Just Caught my Neighbor Stealing my firewood

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Originally Posted by Publico Pro Se

I was speaking with several associates about your problem hillbilly and they've come to the conclusion you got to fight fire with fire, so to speak. Now it will cost you a couple of grand up front but the return on your investment is about a year, give or take.

First, buy and install a nice cheap solar panel array and a windmill and tie them in into the grid so that your electric company pays you when your meter is running backwards. Next, send your neighbors a "winning" gift certificate to a hotel about 2 - 3 hours away valid only on a specific weekend. Rent a ditch-witch and be on the ready when your neighbors use their hotel gift certificate. You might want some friends to help, maybe have a bbq for them after work is done. Run a 220 volt line (instead of a 120) from their electric panel (be sure to use a dedicated breaker) to your solar/windmill electric meter. Now after you tie their electricity to your meter you'll start getting checks from the electric company every month instead of having to send them one. And the nice thing about this plan it's energy efficient and 24/7/365 you have the satisfaction of knowing whatever amount of firewood they may pinch from you they're helping the solve the energy problem.

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That's a very creative solution! I wouldn't recommend it, but it's creative!

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Originally Posted by k-os

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Originally Posted by Publico Pro Se

I was speaking with several associates about your problem hillbilly and they've come to the conclusion you got to fight fire with fire, so to speak. Now it will cost you a couple of grand up front but the return on your investment is about a year, give or take.

First, buy and install a nice cheap solar panel array and a windmill and tie them in into the grid so that your electric company pays you when your meter is running backwards. Next, send your neighbors a "winning" gift certificate to a hotel about 2 - 3 hours away valid only on a specific weekend. Rent a ditch-witch and be on the ready when your neighbors use their hotel gift certificate. You might want some friends to help, maybe have a bbq for them after work is done. Run a 220 volt line (instead of a 120) from their electric panel (be sure to use a dedicated breaker) to your solar/windmill electric meter. Now after you tie their electricity to your meter you'll start getting checks from the electric company every month instead of having to send them one. And the nice thing about this plan it's energy efficient and 24/7/365 you have the satisfaction of knowing whatever amount of firewood they may pinch from you they're helping the solve the energy problem.

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That's a very creative solution! I wouldn't recommend it, but it's creative!

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Well, the other idea we came up with is a variant of an idea old man told me years ago. First, and hillybilly can't be like Saul with this one (trust me there's a joke in there) is win several million dollars in one of them numbers games many states run. Then after claiming the millions buy a house in a better neighborhood. Now most people would up and sell the house with the firewood pinching neighbors. Wrong! Title the house over to a charity set up with some of the winnings. Then turn the old house with the firewood poaching neighbors into a prisoner halfway house. Now hillybilly gets a nice tax deduction for the old house and the satisfaction of knowing he's helping out those less fortunate and who may have picked up a bad habit here and there along the way. (Hillybilly be sure to review the psychological file of all prisoners to be released into the old house - you don't want one who would freak-out over some missing firewood and go on a homicidal rage. Just a suggestion.)

Drill hole, pack with M80's, fill hole with patch of wood ;D

Just got home tonight and found a $5.00 Grocery Story type bundles of Firewood on the front porch. They have stolen over 50 Dollars worth of wood over the last month or so, but I guess it's a start.

Now send him a $45 bill! ;D

Take it off your front porch and put it on his with a note "you need it worse than I do".

One of my neighbors is really mellow. He leaves his door open half the time when he's out working. I asked him if he worries about getting robbed and he replied "If they are going to take what I have, surely they need it worse than I do, so they can take it if they must."

That's some seriously childish behavior on their part, like kids playing a prank and getting caught.

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Originally Posted by Book

Maybe your neighbors will massage your prostate for a few firewood logs if you ask them nicely.

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In the context of this thread, that statement is pretty funny. Taken out of context, say, in a sig line, it's hilariously absurd.

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Originally Posted by Cobalt

If your neighbors are willing to steal firewood, they probably wouldn't pass an opportunity to steal other stuff

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Right. Some of the quotes above are incredibly naive. You cannot appease some people no matter what they do. They more you give them, the more they will hate you.

I had a neighbor like that once. Single mom with two kids. I played the role of "helping out" for about 2 years. Gave her rides to places (Broken car for years), fixing things, etc. Typical NJ ghetto transplant.

In the end she ended up stealing from my garden, I moved out for a while, she stole all the lawn furniture.

It doesn't matter what you do with your neighbors, they will not be appeased and will still find a way to steal something once you have to leave for a few days/weeks. You cannot reason with unreasonable people who are beyond help.
Their problem is not firewood or money, their problem is responsibility. By giving them stuff you would be acting as the enabler. I have done this for years only to hit a dead-end.

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Originally Posted by Olmstein

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Originally Posted by Book

Maybe your neighbors will massage your prostate for a few firewood logs if you ask them nicely.

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In the context of this thread, that statement is pretty funny. Taken out of context, say, in a sig line, it's hilariously absurd.

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http://gold-silver.us/forum/health-a...d-your-advice/

I'm just going for that sardonic observer thingie. I'm struck by just how fast everyone here appears to accept the automatic demonization of the neighbor, hearing only one side of this "story". The OP acts like the neighbor is North Korea with no diplomatic communications. Never once had a real get-to-know conversation with his next door neighbor??? WTSHTF our next door neighbor will be essential to our survival. Defaming and slandering the next door neighbor on GSUS solves nothing. I want to hear the next door neighbor's side of this "story".

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Obama defends cuts to home heating aid program

February 15, 2011

By Michael J. Bailey, Globe Staff

President Obama today defended his plan to cut by half the home energy assistance program, which tens of thousands of New Englanders rely on to help pay their home heating bills.

"On the LIHEAP program, the home heating assistance program, we doubled the home heating assistance program when I first came into office in part because there was a huge energy spike, and so folks, if we just kept it at the same level, folks would have been in real trouble,'' Obama said at a press conference, in response to a question about unpopular cuts in his newly released budget proposal. "Energy prices have now gone down but the cost of the program has stayed the same. So what we've said is let's go back to a more sustainable level.''

Funding for the program had been boosted to $5.1 billion for this fiscal year, but House Republicans are seeking immediate cuts, before all the money is disbursed. In the president's budget for the next fiscal year, the money allocated would be cut to $2.6 billion. Both efforts to pare the program have been denounced by Bay State legislators.

US Representative Edward Markey, a Malden Democrat, has been the Democrats point person on GOP efforts to cut at least $400 million from the program this year. He is offering an amendment to restore proposed cuts.

“Cutting off funds for this program now means that millions of families could have their heating cut off,” said Markey last week. “These families would be forced to decide once again between heating and eating.”

Both Republican Scott Brown and Democrat John F. Kerry in the Senate have urged Obama to reconsider cuts next year.

At the press conference today, Obama said his administration would be open to adding money to the program as needed.

"If it turns out that, once again, you see a huge energy spike, then we can revisit it, but let's not just assume because it's at a $5 billion level that each year we're going to sustain it at a $5 billion level regardless of what's happening on the energy front," he said. "Now, that doesn't mean that, you know, these aren't still tough cuts. Because they're always more people who could use some help across the country than we have resources. And so it's still a tough decision, and I understand people's frustrations with some of these decisions."

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/...defends_c.html

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