Crazy Neighbor

My ape-shit crazy neighbor has outdone himself once again. Seriously, I doubt his family tree forks at all because he is one piece of work. We came home today from my daughter's 2nd birthday party and found that he had taken down the fence separating our yards AND THEN THE CRAZY FUCK CALLED THE POLICE.

Why? Because he's nuts. Who does that? Hi officer, I just pulled this fence down, now I'd like to stand on the neighbor's property with you and whine that they put it up in the first place.

In what crazy world that does that actually happen with no ramifications to the person that took it down? Oh right, Massachusetts. I forgot how in order to live here you have to blindly vote democrat and be on the government's dole. Criminals have more rights than law-abiding citizens and the burden of proof and expense of court is always on the backs of the honest person who is not the one causing issues.

A little back story may be in order. The fence was put up to contain my kids and my dogs. We live on a semi-busy street and keeping them all out of said busy street is an issue. A fence is far more effective than a frazzled and stressed mother chasing after them when they get near the edge of the property. Makes perfect sense, right? It's called being responsible, no?

Well this ass-hat came along and decided that the fence was on his property. Never mind that we have lived here for way longer than him. Never mind that the fence was where our lawn ends. It's the visual property line. Well, because the turd-monkey hired a shady surveyor that says the line is off in la-la land, he thinks that entitles him to take my fence down and start throwing feces everywhere like the ape that he is.

Not cool.

Now here's the pathetic part. I ran out and asked the cop to press charges. He took down my fence, on my property and disposed of it God knows where. So that's what? Vandalism AND theft? The cop was like oh no, this is a civil dispute - that's not what we do. You'll have to take it to land court or have the surveyors come to an agreement.

Um what?! So now I have to spend thousands of dollars to prove that my land that has been a part of this property for 20+ years is actually mine? I already have a damn survey saying the fence in question was firmly on my land. I already paid for the survey... so then what? I go to land court, pay the 30-40K and he does it again citing his survey that disagrees with the court? If a survey isn't good enough, will a judge's opinion be good enough or can he just find another judge to have a differing opinion and it all begins again. This is just plain stupid.

I should not have to spend all that money or all that time to keep a hold on the land that is visually a part of my property and is a part of my property according to a survey.

Oh, just to make things more fun, the town says they can't halt the construction of his property based on the disagreement until it goes through land court, which can take more than a year. Also, in the meanwhile it won't be halted either, and once it's finished it's unlikely to be taken down. Wonderful!

So here's the lesson: In Massachusetts you can just put shit wherever you want on whatever piece of land you want and nobody will do anything about it. The person who's land you are encroaching on has the burden of proof. Most regular people can't afford the outrageous cost of land court, making the entire exercise a waste of time.

DO NOT BUY LAND IN MASSACHUSETTS OR MOVE TO THIS GOD FORSAKEN HELL HOLE. THE LAWS HERE SUCK AND THE PEOPLE MAKING THEM ARE SLOW.

If anyone is reading this from Massachusetts, please take care of who you vote for, or it may be your property that is being taken from you next time. The laws here are so unbelievably stupid... I just can't even put into words how disappointed I am in not only the legislators in this state that have thought up this system, but the voters that continually put them into office.

Before you say, "if you don't like it, run" - I did. I was in office at the local level. It was one road block after another. Our standard answer to literally everything was, "consult town council" or "hire a peer reviewer". We did not do any actual deciding on our own. The town boards and councils are basically puppets. Smoke and mirrors folks - each town has a lawyer that essentially makes all of the decisions regarding every aspect of every little thing and then the boards just present those decisions.

That's where all the tax money goes.