I am buying a house beside a farmer north of Greensboro, NC. The farmer was selling me tomatoes Wednesday after work and after paying him he said he needed to talk. First he says you don't know it but your septic lines are 3 feet underground and they cross over into my property. If we can come to a rental agreement I will allow the lines to stay. If we can't come to an agreement then I will bust your lines and your plumbing will not work ! The location of the lines according to him are running from right to left on his side of the property behind my house. He said he wants to put a fence up and allow his cows to graze the field and it is just a field he does not grow any crops on this field. He said he can install the fence without busting my lines if I agree to pay him a monthly fee but will deliberately bust them if not. I have been buying produce from this guy for many yrs before I moved beside him and never had any problem with him. The lines he says were installed in 1972 when he was just renting the land and later came in possession of the land. Any suggestions ? I am calling an attorney Monday, spoke with Guilford County epa and my insurance company. I can't find anything on the internet similar where someone ask you to rent your piss lines from them. Thanks in advance.
what you guys think about the strangest story you will hear today ?
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You are headed in the correct direction by consulting an attorney to advise you on this matter, but, try to make sure he has some sort of experience in this particular area.
You may want to document anything and everything that he has communicated to you so far and going forward . . start a file. Dates, times and keep notes immediately after any convo.
(including his attempt to poison you with those tomatoes he sold you) wink-wink.
Sounds like the guy is a fvcking prick to me out to get something that he does not deserve.
jmho
You may want to document anything and everything that he has communicated to you so far and going forward . . start a file. Dates, times and keep notes immediately after any convo.
(including his attempt to poison you with those tomatoes he sold you) wink-wink.
Sounds like the guy is a fvcking prick to me out to get something that he does not deserve.
jmho
Also, E-Town . . if, you are buying this and are not committed to the transaction as of yet, you can make the owner you are buying the property from aware of this problem and ask that it be remedied first. Where are you at so far in the progress of the sale, if I may ask. . .
Have you checked to see if he is telling the truth? He might just be trying to get some money thinking you won't check to make sure it's true.
Ya, you can go one of two ways.
Smart: Get an attorney involved and document the threat. As Billy said, if the sale isn’t final try to have the current owner get it fixed before it’s offically yours.
Fun: Tell the guy it’d be a shame if his tires got slashed and had a few windows broken if anything were to happen to your lines.
Smart: Get an attorney involved and document the threat. As Billy said, if the sale isn’t final try to have the current owner get it fixed before it’s offically yours.
Fun: Tell the guy it’d be a shame if his tires got slashed and had a few windows broken if anything were to happen to your lines.
Easy solution:
1. Poison the cows
2. Piss/Shit in your front yard near his property line.
Problems solved
1. Poison the cows
2. Piss/Shit in your front yard near his property line.
Problems solved
Updates , my wife inherited half the property and we bought out her brother's half. My sweet mother in law can't help us now. Insurance company contacted their legal department and told me they will cover it as vandalism and then take legal action against the farmer.
Can't wait to hear the farmer's reaction when you inform him of the news!
I can't remember what year they started keeping the records and it may be different for every county, but the location of the septic tank drain field should be on file with the county. You can check the Environmental Health Department if you want to know. I'm not sure I can see them giving a septic tank permit with the lines on someone else's property, but you never know.
Also... I'd find a new place to buy your tomatoes, and tell your friends the same.
Do you mean up his butt? Because it sounds like you mean up his butt.
Hey, you know I live in the area. Got some “guys” up my way. You say the word and we’ll be your “representatives” in the matter. All legal and such. Sorta.
In all seriousness, not knowing exactly where this is, it really doesn’t surprise me. Some areas north of Greensbarrio have some strange ducks. Sounds to me like this guy is looking for a payout and is relatively clueless.
Septic records should be on file with the county. If the lines were installed that far back, they may be sketchy at best, but you could find out. Worth a look
Now, since he did essentially threaten you and tried to extort money from you, a visit by the Sheriffs department may be in order. That could be enough to get him to leave you alone. If not, I heard of a guy up my way who got back at someone who shot his dogs on the backside of his property because they were runnin deer. I’ll just say a few 10 pound boxes of roofing nails in a 1/2 mike long gravel driveway turns out to be rather expensive. So I’m told anyway
In all seriousness, not knowing exactly where this is, it really doesn’t surprise me. Some areas north of Greensbarrio have some strange ducks. Sounds to me like this guy is looking for a payout and is relatively clueless.
Septic records should be on file with the county. If the lines were installed that far back, they may be sketchy at best, but you could find out. Worth a look
Now, since he did essentially threaten you and tried to extort money from you, a visit by the Sheriffs department may be in order. That could be enough to get him to leave you alone. If not, I heard of a guy up my way who got back at someone who shot his dogs on the backside of his property because they were runnin deer. I’ll just say a few 10 pound boxes of roofing nails in a 1/2 mike long gravel driveway turns out to be rather expensive. So I’m told anyway
If you were going to put tomatoes up your butt, would you puree them first and use a turkey baster or would you use grape or cherry tomatoes and just go straight in?
The American Association for the Prevention of Tomato Hemmorhoids(AAPTH) doesn’t think that’s funny.
I feel like you left out the crucial word of "at" in "shot his dogs..." because if he shot my dogs, I wouldn't be putting nails in his tire as an 'equally heinous' retort. I would be putting nails through his eyeball.
No, the dogs were shot and killed. The neighbors on the back side of his farm had been running deer across this guys property for a while. Dude went to the owners and told them to stop it, but they kept doing it. Since the dogs were gone before law could arrive, there was no “proof” (this was long before video cameras and such) and so they couldn’t do much about it. Owners sat on their property and waited for the dogs to run the deer to them, so they weren’t trespassing themselves. Anyway, I believe one LEO may have mentioned that if he believed he was in danger from these dogs, he was well within his rights to “defend” himself, which may have been all he needed.
Next time he heard them running deer, he went out there and saw them. Dropped them while they were still a good ways on his property. Law came out, told the owners of the dogs that the dogs weren't supposed to be there and since he asked them not to keep them off his property and that he felt threatened by them when they came back into his property, they could be cited or something like that if they were to push it. I believe it was suggested that everyone calm down and go about their lives. Like I said, this was a long time ago.
Anyway, the dog owners decided further confrontation would only make it worse for them, so they let things calm down and (supposedly) late one night while the guy was away from home, they took several boxes of roofing nails and spread them from one end of his gravel driveway to the other. It was a good distance from the road, so it was a lot. Anyway, after he comes home and promptly gets 4 flat tires (and who knows how many more after that) he had to have his driveway completely torn up and reworked. Cost him several thousand dollars, which was a ton of money back then. Plus he never could prove who did it.
Next time he heard them running deer, he went out there and saw them. Dropped them while they were still a good ways on his property. Law came out, told the owners of the dogs that the dogs weren't supposed to be there and since he asked them not to keep them off his property and that he felt threatened by them when they came back into his property, they could be cited or something like that if they were to push it. I believe it was suggested that everyone calm down and go about their lives. Like I said, this was a long time ago.
Anyway, the dog owners decided further confrontation would only make it worse for them, so they let things calm down and (supposedly) late one night while the guy was away from home, they took several boxes of roofing nails and spread them from one end of his gravel driveway to the other. It was a good distance from the road, so it was a lot. Anyway, after he comes home and promptly gets 4 flat tires (and who knows how many more after that) he had to have his driveway completely torn up and reworked. Cost him several thousand dollars, which was a ton of money back then. Plus he never could prove who did it.
I mean I get it; property is sacred. And I get that farm/country dogs are different and you don't usually get as "attached" to them as a full-on suburban dog, but........
It seems pretty petty. It also seems kinda silly for the owners to have let it escalated to that too, since the guy asked them to stop. I'm gonna choose not to give it any more thought because it will upset me lol.
You mean NC license plate ADS 1259? Nope, haven't seen him since. I look for him every day, though.
Interesting. At first mention I felt bad for the dog owners. After reading the full story, I feel bad for the guy who got the flats instead.
I called the Sheriff's office and they had me speak to a officer. He talked to me then talked to my neighbor on the phone then called me back and stated that we have to talk this out and be neighborly. I told him that I want to live in peace with my neighbor that he is the one trying to extort money out of me. He repeated that we need to work it out.
The call to the sheriff seems to have excelerated things , when I got home they have place metal rods in the ground and I assume will add fence to it soon. As long as it does not bust my lines I am ok with the ugly fence and my wife wants to put up a privacy fence on our side.
The call to the sheriff seems to have excelerated things , when I got home they have place metal rods in the ground and I assume will add fence to it soon. As long as it does not bust my lines I am ok with the ugly fence and my wife wants to put up a privacy fence on our side.
Just be careful. This is the kinda sh*t that escalates into you ending up shot in your own home by your neighbor one night. Sorry for being morbid, but it's true.
So what you're saying is he should go ahead and shoot his neighbor as a preemptive strike.
Legally, I can't advise that. It would make tactical sense, though. Best defense is a good offense.
Hopefully I am not going to the grave or jail over some lines that carry piss and shampoo out of my house. I am getting a survey and going from there.
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