[quote author="awgee" date=1216117027][quote author="ipoplaya" date=1216105402][quote author="tenmagnet" date=1216103491]What?s with all the hostility?
Put the bazooka down.
I went out of my way to come check out the Casa de Ipo.
Should I not share my thoughts or opinions?
Not making stuff up, those were my impressions and I wanted to share them.</blockquote>
I think I've got carry-over hostility from the confrontation I had yesterday with the former tenant of the new rental Casa De IPO. If my wife wasn't shouting me down, I'd probably be in jail today for laying out someone in my very own front yard...
I'm always inclined the settle things more according to my southern and IE roots, which usually doesn't involve walking away and calling the PD, but more typically some bloody knuckles or a handy baseball bat.</blockquote>
Wow! You got my curiosity up. Do tell. What was the beef?</blockquote>
Guy showed up a few weeks ago and asked if we had any of his mail by chance. Said no but we offered to hold his mail for him as he was supposedly expecting his rebate check. He comes by a few times, once at 9:30pm when the kids were already asleep. I tell him he should probably call first and see if we have anything before he comes over. Nothing comes for him, he calls last week and the wife tells him so. So yesterday, ding dong he shows up again looking for his check. Didn't call first... I was working on something so my wife answers the door and tells he we have nothing. The conversation is taking longer than such a thing should take so I walk out front and ask "what's the problem". Basically he doesn't believe we don't have his check and then tells me he that he put something addressed to himself into our mailbox to see if we'd call him.
At this point, I started getting unhinged as 1) we tried to do something nice for the guy and he's not getting with the program, i.e. call first, see if we have mail, don't come to the house uninvited and I'm tiring of the harassment, 2) he is standing on my porch suggesting that we have stolen his rebate check, and 3) he just admitted that he is tampering with our mail... As all this flashes through my mind in a few nanoseconds I start unleashing on the guy. Tidbits such as "Did you realize its a felony to tamper with the US mail?", "Do you want PD and the postal inspector all over a$$?!", "What the F would I want with your paltry rebate check, I can probably buy you three times over?!", all with increasing volume and menacing movement toward him... He undoubtedly realizes he's gotten himself into an unfortunate situation with a very angry man that outweighs him by perhaps 80lbs. (he is a fairly slight full asian dude in perhaps his mid 30's) and starts backing toward his car and taking a less accusatory tone. I follow him down the driveway with some additional colorful language, something along the lines of "Don't ever let me catch you on my Fing street again!" and "If your Fing check comes you can bet it'll go in the trash...", with fists cocked ready to put to unload on the dude.
He makes it to his car without injury and my wife finally succeeds in redirecting me. My wife remembers that she saw him at our mailbox not long after we have moved in, a fact she forgot to pass on to me, so he's evidently tampered with our mailbox and/or gone through our mail multiple times. I think the dude has forgotten that he told me what apartment complex he lives in now during our first conversation weeks ago... I scouted it yesterday and took down the plate numbers on the three cars like his parked in stalls, which I assume he is probably doing because he moved recently and his garage is likely full of stuff. With relatively little effort, I could probably figure out exactly which unit in that complex he lives at and show up at his door. If I see him around my neighborhood again, I'll need to decide to take care of it the Irvine way, i.e. call the PD and notify the Postal Inspectors Office or the IE way, which would likely involve an additional "discussion" at his residence or better yet, place of work. Hopefully he got the message loud and clear, but one never knows if people will make the smart choice...
