Neighbor Wars·
THE FENCE FEUD
A backyard boundary dispute erupts into police involvement, trespassing warnings, and a courthouse showdown as two families clash over deed lines and personal property.
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A backyard boundary dispute turned into a trespassing warning, police, and a courthouse check, all over one side of a family's own property.
The poster says their dad owns two side-by-side lots, including the one they live on. The trouble started the night before the post, when the poster was walking from the dad's house to their own place while the dad walked his dog. That's when a woman from a neighboring house came out yelling that he was "on my f##king property" and threatened, "I'm gonna call [insert name of most likely a retired officer]."
The poster stepped in and got loud after being told to stay out of it. The woman claimed her deed gives her 51 feet past her fence line, far enough, the poster said, to overlap onto their house. The poster and their dad tried to explain, but she wouldn't listen. At one point, the exchange turned to insults, with the woman snapping, "real men don't call ladies mean names," and the poster firing back, "she's not a lady bro."
The argument kept escalating. The woman told the poster she was "more of a lady than you'll ever bring home," and the poster answered, "Got a beautiful woman sitting inside waiting on me, homie." Then the poster called dispatch, worried because their dad has AFIB and has had a heart attack before.
A man associated with the woman came out to argue too. When officers arrived, the woman tried to rush toward the poster and the officer, but the officer stopped her. After speaking with everyone, the officer made the call: until the county surveyed the properties, the family was not legally allowed on that side of their property and would be arrested for trespassing. Those were, the poster said, "the officers words, not mine."
Later, the dad walked the dog around the block instead of around the property. The woman came out again and recorded him. The poster asked what to do next and wanted revenge that would not land anyone in jail.
Then the situation got stranger. Over the weekend, the woman put up trespassing signs six feet over the property line. The dad lost his cool, cops came again, and the dispute went to the courthouse. There, the courthouse confirmed what the poster and their dad had been telling her all along.
After that, the woman apologized. She said it was her dad's house and she did not want anyone near it because it was one of "one of her last bit of him." The poster said that did not make them sympathetic, since they are in a similar situation with their own house.
Now the poster says they're about to go look around the property to see what's been done.