MOTHERF*CKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[matcom]

:grr:

fucking neighbors!

assholes needed a tree behind us taken down. decided the ONLY way to do it was through MY YARD! :grr:

i come home from work to THREE crane trucks parked on MY FUCKING BACK LAWN!!!!! :argh:

no, you DIDN'T HAVE FUCKING PERMISSION TO TEAR UP MY YARD!

now i'm drinking a scotch and waiting for the fucking OWNER of the company. oh MAN did i unload on those guys. NOBODY gave you fucking permission asshole. do YOU see a fucking signature from ME on your work order?

MOTHERF*CKER!!! :grr:

[eyepaddle]

1. Let us know how this turns out, please. nt

[Richardo]

2. Go out and injure yourself on one of their cranes

That'll get their attention. Not a massive skull fracture or anything, but something involving blood, maybe.

[CatWoman]

3. calm down, Snoogums

do a photoshop of Underpants instead.

he was mean talking the Redskins this morning :D

[Shell Beau]

4. Did they get your wife's permission by any chance?

That would really piss me off too!

[matcom]

5. NO!

SPECIFICALLY NO. jerkoff asked her and i was out and she said "NO WAY"!

[Shell Beau]

9. Really?

Oh yeah, you should be totally pissed off!!

[billyskank]

6. That's beyond the pale

Unbelievable. :o

[matcom]

8. fucked up an ornamental cherry tree of ours in the process

:grr:

[DS1]

7. Call the cops

Trespassing

make them stop work right now

[mcscajun]

11. Best answer.

Seriously.

[redqueen]

16. Seconded.

Unbelievable... that company really wants to get hit with a lawsuit it sounds like.

[Dukkha]

10. Sue them back to the stoneage!

like we need yet another tree cut down in this world too at the cost of your yard none the less.

[Seabiscuit]

23. Yup! Sue the bastids blue!

If you live in CA, I'll be glad to helpl.

[SOteric]

12. Get a camera and start taking photos right now.

They could come in really handy for any highly recommended court appearances.

[democracyindanger]

14. Yep, and start getting estimates

for the cost of professional landscapers to come in and repair all the damage.

[faithnotgreed]

13. snapping many photos

of said cranes and workers and torn up yard
might make some things happen

not sure what though

[Graf Orlok]

15. Give 'em Hell!

I would!

[matcom]

17. just called the police (business line)

the officer said to try and work it out with the owner but if I need them to not hesitate to call.

he couldn't believe it either.

they cleaned up extra nice (except for the damage to my maple and cherry trees and the lawn.

oh, AND they climed into my truck and moved it (since it is a stick shift)

what would they have done had i locked it i wonder?

[friesianrider]

30. WAIT

They atcually GOT INTO YOUR CAR AND MOVED it? Are you serious?!

[abbeyco]

18. get photos to start with

then names of every employee there; snapshots of the employees will be helpful, too.

get copies of any work-orders or anything they've tried to show you and lastly, yeah, i'd call the cops for them trespassing on and destruction of your property.

then, if you've got a lawyer, i'd get him/her on the horn and ask for further advice.

keep us informed - what a pain for you!

[LisaM]

19. Take pictures of this - NOW

You'll need to document this.

On edit: sounds as if you already have. Why did they even need to take down their dumb tree to begin with? Are they tree haters?

[miss_kitty]

20. I smell settlement

Make them pay and pay and pay. You should be able to buy some large trees (installed) with your settlement. Or a couple new scooters. And I'd be PISED PISSED PISSED about the truck...breaking and entering?

What fucking grade are those fuckwits in?

[Jamastiene]

21. Give 'em hell. I had to go off yesterday.

My mother lied to me and told me she was going to get the software I need for a class in college and then kept me on her delapidated computer for 3 hours. Every time I would try to tell her how to attach a picture to send thru email, she wanted to rescan it. When I tried to show her how to drag and drop to edit the picture (it was 8 mb with 2/3 of that being white space she didn't seem to want to crop and col has a 4 mb limit on any email we send), anyhow, I found out she had quit using her mouse and had disabled left click on her touchpad from hell. That thing got on my nerves almost as much as her not wanting to click the paper clip. She kept saying this is the way I do it. But the way she had been doing it wouldn't work. Obviously, she wasn't doing it right or it would have worked. How does she expect to do something wrong and get it right. I ended up having to concede the 8 mb 2/3 of which was empty white space (she insisted on scanning the picture in the middle of the scanner and not at the top corner on top of all this) and just tell her to send it. Then she wanted to go off into more crap she had screwed up on the computer and blamed on the isp. I finally cracked. No wonder my stepfather has been diagnosed with dimentia. I would have it too if I had to live with her full time. She's enough to drive me back to drugs and alcohol. She lies like a dog half the time, but not every other time so I never know whether I can trust her or not. Ooooooh, she makes me :mad:

Please let this be a general unload the garbage thread. I'm with you on the furious feelings. I'm still reeling. I wish I didn't have to study for a test. I'd break out some vodka and join you for a general gripe session about bullshit. Is your bullshit'o'meter needle pegging yet, or did it break off like mine did this morning?

I say Give 'em hell and don't let up until they know you've been in their face. They have no right to tear up your property because your neighbor has decided the tree is somehow bothering somebody. Urgh, I'm with you. :bounce: :mad: I'd be throwing shit bruising my hand punching the wall (like yesterday). You are mighty calm over this.

[underpants]

22. For God's sake

is the scooter okay?

MAn that sucks big time. I would heed the advice above and call the cops and photograph it.

[sakabatou]

24. I'd give you my nunchucks...

but then again, you probably wouldn't need them.

[HEyHEY]

25. Wow, don't let them get away with that

[northzax]

26. this is America, man

private property is sacrosant, shoot them.

/channeling inner freeper

[skygazer]

27. Scumbags

Yeah, I would call the cops. No kidding.

Years ago, I lived in an apartment in an old house that had been converted. The owners hired a company to remove the old (asbestos) siding and put on new stuff. This company was a joke - no doubt cheap. They used NO safety equipment whatsoever (I had three small children at the time). I came home from work to find them ripping this stuff off the house, tossing on one of MY kids blankets that had been on my clothesline and dragging it across my yard to a rented U-Haul trailer that they were using to bring it to the local landfill.

There were so many code violations involved that it wasn't funny. :grr:

I complained to the landlord who simply shrugged so I called around to find out who to report it all to. I can't remember what agency I got in the end but I got a very bad flu that year that turned to pneumonia and I had pneumonia twice a year after that for the next 6 or 7 years. All my kids have asthma to one extent or another, as do I and I always wondered if the asbestos had something to do with it.

Fucking idiots out there in the world.

[MadHound]

28. First off, get off the computers, and go take a bunch of pictures

Snap everything, from the tracks to the downed trees, everything. Get witnesses, names company name, etc. Record video if you can.

Then tommorrow go find a good lawyer and sue that company into oblivion. Go for both the monetary loss and the emotional loss. Make 'em pay through the nose. This is complete and unmitagate bullshit. In fact, you might have a case to call the cops and bust these fools for B&E, trespassing at least. A good criminal charge always makes the civil trial go better.

[arwalden]

29. Take Photos... LOTS OF THEM

[matcom]

31. The OWNER Just Left

he was scared shitless. apologized up and down. asked me if i was suing him. told him no. wasn't interested.

he is sending a crew out to fix the damage, and trim up our huge maple for free. i told him from now on he needs a signature from the homeowner. told him if he had damaged the house i WOULD have his ass in court. also told him that it probably wasn't a good idea to move a vehicle without an owner's permission.

he left with his tail between his legs and rightfully so. i just hopes he does what he promised (signatures) in the future.

*sigh*

homeownership is a bitch sometimes

[Misunderestimator]

32. Oh, you're so mean.

:P

:D

[Texasgal]

33. Your exciting me with all that

MANLY-MAN talk!! STOP!!! :P

[OneGrassRoot]

35. He had me at "I'm drinking scotch"...... *S* n/t

[In_The_Wind]

34. Yea! MATCOM!

[JVS]

36. demand a new ornamental cherry tree and a shrubbery

[RevCheesehead]

47. Definately hold out for a shrubbery.

[WilliamPitt]

37. So...

What are you going to do to the neighbor who let this happen?

[matcom]

38. she is an 85 year old shut-in

was totally the tree guy's fault

short answer?

i'm gonna break her toes

[DS1]

39. I'd have gone with sending her a woodchipper service of her own

;-)

[matcom]

40. i like your thinking

i saved some pieces of bark for under her fingernails

[WilliamPitt]

41. Release a bunch of ocelots into her house

See how long she stays shut in.

[matcom]

42. she probably watched the whole thing from her window

and cackled :grr:

think Momma Bates

[HEyHEY]

43. I'd sue to have her pension cheques garnished!

[miss_kitty]

44. um. I wouldn't LET HIM TOUCH MY FUCKIN TREE

I would tell him he's welcome to PAY AN ISA or ASA certified arborist to assess and trim the tree.

A large well pruned tree can add thousands to the value of your property. A poorly pruned tree isn't worth shit. And you may have to remove it at extra cost-a couple grand. Allowing HIS FUCKED UP CREW to trim your tree may release him from any future action against him.

You should insist on having an arborist not recommended by him to come and assess the damage to your trees. Compaction to the root zone by heavy equipment can cause damage that won't show up or kill your tree for 3-5 years.

I went to college for this shit, so I know what I'm talking about. Get a lawyer. The guy is getting an excellent deal and you *may* get totally screwed if you go along as you have laid it out here.

[matcom]

45. he IS a licensed arborist

AND a shitty businessman

but he IS an arborist (and a pretty good one from what my neighbor's who have used him tell me)

[miss_kitty]

46. Well it IS your tree

I'm just sayin'...
:)

[Ramsey]

50. Oh my...

So forceful! Makes me squirm!@

:loveya:

[matcom]

51. i was wearing my chaps at the time

imagine

:*

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

48. I saw this on the Peoples Court once.

some ass wanted his view to be better, so he cut down 3, count 'em, 3 of his neighbors' 50 year old trees. Guy sues in small claims court for the legal limit (I think at that time it was like 3 grand). Whopper (spelling?) told him he could have sued for three times the cost of replacing the trees.

I would be furious & going for prison time if I could.

edited for spelling, punctuation

[redsoxliberal]

49. that is fucked up.... REALLY fucked up

are your neighbours generally good people?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

52. Did they mention anything about imminent (sp) domain?? I hope

they didn't hurt any "shrubs".... unless it was a very specific variety.... heh heh heh... yup, call the law... make them fix your lawn at the very least... sorry about your trouble there Mat... have another scotch on me.

[AtomicKitten]

53. Fecking hell.

I came home a couple years ago to find a neighbor having torn down the fence and cut down a tree in MY yard, put the fence back up, and left the fall-out in my yard to pick up. My head exploded! I called the police but all they could do was make them clean it up. Assholes.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

54. Here Matcom.... watch this... it will take the edge off, I promise...

especially if the scotch is kickin in.


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