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t walgamuth · #1 11-06-2015, 05:09 PM

I got a call about 10 am today. My tenant in the little house I rent behind my house said about 330 am they had been woke up by a car driving around the house in the yard. The house is located on a dead end alley and is reachable from the cul-de-sac at the end of fifth st. by going left, then left again. There is no outlet but people turn down it thinking they can circle around and be back to another street. It ends by diving down an old rail rightaway embankment. This had happened before and its always in the dark and the drivers are generally drunk or stoned perhaps.

The yard is shaped so that unless you had a jeep you would not get out because of the steep embankments and slippery grass.

This one was a young woman in a pt cruiser. She ran off the edge of the alley apparently and took out a railroad tie I had marking the edge of the alley and ran into the 2" galvanized pipe handrail I built on the steps leading down the embankment to the house. The pipe is bent over about a foot and there are quite a few ruts in the yard where she tried to get away.

After sliding down the embankment she drove over to the other side of the house, turned around and went back and squeezed between the house and a big bush and into the side yard, looking for a way out.

She circled the flag pole and the bird feeder without hitting them then squeezed past the bush and house again mashing a heavy duty galvanized down spout and brushing the vinyl siding and back to the other yard.

Then apparently she tried to get out of the yard by climbing the embankment on the other side of the steps and got caught on the railroad tie there, dragging it back down into the yard.

She then turned around and tried to go down the footpath to the old rail right of way. It was a bit too narrow so when the pt was lodged up in the air on two 8 inch trees and would not go because the drive wheels were in the air she finally gave up.

My quick thinking tenant called the cops as soon as she noted the car driving around the yard and they showed up in time to catch her.

They took the report and such and cuffed her and took her to jail. the wrecker company pulled her pt out from the rail right of way and cut down the two trees in the process, leaving the trees lying in the right of way.

I called the company and found it does have a policy in effect (a surprise).

I know the owner of the agency of the company and had a nice conversation with him. He's working on it.

Never a dull moment in provincial Lafayette Indiana!

JB3 · #2 11-06-2015, 07:39 PM

Hahaha, thats great! You should post some pics

I never get anything that exciting. My most recent call was the complaint, and i quote "the shower head is too loud"

Skid Row Joe · #3 11-06-2015, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

I got a call about 10 am today. My tenant in the little house I rent behind my house said about 330 am they had been woke up by a car driving around the house in the yard. The house is located on a dead end alley and is reachable from the cul-de-sac at the end of fifth st. by going left, then left again. There is no outlet but people turn down it thinking they can circle around and be back to another street. It ends by diving down an old rail rightaway embankment. This had happened before and its always in the dark and the drivers are generally drunk or stoned perhaps.

The yard is shaped so that unless you had a jeep you would not get out because of the steep embankments and slippery grass.

This one was a young woman in a pt cruiser. She ran off the edge of the alley apparently and took out a railroad tie I had marking the edge of the alley and ran into the 2" galvanized pipe handrail I built on the steps leading down the embankment to the house. The pipe is bent over about a foot and there are quite a few ruts in the yard where she tried to get away.

After sliding down the embankment she drove over to the other side of the house, turned around and went back and squeezed between the house and a big bush and into the side yard, looking for a way out.

She circled the flag pole and the bird feeder without hitting them then squeezed past the bush and house again mashing a heavy duty galvanized down spout and brushing the vinyl siding and back to the other yard.

Then apparently she tried to get out of the yard by climbing the embankment on the other side of the steps and got caught on the railroad tie there, dragging it back down into the yard.

She then turned around and tried to go down the footpath to the old rail right of way. It was a bit too narrow so when the pt was lodged up in the air on two 8 inch trees and would not go because the drive wheels were in the air she finally gave up.

My quick thinking tenant called the cops as soon as she noted the car driving around the yard and they showed up in time to catch her.

They took the report and such and cuffed her and took her to jail. the wrecker company pulled her pt out from the rail right of way and cut down the two trees in the process, leaving the trees lying in the right of way.

I called the company and found it does have a policy in effect (a surprise).

I know the owner of the agency of the company and had a nice conversation with him. He's working on it.

Never a dull moment in provincial Lafayette Indiana!

You've got three potential lawsuits or settlements that you could make. OTOH, you're ripe for at least one lawsuit yourself, from what I read. You do have an umbrella-liability insurance policy rider, do you not? Wondering what was your possible point here?

Mölyapina · #4 11-06-2015, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by JB3

Hahaha, thats great! You should post some pics

I never get anything that exciting. My most recent call was the complaint, and i quote "the shower head is too loud"

Sounds like it's interfering with his singing. Next thing you know, he'll be asking for better acoustics.

Mölyapina · #5 11-06-2015, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Skid Row Joe

You've got three potential lawsuits or settlements that you could make. OTOH, you're ripe for at least one lawsuit yourself, from what I read. You do have an umbrella-liability insurance policy rider, do you not? Wondering what was your possible point here?

Clearly, to rile you. The only way you can combat Tom's baiting of you with funny stories is by not responding to them.

INSIDIOUS · #6 11-06-2015, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Jooseppi Luna

Clearly, to rile you. The only way you can combat Tom's baiting of you with funny stories is by not responding to them.

He he he

But seriously what a trip it must have been for the driver! T should do a video interview with her about it to hear her story of events.

JB3 · #7 11-06-2015, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Skid Row Joe

You've got three potential lawsuits or settlements that you could make. OTOH, you're ripe for at least one lawsuit yourself, from what I read. You do have an umbrella-liability insurance policy rider, do you not? Wondering what was your possible point here?

Better act quick if you want to accumulate some wealth here skid my boy.

Ive already sued tom for-

Racism against PT cruisers
Sexism in the workplace against drunk female drivers on his lawn
Genocide of lawn grass
Murder of trees
Racist practices towards white potential buyers of commercial property.

t walgamuth · #8 11-07-2015, 07:02 AM

I do have insurance but I'm not sure it covers all my umbrellas. I have several.

kerry · #9 11-08-2015, 12:13 AM

You've gotta draw a diagram. I got lost after the first railroad tie.

We only had a murder down the block last night.

tbomachines · #10 11-08-2015, 12:16 AM

I imagined a mix of scooby doo and the Ivan "ironman" Stewart trophy trucks DOS game.

Sent from an abacus

davidmash · #11 11-08-2015, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by JB3

Better act quick if you want to accumulate some wealth here skid my boy.

Ive already sued tom for-

Racism against PT cruisers
Sexism in the workplace against drunk female drivers on his lawn
Genocide of lawn grass
Murder of trees
Racist practices towards white potential buyers of commercial property.

You forgot
-unlawful gathering of black people in a book establishment (library)

cmac2012 · #12 11-08-2015, 02:50 AM

I too am wanting drawings or pics. A house at the end of a cul-de-sac and an alley? Normally one would think that such a spot would be a refuge from traffic but apparently that's not the case.

t walgamuth · #13 11-08-2015, 06:47 AM

It is a refuge from traffic. It is completely isolated and quiet 999 days out of a thousand, but if folks have been drinking and take the turn down this way, it is like the roach motel. If they drive in the yard they cannot drive out! (of course now that the tow truck guys cut the trees down they could drive out next time!

JB3 · #14 11-08-2015, 07:49 AM

Sounds like its time for a couple heavily built obvious locked gates you and the tenant have keys for. If this happens repeatedly id start to get really tired of it as a tenant living there.

strelnik · #15 11-08-2015, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by JB3

Sounds like its time for a couple heavily built obvious locked gates you and the tenant have keys for. If this happens repeatedly id start to get really tired of it as a tenant living there.

I have always found that a deep moat and a RC drawbridge does the trick.

You and the tenant each have controls.

Clean it out in the spring, forget about it the rest of the year.