Property owner threatens us with retaliation for stepping on his lawn, so I get the city to tear down his house.

Here's what happened.

Subscribe to Am I the Jerk on YouTube and hit the bell for notifications. We live next to a the no one lives there. The owner of the property only shows up to mow the field but does nothing else with the property.

The garage beside the house is caving in on itself and just looks like trash.

People walk through the field to go fish on the river, walk their dogs, or just wander.

People think it's just city public property. A few days ago we were outside playing with our dog and toddler.

We were walking a few feet off our driveway which is technically his property.

He just happened to be driving by and pulled over and began yelling and was just in general overly aggressive.

He yelled that we needed to stay on our own property.

He accused us of tossing cigarette butts,

but we don't smoke and beer cans even though we're never drinking outside

all over the field. He also yelled that we drive all over his field causing mud

puddles again completely not true. He then pointed to our dog and

complain that she needs to stay off his grass. In the past he'd specifically

said that he didn't care if our dog walked in the field. He proceeded to say that if he found

any dog crap anywhere, he was going to retaliate against us, and we're not going to like it.

This all happened within a few minutes. My boyfriend took the toddler and dog inside and came back out to try to talk to him and sort out these crazy accusations, but the guy had already left.

We called the police to document the incident since he did make a threat.

We're now looking into getting cameras and a way to get a fence up.

Since the other neighbors also play with their dogs in the field and strangers walk through all the time,

he can't blame us for any evidence of dogs being present. But that won't stop him from blaming us anyways.

And I don't know what he means by retaliate.

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