BS: Can harrassment be proved?

Subject: RE: BS: Can harrassment be proved?
From: Bee
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 10:32 PM

I'd move. Any neighbourhood that hostile isn't worth living in. I've lived in what are considered the worst neighbourhoods in Halifax, and never been harassed in any way by my neighbours, despite my being a standout eccentric. I presently live in territory reknowned for hardass fishermen prone to ask questions later. No one bothers us and we have plenty friends and great neighbours, for the most part, including the fishermen, who mostly turned out to be pussycats with large biceps.

Subject: RE: BS: Can harrassment be proved?
From: kendall
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 10:26 PM

Where do you live? Sounds like a horrible neighborhood.

Subject: RE: BS: Can harrassment be proved?
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 09:33 PM

Over what period of time?

Subject: RE: BS: Can harrassment be proved?
From: Alice
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 08:15 PM

That is more than just bad luck.
I'd be moving.

Subject: RE: BS: Can harrassment be proved?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 06:55 PM

Even though I look Aryan I have had many antisemetic experiences despite being athiest, which I suppose is even more worrisome to some sheeple.

Naw I feel it might just be within a typical range of civic bruhaha.
So far it has only cost a couple thousand dollars to clean up and or look into the complaints with accountants etc.

When I think of the witch hunt that was done on a a day care center that was accused of devil worship I do feel a very real inquisitional fear. For example when I said that I wanted a slightly higher fence so that if the floor to ceiling windows had the curtains open I would not be seen in my underear at the refrigerator in the dead of night ... that was then retold by the neighbor that I am putting children at risk with my nakedness.

Without a doubt there are more fearful people around here than I could shake a stick at.

Subject: RE: BS: Can harrassment be proved?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 06:36 PM

Kids I forgive and expect. But when 5 goverment agencies are contacted it seems too sophisticated to be kids.
There is a neighbor that won't let our kids play with theirs and told my wife and I that we "never shut the fuck up" after I asked their next door neighbor to look in on the wife who I saw sobbing and crying in the street. If I hadn't been walking with my little boy I might have lent a shoulder instead of asking a neighbor who have the same last name as the weeping woman. Then there are the fundamentalists who want to hunt down gays. There is the retired brigadeer republican Jew who heads up local campaigns. etc etc etc

But honestly Speculation is not my intent.

My only question is what is to be done to address a large number of annonymous complaints.

The police have helped trace the 1 AM phone calls but the perpetrator's name still remains coonfidential.

My wife reminds me that I am not merely unimportant but too obscure to be a target of anyone's anonymous "concern".

What are other types of anonymous / tip lines could be next.
Well if I worry about that I really would be paranoid.

Subject: RE: BS: Can harrassment be proved?
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 06:35 PM

Don, could it be anit Semitism? Call the ADL? (Anti Defamation League)
I hesitate to say respond in kind. That could escalate and get very ugly.

Subject: RE: BS: Can harrassment be proved?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 06:35 PM

You can use your old phone modem to pickup and capture the number of every in coming call.

You can watch this 30 second clip - and use your 19 dollar office/web cam to watch the front door while you sleep.
> http://youtube.com/watch?v=P_nEgFZGDZ4

When you have the evidence then consult a lawyer.

You have the tools. Don't be foolish. Fear can be a gift. Empower your life.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: Can harrassment be proved?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 06:10 PM

Twice is coincidence. Three times is a trend. More is a plot, possibly by the kid and his friends.

Subject: RE: BS: Can harrassment be proved?
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 05:59 PM

It just seems like a huge amount of stuff to be coincidental.......I'm not sure why your neighbors would want to harrass you (could there BE a legitimate reason -- if you are good neighbors, I doubt it ....) but honestly -- to me this is creepy.

Subject: RE: BS: Can harrassment be proved?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 05:27 PM

with goats

Subject: RE: BS: Can harrassment be proved?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 05:01 PM

So you don't think this is a normal amount of annonymous hijinks.

If the object is to make us move I would make certain to sell to a family of 22 illegal aliens.

Subject: RE: BS: Can harrassment be proved?
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 04:11 PM

Oh my lord -- I would be moving now...

Subject: RE: BS: Can harrassment be proved?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 03:52 PM

Yeah but the annonymous complaints are quite real and generate very real consequences but your point is noted all the same.

Subject: RE: BS: Can harrassment be proved?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 03:41 PM

http://www.thesite.org/healthandwellbeing/mentalhealth/otherconditions/paranoia

Subject: BS: Can harrassment be proved?
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 03:36 PM

First of all my wife considers everything that has happened to be mere coincidence. I am not so inclined but when everthing is annonymous I have no proof.

In the two years and change since we moved to this neighborhood we have had:

60 or more phone calls between 1 AM and 2 AM 10 miutes apart.

The IRS has questioned if we filled taxes 3 times going back as far as 1998 (while we have proof we paid we don't have the original filing forms and neither do they.)
Anonymous tips often generate these kind of inquiries and they reward tipsters with money if any penalties are recovered.

The dept of social sevices said there is a claim that our son is abused and want to do interviews. They claim someone reported seeing a bruise. (complaints are confidential and annonymous)

County zoning officials were called to determine if our fence is too high. Police called by neighbor when I took a picture of the fence to present required information to the county for permission to have a fence 6 inches "too high".

Police called when I used authorized water company meters to fill pool (a neighbor actually asked if I was committing a crime while my boys and I were collecteing the hose.)

eggs and rocks thrown at house and front door kicked in twice. One melted coke bottle with pine needles inside that did not ignite next to house. Fuck you sprayed on a sign in the yard.

Youngest son was the only person in the county to be expelled when the doctor's hard drive with vaccine info broke.

My website of 10 years was removed and discontinued without explanation.

One bike was stolen but I saw the child do it and reported it to the police. The boys father was a policeman and was more than pissed that I would report a stolen bike since he considers all bikes in all yards to be communal property here.

I won't include car brake problems since but it was still worrisome.

Perhaps this is par for the course in society today but it seems excessive to the point of possibly being deliberate harrasment.
Maybe by some standards we are doing well but if I wanted to determine annymous complaint sources, what if anything can be done?