About a year and a half ago in September 2010 when I returned from vacation there were random vegtables in my front and back yard I blamed it on squirrles but thought it was weird that they were in the front bushes and the backyard.
Around October 2010 my neighbor began harassing me about my cat Sammy. She complained that he had been tearing up her screens, we offered to fix them. She complained that he would go in her house when she had the door proped open to bring in groceries, I told her to call me and I would come get him. She said to keep him inside or she would have him taken to the pound. My issues with my pregnancy for Piper had just been diagniosed, I took Sammy to my parents house, I couldn't take the stress. I blocked her from all of my social networks and email.
Random rotten fruits and vegtables continued to land in my yard.
After Piper was born her husband made her make dinner for my family stuffed shells and chocolate chip cookies. She labeled the cookies as containing egg because she knew about Sary's allergies. She didn't label the shells as containing egg. Sary threw up all night. Jake made me write her a thank you note. Jake gave it to her with the pan from the shells.
Then in the spring she started slamming her SUV door into the Scion. Jake turned the other cheek. On the evening of June 16th I parked in the spot adjacent to hers because when I got home Piper's Ocupational Therapist was in my usual spot. She slammed her door so hard into my Jetta that the mirror on the door was pushed back and there was a definent mark.
We installed cameras. She confronted me sort of about the cameras. (Is that even legal? Legal yes!Acceptable by HOA yes! I checked.) She continued to slam her door into the Scion. She threw cheese at the Jetta. Jake wrote an email to her husband he said to take the matter up with the wife. She never responded to the email after Jake forwarded it to her email address. She stopped slamming her door into our car but parked right on the line everytime even if she had to back up to pull in a gain and get closer.
Random rotten fruit and vegtables were lobbed into mine and Sary's garden hitting our tomato plants. I wrote an email to the homeowners association they said it was a police matter. We were not ready to escalate. Jake built a shed to protect my garden from her assults.
Two weeks ago I started driving the Scion to work because I am parking in a tight parking garage for work and well it already has damage. She started getting more aggressive about slamming her door into the car again.
On Friday Feb 24th morning I walked out to the car at the same time as she did in the morning I got Sary into her seat the neighbor loaded her bags into the drivers side of her car. She came around to the passengers side of the car and stood there as I prepared to back out. She opened the door into my mirror as I backed out. She gave me a dirty look I gave her a dirty look. She closed the door. I pulled out stopped and asked another neighbor if she had seen it. By the time we were finished talking she was inside her house.
On Saturday Jake recieved an email from her with some sickeningly sweet greeting asking for my email address describing me hitting her mirror and almost hitting her and suggesting we be more careful around the cars for the sake of the children. I told Jake to ignore her.
Jake asked around and decided to respond on Monday. She then stated that she had reported me and the car to the police. I assumed for a hit and run since you can't report someone to the police for a civil matter.
I reported the incident to my insurance. Then on the way home from work I called Fairfax County Dispatch to see if there was a police report out about a hit and run at her or my address. She said there wasn't an existing report. The dispatcher said that I could call back and get a police officer to come out ant write and incident report.
I called when I got home and got a different dispatcher this one not as nice and sympathetic. He told me that it was too late to report the accident but he did dispatch and officer to discuss the harassment I had been recieving. The officer spoke to me and advised me on strategies to prevent further incidents and also advised me it was not technically harassment (yet). He also spoke to the neighbor and advised both of us to report all vehicular contact to our insurance and if the other party did not provide insurance information to call the police.
Through speaking with the officer I came up with the idea of petitioning the homeowner's association to move visitors spot between our assigned spaces. The President of the association said he would email the request to the board and that we would have to pay for the numbers to be repainted. If it doesn't get passed via email I will have to go to the board meeting the second week of March to make the request in person.
Yesterday I saw a rotten tomato under my rose bush.
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