The swine that moved in next door to me ten years ago moved away yesterday, but not before I had to call some sheriff deputies over one last time. The guy is insane and really hated me because I refused to be his cowering victim. He’s a bully and a coward, I told him so but he knows it anyway, and whenever he went too far I’d just have the sheriffs pay him a visit.
He learned early not to encroach on my property because the first time he did he ended up spending a few days in jail. He’s a psychopath, in his mind he needs someone to be his victim and my being an old man now and his new next door neighbor, it seemed perfect for him. My refusal to go along with his insanity really infuriated him, and it finally sunk in yesterday, on his last day here, how much he truly hated me.
He started throwing chunks of concrete at me over the fence between us. There fortunately was very little damage but one piece that flew past my head was big and heavy and could have killed me. By the time the sheriff deputies arrived he’d quit, but they weren’t happy with him and were willing to arrest him.
He swore he’d stop, and that he was leaving forever in just two more hours, so the deputies asked me if I wanted to pursue charges against him and I said to let him go. Under the circumstances they were only able to make a misdemeanor arrest, and not a felony one, and this being California, it just meant more trouble for me to deal with court appearances in a town over an hours drive away with gasoline over $6 a gallon here, now. All I ever wanted from him to begin with was for him to be somewhere else and now he is.
He left his home here a disastrous mess and it sold for less than half of what it would have brought if he’d taken care of it. He lived like a pig and the pictures of the interior, taken by his realtor, will remain on the Internet for decades. That’s his life’s legacy along with a string of arrests and a trail littered with enemies.
The new owners showed up yesterday to look around. They appear to be reasonably sane but I’m keeping my distance.