Several of my neighbors are contemplating taking my upstairs neighbor to court. I've taken him to court by myself before and unless he does something criminal, all civil courts can do is impose piddly fines that waste my time. I already told my neighbors that I will only join the lawsuit if they hire a bonafide killer shark with a trail of dead bodies behind him.

I'm normally a nice kind, sweet person, but these people are the neighbors from hell who have worked my last nerve and exhausted my patience and that of 2 of my Japanese neighbors.

I'm so at my rope's end, that the only reason I haven't gone for their throat myself is due to my ever evolving revenge fantasies. It's the only thing that's kept my rage in check. Believe it or not it's a technique I learned in therapy many years ago so I wouldn't let people keep walking over me. These aren't your amateur, run of the mill kind of revenge plots, like the kind people in NY do, like ordering 20 pizzas to be paid on delivery by the person they despise. That's too lame. Mine are worse. Much worse! They begin with one thing, and it's one bad thing happening after another until something gives.

Like writing to the IRS and State Tax Dept. to let them know these people have been using a fake social security number for the wife and she has undeclared income in the thousands. I of course would provide the wife's employer's name and address.

Then I would call the Workmen's compensation board to report that his back injury is a fake and he too is working off the books when he's not boozing it up, and somehow copy the IRS. Oh, and I'd help them out by providing photographic and video-taped evidence as he's lifting items. That's just for starters.

Oh there's lots more where those came from! The only reason I haven't acted on them till now is because I believe in Karma. I have seen how the evil deeds of others alwyou come back to haunt them.

In this case, though, I am very close to doing it because it's all true, they are breaking many laws and have defrauded both state and federal governments of public funds. The question is, in order to gain a peaceful quiet surrounding, do I engage in tattling, thereby playing Karmic roulette with my inner peace?

So instead of taking action I wait and pray. I pray for some sort of awareness or change in them. I pray for patience and inner peace in me. I also pray for my neighbors to successfully sue the pants off of them (and their home) and then hopefully they'll learn something, though I doubt it. In reality, they're the type that always complain how the world is against them, how everything bad always happens to them, blah, blah, blah. Always thinking of themselves as victims and never looking at their selfish, self-absorbed stupidity as the root cause of their problems.

Nope, that takes too much self-awareness and unfortunately these people are only interested in having enough money to have a good time. Their inner spirit comes only in bottled form, there's nothing beyond that.

Posted by: Michele at 08:40 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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1 Do they actually have any assets against which one could execute on a judgment?

Posted by: RP at June 05, 2006 10:20 AM (LlPKh)

2 Regarding the Karma angle: - Do cops suffer bad Karma for enforcing the law? - Do DA's suffer bad Karma for trying criminals? - Do judges suffer bad Karma for sentancing them? Perhaps you could look at it this way: = If you do something that is morally wrong, then your Soul (or God, depending upon your religion) will attach a retributive Karma to your action. = But if something you do is morally right, then your Soul (or God, depending upon your religion) will attach a rewarding Karma to your action. We all get the rewards we deserve. Do these people deserve the just reward you would serve unto them? If so, then you are doing your duty as a member of society, and many will thank you for that.

Posted by: _Jon at June 05, 2006 11:54 AM (aHLPi)

3 Michele, I too have neighbors from hell. I believe they are from the lower bowels of hell. They have over 100 pit bull dogs that they breed and sell to dog fighters. They harass and slander us, among a slew of other things. The fear of attack by an escaped pit bull is always there and I carry a pistol in my own yard. They also defraud the government. After they harassed us one too many times and threatened to turn in my husband (who is truly disabled and on heavy narcotics daily for pain) everytime they saw him do ANYTHING outside, I did report them to every agency I know of that they defraud. Three in all. Who knows what might happen now but as far as I'm concerned they invoked the "People In Glass Houses" rule. I think even Karma can use a little help sometimes!

Posted by: Peg at June 15, 2006 02:36 PM (trTlr)

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