15. A new level of bad neighbor
Look closely at the sign my neighbor posted not days after my father’s week long agonizing death of lung cancer. It says “KARMA’s A BiTcH”. The picture was taken from my front porch. It takes a sad and broken person to do such a thing.
16. Makes work interesting
I work in the agricultural industry and sometimes have to help sort out disputes between neighbours.
I have always been shocked as to how two grown adults (or two families) will allow the situation to degrade to the point of violence.
One time I was contacted because of a dam usage dispute. Basically, the two warring neighbours were unsure of the boundary between their two properties and both wanted to use this one particular dam. Both had in the past fenced it off, and both had cut the other neighbours fence down.
I identified who the dam belonged to and provided advice accordingly. The neighbour who came off second best wasn’t happy… He didn’t say anything to me, really. But he did throw a tonne of dynamite in the dam, rendering it useless. It also exploded the animals drinking from it at the time of detonation.
Another person is suspected of taking revenge on his neighbour for some sort of personal slight. I say suspected, because it’s been thoroughly investigated and no one knows the clear details. All I can say is that the neighbour disappeared without a trace and rumour has it, was cut into pieces and stuffed down an out of commission borehole.
On other occasions, I’ve had to deal with neighbours who have shot at each other, lit each other’s infrastructure on fire, stolen each other’s property (including livestock) or even in one case, revenge fucked the neighbor’s daughter. Keeps life interesting.
