What can I do?

[Mrs. X]

We just bought a house in October. It's ten minutes from downtown Denver. It's a really great neighborhood that is woodsy/farmy. We have a chicken coop (no chickens yet) and most of our neighbors have barns/horses/goats or chickens. It's a little enclave of country in the city. There's a park at the end of our street with a lake (yes, Bread, that lake, with the fish) and lots of horse trails. The light rail is being extended from the city to half a mile from our house which makes it even cooler.

There's one guy in the neighborhood who is adamantly against horses in the neighborhood. He's made "friends" with a code enforcement officer and they are making it their sole mission to outlaw horses here. He's retired. He used to own a plumbing company and I think did lots of contract work for the city.

The horse we're looking after now came to us because this guy called code enforcement on his next door neighbor for the billionth time. She had three horses for one day. The limit is 4 hooves. She knew that we had a barn and her friends were looking for a place for their horse. Our neighbor that came over was nearly in tears over what this guy has been doing to them over the last few years. She said that she had promised herself she wasn't going to talk about it when she came over but, she ended up spilling her guts. The family is American Indian and besides just generally being a dick, he's racist too. I wont' go into all the gory details but after her visit I seriously wanted to do some troubles to this guy.

There's a hearing that we're missing on Tuesday over the horses. Hopefully lots of neighbors will show up. They've been trying to pass the law in secret but it got to the local paper.

I don't think there's anything I can do legally but, jumping up and down on his weird, metal palm tree sculpture with Christmas lights in a mound of dirt in the middle of his driveway came to mind. Also, something bad involving all the stuffed animals lined up in rows looking out the front window was a thought also.

If this passes, we'll probably be grandfathered in, but I'm sure it will seriously effect the property value and the future coolness of the hood.

It's so irritating that one or two assholes can really ruin it for so many people.

Thoughts?

 

[kato]

damn yo. plumbers are bad people.

you'll be grandfathered inmore than likely. if you can get a lot of signatures...so on so forth. the american way.

go usa.

 

[MonkeyF0cker]

Frame him for murder. You're welcome.

 

[pally]

why doesnt he want horses in the neighborhood? thats the key question

sounds to me like there's more to it than what you are saying

unless you're saying that the guy has chosen arbitrarily, to spend all this energy on his mission, for no reason

what's the reason

 

[Bread]

I will fuck him up with my fists when I visit.

I'm not kidding.

 

[reno cool]

Sounds like hearsay to me.

Mrs X, go to the pool pal

 

[Mrs. X]

why doesnt he want horses in the neighborhood? thats the key question

sounds to me like there's more to it than what you are saying

unless you're saying that the guy has chosen arbitrarily, to spend all this energy on his mission, for no reason

what's the reason

His stated reason is that he feels that "farm animals" shouldn't be allowed in the city. It's possible that he has some ulterior development motives that can't happen with horses hanging around. He's older and crochety and without work possibly this is what he grabbed on to. Maybe one day in the summer he just got sick of smelling horse poop and said, "that' it!"

Who knows.

 

[Mrs. X]

Sounds like hearsay to me.

Mrs X, go to the pool pal

In the car pal.

 

[Mrs. X]

I will fuck him up with my fists when I visit.

I'm not kidding.

I like it. I'm not kidding either.

Let go fisting! I mean fishing!

*I just grossed myself out a little.

 

[Bread]

Calm down. And go to the pool.

 

[kato]

Calm down. And go to the pool.

x2

 

[pally]

His stated reason is that he feels that "farm animals" shouldn't be allowed in the city. It's possible that he has some ulterior development motives that can't happen with horses hanging around. He's older and crochety and without work possibly this is what he grabbed on to. Maybe one day in the summer he just got sick of smelling horse poop and said, "that' it!"

Who knows.

ok well maybe he is a nutjob, who knows

but in general, in neighbor disputes involving animals, it's almost always the people with the complaints who are right, and the people with the animals who are wrong

a person's right to have a normal existence (peace, quiet, etc etc) in their house trumps your right to have a tazmanian devil or whatever else you want to have, in your house

 

[illmatick]

damn, pally puttin it down

he aint lyin

 

[Saulty]

...

 

[Mrs. X]

ok well maybe he is a nutjob, who knows

but in general, in neighbor disputes involving animals, it's almost always the people with the complaints who are right, and the people with the animals who are wrong

a person's right to have a normal existence (peace, quiet, etc etc) in their house trumps your right to have a tazmanian devil or whatever else you want to have, in your house

I'd agree if the whole neighborhood wasn't zoned for it and 80-90% of the houses had barns and corrals. That's the whole reason people move to this particular neighborhood.

 

[Bread]

Pally it's fuckin' farm land.

Pally don't set me off tonight. I'm not in the mood.

 

[Mrs. X]

Calm down. And go to the pool.

I'm calm. I just have lots of time to kill in the car.

I came to some conclusions and I'm not worried about nothing no more. Really. I swear it. No more troubles.

I've got a Hawaii trip to plan. What do I have to stress over?

Nothing, that's what.

Unless Reno sets Mattyrain free again. Then, there might be some troubles.

 

[MonkeyF0cker]

Honestly, I'd probably go talk to him, find out his rationale, and see if you can reason with him if you have some disagreements. Don't be afraid to communicate. Nothing gets solved otherwise.