BILL'S: Inconsiderate Neighbors, WIHAT # 2

To continue my "What I Hate About Texoma" listing, I can start in my own yard. For more than three years now, I have been trying to sell our house, and my inlaws have been trying to sell theirs. My wife and I had to give up, and our house is now being foreclosed on. We have moved in with the inlaws and have doubled our efforts to try to sell this one house. But again, it has proven to be impossible. I blame our neighbors for this. In the past two showings of our house, the first group pulled into the driveway, looked around and pulled back out. The second stopped in the middle of the street next to our neighbors and then drove off without even giving the house a chance.

The reason why? Well, see for yourself. These are actual photos of our neighbors. We have been in conflict with them for the past three years, trying to get them to help us sell our house, but they keep getting worse and worse. And note that all these houses that surround us are occupied by people who are related to one another.



Above is a view from our front yard. Two homes are in the picture. The one on the right side of the picture was placed since our house was placed on the market. They purposely placed it almost on top of the property line, as close to the house as possible. In the bottom right corner you can see the beginning of a dirt pile which was placed here so their septic spray would not come onto our land. This is no joke. They have septic sprinklers just outside their back door. You can see the trash piles in front of the home fully in the picture. The mobile home parked in front of the house is also occupied, but none of the authorities can ever catch anyone at home.



Above is house number three on the lot. Complete with torn tarps over the door, and all windows blocked out. Yes, the lawnmower is right were it broke down two years ago.



Two cargo containers with a wooden fence keeping the trash in. Both trucks in the picture are broken down. The trailer on the right side of the picture is full of trash and has been sitting next to the road for months now.



The story goes, this family owned a "head shop" in Gainesville, which burned down. They needed a place to store the stuff out of the store, so they placed these two storage containers to hold all the stuff they saved from the store. That was three years ago. It happened shortly after the owner of the land's house burned down, on this same plot of land. Here you can see the trash piled between the storage units. The storage units are usually left open. Instead of placing these units behind the house to make it appear more attractive, they placed them at the front of the house. This picture is taken from the road. Again, another broken down truck. Another illegal camper being used as a residence. We have already chased off one camperuse authorities found the old lady home when they came by. These campers are not hooked to the septic system (which could not support them anyway) and have hoses for fresh water hookups.



Closeup shot of the front lawn as seen from the street. This is where today's group who was going to come look at the house changed their mind.



Back yard is barely fenced in, but just like the front.



On the other side is a deserted camper, a deserted truck trailer, and a homemade shanty that houses a well. This family didn't want to pay for water from the city water lines. Trash still litters the lawn.



Another storage unit and piles of trash litter the front lawn on the other side of us.



The story behind this wonderful Evergreen storage unit was the father of this wonderful family died in this house. They needed someplace to "temporarily" store his stuff. So, they got this unit for a "short time." The mother moved out of the house and let one of her sons and his girlfriend move in. The mother is the one who was discovered illegally living in the camper and was forced to move. But the container and all the husband's stuff is still here. The storage unit's "short time" has now passed the year and a half mark, quickly coming up on two years.



The trash just doesn't stop in the yard. Across the street, the gutter is lined with trash from their houses. Plastic containers which blew from their yards in the recent storms. Empty liquor bottles and empty liquor cases. This is the same family we have sat out and watched as they passed joints from one to another in their front yard. Wonderful. And they wonder why we cannot sell.

Like I said, our house has gone under foreclosure, and the inlaws house has dropped in price over $25,000, it is the cheapest in the entire area, and still no lookers. All because of the neighbors. We have even found out that there is a local real estate agent who will not bring anyone out to our house because our neighbors are her cousins and she knows how trashy they are.

And you wonder why we hate the area. Well, here is reason number two. This area is the pit of hell and it has taken destroying our lives to try to start climbing out of this level of hell. And still has not let go of it's hold.

BILL'S: The Problem with Eavesdropping

This is going to be the beginning of my new series I am calling WIHAT, or What I Hate About Texoma.

The other day I am working in my department and this guy comes in wearing a shirt from a pizza company I have never heard of, talking very loudly on his cell phone. His conversations quickly caught my attention, as he exclaimed "They will only publish what they want to publish. People like you and me have no chance." Not exactly sure what he was talking about, I came back a few moments later to overhear him talking about Conspiracy Theories.

Okay, I love conspiracy theories, so I hung around to hear what he had in mind. I found out I quickly had a lot to learn about everything I thought I already knew. According to this guy, Osama Bin Laden had nothing to do with the plane hijackings and the attack on the Twin Towers. That was all a rouse. No the real fault was with the Government's Human Services program. Yes, the people who come in and take children away from their "innocent parents" were the ones responsible for the attacks. They just needed someone to blame, so they went after bin Laden.

The second conspiracy theory was more interesting. Jesus Christ was a lie. This was an invention of the government who are trying to get us to follow their beliefs by inventing "Christianity". The true name of God is Joshua, and it was the title the government had stolen from the true religion a long time ago. It was done by an organization who controls the government and religion. Religion wasn't really free, but his organization wanted to make sure that there would be a "mosque on every street corner for everyone to go in and pray freely in front of the government and they would not be able to stop them. Then religion would be completely free."

I found out that this guy was a member of an organization who watches for bullshit like this. They are "focused" on exposing the government for all of it's lies. The only problem they have is the fact that "assholes" infiltrate organizations for the sole purpose of thwarting their actions and keeping good guys down. But again, they were "focused" on finding these "assholes" and bringing them to justice. He told the guy on the phone that his "little group" that he is responsible for has "300-400" followers who meet underground. He assured the caller that all of his followers were ordained and able to fight in the name of God. He also made sure that the caller knew that they watched out for these infiltrating "assholes" and if any made their way into his group, his group would go undercover and move to a secret location. He was ready to deal with that problem.

He found out that the caller had an "asshole" that was causing him problems at his job. So, the cheery pizza guy told him that if he wanted to take care of the "asshole" all he needed to do was to find out who the guy was. Then he is to try to get close to him, be his friend. Find out what he likes to do, where he comes from, where he lives, what kind of car he drives, and what his license plate is. The caller would need to call back the pizza guy with the information and he would take care of the rest.

As the guy finished up, the pizza guy told his caller that his organization was currently getting ready to change the world. He was in place to make these changes. Apparently David Koresh had it all wrong. David Koresh placed all of his minions in one small ranch and then he limelighted which brought attention to himself. Therefore the government was ready for him, and were able to take him out. No, this guy has corrected all the mistakes. With soldiers everywhere, ready to attack. They were all waiting low until the right time, and then on command, they were all going to rise and attack and make this a truely free world.

At this point in time, I ran to find help, and of course, the guy disappeared. I think he realized I had been listening to him and had ran to fetch the "assholes".

Okay, maybe this is an extreme view, but this is a good reason to hate Texoma. Is this the only reason, no. It is only the beginning. Because the people I told about this guy did not want to do anything about it. No, but to my surprise, they started defending him. They tried to rationalize this guy's beliefs and how he could be correct. I am sitting here saying that he just said that he would help a guy "take care of an asshole when he found out the asshole's license plate" and that he was "in place to take out the government." In my world, these are terroristic threats. To the people up here, he is a neighbor, a brother, a friend. I don't believe that our own government was against us on September 11, 2001, but talking to my fellow assoicates, you would be amazed. Yes, this may be an extreme view, but it is a popular view. People here have no independent thought, and follow the ones who have an original thought, no matter the insanity level of the beliefs.

Why do I hate Texoma? Psychos, terrorists, and followers... oh, my.