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CONFESSION #0503 — NEIGHBOR SABOTAGE
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
The buyers came back for a third showing which should have been the good news except when we pulled up there was a moving truck in the neighbor's driveway and three guys carrying what I can only describe as industrial equipment onto the front lawn and my buyers are just standing there watching as this guy (the neighbor, I found out later he'd owned his place for 12 years and had some beef with the sellers about a fence line from 2019) starts unloading what turned out to be a commercial wood chipper and just parks it maybe 8 feet from the property line facing the master bedroom window. He wasn't even using it. Just positioned it there like a statement. My buyers asked if he ran a business and I said I don't know and they said well it looks like he runs a business and I said I really don't know and then the neighbor waved at us, like friendly, like nothing was happening. The sellers dropped their price 15k and the buyers still walked because (their words) they didn't want to inherit whatever that was. The chipper was gone by the next showing. Different buyers. Nobody's mentioned it since.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE FACE OF STRATEGIC YARD-BASED INTIMIDATION AND WILLFUL IGNORANCE OF OBVIOUS CHIPPER-RELATED PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
The Court has reviewed this testimony and finds itself DEEPLY troubled by what can only be described as a masterclass in neighborly aggression that this agent chose to observe like a BYSTANDER AT A CRIME SCENE. Eight feet from the property line, facing the master bedroom, a commercial wood chipper positioned with the precision of a chess grandmaster who has decided that checkers is for cowards. This Court once had a neighbor who parked a boat in his driveway for six years without ever taking it to water, and Reginald still wakes up thinking about what message that boat was sending, so I UNDERSTAND the psychological toll of yard-based statements. You stood there saying I dont know like a defendant pleading the Fifth when everyone in that cul-de-sac KNEW that chipper was a monument to the 2019 fence line dispute, a dispute you should have disclosed the MOMENT you smelled sawdust on the wind. The neighbor WAVED, counsel, he WAVED with the confidence of a man who understood that his chipper had already done the talking. That chipper vanished like a ghost because it was never about the wood, it was about DOMINANCE, and you let your buyers walk into that psychological ambush armed with nothing but your strategic amnesia. The Court awards the neighbor zero points for subtlety but full marks for commitment to the bit, and sentences you to three hours of mandatory fence law continuing education. Reginald must now adjourn to consult with The Council about purchasing his own chipper for unrelated purposes.
Chipper Adjacent Negligence
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