ConstructionAg01 said:
My neighbor has a new obsession with vehicles driving too fast on "his" street, so he's shooting them all with a radar gun and reporting his findings to PD. The family and I were sitting on the porch enjoying the rain, and watching this, when one of the cars came back around to ask him what the heck he was doing and a heated verbal confrontation ensued. Not a great idea to point a gun-like object at passing vehicles, especially in our area of Texas.
And yes, that is his burnt orange truck with the requisite logo.
Story time.
Growing up we had a crotchety old man as a neighbor. He was actually a really good guy to have as a neighbor. No bull****, Navy vet, oil man. We had a posted speed limit of 25 but we were in an unincorporated area of the country on large acreage lots. Somewhere during the 90's we ended up with punk kids speeding down our road. It was a dead end road. Policing this was "his thing" and he wasn't the kind of dude to take no for an answer. One day, this dude in a white hard top jeep came rolling through and my neighbor walked out into the middle of the road and let this guy have it about speeding. There was an exchange of profanity and a basic "f- you old man" from the driver.
The bad news for the driver is that my neighbor was a crusty **** and the road was a dead end, which meant he had to turn around and come back to leave. The worse news is that my neighbor was landscaping his flower bed with bricks. He heard this fool coming walked out in the road and chunks a brick at this guys jeep, it clips the top of the windshield, trashes it, and the hard top and then and there the Jeep driver got to decide how to proceed. He proceeded by getting out of the Jeep and attempting and threatening the neighbor which then resulted in my neighbor clocking this guy square in the nose.
Anyway, as a 10 year old, he was my hero and solidified the idea that we have rules and some peoples purpose in life are to test them and others are to help them understand why that's a bad idea. Lol.
You're neighbor is probably going to get into trouble but I have to give him a nod for at least attempting to keep people under control. He might look like a big dummy now, but he won't look like that when someone's dog or child gets hit by a car that can't stop because they are going to fast.
I'd like to raise my glass to the boomer that doesn't give a flying flip. I hope he is successful in his endeavors and may he forever be the crazy ass old man that no one is going to **** with because of said perception.