If you cant find the mystery duck pond, start looking for the tap line your neighbor installed!
My buddy was in college down around Boca Raton Fl. He was renting a house, but came home for the summer. His water bill was more than when he was there during the year.
We thought there must be a leak. So we packed up and drove down to see what was going on. This wasnt some podunk neighborhood either. Turns out his neighbor across the street whom was schytsofrentic manic depressed and some other mental illnesses had stopped taking his meds. I had heard all sorts of wild stories about this dude.
Apparently he had forgot or didnt want to pay the water bill. So the water company turned his water off. What had he done? He wasnt stupid by any stretch of the imagination, but thought much different than you or I.
Instead if just paying the water bill, he had realized my buddy wasnt coming home, so he had gone and bought these industrial strength water hoses that resembled something you would find on an firetruck. He had run them across the street, put cut pvc on top so cars wouldnt hurt the lines and had it back flowing into his house. To the point when we pulled up his sprinklers were running.
Dude was a strange cat. When we confronted him, he said he didnt do it. Then he got mad when we said it wasnt going to stay like that. He started yelling and running around the yard. Some where during all this quite a crowd was starting to observe the mess. The neighborhood was mainly elderly retirees and this is about 2/3 in the afternoon. Everyone knew everyone. Someone called the cops on crazy dude. He was Cuban, or Columbian I cant recall, but had a name to fit like Esteban or Estevez or something along those lines.
Cops show up only their 400th call in the past 2 months my buddy had been gone. They had tried to take him to get back on his meds, but were unsuccessful for what ever reasons. He never did anything to hurt anyone just mischeives things.
Cops make him understand he cant run his house off his neighbors water. Write up an incident report for my buddy to give to the water company. We proceed to undoing this really elaborate water set up.
It's about 6 by now. We are kicked back drinking a beer about to shower and go out. We hear this wild screaming like bobcat & a raccoon got into a fight. We open the door to find Crazy E running around butt naked in the street, he then proceeded to take a dump right in the middle of the road. This time the cops showed back up and hauled crazy E off. We were only there for another 2 days before we headed back. never saw E again.
Yup, he's crazy...
like a fox. The dude may be coming in a little too hard and crazy but 90% of everything he says is correct.
Sort of like Toof. But way smarter.
~Scatter Shot
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