Today, I found out that my neighbors took it upon themselves to knock down the fence we shared, and putting up a new one. Thus fencing my pool into their yard. When I asked them why, he replied, "We thought you weren't coming back." I was gone for 4 months tending to my sister with breast cancer. FML
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Today, I met my new neighbors. The first thing they did was build a fence. FML
Today, I explained to my new neighbors that my kids will continue to use the pool in the backyard as they have for years. The neighbor immediately said my kids are not welcome in her yard and she is building a fence. I don’t know how to explain to my sweet babies they no longer have their pool. FML
Today, I came home from vacation, only to find my neighbours relaxing on my patio, and their kids swimming in my pool. FML
Today, my neighbor yelled at me because her two kids got into my pool. They scaled a two-meter wall to get to my backyard. They used a tree in her yard that hangs over the wall. I guess I could install razor wire on top of the wall. FML
Today, I found out that while I was on vacation my neighbor had let my brother into my apartment. I don't have a brother. FML
Today, I went to visit my parents after 4 years of not seeing them. They'd moved without telling me. FML
Today, I went to check if my neighbours were home to return their dog, having looked after her for a few days. I looked in the window and the place was empty. They'd moved house and stuck us with their dog. FML
Today, I agreed to lend my daughter's inflatable pool to my neighbor for the day. Barely an hour later, I witnessed his son jump off their balcony, missing the pool by inches. He's now in hospital, and my neighbor has sworn to sue me, saying I'm responsible because the pool is mine. FML
Today, I finished a fence around my house that I have been working on all week. About an hour after I finished, a water company truck pulled into my driveway. They told me they would have to take down my fence to make repairs on a water pipe. FML
Today, I came back home to find that my house had been robbed, one week after my neighbors. I was walking around my neighborhood to see if anything was suspicious, and discovered that my neighbors had put up a sign, reading: "Rob the neighbors, THEY don't have a security system." FML
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Quest_ 13
They... essentially stole your pool...? This is just bizarre. In what universe would anyone, from any walk of life, think this is okay?
Ishinebrightly 8
Take it down.
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Comments (242)
dlryan97 1
Just build a fence in his yard. Nbd
THE_A_TEEN 28
Just thumb down my fail comments. -_- (cries in corner) I hate my phone >=(
chilldude69 8
WTF? I would've love to hear that 911 call.
SuperSukh 6
Dude, that's just mean. I hate people like that. Sue them for all theyre worth.
prelim_champ 10
If OP sues them for all they are worth, that shouldn't be much, since they are seemingly worthless.
benhemon 4
Commenters here are (un)surprisingly ignorant. Your neighbors clearly thought you weren't coming back. If they had been right, they'd have owned your pool in 5-10 years (depending on the state) through adverse possession. Putting a fence around it started the clock ticking. That was actually pretty clever of them, even if it might have been stupid not to realize you'd be coming back. That said, since you haven't moved out, you can definitely sue them. You probably don't want to, since it'll lead to a lot of hostility, so you should probably just tell them to pay to remove the fence and rebuild the old one, and then you'll pretend this incident didn't happen. You could probably try to extract some money from them, but that's likely to lead to hostility in the future.
satomi_ishida 0
I'm pretty sure the house would have sold before those 5-10 years. A_a The real estate agent or whoever in charge of the property upon selling would have noticed the missing pool. Then there would be no way they could have kept the pool.
nineoclockstart 0
You don't have to sell before moving out. Maybe he would keep the house for a relative to move into who was never aware of the pool ever being there
skatingalyy 0
oh my gosh that is terrible D: force them to take it down!
RainbowHeadache 2
No telling what they've done in your pool, man. Either kill them, or be boring & lawyer up.
perdix 31
Getting your pool stolen is a blessing in disguise. Those things are a ******* nightmare! They take so much time, money and effort to maintain that your life rapidly improves the day you lose it. Your neighbors might as well have stolen your used Yugo that completed the Paris to Dakar Rally. You'll have the last laugh when their electric bill comes in and they have to fight an algae bloom!
twinkletoes747 16
They wouldn't get the bill to the pool as it's still connected to the power on OP's house.
perdix 31
Good point! At least the thieves are on the hook for the chemicals and the brushing. The OP is also probably paying for the water, too. I may have been wrong earlier -- if the OP is paying for the electricity AND the water of the pool the neighbors stole, she is worse off than her sister who lost her ****.
HomeAl0ne 20
Yeah, you're better off without it. Still, no good reason to let your neighbours think they won. Here's what you do.... 1. Pull up local newspapers from the time around when the pool was built. If they aren't on the internet, visit your local library. That's a place where they store things called "books", kids. 2. Look for unexplained disappearances around that time. 3. Anonymously tip off the police that there is a body buried under the pool. 4. Sit back in a lounge chair with a can of beer and watch the fun.
frankwolf86 0
what douche bags... i say kill em
OhSoBueno 0
Meanwhile, in Missouri...
Ketia 5
I would say have some fun knocking down their fence around your pool after filing a report with the police.