By Pool-less - 04/09/2011 06:09 - United States

Today, I found out that my neighbors took it upon themselves to knock down the fence we shared, and putting up a new one. Thus fencing my pool into their yard. When I asked them why, he replied, "We thought you weren't coming back." I was gone for 4 months tending to my sister with breast cancer. FML
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Quest_ 13

They... essentially stole your pool...? This is just bizarre. In what universe would anyone, from any walk of life, think this is okay?

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THE_A_TEEN 27

Just thumb down my fail comments. -_- (cries in corner) I hate my phone >=(

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chilldude69 8

WTF? I would've love to hear that 911 call.

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SuperSukh 6

Dude, that's just mean. I hate people like that. Sue them for all theyre worth.

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prelim_champ 10

If OP sues them for all they are worth, that shouldn't be much, since they are seemingly worthless.

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benhemon 4

Commenters here are (un)surprisingly ignorant. Your neighbors clearly thought you weren't coming back. If they had been right, they'd have owned your pool in 5-10 years (depending on the state) through adverse possession. Putting a fence around it started the clock ticking. That was actually pretty clever of them, even if it might have been stupid not to realize you'd be coming back. That said, since you haven't moved out, you can definitely sue them. You probably don't want to, since it'll lead to a lot of hostility, so you should probably just tell them to pay to remove the fence and rebuild the old one, and then you'll pretend this incident didn't happen. You could probably try to extract some money from them, but that's likely to lead to hostility in the future.

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satomi_ishida 0

I'm pretty sure the house would have sold before those 5-10 years. A_a The real estate agent or whoever in charge of the property upon selling would have noticed the missing pool. Then there would be no way they could have kept the pool.

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nineoclockstart 0

You don't have to sell before moving out. Maybe he would keep the house for a relative to move into who was never aware of the pool ever being there

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skatingalyy 0

oh my gosh that is terrible D: force them to take it down!

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RainbowHeadache 2

No telling what they've done in your pool, man. Either kill them, or be boring & lawyer up.

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perdix 29

Getting your pool stolen is a blessing in disguise. Those things are a ******* nightmare! They take so much time, money and effort to maintain that your life rapidly improves the day you lose it. Your neighbors might as well have stolen your used Yugo that completed the Paris to Dakar Rally. You'll have the last laugh when their electric bill comes in and they have to fight an algae bloom!

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twinkletoes747 16

They wouldn't get the bill to the pool as it's still connected to the power on OP's house.

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perdix 29

Good point! At least the thieves are on the hook for the chemicals and the brushing. The OP is also probably paying for the water, too. I may have been wrong earlier -- if the OP is paying for the electricity AND the water of the pool the neighbors stole, she is worse off than her sister who lost her ****.

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HomeAl0ne 20

Yeah, you're better off without it. Still, no good reason to let your neighbours think they won. Here's what you do.... 1. Pull up local newspapers from the time around when the pool was built. If they aren't on the internet, visit your local library. That's a place where they store things called "books", kids. 2. Look for unexplained disappearances around that time. 3. Anonymously tip off the police that there is a body buried under the pool. 4. Sit back in a lounge chair with a can of beer and watch the fun.

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OhSoBueno 0

Meanwhile, in Missouri...

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Ketia 5

I would say have some fun knocking down their fence around your pool after filing a report with the police.

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