report the harassing and get the insistent # from the officer when he comes, he will speak to this man.
In my situation the creep nx door neighbor in 2010 actually got into my house several times, he stole nothing, I reported the break ins but at that time I didn't know who it was. I was asked if I checked my medicine cabinet because thieves steal pain meds, well I don't have pain killers so nothing was taken. I secured all my back windows so they cannot be opened from the outside, so he started prying the dead bolt lock at my back door, so I had another deadbolt installed, now I have two deadbolts. He continued working on the locks, so I had steal plates installed over the locks and that took care of him prying.
One of my neighbors told me he thinks he knows who is targeting my house, and tells me the nx door neighbor. I was FRIENDS with these ppl, not that they ever came into my house, but friends that talked to each other, our dogs would play in my yard together. They also knew what time I left for work and what time I got home. The husband use to go out of his way to be extra friendly with my dog which I found very odd.
2013 I have a tooth ache, dentist gives me antibi. and Tylenol COD 3 (pain killer) The month is May I have the two meds sitting by my kitchen sink, kitchen window is over the sink and window is open.I am 100 feet away from my front door weeding my flower bed at the end of the driveway. The neighbor is mowing his lawn. They have a paved patio on the side of their house, to get to their yard you have to cross over the patio, he always shuts off the lawn mower to cross the paved area, this day he did not, mower was running all the time. 15 minutes later my tooth starts to throb, I go in my house to take the pain killer, the vile is EMPTY. He had popped the screen, emptied the pills into his pocket and left the empty vile. Well I didn't actually see him so I can't accuse him, I didn't call the police because all they would do is tell him not to trespass, he would be laughing knowing he got away with it so I let it alone and got indoor surveillance cameras that I could monitor on my cell phone. He never came to my back door or my back rooms so I never caught him on film. But I knew a door would one day open and I would have the opportunity to have a face off with him.
2013 Fall, he is blowing leaves between our houses, as usual I have just blew ALLLL the leaves from the side on my house and my yard, all HIS leaves are blowing against my house and coming into my yard, the door opened and I jumped in with both feet, told him off about the leaves and went into....and keep the %$#% away from my house because the next time you come near it you will find something you will not be happy about. (meaning the camera will film him). He says he doesn't know what I'm talking about, I never told him I knew he stole my pain meds. I wanted to catch him on tape, but he has never tried to break in again.
Now he is doing petty BS things, I don't see him but I KNOW it's him. I have no enemies only him. I don't call the police for the petty stuff, but when he sabotaged my generator the night of the blizzard that was the straw that broke this camels back. I discovered the missing generator panel the first week in April when all the snow and ice had melted. I have been trying to get it replaced. It's been a few weeks and I know the creep neighbor thinks I don't suspect him. When I had the police come this past Sunday the officer went over and spoke to him. So now he knows I know it was him. Nothing I can do unless I either see him or capture him on tape. Filming him trespassing is 100% sure thing and he would be arrested, the officer told me this, seeing him would be a she said he said.
So the quest for surveillance camera has began. It will be several years before he tries anything again, just like no problems from 2013 until 2017, but I will always have outdoor cameras and I will catch him one day. |
Wow sounds like a pain in the tuckus to deal with... Seeing as he's kind of being a weenie maybe put a security cameras hidden outside, with realistic looking (but fake) ones in plain view so that way he might think there's only one of them or two and if he ever tried anything, he'd go away from the field of vision (or what he'd think is the field of vision) and actually show up in your actual cameras anyways.
We're putting cameras in the new house in light of last years incident, and I mean no ones done anything over there... but you cant never be too careful... and then if something does happen it's not a game of he said/she said-- it's legitimate hard core evidence.
You should also try installing a home security system that notifies the authorities so if you're not home it's still in sight.
I feel as if you can get a better sense of ease and relief if you could install various cameras that not only get recorded, but also feed onto your smart phone.. Which I believe should be possible with a little searching and tinkering. Then you can see what happens even if you're away and all the evidence would be there.
It's really upsetting to know that you can move into a neighborhood that looks nice, beautiful and peaceful on the outside-- no bad reviews or anything and then somewhile later it turns out there's a crazy person for a neighbor.... like our POS neighbors... but then again you can get really good neighbors like the ones on the other side.
It still bugs me, because I didn't realize this sooner... but I used to have a box turtle(captive bred three toed box turtle) in an enclosure in my backyard. The enclosure was really big, it had a lock in it and it had a "ceiling" that was made of stainless steel wires/bars to keep animals(and people) out of it... A few months later after I brought in my juvenile box turtle... it had "somehow" magically disappeared.
There was no way it could dig out because yes it had dirt in it, and yes turtles and tortoises like a lot of animals can dig.
But it had something to prevent escape through digging. The thing went down a few feet to allow it to dig if it wanted to-- but at the base of it there was a few layers of stainless steel chicken wires and none of those were missing or out of place.
So no predatory animal could go inside the cage because of the wires and bar gated ceiling, and it was locked... but somehow someone must have picked the lock because the lock was found unlocked but still in place and yeah.. it's not the first case of animal theft in the neighborhood...
It's why I don't let our dog run outside without one of us being there and why we remind each other to do the same.
It bugs me because she was doing really well and ugh... I always wonder where she ended up in and I miss her.. and we can't just have anything nice. (or couldn't).
Now I refuse to try, and even with all of the security we're going to add to the new house I wouldn't let anything out of our sight. Watched like a hawk.
But then again I shouldn't be too surprised, a few years(before sasha so more like 6-7) before that while still in this house our BBQ grill was stolen right after we got it... now after that we have to always bring it in and it's a pain to carry...
At the time we weren't paying much and weren't home often enough during the day.