Ffffffffuuuuuuuu......

I live in a heavily Mexican town. Now, my neighborhood is not a ghetto, in fact, we have more millionaires than any other zip code in El Paso, TX. I will further state that I have ZERO problem with Mexican people as a whole, what with being from New Mexico for 4 generations and all.

Her is the deal. When I first married my wife, we moved into this neighborhood. Cul-de-sac with nice houses, all 1,500 plus square feet, nice yards, the works. On about our 5th night in the house, one of the neighbors decides to have a very loud party. Fine. I have many loud parties in my day. I'm not going to bitch. However, by about midnight the ENTIRE damn cul-de-sac is full of cars. I mean jammed with the bastards. No possible exit except on foot. My wife has a plane to catch at 3:00 AM. So I go to the neighbors house, knock on the door, ask for the owner, and explain my situation. No sweat, he says, I'll get some people to move the cars. I'm thinking, "Nice. Its going to be cool."

Oh no. 45 minutes later, still nothing. I go back over and am a bit more insistent this time. He is a bit grumpier, but says he'll handle it.

Its now 1:30 AM. THe wife has to get rolling to get to the airport, get through security, etc. I go back again, and this time he tells me fuck off, they'll leave when its done. And I proceed to lose my shit on him.

Now, I'm not huge, 6'1" 205, but my wife says I seem to grow quite a bit when I'm angry. I also grew up in a series of shitty little New Mexico towns where violence is most definitely the answer to everything. The offending neighbor is 5'3", maybe 120. There are about 50 people at this party, and its like an old EF Hutton commercial. All sounds cease, and everybody stares at the pinche gringo. Several of my other neighbors heard me shouting at him. I told him that he had ten fucking minutes to cut a trail for my car or I was going to wade into that party with a 12 gauge and a machete. I told him he would have to leave town or I would hunt him like a goddamn dog, that if my wife missed her plane, I would beat him to death with my bare fucking hands and I would nail his scrawny dead ass to the front door for his kids to find when they got home from school. Some comments related to his performing oral sex on animals, his legitimacy, etc. All this accompanied by expletives in Spanish and English. He tried to bow up on me for a sec, but seemed to think better of it, and started to shout at his guests to move their cars. I go home, cars get moved, wife gets to airport, all is well.

The next day, I took a six pack over, knocked on the door, and apologized for my behavior, but explained that I was not the 78 year old man who lived there before, and that we were going to have to come to an understanding. We sat in his backyard, he rolled one, we drank my beers, exchanged stories and it ended with us as buds. We have BBQ'd several times since then and get along fine.

Here is why I'm pissed off. He moved 2 weeks ago. Now we have new neighbors. Hood rats who got an inheritance from a dead grandpa. We are already missing my Weed Eater from the garden shed, my step sons bicycle, and several other neighbors are missing items as well. Pot smoke billows from the windows 24 - 7, accompanied by top volume gangsta rap. Assorted low lifes come and go at all hours. The kicker? He has a party scheduled for Saturday night. My blood pressure is up 40 points already, and I forsee very bad things.

Ughh that sucks. Where I live, our neighbors just don't talk to each other. I sometimes forget what they look like.

Man Jones, that really sucks. I feel for you.

I'm thinking that you need to be very vigilant in this situation. Perhaps by informing the police of the party before it even happens? Make them aware of what has been going on and the type of people who will be attending this party.

You may want to organize your other neighbors in this effort. On the night of the party you and your neighbors could be sitting on your front porches/in your front yards armed to the teeth. That would definitely send a message to the new neighbors.

If I was closer I would join you.

Thank god I live in the city where I don't have to deal with stuff like this.

Posted by micro Thank god I live in the city where I don't have to deal with stuff like this.

Just FYI, El Paso IS a city. 650,000 folks

Whats odd is that in all the years of living in backwoods America, I had my fair share of scraps with people, but not this kind of stuff. In Corona, if this kind of people had moved in, there would have been 40 people driving over in pickups to make it clear to them that they weren't welcome and should move on.

In EP? I'll guaran-damn-tee you I'll be solo banging on the door Saturday night.

All of you get together and knock on his front door and say this: "Hey fuck face! Give us all back our shit before we eat your faces and burn this motherfucking house to the ground! NOW!"

That should send a nice message.

Posted by Darkwolf All of you get together and knock on his front door and say this: "Hey fuck face! Give us all back our shit before we eat your faces and burn this motherfucking house to the ground! NOW!" That should send a nice message.

Always liked your style DW!

Maybe your new neighbor is Thugnificent!

http://www.youtube...atch?v=vbhidUDExJQ

Posted by Jonsered Always liked your style DW!

Short and right to the point! Best way to be.

I like the idea of you and your neighbours sitting on your porches with loaded shotguns. Gives for a nice show of force. Best of luck.

luckily, i am the weirdo on the block. My neighbors wonder what the hell I do late at night. I am always coming and going between 10p and 4am...
At least I am quiet, though.

i say the best defense is a good offense.. wait until they go somewhere and start taking their shit. Loosen the plug on their oil pan. superglue the locks to their house. Superglue their storm door closed. Superglue their mailbox shut. Keep putting nails under their tires. If their 'friends' stay too long, nails in their tires too... it won't be long before they either get the message or leave.

Posted by Darkwolf All of you get together and knock on his front door and say this: "Hey fuck face! Give us all back our shit before we eat your faces and burn this motherfucking house to the ground! NOW!" That should send a nice message.

Well said. And Jonsered is right...you have style.

I have such a low threshold for this sort of bullshit...someone steals from me or my family, and it's going to get painful. Bone-breaking, femur-smashing pain. Steal from me and I swear by Christ I will break your fucking leg. It's happened before.

I might suggest you make these people aware of the physical consequences that they might incur should they a) fail to return the missing property, b) steal from you again.

Let me know how it works out.

Forgot to update this.

Party predictably got out of control. Whole Cul-de-sac full of cars, beer bottles laying everywhere, etc. I gave myself a few minutes to get worked up, put on my head kicking boots and headed over. Surprise, surprise.

Some of you know that I do firearms training for police. As I am headed up the sidewalk to the neighbors house, who do I see? An individual that I have worked with before, undercover narcotics. Immediately I get it. I spun around and headed home. I suspect the new neighbors will not be in our neighborhood for long.

poetic justice, my friend, poetic justice!

I love a story with a happy ending!

With that being said, the same thing happened at my families vacation home. Bunch of crack smoking losers who gained a big inheritance bought the house in front of us. We have a rental apartment attached to the home, and we lost all of our tenants within 2 years because of their bullshit.

Calling the cops didn't deter them, would just quiet them down for a couple hours - sometimes.

One night a bunch of us were sitting around drinking and getting ourselves pretty worked up about the neighbors. Then my cousin hatched this brilliant plan. We went down the street and purchased a plastic gas can. We brought it home and filled it with water. Every night there was some sort of disturbance from the neighbors, so we waited for it. Sure enough, huge pissing match between two of the neighbors in our common driveway followed by a beer bottle being broken on our house.

At that point, my then husband started his emmy winning performance of not being able to take the neighbors shit anymore. He started yelling and screaming outside, until all the neighbors were paying attention. Then he grabbed the gas tank and started towards their house. My cousin followed him, acting like he was trying to calm him down. My husband started dousing their porch and house with the "gas" and another of my friends started chasing him around saying "whose got a lighter - whose got a lighter?!" You could hear somebody else yelling from inside our house "wait till they go to bed and we'll do it then".

My neighbors were freaking the hell out by that point! And although we had occasional problems with them after that, it was few and far between.

Usually all you have to do is show them that your way sicker than they'd ever dare to be!

Haha!

My boyfriend moved to the sticks. His neighbors in the apartment next door constantly blare shitty music, bringing back post-traumatic flashbacks of high school dances :shudder:


That... and the whole alleyway tends to reek of pot for several blocks at certain times. I'd rather have it reek of pot than stumble upon a meth lab, at least!

Maybe they think its "Thugs Mansion"

I really hate when "so hood" people move into the neighborhood. Thank god where I just moved to, the so hood kids moved out 2 days later. Now the neighborhood is all good.

Good way to take care of stealin neighbors. Get a 5 gallon gas jug. Fill it 75% with diesel 25% with gas. Leave it in a tempting location near the road. You will find out who stole it pretty soon. Enjoy.

Posted by jeepdave Good way to take care of stealin neighbors. Get a 5 gallon gas jug. Fill it 75% with diesel 25% with gas. Leave it in a tempting location near the road. You will find out who stole it pretty soon. Enjoy.

Nice. Me likey!

Posted by Samurai luckily, i am the weirdo on the block. My neighbors wonder what the hell I do late at night. I am always coming and going between 10p and 4am... At least I am quiet, though.

LOL, I find it very hard to believe that your car is quiet