Hi Ripe ⭐ 😎⭐ When you started reading “the neighbor's downspout is flooding my yard”, I thought my mother had found Reddit and posted her story. Mother doesn't have the money to fix the problem, and the neighbor won't even add an elbow joint to his downspout to redirect it away from her yard. These neighbors have plenty of money, they redecorate their house every other year, put perfectly good furniture and other stuff out on the curb. The HOA won't do anything either. It started after they had tons of dirt trucked in to raise their ground level, and added the extra downspout on the side of the house, in the middle of the side wall, not on a corner. Their son is special needs, mother heard him on the phone in the backyard telling one of his friends yes he was the one that punched a hole in the wall of my mother's house. He'd done it a couple of years before, and right above the garden hose spigot. On that phone call he also admitted to damaging the light fixture above her garage, and several other horrible things that have happened to my mother's property. Mother has no way to prove any of this, and doesn't have a smartphone to have recorded the conversation. Mother is very financially challenged and elderly, she cannot afford to pay for the repairs, or to move. So every time it rains her yard floods, and that is the only thing she has asked these people to fix. I looked at Home Depot's site, the downspout attachment and accordion hose to move the run off water to the street is around $10, and they refuse to put one on. I suggested we put one on in the middle of the night, mother said they have cameras all around their house pointing at her yard, we would get caught. Mother has skipped meals in order to afford bags of dirt and mulch to try to save her house to no avail. Every hurricane watch she starts crying until it passes. If she wasn't underwater with her mortgage I might be able to talk her into moving. We both need a miracle, or a winning lottery ticket. (I think there is a special place in hell for those neighbors.) The people living on the other side of her are weird too, multiple cameras pointed at mother's house, and a swimming pool they don't use, never go outside, kids never play outside. And about 12+ people living in a 3 bedroom house. Weird neighborhood. I liked the stories today. I like the revenge stories. I like everything you read, especially when there's updates. Thank you. Take care, stay safe. 🌠🌟⭐🌟🌠😎🌠🌟⭐🌟🌠
Not a lawyer here but my granny was in your mom's position. While it is not legal for a neighbor to intentionally or unintentionally direct storm water to your yard you can sue, like my granny did, If it causes water damage to your property, as well as sue for compensation for your losses and also ask the court to order the neighbor to stop the action. In most states, if fixing the problem is less than 10k you can go through small claims court which is usually doesn't cost very much
@@mjlh7079 There's strong chance it's gradually damaging the house's foundation, too. Talk to a lawyer, and get the home's foundation checked. If they are damaging the house with this, they are culpable.
Can't remember what brought me back to this video, but I read your story this time. I hope everything worked out for your mother with her house, neighbours and finances.
We lived in a small town many years ago. My husband was Chief of Police. We didn't lock our does until some kids put chickens in our house at dawn, while we're were sleeping.. After that, the doors got locked.
I'm always adamant that the doors and windows are closed and locked. I cannot sleep until it's double checked. I listen to/watch a lot of horror stories/films.
I never leave the house without checking all the doors and windows. I've driven back to make sure the garage door is closed out of an abundance of caution.
@@RipeStories I often finding myself checking to see if my barn door/zipper is closed several times if I'm busy at work cause I made that mistake a couple of times lol 😆 😅
Same, I always check every outside door before going out if no one is going to be home, plus the gates; I just don't check the windows, but the windows here have a bunch of iron "bars" in a cool design. At most, maybe, a cat would be able to go through them if it wasn't for the screens, no way in hell even a baby would pass through them, much less an adult. So I'm not scared of someone breaking the windows.
OMG, it used to drive me nuts! We live in a slightly rural area of the USA. My husband would never lock the doors. I grew up in a big city, and this was a no no. My kid followed my husband's footsteps and also would leave doors unlocked. I got tired of sounding like a broken record, so as took matters into my own hands. I ordered 3 new deadbolts on Amazon, they are biometric locks, and you can use a code, fingerprint, or key to unlock. Best of all it auto locks after 30 seconds of being closed! Problem solved.
I don't have to lock my doors. It's funny when someone brakes in. My dogs like to hide when they hear the steps creek and ambush you. Wish I still had the video but computer crashed. The last person that broke in didn't see the dogs. My one dog keebu male bullmastiff/Great Dane mix followed him through My living room, home office and bathroom to my bed room. My second dog Saddle female pitbull/Catahoula leopard hound mix went the other way through the living room, and kitchen to my bedroom. The poor guys face when he came out of my closet to see my dogs was priceless. He just backed up and closed the closet door. I get home to police getting ready to enter my house. I pull into my drive. The officers ask if I live here and I tell them yes I own the house. I ask the officers what's going on and they tell me that they got a call from my address about 2 vicious dogs cornering someone in there bedroom closet. I ask if I can go in with them to get the dogs they say no. I tell them the dogs are not vicious. I then tell them to not worry about the dogs I can just ask the dogs if they want to go for a ride and they will ignore the officers, run to my car and jump in. The officers let me call them and sure enough they ignore the officers and jump in the car. After they got the guy out I checked my cameras. The guy was arrested and charged with burglary and breaking and entering. I don't remember how long he got. It was 4 years ago. a few of the officers where impressed at how well my dogs where trained and asked if I trained them my self or if I used a trainer. When I told them I trained all my dogs my self a few asked me to train their dogs. I told them no. If I train your dog the dog will respect and bond with me. That the training may not last. But I am willing to help them train their dog. I've been quoted my favorite saying if you give a man a fish he will eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he will eat for life. I wound up teaching weekly dog training classes at a local park. Now if it happens again most if not all of the officers in my area know my dogs and know how to call them off.
That’s amazing and you are awesome! Please keep doing what you do and open a small business (you can still host free classes but also help become a legal dog trainer).
I once got hit by a woman who backed out of a parking lot while I drove by. Still can’t believe how she couldn’t have seen a giant 40 year old American car without an exhaust... of course she started getting mad at me when I got the quotation from the garage
We purchased a house with a pool about 21 years ago. A month after we moved in the next door neighbor told my husband that he had permission from the previous owners to use our pool whenever. My husband said that was an agreement with the previous neighbor, and that he didn't feel comfortable in further extending that offer. He, the neighbor, was not happy about it, but luckily his wife had him see how rediculous he was being. They actually went on to becoming very close with our family, although they never did use our pool.. Hahaha. For insurance reasons, we didn't allow any neighbors to use our pool.
We let neighbors use our pool if they are invited to use it. They had to sign legal papers saying that they had no rights to sue us if they were to get hurt or die. We had a big skateboard ramp in the other side of the yard that also had legal wavers to sign before they stepped foot on it. We had a couple parents refused to sign them so their kids were not able too come in our back yard.
@@josephbrown9665 We tried that when the kids were young, but after researching it they would have been able to sue anyway. Now that the kids are grown we're seriously thinking of just filling in the pool We rarely use it, and it's just become a money and time suck.
@@amandab8433 In the USA you can sue anyone for any reason and you would have to pay a lawyer to defend yourself. No other nation on earth allows this lawfare, which has become really common in the political arena.
I have a pool and allow some of my neighbors use the pool when we are in or if we are gone and they ask ahead of time really only 3 families. A family about two blocks away that we have never met, came over one day to use the pool. I was off that they and they knocked because they did not have the code to the locks to yard. They told me what they wanted to use the pool but need the code and I just said “ Am I getting punked?” When they said “ No” I just looked at them raised one eyebrow and said “hold on”. I returned with my police uniform shirt and gun and said. “ I am not going to see any of you any where near my pool , Right.?” They left very fast and I now only see them when they drive by, fo get out of our community.
G'day Ripe🐨🐨🐨🐨 1st...wow, entitled is an understatement 2nd... Karen crashes with infant in car and the parents let her stay? Oh hell no...she can live in a tent in the park. Drown the yard? Wow a useful HOA. Not locking up these days is just stupidity! Even with 6'fences and 2 50 kg dogs at home, I definitely lock up everything
My mom doesn't always lock her doors, drives me crazy. When she was staying with me during the lock down, i drilled it into her the importance of locking doors. I constantly had to go behind her to lock my doors. She's just lucky I love her to pieces.
Karma my mother used to do that so I signed up for the text messages for our local police and I forwarded every single message I got about house invasions during the day. Her whole thing to use to say was, no one breaks into someone's house during the day when they know they're home. Yes my mother is very very naive
@Jake the Greatest oh I agree with you but my mother leaving the door open during the day because she thinks that break-ins don't happen during the day is not true either
At one point my family lived without locking the door until one day something was stolen. What was weird was that the person skipped the computer, the TV, and only took the sewing machine. We never found out who or why but from there on we always locked the doors.
I'm Canadian. It used to be normal to not lock the house if you were home, but never if you left. Since the opioid epidemic hit 10 years ago, people, even out in the countryside, act as if we are under siege. If we could surround our property with razor wire I think many would. RE: Pools... My sister & her husband had an inground pool at her previous house. It had a privacy fence and a gate and they had no problems. After they sold the house the neighborhood took a turn for the worse, and people broke the fence to get access and were in the pool all the time, sometimes multiple families at once. The new owners had to tear the pool out and fill the hole in.
Should of put lots of bleach in the pool all the time the people using the pool without permission would stop afte4 swimming in heavily bleached water got to kill the bacteria
We had an inground pool when we lived in the city, and we'd have friends waiting for us when we got home from work, so they could have a swim. When we moved to the country, there were other factors that came into play when we discussed getting another one. For a few years friends would come out to the country to see us, just to get out of the city. We've been here over 20 years and the friends are thinning out now, and we're fine with that.
If I were the one doing the malicious compliance, I would have had a small waterproof wall built on the property line that would ensure that the neighbour's downspout water was kept in their own yard, causing _their_ yard to flood, and keeping mine dry. Maybe I'm missing something in their logic. As it is, I guess the OP got a nice walkway with shrubs, and the neighbour had to end up paying for repairs.
That last story is kind of one of my fears with the current situation in the bigger US cities. Idiots will move from them and come into places and not respect that new places rules and traditions. Sucks that that woman brought all of that on herself by being full of herself , but oh well.
it is gloves off at this point. if someone pulled some shit to get a pet of mine put down and continued her antics, I'm going Punisher on her ass, and i'd gladly walk right into the court room with a smile on my face. someone like this deserve ZERO second chances, if you know what i mean.
Loved the last one the most. Have always loved the older buildings and how they were built. My father was a carpenter in the time of cabins and barns constructed from ruff lumber. I had a collection of forged nails Oak wood pegs from the era. 😷Stay safe. 🌟⭐️✨👍😇
“Pain in the bumbum”. 🤣 These were some great stories today. Are usually prefer the shorter format, but I had the afternoon off and this was enjoyable to listen to while working on my costumes. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
My aunt and uncle had a pool in their backyard and WERE friendly with their backyard neighbors. They installed a gate to get into each other's yards, but I don't recall them going over to swim by themselves. They mostly used it to visit each other and as a shortcut for the kids to go go to school.
I'm sorry, what? Karen grabs her keys and pops the tires on Anna's car? Clearly the keys were made of sharpened titanium with a diamond edge, and Karen has the strength of a rhinoceros.
@@user-uj6sc7ls9y Not quite that bad, but if dropping it from knee high is enough to put a 3/4 bolt through the sidewall, I could see a car key wielded with intent making a hole in equally cheap tires.
“Gottem’ bro” you can hear the release of pressure as he got the confirmation that the dude was down for the count. Well done officer, head home and have a cool beer and the satisfaction that you where able to save many lives. For those that have passed may you Rest In Peace and may the families find peace themselves. My prayers go out to all.
When my parents were traveling, I stayed in their home and took care of the two brothers. Neither understood the concept of locking doors, and one managed to unlock every door in the house one morning before going camping. Finally, I gave up and installed a bolt chain on my bedroom door and told them the burglars were welcome to their stupid hides.
Really enjoyed these stories! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Had to chuckle and shake my head at the dad who refused to lock his doors until he was robbed. He had a false sense of security! Freshman year in college, my friends and I were up late and somehow got on the subject of whether our parents kept our homes locked or unlocked. A few of them kept theirs unlocked reasoning that since the lived in the country they were safe. I said I'd rather be safe than sorry and sometimes criminals go to the country because it's a lot easier to get into houses. Then we talked about whether or not we left our dorm rooms locked because we lived on the top (3rd) floor. Many of them didn't see the need. I said something like, "We walk up here every day. Why would the stairs stop them?" We found out a while later that a man--campus wasn't incredibly far from a prison--was going into girls' rooms that were unlocked and inappropriately touching them, etc. while they slept😥. I'm glad my friends weren't hurt!
"Like sands in the hourglass...these were the Days of our Lives"...at UCLA! These stories were so rampant that in the 70's they rigged door knobs in the dorms so you could not unlock them and you had to take your keys with you to the communal bathrooms. Still it just meant that a roommate would leave the door wedged and you'd wake up with a heavy blanket on you but later realize it was a guy from another floor.
Scotland is too cold for swimming pools in the garden. I also live in a flat/apartment and don’t have a garden, it’s a big car park out one side and a public park on the other side.
When I hear that people who doesn’t lock their house doors, I think they are idiots and it shows that they want to be robbed. It’s like they are saying “Hey look! My house is unlock! Come take whatever valuables I have in this house while I’m gone!”
Yea, because when a criminal turns up at your house to rob it and finds the door locked, he says "oh no, its locked, i did not anticipate that possibility, nope, gosh gee willikers, i give up then". The point is when your house is chosen, it is chosen, locked or not, the only use of the lock serves is to not make it too easy for them, but your getting robbed either way.
@@3adgamd3r - No, there would not be enough unlocked doors for that to be worth doing. Because you cannot tell if a door is locked or not from a distance. If a door was left open - different story! And they do sometimes watch patterns of behavior - those few who are not too drugged out to think straight that is.
Clancy you’ve clearly never known criminals lol, it’s easy to see if people reach for keys, how fast they open doors, how they move etc You watch for awhile, find weaknesses and schedules
@@mystikmind2005 you've obviously never heard how many opportunist theives operate, trying doors is far more common than breaking in. Their approach is simple, they'll go along a street looking in windows, and trying doors of homes that appear empty. If they see something if value through the window, the door is open, they can be in, grab it, and be out inside of 30 seconds, making no noise. Admittedly this is generally more common at night, when they also target car keys, which most people tend to leave near front doors. So an unlocked front door means they now have your car any laptops, tablets and phones in sight, and there is basically no material evidence that someone was there. The first you know of it is waking up to find your stuff missing. Also breaking windows, not only is it loud and obvious to anyone who see's it, it's dangerous (glass shards), and can be surprisingly difficult (double/triple glazed, toughened glass windows, safety glass, etc). It also changes the nature if the crime, which increases the sentences available. An unlocked door is "gaining unlawful entry", a broken window is "breaking and entering", the first is a slap on the wrist, the second often results in jail time. That's before the theft charge, which I should mention only applies if they are caught in the act or leave sufficient evidence behind to prove they did it, if they are caught later you'll be lucky to get them for "handling stolen goods", another minor slap on the wrist charge if you can even get it to stick as you must prove they knew the goods were stolen. Sad truth is, alot of the people who break into houses know the law in this regard, they know how to keep themselves out of jail, they are after all "professional" criminals. Yes even the ones feeding a drug habit, they talk to each other so they know what they can and can't get away with. It's why you often see shoplifters never get prison time, they know if the steal below a certain value, it's a minor offense, and not usually worth the courts time giving them a custodial sentence, these criminals know what they can and can't get away with.
Depends where you live with regard to door locking. We rarely lock doors where we are, being in an isolated out of the way subdivision. Until recently we even left car keys in the ignition, until the community assn. told everyone that there had been some car thefts recently.
Get an Attack Dog on Duty sign or you could be Sued if someone breaks in and gets bit. A Beware of Dog sign isn't enough to protect you against Lawsuits.
Hey Ripe! Re: car accidents. When I was 16 (15?), I was in a pretty bad accident. I was with my then-boyfriend & he was driving my mom's VW beetle. We had driven to the next town over to catch a movie. It was pouring down rain as we were driving back on the highway, so we were going at least 55 mph when we hydroplaned. Did a full 360 before going off the road and slammed ass-end into a marquee, then into a mobile home. Somehow, neither of us were injured, just scared shitless. So yeah, I filled my accident quota early.
swedish person here, i have never heard of someone leaving their door open intentionally. not even from those who live in the middle of nowhere. at most i have heard of people leaving a spare key in a hidden spot. but that is only in extremely rare situations.
@@RipeStoriesDane here I remember from the bowling for columbine documentary that it was a big thing that in the Canadian city next to Detroit, people didn't lock their door when home. And I thought "ofcourse, they are home, who locks their door if they are at home" Ofcourse you lock the door when nobody is home in the Faeroe island it is apparently not uncommon to not lock your doors as the biggest village is 20k people and there is nowhere near to flee to to hide
Go back to the ninties on Gotland and i promis you not even 20 minutes from town you would be hard pressed to find a single farm locking the doors or even grabing the keys out of there tractors. Maybe the living house would be locked but hardly ever the workshops and garages. Sure one might argue that Gotland is an island but it's not that small a island that you can't hide things for a while if you really wanted to
Swedish person here. There are lots of places in Sweden that don't lock up unless you go on vacation. Iive in the north parts of Sweden and there's basically no theft in our area.
Yes we have a pool. I live in a very warm area of California and I’m guessing 60-70% of my neighbors have pools. In summer it is almost used daily by someone in the family. Our dogs love it too!
I lock my doors but if I forget I'm good I have 3 dogs husky a spaniel & husky spaniel Cross my brother came round let himself in without been invited my husky let him in the front door but wouldn't let him in any further he held him in the porch but would not let him in or leave untill my daughter told him he was good to be in our house since then he has always knocked and waited to be invited in. I love my furrbabys 😜
I live in a secured building that only has 19 units and you need a key fob to get in. I still lock the door to my unit when I go out for anything other that to the basement to do laundry.
After a series of strokes I don't drive very much so my car stays in the driveway. When I got back from a medical appointment I saw someone had sideswiped my car. In my driveway! I have a circle driveway and the only one it could have been was a guest of a neighbor. Of course they denied it.
Unlocked door story: Oh, HELL NO!!! I always lock my doors even though I live in a very safe community. Even when I let my son in, I lock the door behind him. After letting my dogs out the back door, I lock it, even jiggling the door to make sure it is well latched (I have had my dogs go on "adventures" around the neighborhood when it didn't latch well). It has become "muscle memory" to me.
I live in a bad part of the UK. My housing estate is one of the places you don't rob from because if you a caught...... Well.... The last person who robbed houses here some how managed to overdose on drugs.
I hate that timid attitude that many people have with their troublesome neighbours. "We don't want to start a clash!" But it was the bad neighbour that started the clash, not you. If you DO something about it, you'll only be standing up for yourself. Do nothing and you remain a victim. I lived with my grandmother when I was in my early twenties, and the neighbour started sexually harassing me. I was really mad and told her I was going to put him in his place. Her response was, "Oh, no! I don't want to start trouble!" He was the one who started trouble. I told him to back the hell off or I'd tell his wife, and he complied. Stand up for yourself!
Listening to these neighbor stories. Makes me glad I grew up in the sixties and seventies. Where neighbors got along with each other. I remember when I was 10 we were snowed in for about three weeks or so. My brother was snowed out of our house where the main road was. So my dad a neighbor and I went from neighbor to neighbor seeing if they need anything from the store. Since we were snowed in and my brother was not. He would meet us were our road meets the main road. Then go to the store for our neighbors. So the three of us pulling sleds walked to the main road where my brother waited with the grocery. We then loaded up and walked back home. It was a good thing we did this. One neighbor had a small baby and no formula to feed him. That's when neighbors respected each other and got along. A neighbor got tired of waiting on the state to get us out. Took his bulldozer and opened one lane of our road. The state fined the hell out of him for plowing the road. Don't know how much anymore.
RE: Unlocked doors Back in the 80s and 90s, when we lived in Vermont, everyone pretty much left their doors unlocked. We only locked them at night before we went to bed. Not that it did much good. If our dogs were out, one had figured where to push on the door to spring the lock. So she'd just let herself in. We also never locked cars. My sister still lives there, but I don't know if people still do this now.
Rainy day on I-5 (highway between Seattle and Olympia WA) was driving a shuttle van and someone clipped my right rear tire causing it to blow. It blew with enough force that I was tipped over onto my side and spun 180 degrees facing the wrong way. No personal injury but the car was toast and my boss was calling me asking why we weren't at the airport yet (yes Airport shuttle driver, no passengers thankfully).
I always have my doors locked, but I work from home with a government-issued laptop, plus my 2 personal laptops, my wife's laptop, and a lot more of monetary value.
We lock doors, have cameras outside and around the house that we can monitor from our phones. Also a doorbell camera that is motion activated and notifies us by phone. We can not only see who is there, but we can talk to them as well!!
Id want to add cameras too but the whole living in a condo and hoa thing kind of gets in the way. Luckily the hoa has cameras every 10-15 feet. I just wish it was easier to access in the case of an incident
I would like a motion sensor camera doorbell but it would trip the camera every time someone walked down the hall. So will probably get that when i get my own place/non condo
Ripe, you asked about locking doors and as you are a city person it makes sense, but I live in a rural area of Ontario and can honestly say I almost never bother to lock my doors. Things are starting to change and I believe that most people in town lock their doors but while growing up I never had to keep a house key because it was never locked. Of course being in a small rural community with very little crime, it's not something we worry about!!
I don’t think it counts as eavesdropping when someone is shouting at the top of their lungs outside. Karen’s always somehow seem to think it does though, but obviously they aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed...they’re just tools.
A lot of times we don't lock our doors when we leave because we have nothing of any value if they want to take my TV. It's a great big square heavy box, not a new flat screen plus where I live. If you break into someone's house and they're home, chances are they have a firearm and will protect their property at any cost
I habitually lock my bedroom door and window on the 2nd floor and above something lower down than my building's first floor, let alone doors that lead to the outside! Probably partly because I had a nightmare really early on in this home about someone breaking in and living in my closet, which I also keep locked even though it's full of crap so no one even could realistically live in there, but that nightmare really scared me and I'm irrationally afraid of home-invasion (yes, it is a rational fear to have but mine is far more intense than is rational, like, to the point of being somewhat debilitating because I struggle to sleep because of those fears), possibly partly because I once was locked out of another house and accidentally smashed the window on the door in my panic because my mother was inside and not responding when I texted, called, knocked as hard as I could, and shouted (she was fine, just asleep and probably a little drunk), I cut my hand but got in without much trouble aside from that, and I'm not a super strong person, so that kind of made me feel unsafe, I mean, I literally smashed it on accident, how strong can the glass be?
In the 1970's we were talking and my boss mentioned to us that even if he was in the back yard he kept his door locked on his house. I thought this was a bit extreme, we never did this. By the 1980's I was locking our doors. And today you wouldn't even think of leaving a door unlocked. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I love the malicious compliance and the revenge stories!! This subreddit is also pretty good as well. I am very very sick of the AITA stories and almost at that point with legal advice. I enjoy your legal advice as you go on and find updates and spend time trying to contact the poster to see how things ended up! The ones that don't are so overdone! I am down to about 6 different channels that I religiously listen to from 3 or 4 times that! Had to weed through the poorly done channels to the best channels! 👑💰👑💰👑
Pretty much no one in my town locks their doors. We live in an extremely safe area. I believe my town was voted the 2nd most safe town in my state a few years back.
@@RipeStories Yep. The good ol' US of A. The land of the free (ish) and the home of the carney fiengered mango man loving idiots. Also omg I'm fingerling over you commenting on my post!! P.s. I am not a Trump fan. Just felt I should clarify that for the word. That man is a fucking idiot and I am extremely annoyed at my country.
On the question of Malicious compliance : Always interesting. sometimes it's obvious how this is gonna backfire on the target, but better in the ones where it either goes further than planned, or isn't what you'd think would be the detail that ends up being the key. that said, still amazed there was a story where an HOA actually came in handy for a change, instead of being a problem.
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟We have a 30 foot/10 meter above ground pool purchased on sale a few years ago. I wish we had gotten a slightly smaller pool because our pool is to big to heat.
For the last story, I am surprised r/treelaw didn't make a cameo. As fruit trees from a 120-year-old orchard sound crazy expensive to replace after being maliciously destroyed without permission. She should have been sued on top of this for let's estimate 50k minimum per tree she drove copper nails into.
Scratches and dents add character to the vehicle and in my case usually have good stories for why they are there and most of them remind me of good memories and stunning places that they happened
If the scratch in the door goes right down to bare metal, get a car paint touch-up kit ASAP and fill the scratch or it will start rusting fast and then fixing it won't be quick or cheap... Most such kits will have a base colour coat and a final clear coat in them, if it is down to bare metal, you're also going to need a primer too or the colour coat won't stick to the metal properly. Edit: Some kits may have a colour coat that has primer blended into the coloured paint and thus won't need a separate primer...
I love malicious compliance because it gives the buttholes exactly what they want and they in turn end up paying for something they could have had for free or wrecking the whole company
We had a pool when I was growing up. It was never an issue with the neighbors. My parents kept the gates locked for safety. No one could argue with them saying they would rather lock the gates than risk a child wandering into the yard and drowning by accident. That's not to say we never had guests. We just did it on our own terms, and no one ever complained about it, at least as far as I know. That whole neighborhood got along great.
Grew up in 50s / 60s in high desert area of Southern California. Not only were doors never locked, but dad (and many neighbors) left keys in their cars in case a neighbor needed to borrow it (most families only had one car).
The only door I leave unlocked often is my balcony door, but it's on the third floor 7 metres up, no way of climbing up that high unless you had either a long reach ladder or scaffolding. If workmen are working on the roof or the communal tv/satellite system with scaffolding I do lock it. Big communal dish and aerial. 2 free view and 2 satellite feeds for every flat. These wrap along 1 side of the building a big bunch of cables in midde. Then 4 leads to each flat. They can fit multiple satellite feeds into 1 lead, upto 4 I believe. By switching 3 of them to a higher frequency. But then you need a deplexing unit to shift the frequency back and break out to different leads to feed the satellite box(es). Just got a double headed free sat box in the living room. Plus a free view box there, and a second in main bedroom.
Ripe. I dented the rear left side of my Kia soul before while learning to parallel park. Completely bubbled it in. Found out all I needed to do to fix it was get my autodetailer/painter friend (with payment of dinner on my tab) boiling water, and a plunger to pop it back in place. Love easy to fix issues.
I live in an area where people tend to leave their doors unlocked because it's so safe. But my family moved here from just outside the city and it was a really bad place, so we brought our nearly obsessive door-locking habits with us.
My parents lived in a small Canadian town(took my 1-10min to walk/bike to school) up to 1991. Where one night, one of their neighbor just walked in and grabbed a can of coke and left. Because he know my mom always has some in the fridge.
Love the background panorama you chose for this video. Btw I recall your mentioning your love of raspberries in another video. Local farm here offers a pick your own.. 1/2 pint $3.50 full pint $5.00
We're currently going through something similar to the neighbor's house causing floods. I live in a townhouse that was built with a flat roof. Many years ago we had our roof replaced and had it pitched but the roof next door is still flat. The flat roofs leak badly because there's no place for the water to go when it rains. The owner of the unit next door is very cheap and does not like to pay for repairs so he takes the cheapest route with everything. The work is very shoddy and the house looks awful. Someone he hired to do roof work actually lifted up part of our roof and tucked their roof under ours. They also removed the gutter that was on the roof and threw it away. What they actually did was re route the water that leaked into their roof into our unit. Last week part of our ceiling came down from water damage. Our homeowner's insurance is paying so we can get a repair and they are going after the next door owner to reimburse them. They recently (within the last couple days) sold the unit next door. I don't know if they disclosed all teh issues to the new owner.
I love the malicious compliance stories. 🌟✨💫⭐️ In Prince Edwards Island, Canada they leave their doors open. Took me months to get used to it, coming from the UK
I can say that my grandfather barely even locks the door to his house or his car. (I am Norwegian btw) I always get a little confused and concerned on why he doesn’t lock it, but it has become a habit to see so I am not that paranoid anymore. Nothing has happened ever. But when I am at my own house. I make sure to at least lock the door and turn on the alarm. But lately I have only locked it. Hearing stories like that. Freaks me out a lot.
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When you started reading “the neighbor's downspout is flooding my yard”, I thought my mother had found Reddit and posted her story.
Mother doesn't have the money to fix the problem, and the neighbor won't even add an elbow joint to his downspout to redirect it away from her yard. These neighbors have plenty of money, they redecorate their house every other year, put perfectly good furniture and other stuff out on the curb. The HOA won't do anything either. It started after they had tons of dirt trucked in to raise their ground level, and added the extra downspout on the side of the house, in the middle of the side wall, not on a corner. Their son is special needs, mother heard him on the phone in the backyard telling one of his friends yes he was the one that punched a hole in the wall of my mother's house. He'd done it a couple of years before, and right above the garden hose spigot. On that phone call he also admitted to damaging the light fixture above her garage, and several other horrible things that have happened to my mother's property. Mother has no way to prove any of this, and doesn't have a smartphone to have recorded the conversation. Mother is very financially challenged and elderly, she cannot afford to pay for the repairs, or to move. So every time it rains her yard floods, and that is the only thing she has asked these people to fix. I looked at Home Depot's site, the downspout attachment and accordion hose to move the run off water to the street is around $10, and they refuse to put one on. I suggested we put one on in the middle of the night, mother said they have cameras all around their house pointing at her yard, we would get caught. Mother has skipped meals in order to afford bags of dirt and mulch to try to save her house to no avail. Every hurricane watch she starts crying until it passes. If she wasn't underwater with her mortgage I might be able to talk her into moving. We both need a miracle, or a winning lottery ticket. (I think there is a special place in hell for those neighbors.)
The people living on the other side of her are weird too, multiple cameras pointed at mother's house, and a swimming pool they don't use, never go outside, kids never play outside. And about 12+ people living in a 3 bedroom house. Weird neighborhood.
I liked the stories today. I like the revenge stories. I like everything you read, especially when there's updates.
Thank you. Take care, stay safe.
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Not a lawyer here but my granny was in your mom's position. While it is not legal for a neighbor to intentionally or unintentionally direct storm water to your yard you can sue, like my granny did, If it causes water damage to your property, as well as sue for compensation for your losses and also ask the court to order the neighbor to stop the action. In most states, if fixing the problem is less than 10k you can go through small claims court which is usually doesn't cost very much
@@mjlh7079 There's strong chance it's gradually damaging the house's foundation, too. Talk to a lawyer, and get the home's foundation checked. If they are damaging the house with this, they are culpable.
Can't remember what brought me back to this video, but I read your story this time.
I hope everything worked out for your mother with her house, neighbours and finances.
Start a fundraiser to pay a lawyer to take the offenders to a small claims court. Best wishes & good health.
She can sue both neighbors for invasion of privacy for the cameras pointed at her property.
We lived in a small town many years ago. My husband was Chief of Police. We didn't lock our does until some kids put chickens in our house at dawn, while we're were sleeping.. After that, the doors got locked.
Eileen Hawkins I’d rather wake up to seeing chickens in my house and then seeing my house ransacked.
@@audreynothepburn7663 Obviously you don't know chickens. When they are excited, they s**t everywhere. Cleaning that stuff up is horrendous.
Ah, small towns. I'm jealous.
LUL I mean they could have also put greased pigs in there as well.
That sounds like such a funny prank tbh, but I get wanting to lock the doors just incase someone got an idea to do something far more malicious
I'm always adamant that the doors and windows are closed and locked. I cannot sleep until it's double checked. I listen to/watch a lot of horror stories/films.
I never leave the house without checking all the doors and windows. I've driven back to make sure the garage door is closed out of an abundance of caution.
I do the same ... with the fridge door 🤣
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I often finding myself checking to see if my barn door/zipper is closed several times if I'm busy at work cause I made that mistake a couple of times lol 😆 😅
Same, I always check every outside door before going out if no one is going to be home, plus the gates; I just don't check the windows, but the windows here have a bunch of iron "bars" in a cool design. At most, maybe, a cat would be able to go through them if it wasn't for the screens, no way in hell even a baby would pass through them, much less an adult. So I'm not scared of someone breaking the windows.
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OMG, it used to drive me nuts! We live in a slightly rural area of the USA. My husband would never lock the doors. I grew up in a big city, and this was a no no. My kid followed my husband's footsteps and also would leave doors unlocked. I got tired of sounding like a broken record, so as took matters into my own hands. I ordered 3 new deadbolts on Amazon, they are biometric locks, and you can use a code, fingerprint, or key to unlock. Best of all it auto locks after 30 seconds of being closed! Problem solved.
It's rather rare (and weird) to hear about a HOA that actually is useful.
I don't have to lock my doors. It's funny when someone brakes in.
My dogs like to hide when they hear the steps creek and ambush you. Wish I still had the video but computer crashed.
The last person that broke in didn't see the dogs. My one dog keebu male bullmastiff/Great Dane mix followed him through My living room, home office and bathroom to my bed room. My second dog Saddle female pitbull/Catahoula leopard hound mix went the other way through the living room, and kitchen to my bedroom.
The poor guys face when he came out of my closet to see my dogs was priceless. He just backed up and closed the closet door. I get home to police getting ready to enter my house.
I pull into my drive. The officers ask if I live here and I tell them yes I own the house. I ask the officers what's going on and they tell me that they got a call from my address about 2 vicious dogs cornering someone in there bedroom closet.
I ask if I can go in with them to get the dogs they say no. I tell them the dogs are not vicious. I then tell them to not worry about the dogs I can just ask the dogs if they want to go for a ride and they will ignore the officers, run to my car and jump in.
The officers let me call them and sure enough they ignore the officers and jump in the car.
After they got the guy out I checked my cameras. The guy was arrested and charged with burglary and breaking and entering. I don't remember how long he got. It was 4 years ago.
a few of the officers where impressed at how well my dogs where trained and asked if I trained them my self or if I used a trainer.
When I told them I trained all my dogs my self a few asked me to train their dogs. I told them no. If I train your dog the dog will respect and bond with me. That the training may not last. But I am willing to help them train their dog. I've been quoted my favorite saying if you give a man a fish he will eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he will eat for life.
I wound up teaching weekly dog training classes at a local park. Now if it happens again most if not all of the officers in my area know my dogs and know how to call them off.
That’s amazing and you are awesome! Please keep doing what you do and open a small business (you can still host free classes but also help become a legal dog trainer).
I once got hit by a woman who backed out of a parking lot while I drove by. Still can’t believe how she couldn’t have seen a giant 40 year old American car without an exhaust... of course she started getting mad at me when I got the quotation from the garage
We purchased a house with a pool about 21 years ago. A month after we moved in the next door neighbor told my husband that he had permission from the previous owners to use our pool whenever. My husband said that was an agreement with the previous neighbor, and that he didn't feel comfortable in further extending that offer. He, the neighbor, was not happy about it, but luckily his wife had him see how rediculous he was being. They actually went on to becoming very close with our family, although they never did use our pool.. Hahaha. For insurance reasons, we didn't allow any neighbors to use our pool.
We let neighbors use our pool if they are invited to use it. They had to sign legal papers saying that they had no rights to sue us if they were to get hurt or die. We had a big skateboard ramp in the other side of the yard that also had legal wavers to sign before they stepped foot on it. We had a couple parents refused to sign them so their kids were not able too come in our back yard.
@@josephbrown9665 We tried that when the kids were young, but after researching it they would have been able to sue anyway. Now that the kids are grown we're seriously thinking of just filling in the pool
We rarely use it, and it's just become a money and time suck.
@@amandab8433 In the USA you can sue anyone for any reason and you would have to pay a lawyer to defend yourself. No other nation on earth allows this lawfare, which has become really common in the political arena.
@@odysseus2656 yes people can weaponize the courts against people who have done nothing more than pissing someone off
I have a pool and allow some of my neighbors use the pool when we are in or if we are gone and they ask ahead of time really only 3 families. A family about two blocks away that we have never met, came over one day to use the pool. I was off that they and they knocked because they did not have the code to the locks to yard. They told me what they wanted to use the pool but need the code and I just said “ Am I getting punked?” When they said “ No” I just looked at them raised one eyebrow and said “hold on”. I returned with my police uniform shirt and gun and said. “ I am not going to see any of you any where near my pool , Right.?” They left very fast and I now only see them when they drive by, fo get out of our community.
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1st...wow, entitled is an understatement
2nd... Karen crashes with infant in car and the parents let her stay? Oh hell no...she can live in a tent in the park.
Drown the yard? Wow a useful HOA.
Not locking up these days is just stupidity! Even with 6'fences and 2 50 kg dogs at home, I definitely lock up everything
My mom doesn't always lock her doors, drives me crazy. When she was staying with me during the lock down, i drilled it into her the importance of locking doors. I constantly had to go behind her to lock my doors. She's just lucky I love her to pieces.
Karma my mother used to do that so I signed up for the text messages for our local police and I forwarded every single message I got about house invasions during the day. Her whole thing to use to say was, no one breaks into someone's house during the day when they know they're home. Yes my mother is very very naive
@@laurielyddy4890 wow our moms must be friends because that's what she always says. Lol
@@karmaefs5009 I mean it's nice that they're not jaded but there's just a level of naivete that is too much to handle LOL
@@laurielyddy4890 so very true!
@Jake the Greatest oh I agree with you but my mother leaving the door open during the day because she thinks that break-ins don't happen during the day is not true either
At one point my family lived without locking the door until one day something was stolen. What was weird was that the person skipped the computer, the TV, and only took the sewing machine. We never found out who or why but from there on we always locked the doors.
If you have ever checked the price of high end sewing machines you will get it.
Some sewing machines cost more than tv and computer. Sewing machines last longer than crappy tv and computer.
@@catslove3884 sewing machines are also rather important compared to leisure devices
...also if it was vintage? yeah, I can see why
I'm Canadian. It used to be normal to not lock the house if you were home, but never if you left. Since the opioid epidemic hit 10 years ago, people, even out in the countryside, act as if we are under siege. If we could surround our property with razor wire I think many would. RE: Pools... My sister & her husband had an inground pool at her previous house. It had a privacy fence and a gate and they had no problems. After they sold the house the neighborhood took a turn for the worse, and people broke the fence to get access and were in the pool all the time, sometimes multiple families at once. The new owners had to tear the pool out and fill the hole in.
Should of put lots of bleach in the pool all the time the people using the pool without permission would stop afte4 swimming in heavily bleached water got to kill the bacteria
We had an inground pool when we lived in the city, and we'd have friends waiting for us when we got home from work, so they could have a swim. When we moved to the country, there were other factors that came into play when we discussed getting another one. For a few years friends would come out to the country to see us, just to get out of the city. We've been here over 20 years and the friends are thinning out now, and we're fine with that.
If I were the one doing the malicious compliance, I would have had a small waterproof wall built on the property line that would ensure that the neighbour's downspout water was kept in their own yard, causing _their_ yard to flood, and keeping mine dry.
Maybe I'm missing something in their logic. As it is, I guess the OP got a nice walkway with shrubs, and the neighbour had to end up paying for repairs.
A waterproof wall like that is actually VERY difficult.
I ADORE malicious compliance!!(also petty revenge-nuclear revenge)
That last story is kind of one of my fears with the current situation in the bigger US cities. Idiots will move from them and come into places and not respect that new places rules and traditions. Sucks that that woman brought all of that on herself by being full of herself , but oh well.
she got lucky. hurt my animals and i will go to war
it is gloves off at this point. if someone pulled some shit to get a pet of mine put down and continued her antics, I'm going Punisher on her ass, and i'd gladly walk right into the court room with a smile on my face. someone like this deserve ZERO second chances, if you know what i mean.
Loved the last one the most. Have always loved the older buildings and how they were built. My father was a carpenter in the time of cabins and barns constructed from ruff lumber. I had a collection of forged nails Oak wood pegs from the era. 😷Stay safe. 🌟⭐️✨👍😇
“Pain in the bumbum”. 🤣
These were some great stories today. Are usually prefer the shorter format, but I had the afternoon off and this was enjoyable to listen to while working on my costumes.
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My aunt and uncle had a pool in their backyard and WERE friendly with their backyard neighbors. They installed a gate to get into each other's yards, but I don't recall them going over to swim by themselves. They mostly used it to visit each other and as a shortcut for the kids to go go to school.
I'm sorry, what? Karen grabs her keys and pops the tires on Anna's car? Clearly the keys were made of sharpened titanium with a diamond edge, and Karen has the strength of a rhinoceros.
Nice catch. I have a pocket knife on my keychain, it's pretty common where I live, so that was my first thought :)
Not that hard if it's a 2 ply high profile tire. (I've had a few accidents with 2 ply sidewalls getting them on dirty rims)
@@muninrob Wow, that sounds delicate, like they're made out of 2-ply filo pastry.
@@user-uj6sc7ls9y Not quite that bad, but if dropping it from knee high is enough to put a 3/4 bolt through the sidewall, I could see a car key wielded with intent making a hole in equally cheap tires.
I figured she damaged the valve stem which is much more vulnerable than the tire wall.
“Gottem’ bro” you can hear the release of pressure as he got the confirmation that the dude was down for the count. Well done officer, head home and have a cool beer and the satisfaction that you where able to save many lives. For those that have passed may you Rest In Peace and may the families find peace themselves. My prayers go out to all.
When my parents were traveling, I stayed in their home and took care of the two brothers. Neither understood the concept of locking doors, and one managed to unlock every door in the house one morning before going camping. Finally, I gave up and installed a bolt chain on my bedroom door and told them the burglars were welcome to their stupid hides.
Really enjoyed these stories!
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Had to chuckle and shake my head at the dad who refused to lock his doors until he was robbed. He had a false sense of security!
Freshman year in college, my friends and I were up late and somehow got on the subject of whether our parents kept our homes locked or unlocked. A few of them kept theirs unlocked reasoning that since the lived in the country they were safe. I said I'd rather be safe than sorry and sometimes criminals go to the country because it's a lot easier to get into houses. Then we talked about whether or not we left our dorm rooms locked because we lived on the top (3rd) floor. Many of them didn't see the need. I said something like, "We walk up here every day. Why would the stairs stop them?"
We found out a while later that a man--campus wasn't incredibly far from a prison--was going into girls' rooms that were unlocked and inappropriately touching them, etc. while they slept😥. I'm glad my friends weren't hurt!
"Like sands in the hourglass...these were the Days of our Lives"...at UCLA! These stories were so rampant that in the 70's they rigged door knobs in the dorms so you could not unlock them and you had to take your keys with you to the communal bathrooms. Still it just meant that a roommate would leave the door wedged and you'd wake up with a heavy blanket on you but later realize it was a guy from another floor.
Scotland is too cold for swimming pools in the garden. I also live in a flat/apartment and don’t have a garden, it’s a big car park out one side and a public park on the other side.
When I hear that people who doesn’t lock their house doors, I think they are idiots and it shows that they want to be robbed. It’s like they are saying “Hey look! My house is unlock! Come take whatever valuables I have in this house while I’m gone!”
Yea, because when a criminal turns up at your house to rob it and finds the door locked, he says "oh no, its locked, i did not anticipate that possibility, nope, gosh gee willikers, i give up then".
The point is when your house is chosen, it is chosen, locked or not, the only use of the lock serves is to not make it too easy for them, but your getting robbed either way.
Clancy yeah no, they look for unlocked doors and patterns of behaviour, smashing windows is risky af
@@3adgamd3r - No, there would not be enough unlocked doors for that to be worth doing. Because you cannot tell if a door is locked or not from a distance. If a door was left open - different story! And they do sometimes watch patterns of behavior - those few who are not too drugged out to think straight that is.
Clancy you’ve clearly never known criminals lol, it’s easy to see if people reach for keys, how fast they open doors, how they move etc
You watch for awhile, find weaknesses and schedules
@@mystikmind2005 you've obviously never heard how many opportunist theives operate, trying doors is far more common than breaking in.
Their approach is simple, they'll go along a street looking in windows, and trying doors of homes that appear empty. If they see something if value through the window, the door is open, they can be in, grab it, and be out inside of 30 seconds, making no noise. Admittedly this is generally more common at night, when they also target car keys, which most people tend to leave near front doors. So an unlocked front door means they now have your car any laptops, tablets and phones in sight, and there is basically no material evidence that someone was there. The first you know of it is waking up to find your stuff missing.
Also breaking windows, not only is it loud and obvious to anyone who see's it, it's dangerous (glass shards), and can be surprisingly difficult (double/triple glazed, toughened glass windows, safety glass, etc). It also changes the nature if the crime, which increases the sentences available. An unlocked door is "gaining unlawful entry", a broken window is "breaking and entering", the first is a slap on the wrist, the second often results in jail time.
That's before the theft charge, which I should mention only applies if they are caught in the act or leave sufficient evidence behind to prove they did it, if they are caught later you'll be lucky to get them for "handling stolen goods", another minor slap on the wrist charge if you can even get it to stick as you must prove they knew the goods were stolen.
Sad truth is, alot of the people who break into houses know the law in this regard, they know how to keep themselves out of jail, they are after all "professional" criminals. Yes even the ones feeding a drug habit, they talk to each other so they know what they can and can't get away with. It's why you often see shoplifters never get prison time, they know if the steal below a certain value, it's a minor offense, and not usually worth the courts time giving them a custodial sentence, these criminals know what they can and can't get away with.
Depends where you live with regard to door locking. We rarely lock doors where we are, being in an isolated out of the way subdivision. Until recently we even left car keys in the ignition, until the community assn. told everyone that there had been some car thefts recently.
I lock my doors, plus a 100 pound American bulldog hanging out behind it.
Get an Attack Dog on Duty sign or you could be Sued if someone breaks in and gets bit. A Beware of Dog sign isn't enough to protect you against Lawsuits.
Best security system ever
110 German Shepherd is a better security system. I fee very safe when she is around and physically feel safe
Alice Darhk plus they are comfy pillows... no wait i’m thinking of siberian huskies.
Might as well keep them unlocked! Lol
Hey Ripe! Re: car accidents. When I was 16 (15?), I was in a pretty bad accident. I was with my then-boyfriend & he was driving my mom's VW beetle. We had driven to the next town over to catch a movie. It was pouring down rain as we were driving back on the highway, so we were going at least 55 mph when we hydroplaned. Did a full 360 before going off the road and slammed ass-end into a marquee, then into a mobile home. Somehow, neither of us were injured, just scared shitless. So yeah, I filled my accident quota early.
Yeah, slow down on wet roads.
swedish person here, i have never heard of someone leaving their door open intentionally. not even from those who live in the middle of nowhere. at most i have heard of people leaving a spare key in a hidden spot. but that is only in extremely rare situations.
Maybe it was Norway then 😂
Ripe Norway here, in the middle of nowhere. Never lock my door 😅
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I remember from the bowling for columbine documentary that it was a big thing that in the Canadian city next to Detroit, people didn't lock their door when home.
And I thought "ofcourse, they are home, who locks their door if they are at home"
Ofcourse you lock the door when nobody is home
in the Faeroe island it is apparently not uncommon to not lock your doors as the biggest village is 20k people and there is nowhere near to flee to to hide
Go back to the ninties on Gotland and i promis you not even 20 minutes from town you would be hard pressed to find a single farm locking the doors or even grabing the keys out of there tractors. Maybe the living house would be locked but hardly ever the workshops and garages. Sure one might argue that Gotland is an island but it's not that small a island that you can't hide things for a while if you really wanted to
Swedish person here.
There are lots of places in Sweden that don't lock up unless you go on vacation.
Iive in the north parts of Sweden and there's basically no theft in our area.
With that last story, they could have easily sued for the trees too.
Yes we have a pool. I live in a very warm area of California and I’m guessing 60-70% of my neighbors have pools. In summer it is almost used daily by someone in the family. Our dogs love it too!
I used to live in nyc for 35 years and locking the doors and windows is a natural thing even to go to get the mail.
Right on
I actually used to live in a building where the lease terms REQUIRED that apartments be kept locked at all times!
Love, love, love the malicious compliance stories. People are so clever and yet within the law!
I lock my doors but if I forget I'm good I have 3 dogs husky a spaniel & husky spaniel Cross my brother came round let himself in without been invited my husky let him in the front door but wouldn't let him in any further he held him in the porch but would not let him in or leave untill my daughter told him he was good to be in our house since then he has always knocked and waited to be invited in. I love my furrbabys 😜
I live in a secured building that only has 19 units and you need a key fob to get in. I still lock the door to my unit when I go out for anything other that to the basement to do laundry.
My partner always locks the door even if he's just running downstairs to help a neighbor get inside or is outside of the apartment for
After a series of strokes I don't drive very much so my car stays in the driveway. When I got back from a medical appointment I saw someone had sideswiped my car. In my driveway! I have a circle driveway and the only one it could have been was a guest of a neighbor. Of course they denied it.
Love all of your stories! Malicious compliance always makes me smile! 😁 Thank you for doing what you do and sharing all these stories with us!
Unlocked door story: Oh, HELL NO!!! I always lock my doors even though I live in a very safe community. Even when I let my son in, I lock the door behind him. After letting my dogs out the back door, I lock it, even jiggling the door to make sure it is well latched (I have had my dogs go on "adventures" around the neighborhood when it didn't latch well). It has become "muscle memory" to me.
Having the Karens deported was the icing on the cake. Perfect revenge.
3:45 you could say they got a double dose of fireworks.....
I'll see myself out.
I live in a bad part of the UK. My housing estate is one of the places you don't rob from because if you a caught...... Well.... The last person who robbed houses here some how managed to overdose on drugs.
Glad op was firm with the landlord and that crazy lady. I wouldn't pay for snow removal if I wasn't allowed to use the parking lot.
I hate that timid attitude that many people have with their troublesome neighbours. "We don't want to start a clash!"
But it was the bad neighbour that started the clash, not you. If you DO something about it, you'll only be standing up for yourself. Do nothing and you remain a victim.
I lived with my grandmother when I was in my early twenties, and the neighbour started sexually harassing me. I was really mad and told her I was going to put him in his place. Her response was, "Oh, no! I don't want to start trouble!"
He was the one who started trouble. I told him to back the hell off or I'd tell his wife, and he complied.
Stand up for yourself!
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Been locking doors since the 1960's. Trust no one, live longer.
Listening to these neighbor stories. Makes me glad I grew up in the sixties and seventies. Where neighbors got along with each other. I remember when I was 10 we were snowed in for about three weeks or so. My brother was snowed out of our house where the main road was. So my dad a neighbor and I went from neighbor to neighbor seeing if they need anything from the store. Since we were snowed in and my brother was not. He would meet us were our road meets the main road. Then go to the store for our neighbors. So the three of us pulling sleds walked to the main road where my brother waited with the grocery. We then loaded up and walked back home. It was a good thing we did this. One neighbor had a small baby and no formula to feed him. That's when neighbors respected each other and got along. A neighbor got tired of waiting on the state to get us out. Took his bulldozer and opened one lane of our road. The state fined the hell out of him for plowing the road. Don't know how much anymore.
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Having a pool is just asking for a bunch of trouble. Would never want a house with a pool.
Would never live in HOA area
RE: Unlocked doors Back in the 80s and 90s, when we lived in Vermont, everyone pretty much left their doors unlocked. We only locked them at night before we went to bed. Not that it did much good. If our dogs were out, one had figured where to push on the door to spring the lock. So she'd just let herself in. We also never locked cars. My sister still lives there, but I don't know if people still do this now.
Thank you, Ripe for posting the peach orchard story! Karen, tree murders, and nuclear revenge 💖🎇✨🌟⭐🌞☀️
Rainy day on I-5 (highway between Seattle and Olympia WA) was driving a shuttle van and someone clipped my right rear tire causing it to blow. It blew with enough force that I was tipped over onto my side and spun 180 degrees facing the wrong way. No personal injury but the car was toast and my boss was calling me asking why we weren't at the airport yet (yes Airport shuttle driver, no passengers thankfully).
I always have my doors locked, but I work from home with a government-issued laptop, plus my 2 personal laptops, my wife's laptop, and a lot more of monetary value.
Whoa, whoa,whoa what is this the mirror universe? HOA's don't do good their like the Sith of home ownership!
Ikr 🤣
We lock doors, have cameras outside and around the house that we can monitor from our phones. Also a doorbell camera that is motion activated and notifies us by phone. We can not only see who is there, but we can talk to them as well!!
Id want to add cameras too but the whole living in a condo and hoa thing kind of gets in the way. Luckily the hoa has cameras every 10-15 feet. I just wish it was easier to access in the case of an incident
I would like a motion sensor camera doorbell but it would trip the camera every time someone walked down the hall. So will probably get that when i get my own place/non condo
Malicious compliance stories are so very satisfying indeed.
I love your HOA and Malicious Compliance. Rotten neighbors is entertaining. I have always been blessed with decent neighbors.
Ripe, you asked about locking doors and as you are a city person it makes sense, but I live in a rural area of Ontario and can honestly say I almost never bother to lock my doors. Things are starting to change and I believe that most people in town lock their doors but while growing up I never had to keep a house key because it was never locked. Of course being in a small rural community with very little crime, it's not something we worry about!!
I don’t think it counts as eavesdropping when someone is shouting at the top of their lungs outside. Karen’s always somehow seem to think it does though, but obviously they aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed...they’re just tools.
You bet I lock the house doors -- my car doors while I'm driving, too.
A lot of times we don't lock our doors when we leave because we have nothing of any value if they want to take my TV. It's a great big square heavy box, not a new flat screen plus where I live. If you break into someone's house and they're home, chances are they have a firearm and will protect their property at any cost
I habitually lock my bedroom door and window on the 2nd floor and above something lower down than my building's first floor, let alone doors that lead to the outside! Probably partly because I had a nightmare really early on in this home about someone breaking in and living in my closet, which I also keep locked even though it's full of crap so no one even could realistically live in there, but that nightmare really scared me and I'm irrationally afraid of home-invasion (yes, it is a rational fear to have but mine is far more intense than is rational, like, to the point of being somewhat debilitating because I struggle to sleep because of those fears), possibly partly because I once was locked out of another house and accidentally smashed the window on the door in my panic because my mother was inside and not responding when I texted, called, knocked as hard as I could, and shouted (she was fine, just asleep and probably a little drunk), I cut my hand but got in without much trouble aside from that, and I'm not a super strong person, so that kind of made me feel unsafe, I mean, I literally smashed it on accident, how strong can the glass be?
In the 1970's we were talking and my boss mentioned to us that even if he was in the back yard he kept his door locked on his house. I thought this was a bit extreme, we never did this. By the 1980's I was locking our doors. And today you wouldn't even think of leaving a door unlocked.
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I love the malicious compliance and the revenge stories!! This subreddit is also pretty good as well.
I am very very sick of the AITA stories and almost at that point with legal advice. I enjoy your legal advice as you go on and find updates and spend time trying to contact the poster to see how things ended up! The ones that don't are so overdone!
I am down to about 6 different channels that I religiously listen to from 3 or 4 times that! Had to weed through the poorly done channels to the best channels!
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Our doors stay locked 24/7 at our house.*****************
Pretty much no one in my town locks their doors. We live in an extremely safe area. I believe my town was voted the 2nd most safe town in my state a few years back.
Impressive honestly. USA?
@@RipeStories Yep. The good ol' US of A. The land of the free (ish) and the home of the carney fiengered mango man loving idiots.
Also omg I'm fingerling over you commenting on my post!!
P.s. I am not a Trump fan. Just felt I should clarify that for the word. That man is a fucking idiot and I am extremely annoyed at my country.
On the question of Malicious compliance : Always interesting. sometimes it's obvious how this is gonna backfire on the target, but better in the ones where it either goes further than planned, or isn't what you'd think would be the detail that ends up being the key.
that said, still amazed there was a story where an HOA actually came in handy for a change, instead of being a problem.
I would ask that choosing beggar, “DO I LOOK LIKE A WALMART??”
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Very cool. I think our pool pre 2000s was similar, before my family lost everything 😅
For the last story, I am surprised r/treelaw didn't make a cameo. As fruit trees from a 120-year-old orchard sound crazy expensive to replace after being maliciously destroyed without permission. She should have been sued on top of this for let's estimate 50k minimum per tree she drove copper nails into.
Scratches and dents add character to the vehicle and in my case usually have good stories for why they are there and most of them remind me of good memories and stunning places that they happened
If the scratch in the door goes right down to bare metal, get a car paint touch-up kit ASAP and fill the scratch or it will start rusting fast and then fixing it won't be quick or cheap...
Most such kits will have a base colour coat and a final clear coat in them, if it is down to bare metal, you're also going to need a primer too or the colour coat won't stick to the metal properly.
Edit: Some kits may have a colour coat that has primer blended into the coloured paint and thus won't need a separate primer...
I love malicious compliance because it gives the buttholes exactly what they want and they in turn end up paying for something they could have had for free or wrecking the whole company
That last story was bad ass. I hope OPs orchard recovered.
Love all of your stories that you tell keep up the great work. Keep the great stories coming out. 🌟 🌟 🤩 ⭐
We had a pool when I was growing up. It was never an issue with the neighbors. My parents kept the gates locked for safety. No one could argue with them saying they would rather lock the gates than risk a child wandering into the yard and drowning by accident. That's not to say we never had guests. We just did it on our own terms, and no one ever complained about it, at least as far as I know. That whole neighborhood got along great.
I am very lucky with my neighbours. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I love Malicious Compliance stories. They are fun!
Grew up in 50s / 60s in high desert area of Southern California. Not only were doors never locked, but dad (and many neighbors) left keys in their cars in case a neighbor needed to borrow it (most families only had one car).
The only door I leave unlocked often is my balcony door, but it's on the third floor 7 metres up, no way of climbing up that high unless you had either a long reach ladder or scaffolding.
If workmen are working on the roof or the communal tv/satellite system with scaffolding I do lock it. Big communal dish and aerial. 2 free view and 2 satellite feeds for every flat. These wrap along 1 side of the building a big bunch of cables in midde. Then 4 leads to each flat. They can fit multiple satellite feeds into 1 lead, upto 4 I believe. By switching 3 of them to a higher frequency. But then you need a deplexing unit to shift the frequency back and break out to different leads to feed the satellite box(es). Just got a double headed free sat box in the living room. Plus a free view box there, and a second in main bedroom.
We have a pool in our backyard. We enjoy it a lot. Live in Az so we can use it a lot as it stays hot several months extra per year.
I’m jealous! 😁
I've spent most of yesterday listening to your videos Ripe and 10 hours today. Apparently I'm addicted LOL.
Ripe. I dented the rear left side of my Kia soul before while learning to parallel park. Completely bubbled it in. Found out all I needed to do to fix it was get my autodetailer/painter friend (with payment of dinner on my tab) boiling water, and a plunger to pop it back in place. Love easy to fix issues.
So far, I have escaped encounters with choosing beggars. Happy sigh.
None of our neighbors borrow anything. 💖🎇✨🌟⭐🌞☀️🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟🌟
MALICIOUS COMPLIANCE
IS ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!
I was stupid and left my car unlocked luckily there was nothing of value inside but since then I keep my car locked I also live in a gated community
Always keep doors locked even when I'm home
Yeh that no one will ever rob my house attitude always works right up until it doesn't LOL!
I always lock the doors.
I live in an area where people tend to leave their doors unlocked because it's so safe. But my family moved here from just outside the city and it was a really bad place, so we brought our nearly obsessive door-locking habits with us.
i have always locked my door
op's reaction was quite restrain. had my wife been assaulted like that i would have probably left them with broken bones.
My parents lived in a small Canadian town(took my 1-10min to walk/bike to school) up to 1991. Where one night, one of their neighbor just walked in and grabbed a can of coke and left. Because he know my mom always has some in the fridge.
Love the background panorama you chose for this video. Btw I recall your mentioning your love of raspberries in another video. Local farm here offers a pick your own.. 1/2 pint $3.50 full pint $5.00
We're currently going through something similar to the neighbor's house causing floods. I live in a townhouse that was built with a flat roof. Many years ago we had our roof replaced and had it pitched but the roof next door is still flat. The flat roofs leak badly because there's no place for the water to go when it rains. The owner of the unit next door is very cheap and does not like to pay for repairs so he takes the cheapest route with everything. The work is very shoddy and the house looks awful. Someone he hired to do roof work actually lifted up part of our roof and tucked their roof under ours. They also removed the gutter that was on the roof and threw it away. What they actually did was re route the water that leaked into their roof into our unit. Last week part of our ceiling came down from water damage. Our homeowner's insurance is paying so we can get a repair and they are going after the next door owner to reimburse them. They recently (within the last couple days) sold the unit next door. I don't know if they disclosed all teh issues to the new owner.
I love the malicious compliance stories. 🌟✨💫⭐️
In Prince Edwards Island, Canada they leave their doors open. Took me months to get used to it, coming from the UK
been binging these videos for the past week or so, loving these stories!! :D ⭐️✨💫🌟
I can say that my grandfather barely even locks the door to his house or his car. (I am Norwegian btw) I always get a little confused and concerned on why he doesn’t lock it, but it has become a habit to see so I am not that paranoid anymore. Nothing has happened ever. But when I am at my own house. I make sure to at least lock the door and turn on the alarm. But lately I have only locked it.
Hearing stories like that. Freaks me out a lot.
OMG Ripe Thanks