Neighbour breaks in to my property - Caught on Video

Over the weekend of November 6th and 7th, 2010 I built a new fence across the back of my property to replace a section that was falling apart.

On Monday November 8th the neighbour to the right-hand side of me (when looking towards the house from the front) was waiting for me when I got home from work. He claimed that I must immediately remove the boards connecting my new fence to our shared fence in the corner of the property.

I declined to remove the boards, at which time my neighbour became very confrontational. He demanded that I remove the boards, and if I didn't comply, he would remove them for me.

I told him again that I would not be removing them, and that he was not permitted to come on to my property to remove them himself. He asked me, 'Or what? What are you going to do?'
I told him that I would contact the police if he attempted to enter my property for any reason. He stormed off into his house while saying that those boards are going to be coming down. I again stated that he was not to enter my property.

After this confrontation, I went out to the fence corner to look and found that one of the boards had been forcibly removed already.

Thinking that it was unlikely that this would be the end of it, I set up video surveillance on that corner of the fence. Nothing of interest was caught by the camera on Tuesday November 9th, but then on Wednesday November 10th the camera caught the neighbour looking over the fence. The captured video clearly shows the neighbour climbing what appears to be a ladder and blatantly looking over the fence into my yard. He spends several minutes inspecting my side of the shared fence in addition to the new section of fence I had just built. The same type of thing was caught again on Thursday November 11th.

On Friday November 12th the camera caught the neighbour again. Only this time, the neighbour removed several boards from our shared fence and then climbed through the hole he had created and onto my property. Once inside my back yard, he proceeded to forcibly remove two fence boards from my side of the fence, and three support boards connecting the shared fence to the new fence I had built.

He did this from inside my yard, while my wife and kids were home and I was at work. He did not ask permission to enter the yard, and had previously been told he is forbidden from entering my property.

With a hammer and pry bar, he broke the boards off of my fence damaging my property.

Since the DA has declined to prosecute this guy, I'm posting this video for all to see. Hopefully the court of public opinion will win out.

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• trespass
• caught

[ursistersmells]

Get a restraining order. Sue him for the damage to the fence. Get a dog or a glock.

[PullenJoe]

Cant believe the DA declined to prosecute - this is your property. I'd be out there macing the heck out of him.

[spookymachine]

why is he doing this?



[nthnpark0]

Everyone should have cameras even if they dont think they need them. If there was not a camera here to capture this neighbor it would have been one neighbors word against the others.

[ow73lee]

In the corner, sorry... Smartphone spelling ..

[ow73lee]

The fence to the right was HIS fence, not our hosts. This fellow got mad because those 2 boards I'm the corner were touching his brown fence.

[googles1515]

Too bad you couldn't put up an electric fence, that would fix his crazy ass!!

[cottagecheeselegs]

overweight, ugly and wearing knee pads...definitely a republican

[nghtrider62]

1. file Tresspassing, 2. Destruction of private property.3. Restraining order 4. Is he on disability? The video clearly shows him able to do things any disabled person is not able to do. If you can't hurt him in court maybe you can hurt him in his wallet where it really counts.

[MFO46]

Yes, get a dog. You know, the ones that have teeth and bark.

[1000lapaisita]

CREEPY!



[iceman997799]

has anything been done since the video??