Grrrrrrr…
We ran into a neighbor problem on a boundary survey. When returning to a corner we had set the day before we found it was gone. We were there to set the side line and had planned to occupy the position at the corner.
Then the neighbor??s ??boyfriend? comes out and announces that he had removed the corner marker because it was ??on his property?. Not too smart since the malicious act is a crime punishable by jail time and a fine.
Then to make things even more stupid he calls the police because ??we were trespassing?, however trespassing is not a crime for surveyors in the process of locating a boundary in my state. He might have had recourse if we had caused damage to the property, but, all we did was set a steel bar and with a cap and that had been flush with the ground.
I??m thinking of pressing charges, because my client will need to bear the expense otherwise. We can??t finish the survey or record the map unless the police or lawyers are involved. My assistant thinks it should have been easy to explain by showing the record information we had already obtained. However, the neighbor??s boyfriend was having none of that.
Just the day before, we had talked to the neighbor about the position of the corner before we set it and got no indication that there was going to be a bonehead fight. At least I got him to admit that he took out the corner in front of the police. And when I asked him to return the mark he went inside and brought it out to give to me.
Have any of you ever pressed charges against an interfering neighbor? How would you compete this survey? I am positive the neighbor will continue to wipe out anything we set there.
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