You accidentally dump 5 quarts of oil into my lawn, then try to play it off and then get pissed at me for getting upset? Here is the story. I start mowing my lawn about 7:30. Retard neighbor who keeps getting arrested for being a dumb ass (filing false reports saying that his brother in law beat his ass when he really laid his bike down, etc...) is changing the oil in his Dodge Ram P/U using suicide ramps. I finish mowing the law to find his P/U on the street and him hosing down his drive way nearest his garage. It dawns on me that he spilled some oil. Then I notice that all of the run off is not going from his driveway into the gutter, but instead took a turn where the side walk is and is now (due to the grading of the side walk) forming an oil filled lake on the side walk in between my grass. I ask him what is going on, he says never mind. Never mind??!??!??!?? Dude you are killing my lawn with your fucking oil and you are telling me never mind? You are taking care of your own property, you are washing your oil onto my property, you had no fucking intent of stopping the oil from spreading until I busted your ass and you tell me to never mind???? Then you have the balls to ask me what the fuck I expect him to do? Look cock sucker you are supposedly an environmental engineer. Here is what you do you stupid fuck. Get your goddamned shovel, dig up your yard, build a berm to contain the oil, then send your wife to buy kitty litter by the truck load to absorb it. You don't fucking try to pass it off into my yard and get away with it. Then to have the balls to try a triple-reverse-za-bee-da and spin this on me by telling me that instead of getting pissed that I should ask how I should help him, that I don't need to raise my voice and I need to get away from him when he is standing on my property? Fuck you ass hole. He agrees to replace the grass. Then I tell him that he is replacing the contaminated soil as well. He balks an says that per EPA rules this isn't reportable. I said maybe, maybe not. But the report I file with the Sheriffs office and fire department sure as hell will be on record. I want to beat the living fuck out of that retard right now but all that will accomplish, besides being very carthritic, will be my ass having to post bail for battery.
Did you take some pictures for evidence? Oh, and I second Albert's suggestion. It is the only way to be sure.
You bet your ass I took pics, especially pics of him standing on my property attempting a half assed clean up. Now the dumb fuck has put a lousy amount of kittey litter down and Im willing to bet that he plans on leaving it there till the morning. Im figuring that Ill call him at 11:30 and tell him to clean it up then, not in the morning. Sorry I meant unemployed environmental engineer.
Sheriffs office is on the way. All I want to do is file a report so that when he tries to weasel out of fixing the damages I'll have him dead to rights. Down side is that the SO wouldnt take the call over the phone. So now a deputy has to waste his time with me. I believe Anc is right and Im trying to find my PLDC books right now too.
What's happened with this? I don't have the relevant FMs on my computer, but if need be I can go hook up my DA laptop and try to remote in to Blackboard.
Short of the long this morning he pussed out and apologized in an attempt to get me to back down. I told him fine. I told him that when times comes he will replace my lawn and remove my contaminated soil and dispose of it properly and will replace said soil. He started to balk. I told him I got photos of the damage with him standing in the picture, a Sheriffs office report, and pictures of the deputy standing in the mess as well. So he had two choices, do what I said, or I call the EPA and I'll see him in civil court. Apparently the fine alone is about $250,000.00, not including clean up and then there is the civil suit. He suddenly became quite agreeable.
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<--- Also an unemployed enviro-guy. If it's more than 10 gallons of waste water (which it probably was, after he ran the hose) then its TOTALLY reportable.
On the minor side-trip about the guy who took a high-speed baseball massage: I wonder how "uncomfortable" he was because he didn't wear one?
Can't believe that no-one has played the devils advocate line yet that what he does on his land (hosing down an oil patch) is entirely his own business, and that the subsequent consequences of said action are not his problem.
Emotion aside it sounds like the neighbor you already don't like was changing the oil in his truck. Simply put, the oil change was completed, your neighbor hosed off his driveway and some oil/water pooled on the sidewalk that runs through your yard. So far so good? Ah and here is the heart of the conflict. There is neither a disagreement too trivial nor too important that a little disrespect can't elevate into an all out battle of wills. Sorry you had to go to such lengths to resolve what should've been a regular ole problem that happens whenever you have neighbors.
That's because no one believes that. What he does on this land is his own business. But the minute if affects me / directly affects my property, then it becomes a problem. You're right. I dont like him.. No. The oil change was completed then the dumb ass dropped the oil pan and all 5 quarts went all over the place. The oil pan was a simple tupperwear type of pan, not the purpose made type that you buy that is meant to prevent this Especially this dip shit. At the time I was wishing that I did smoke so I could "accidentally" flick a smoke into the pool of oil
I read somewhere that 1 quart of motor oil can contaminate up to 250,000 gallons of ground water. I've been in a cave in Castlewood, Virginia where a major diesel fuel spill occured on the surface above the cave. After a few months, the fuel seeped into the cave and an entire room in the cave is coated in diesel fuel. As is the case with most caves, it does contain an underground stream, which will carry the diesel fuel farther.
Bah. Oil is good for the environment. It comes out of the ground, right? And it is a disappearing resource. Your neighbor was only doing the reasonable thing of returning it to the ground. And since he was doing it on your property he could've made you rich. You could've had your own oil well, but noooo.
Wouldn't have caught fire. I've seen people throw a lit cigarette into a bucket of diesel with no ill effects.
One of the town snow plows had a fuel leak last year and coated every road on its rout with a lovely rainbow sheen of deisel. They said "oops, sorry," but did nothing about it, and we couldn't walk the dog on the road for weeks. Meanwhile I may be fined for the in-ground oil tank that was here when we bought the house.