Father of the year

[Ricter]

We actually did that years ago with another neighbor. They came to the neighbor's house but the wife refused to open the door, acting as if no one was home.

And that series of incidents was funny. The husband is one of these asbestos/tobacco lawyers who has more money than he knows what to do with. He has 9 cars, 3 houses, an obnoxious guy. After I reported their dog crapping in our yard our homeowners association told me they needed proof to give them a warning and/or fine. So I'd get up early and position myself in our garage with the door cracked. Finally I saw the dog come across the street and took 3 pictures of it.
I initially sent a polite letter to these neighbors. He wrote back on his law firm's letterhead. I assume he felt he'd intimidate me. He naturally denied his dog was out of their yard. Finally in about the 3rd letter exchange I said "sir, as at attorney I'm sure you appreciate the value of evidence that supports your arguments. I have photos of your dog in our yard going to the bathroom". I received one final letter from him .... it simply said "I want no further communication from you. I consider this harassment". And the board informed me that they fined the guy given the photos.

Lol, love it.

 

[blah12345678]

Poisoned meatballs.

Only works if you hire someone from out-of-state while the GPS in your cars/phones prove everybody in the household were away from the property at the time (say on vacation out-of-state)...

And none of the phones can be linked to the perps calls...

And if a burn phone is used, making sure your the burn phone & car/phone are not connected to the same tower at the same time...

Operational security. So many ways to get snitched on by our electronic devices that a reasonably diligent investigator can uncover...

 

[blah12345678]

Have some fun.... Put up motion detectors, and when triggered, fires a water cannon at the dog.... Or launches heavy projectiles at it .... Or traps it in a catapult, and throws it down the street... Or sounds a dog whistle that hurts...

Or put up an electric fence, and mod it so it tases instead of low-power shock...

Train the animal (and all other animals) not to come on your property.

Just don't put that shit on YouTube, no matter how funny....

 

[LEAPup]

Teachers shouldn't be texting students ever. There's plenty of ways to communicate with a student or a teacher. There's even an official email the teacher uses for assignment questions.

Don't open yourself up to the possibility of misunderstanding by staying official.

Stole my thoughts completely!
I taught driver's Ed at a Christian school (part time), years ago. NEVER would I fathom texting, or calling a student female or male. I did a weekly narrative on school letterhead addressed "to the Parents of _____" giving a breakdown of the student's strengths and weaknesses. Patents were encouraged to contact me via the school's email, but students no. The teacher texting ANY student is an idiot, and just damn, that's weird!

 

[LEAPup]

Agreed. The mom saw the texts and thought they were inappropriate. A 42 year old male teacher should not be sending texts to a 15 year old female student at all and certainly not ones that anybody could find inappropriate. Then he goes to their house? He's lucky all he got was a baseball bat. Maybe he was going over to apologize, but what if the parents were not home? How would it look then? Couldn't he see there was a real potential for things to get ugly?

It certainly sounds like this teacher needs to be fired for lack of judgment if nothing else.

A teacher doing what he did scares me. Completely, and totally inappropriate!