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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe truck he wants moved belonged to his neighbor's visitor but he saw these guys doing street
maintenance and attacked their business truck and the work they were doing instead because you know it just must have something to do with them
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MagickMuffin
(15,936 posts)I laughed when he got stuck in the concrete.
Is there any follow up to this incident???
central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)Missed his chance to make a cement angel since he was already down
Demovictory9
(32,449 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Mailander, the Omaha World Herald reported.
He was angry about another white Chevy truck that had been parked outside his home, even though it had been left on a public right of way. Mailander could also face far more serious felony charges if he is found to have caused more than $5,000 of damage to the white pickup and cement truck
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2019/08/07/man-70-pathetic-tantrum-falls-wet-cement-car-parked-lawn-10536361/?ito=cbshare
i Read he knifed the tires of the white pick up truck
Takket
(21,563 posts)so he's going to get the repair bill for the cement mixer, a bill for the lost time because he ruined the concrete pour, ruined his own shoes and socks, probably going to be arrested and charged with something.
Because a truck had its wheel on his lawn
look... i get it............ i'd be pissed if someone did that too but at the same time, the truck is going to leave at some point and your lawn is going to be fine.
gotta know when to fight and when to let things go in life and this was a time to just let it go.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)Know when to walk away, and know when to run.
Liberal In Texas
(13,548 posts)where the city usually encourages or sometimes requires homeowners to maintain whatever is on them.
Bet I know who he voted for for pres.
yonder
(9,664 posts)maybe even behind the sidewalk. He might mow and water that strip but my guess it is in the public ROW. Not only that but his property frontage is probably encumbered with at least a utility easement maybe a sidewalk easement too. He'll really be pissed when they have to dig up something.
hunter
(38,311 posts)...between the sidewalk and the street.
It was my water keeping the land green, on the whim of the developer who originally built this place, but this neighbor was convinced he had dominion over thirty square feet of dirt and sidewalk.
It didn't matter how many times I told him the city owned it but I couldn't replant flowers there without him losing his shit, and when I offered he could plant his own flowers if he wanted to, that would made him even angrier.
This was the same guy who called the police when my kids and their friends, the oldest third graders, were drawing on the street and sidewalks with chalk.
I was so happy when he and his wife sold the house and moved away.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)yonder
(9,664 posts)I'm a retired land surveyor. I've seen tons of squabbles with neighbors fighting over just a couple of tenths of a foot. That's a big deal in downtown BigCity, USA, but out in Suburbanville, USA? It just ain't worth it.
Glad things worked out in your neighborhood.
ret5hd
(20,491 posts)is vandalism.
But I don't put much stock in such opinions. It seems to me there are regular shit-stirrers and there are those who are paid to magnify and elevate even the tiniest of petty differences to whatever ultimate shitstorm they can manage to create in an effort to thwart any semblance of teamwork.
Then you got regular ol' crazy like your neighbor and this guy.
Ahpook
(2,749 posts)And I can guarantee his property line is behind that walkway by a foot or more.
My brother owns a land surveying company and this is a constant argument with grouchy assholes like this guy. They think the lot pins are bullshit. Blah Blah
When getting shots out in the road, his crew are constantly harassed by people like this. They will swerve their car to act like they are going to hit them, middle fingers and verbal expletives. One of his crew was asked why they are surveying in the area. He said that an insane asylum is being built and they are surveying for this purpose. My brother had to fire him since the guy called the city raising hell
But you know, you get sick of hearing this shit....
yonder
(9,664 posts)I had a rodman once answer with "pressure sewer main" - that sent the questioner into a fit.
The best answer is a vague "I don't know, the office sent us out" or "we're just measuring a few things". Of course, most folks are just curious and will ask "Watcha surveying?", or "Are they widening the road?" In fact, that's kind of an inside joke when a surveyor comes across a crew they might know and they'll ask the same thing because every surveyor has heard it a thousand times.
There are psychos out there though and being set up in the middle of the road brings out the worst.
Ahpook
(2,749 posts)He has had some interesting surveys!
One was to find a pool that was buried on a parcel in Florida. The new owner had plats, but the information was very vague.
They found it as well as a few pictures from the 40's. It was a pool made from coquina shell.
When they hit it they were blown away
yonder
(9,664 posts)A little sleuthing reveals:
The recorded plat for that cranky kook's subdivision shows a 50' wide right-of-way. Google Earth shows a back of curb to back of curb width of +/-25. So the right-of-way line (his front property line) is +/-12.5' behind the back of curb or roughly 4.5' behind the back of that sidewalk.
He would really be pissed if surveyors came out and located his front property corners. Poor old fart - somebody has to be him.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)[link:https://www.omaha.com/news/metro/i-want-that-truck-off-my-lawn--year-old/article_21dcf808-55ee-50dc-b3f3-73505dad2ce6.html|]
He started off taking a knife to the trucks tires.
If the damage is more than $5000 it is a felony.
And the grass strip the truck had a wheel on is a public area.
Johnny2X2X
(19,060 posts)If he had been an old black man he would have been slammed to the cement in front of his family and hog tied.
underpants
(182,788 posts)Knowledge
That's a really old college football joke
Siwsan
(26,260 posts)Demovictory9
(32,449 posts)Siwsan
(26,260 posts)Thus he likely feels pretty proprietary.
underpants
(182,788 posts)marble falls
(57,079 posts)is nuts. If he gets loose, its time to call the cops.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)No arrest, according to those on that twitter thread.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)mercuryblues
(14,530 posts)or was anyone else wishing that was quick dry cement?
HipChick
(25,485 posts)headlong and it quick dried..
magicarpet
(14,145 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,328 posts)Mellow out, man.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)I guess we should be thankful he's not a gun humper
diva77
(7,640 posts)onethatcares
(16,166 posts)real estate taxes go to shiftless immigrants instead of all that state of the art equipment those trucks are full of.
I hope his neighbors know what he did.
pecosbob
(7,537 posts)added with the sand in his socks working on the skin of his ankles he could be in a lot of pain real quick.
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Im thinking in Nebraska where this was
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Sure ok lol whatever man. What a big ass old baby. I can guess who is idol is
Demovictory9
(32,449 posts)Jackson said he wasnt sure who owned the truck. He later found out who the owner was, but it was a son visiting his mother who lived across the street. It had nothing to do with the workmen.
Mailander has been cited for a misdemeanor based on $500 to $1,500 in damage. If the damage is more than $1,500, he could be charged with a felony.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/70-year-old-nebraska-man-takes-get-off-my-lawn-to-a-whole-new-level-by-slashing-tires/
DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)This is unbelievable, but it's pretty clear to me who this fool voted for.
underpants
(182,788 posts)I thought he was hammered. I could be wrong.
Notice how he was going to bust up the headlight of the actual truck but suddenly turns toward the work truck. He's pissed that's for sure. Totally speculation but from what I saw of the crew I think I know why he went after the cement mixer.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Nope oops its one of your neighbor's visitors
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)He could be suffering from a mental ailment such as dementia for instance.
Maybe, maybe not. Who knows?
I speculate this because he is casting aside any repercussion concerns for his actions. People in a normal state of mind generally don't do that kind of stuff, simply because normal people realize that they may end up in jail for acts like this.
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Likely set him off.
My in laws live in a retirement community. In So Cal almost all landscape employees are hispanic. So summer of 2018 the crew handling the complex quits. They were taking too much abuse from the homeowners. One MAGAt lady walked out and slapped a crew member, told him to go back to Mexico. The owner had enough, pulled the crew. Sent a letter terminating the contract for cause. (I would guess he had documented the abuses and the Homeowners Association did squat)
Here is where it gets good, the President and VP of the HOA (MAGAts) had forced the company to do a lot of extras in their backyards. The owner had it all documented, walked away, AND dropped a million dollar law suit on the HOA. Last I heard, it was so well documented that the HOA was offering over 500k prior to anything going to court.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)MAGATS would demand it as it is his patriotic duty !
JDC
(10,127 posts)The wet cement is a classic. If only he had lost his shoe in there.... Genius.