Good update for a change
Got my craptastic camera from wally world set up today. All it tells you is if it's a truck or car and if it's a dark or light color. I'll be getting that $80 back. I expected it. You always get what you pay for.
Anyway, after that I was outside working when I heard the ATV coming. Grabbed the camera (which I had brought out with me, aren't you proud) and taped someone else riding by on the same ATV that was racing the other day. I know it was someone else b/c they were smart enough to wear a helmet.
Well, inevitably about 10 minutes later "mean one" rode up on the ATV (as I'm taping him). He pulls up right in front of me (I'm about 10'-15' from the road so I can get a good shot) and kills the motor. The first thing he says is "You better turn that thing off". I didn't even respond to that, just kept taping. He goes on the explain "right of ways" to me and how he isn't riding in my yard, the state owns 2' from the edge of the road and if I don't stop messing with him... his dad and grandfather are cops and "I don't want to go there". I'm sure if pops saw what he was saying "mean one" would have a real bad day or three.
I taped a 2 minute conversation where I didn't say much other than "I'm not breaking any laws" and "Is that why you only tore up 2 feet of my yard yesterday?" Of course he said that he doesn't know who did that. The most hilarious part about the whole thing was that when he was done with his speech he fired the ATV back up, and spun out through the existing ditch from yesterday. On tape. So I took some pics of the tracks (his and the blazers) with a tape measure that shows it's 5 feet from the road and 45 feet long. The ATV tracks are very visible in the pics too. He's wrong about the 2' thing though. I think here it's 40 feet form the center, not 2 feet from the edge. At least that's what it was at my parents house that is 5 minutes away. Checking on that tomorrow. I don't think I can do
anything about the tracks in the yard since it isn't technically mine.
He also said "I'm not breaking any laws either. I mean, I'm riding a 4 wheeler on the roads but
I've lived here for 20 years".
What's that called, something like, admission of guilt? Now he can't say he didn't know it was illegal at least.
So I call to report it and get a very helpful lady on the phone. Like I mentioned, they usually aren't very helpful but I guess this time was different since I have video. I tell her the story and she complimented me for getting the video and giving them something to work with. She also arranged for a report to be filed by phone so that he wouldn't see a deputy's car in the drive. I told her I was afraid that could escalate the situation and I was truly afraid for my pets, house and girlfriend.
The deputy that had to file the report calls a few minutes later and after running through the story again (as close to word-for-word as the first time as possible) he says, "Is he tall?"
I said "No why?"
He says, "I know every cop that lives out there and none of them have kids this old except for one and his kid is tall and lanky".
My guy is medium height and husky. The deputy was unexpectedly helpful and said that since there's a pattern to the times that he'd be out here around that time so he could "just so happen" to bust him without my involvement. His words were "If this kid thinks that he gets a free ticket just because his dad's a cop, I'll show him otherwise." I was giddy like a schoolgirl. Still am.
So yeah, great news. I couldn't believe how dumb this kid was. My g/f and buddy didn't believe me until I showed them the footage. They were open mouthed through the whole thing.
Oh, and he also threatened to sue me for harassment...
I can video anything I want from my own yard aside from peeping tom kinds of stuff right?
