I’m mildly infuriated. My grandpa (old, extremely kind, beat bad cancer who knows how many times, outgoing to be helpful, etc. overall great man, though I’m somewhat biased) is being terrorized by his new neighbor. For the past year the new neighbor, let’s call him Dick, has been reporting other neighbors for petty stuff (grass length, etc.). His other next door neighbor was taken to civil court by Dick and had to pay something like $2k in fines because of something having to do with in ground pool placement? It’s mostly old people living there, Dick is in his late 40s. Dick moved in and immediately called the police on my grandpa because my grandpas pool was “causing frogs to get into Dick’s pool.” My grandpa immediately cleaned it and treated it before a couple weeks later when cops showed up again with an impending $8k fine. My grandpa can’t afford that, so he drained the pool and “made it inoperable” according to state or county policy. I don’t know the details. My grandpa was stressed by it. Another neighbor, from across the street showed him video from a ring doorbell of the neighbor walking through gates of various other neighbors, and coming out minutes later with filled bottles of water. She told my grandpa it looked like he was “taking samples” beyond the obvious trespassing he was doing. That was six months ago or so. Dick moved on to terrorize other neighbors and my grandpa has just heard the stories from them. Last weekend my grandpas pool returned to his house to see rusty barbwire lining his property for about ten feet. It was wrapped around trees and stumps, maybe two to three feet off the ground. This upset him because his toddler visits his house almost daily and could be seriously injured by said barbed wire. He called the county to ask what he can do. Obviously the county said nothing because that’s what county offices say. They’ve gotten enough complaints about this guy and I guess just don’t try anything anymore. The guy works at the DHS allegedly, so who knows if that has anything to do with how he can get cops and others can’t, but I’m not gonna speculate on that unfairly. My grandad has told me countless other things this guy has done but it makes me so angry I tune most of it out.

All that to say, my exasperated grandad feels helpless in the house he’s lived in for thirty five years, and so do his elderly neighbors. Hearing this, I’m infuriated. Making this guys life hell would be the way I’d like this story to end, but unfortunately there’s only so many legal ways to do that, and litigation hasn’t seemed to work for other neighbors.

My cousins talked about littering his yard with dead fish, dumping tadpole eggs (the guy seems to consistently be complaining about frogs) in his pool, etc. all of these can technically be illegal, so maybe not. My friend suggested ordering gay porn to neighbors with his name on it, or to his house for his brand new second wife to find.

Do you guys have any better ideas? I’m very angry for my grandpa. I don’t currently have time for prison, but if anything in my schedule opens up I’ll consider more extreme options. Any help is appreciated. Thanks guys.