supermanotorious
Winchmaster 5000
I've heard of and read posts about nightmare neighbors before but have never had to deal with anything like what we have now. Technically this jerk isn't an immediate neighbor but he lives close and his crappy behavior affects the entire neighborhood.
His name is **** ******* and as of this post he is approximately 54 years old. He inherited the home in our neighborhood from his mother and has had no need to work since he simply moves in working girlfriends and has them pay the utilities and taxes. (No skin in the game if you will) He's lived here for a long time and has been the reason behind hundreds of calls to local police precinct.
Most of the neighbors in this area are owners, several of which are original owners. Not too shabby for a 40 year old development in North Phoenix.
When I moved in approximately 5 years ago he was in the prime of his "paint" phase. This included spilling and sloshing paint from water bottles and "red solo cups" onto our sidewalks, driveways, mailboxes, streets, and walls (both home and perimeter). His real beef at the time was any vehicle parked in the street at night. He would splash paint on our cars or swipe the length of the cars with a paint marker (and he got my wife's one night). We had a backyard neighbor who was renting and told me lived in South Phoenix his whole life. This neighbor and Eric had several confrontations over the paint and I believe that caused Eric to stop with the paint.
Yes we call the police, yes they come out, **** doesn't answer his door and there is nothing the police can do since we don't have video or photo evidence.
A couple of years ago he moved to his trash phase. He would literally drop his garbage bags in the street where we all enter the neighborhood or simply dump them out on the asphalt from the bag. Some neighbors would take it and throw it in his yard. I'm not sure what curbed that but whatever.
More recently he was in a glass bottle phase. He was breaking (mainly Heineken) bottles right on the street where we all enter/exit the 'hood. That's where I got involved. I started writing him letters and returning the glass to his driveway. That seemed to stop that phase.
One neighbor told me last night she filed a restraining order against him weeks ago and police were only able to serve him this past week because he never answers his door. Here's some irony though- HE is the guy that calls the police when we rip karts around the 'hood. HE calls the police to complain of noise if anyone is socializing in their own yards late at night, even when noise volumes are reasonable. And it was a noise complaint he filed the other night that had officers go to his home and serve the restraint.
Since he was served, he's moved to an egg phase. He's throwing eggs at everything, especially cars parked in the street and that's where we are now. I left him another note addressing the eggs and I must stress, my notes have all been polite. I've never name called, I've always used phrases like "We are asking you to please stop..." We'll see what this note does.
This is clearly a behavior issue. Maybe he's handicapped, maybe not. I could care less, we all just want it to stop. So what do we do? Must we all install expensive security camera equipment to catch it on film? Do we follow him to a store and beat the teeth from out of his head? What are your thoughts/suggestions? I'm raising young children here as are many others. How do we solve this problem?
His name is **** ******* and as of this post he is approximately 54 years old. He inherited the home in our neighborhood from his mother and has had no need to work since he simply moves in working girlfriends and has them pay the utilities and taxes. (No skin in the game if you will) He's lived here for a long time and has been the reason behind hundreds of calls to local police precinct.
Most of the neighbors in this area are owners, several of which are original owners. Not too shabby for a 40 year old development in North Phoenix.
When I moved in approximately 5 years ago he was in the prime of his "paint" phase. This included spilling and sloshing paint from water bottles and "red solo cups" onto our sidewalks, driveways, mailboxes, streets, and walls (both home and perimeter). His real beef at the time was any vehicle parked in the street at night. He would splash paint on our cars or swipe the length of the cars with a paint marker (and he got my wife's one night). We had a backyard neighbor who was renting and told me lived in South Phoenix his whole life. This neighbor and Eric had several confrontations over the paint and I believe that caused Eric to stop with the paint.
Yes we call the police, yes they come out, **** doesn't answer his door and there is nothing the police can do since we don't have video or photo evidence.
A couple of years ago he moved to his trash phase. He would literally drop his garbage bags in the street where we all enter the neighborhood or simply dump them out on the asphalt from the bag. Some neighbors would take it and throw it in his yard. I'm not sure what curbed that but whatever.
More recently he was in a glass bottle phase. He was breaking (mainly Heineken) bottles right on the street where we all enter/exit the 'hood. That's where I got involved. I started writing him letters and returning the glass to his driveway. That seemed to stop that phase.
One neighbor told me last night she filed a restraining order against him weeks ago and police were only able to serve him this past week because he never answers his door. Here's some irony though- HE is the guy that calls the police when we rip karts around the 'hood. HE calls the police to complain of noise if anyone is socializing in their own yards late at night, even when noise volumes are reasonable. And it was a noise complaint he filed the other night that had officers go to his home and serve the restraint.
Since he was served, he's moved to an egg phase. He's throwing eggs at everything, especially cars parked in the street and that's where we are now. I left him another note addressing the eggs and I must stress, my notes have all been polite. I've never name called, I've always used phrases like "We are asking you to please stop..." We'll see what this note does.
This is clearly a behavior issue. Maybe he's handicapped, maybe not. I could care less, we all just want it to stop. So what do we do? Must we all install expensive security camera equipment to catch it on film? Do we follow him to a store and beat the teeth from out of his head? What are your thoughts/suggestions? I'm raising young children here as are many others. How do we solve this problem?
