Nutty Neighbors?

[Runs With Scissors]

Unfortunately, I am the wierd neighbor around here. Maybe not wierd, but definitely white trash.

Big rustic log home

Blue tarp on side of house

two 4x4 jeeps in yard (one in hopeless disrepair)

knife/hatchet throwing target in front yard

Scary looking pitbull in backyard

airgun/archery range in backyard

Although I was recently astonished by our next door neigbor.

He was planning a hunting/camping trip the next weekend, so he decided to charge the batteries in his motorhome and on his fourwheeler while he was gone the previous weekend. I happened to step out in my front yard and quickly detected the scent of batteries cooking off as well as a monoxide alarm beeping in his camper, and unplugged his battery chargers. I was on my way to the North Slope that day, but he came and talked to my wife that evening. He kinda gave her a ration of crap, asked her if I was a trained mechanic, told her how he was planning on charging his batteries for next weekends trip (how long does he think it takes to charge a battery?!) Overall he seemed downright annoyed I had unplugged the battery chargers for his camper and fourwheeler while they were sitting there smoking and cooking off. I guess next time he decides to cook off his batteries and take off for the weekend I'll just wait until there's plumes of black smoke and then call the fire department to just protect my place. Wouldn't want to offend him again...

To give some credit he did eventually mutter "thanks" to her, but definitely not sincere enough to erase the "what the heck" from my wifes mind.

 

[Ilovetoolsteel]

About 10 years ago my neighbor decided it would be a good idea to kill the weeds growing along the fence by pouring gasoline on them and setting them on fire. When the gas flamed up he panicked and hosed the whole thing down. Unfortunately my garden was on the other side of the fence. As you know water is a poor method for putting out gasoline fires because the flaming gasoline just rides on top of the water and spreads the fire. In this case to my garden. It killed strawberries, Green beans, Squash, Tomatoes, Basil, Parsley,Cilantro, Garlic. The gasoline that didn't burn soaked into the ground with the water and I had a 8'x40' strip of yard that not even grass would grow on the following year.

The real loss was the strawberries, They make new plants and come back every year so every year your strawberry patch gets bigger. This was the 4th year.