Help, my neighbors are going to drive me nuts. I just got my dirt bike running agian and I took it for a lil test run up and down the field across the street from my house. When I get back to the road, I stopped, shut it off and was looking it over. About this time, my neighbor comes over to me, starts goin crazy and taking pictures of it sayin that I was tresspassing, and that if I kept doing this he was going to turn the pics into the cops. After I talked to him for a little while, he calmed down and was fine with this one test run. But two days later two of my riding buddies came over on their bikes and my neighbor flipped out on them too. I could have understood him gettin mad about my bike because it is loud, but my 2 ridding buddies bikes are quiet. Anyways, he got pics of them also and threatens to turn all of them in to the police. Help me, what do I do???? Oh ya, this guy is a lawyer so he thinks that what he says goes and he knows every little law about this incident. Please help..........

 

my opinion, stay far away from that guy. sounds like his cheese fell off his cracker.

texascat

 

Is the field his property?
If it isnt, find who owns it and ask them for casual access to his land, maybe even in writing.
Hate freaks like that. Becarefull, you never know what weirdos like that will do.

 

Maybe the guy is just jealous because you have a bike and he doesn't? You might ask him if he wants to take spin around the block or the field. Did you get along with the guy before this? Seems kinda stupid to get all bent out of shape over someone riding in a field a couple times. Did you do something else to **** him off or what? Maybe take his kid for a ride and get the kid hooked on riding, then maybe he will realize it's not that bad. I would say to definitely talk to the guy and find out what his deal is and find a happy medium. It's not good to have a bad relationship with your neighbors.

 

try to catch him doin somethin illegal or very embarassing...then threaten to turn the pics in.

 

This guy is old, I dunno what I did to **** him off, I cant think of one thing. I dont ride around in circles for hours in my yard, im always nice to the guy, I plow his driveway with my 4-wheeler in the winter, all the sudden he just goes crazy. And one of the thing that i just heard that really pissed me off was that one of my friends that he yelled at who was riding a dirt bike at the time, was told that my neighbor across the street, Mrs ELMORE Was on a respirator and he knew that she couldnt stand the dirt bikes and she cant stand the dust they make and this ones the good one, he said that she hates all of the people that were riding the dirt bikes in this field. Well my friend's name in Ryan ELMORE and he happens to be her grandson. She was the one that suggested to his father that he get a dirt bike in the first place. Im just convinced now that this guys on drugs or something. Oh, and if you got the impression that people were riding in this field all the time, they dont, one or two people did alot two years ago, but I asked them not to so that my neighbors wouldnt get pissed at me, but that didnt seem to work so now i dunno what to tell people.

 

Unfortunately, if it's not your land then there's not much you can do. The more we as ATVers and dirtbikers can do to keep peace with the public the better. It's not like new riding places are opening up everyday. Let's try to keep what we do have.

 

Funny you bring the subject up, I just got rid of a neighbor like that. For two years, the psycho woman and her "yes Maam" husband continually called the cops whenever my sons and I would take our bikes out. There's a huge field and large woods out back, belongs to the utility company, where people have hunted and rode for about 20 yrs (I know, I've been living there that long), even has a small MX track (built by us). The psycho B%$# from Hell moved in 3 yrs ago, and made it her life's work to put a stop to all that stuff she didn't aprove of (and neither did her hubby after she told him that he didn't). I contacted the utility company, and was told confidentially by the local director, that he wouldn't press charges if we were caught by police. He didn't mind if we rode there, but he couldn't give us a permit to use it freely because of pressure from enviro groups, plus the question of liability.
Keep in mind that we're out of sight and hearing range when riding, this had nothing to do with noise, plus this isn't the city or suburbia, this is out in the country.
Well, the cops never caught us (they weren't trying hard, didn't care much), so the wonderful neighbors took us to court for noise and harrasment. In court, the neighbors were asked if this was their property they were so intent on keeping us out of: they were forced to say "No", at which point they were asked to mind their own bussiness. Not to be put off so easy, the psycho and hubby said that the noise was upsetting, and they just wanted peace, upon which they were informed that there were NO NOISE REGULATIONS outside the city, and if we wanted WE COULD RIDE OUR BIKES IN THE BACKYARD DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS. This blew her stack, and for the next several months, we made it a point to run our bikes, (even when not riding them) for hours every week, specially on weekends, plus we cut grass a lot, even when it was short. We were told by a friend in the sheriff's dept, that she called several times complaining about noise, and was told the same thing the judge had told her: "between 9am to 9pm, it's not noise".
Their house went up for sale this summer, and they moved before it sold. Our new neighbors like bikes, and everything's back to normal.

 

pappy,
I LOVE your story!! That's the way to go. Have the cops and justice on your side...and get em to move!

 

Thanks Zorro, I'm neither mean nor agressive, but I'll be dammed if I let a city yuppie try to impose her way of living on us country folk. There's more than one way to lead a horse to water, and when all else fails, drag it there.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]