What's a threat?

[Akieen Cloud]

[COLOR="Navy"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Okay, so my husband and I had a argument with out neighbor yesterday and words were exchange and he said this sentence.
'Test me, just test me. It won't be pretty it'll get messy.'
To understand where this was coming from he got mad because our dog was sitting on his patio furniture and he came over banging on our door cursing and yelling with my little boys in the room and a friend of ours. Well my husband went to talk to him and it led up to that one sentence. Which leads me to ponder this.
Would anyone consider that a threat or just an act of childish behavior. I've had a few people tell us to be careful cause it sounded like a threat to them but I want to ask the masses. Threat or No Threat? [/FONT][/COLOR]

[Chaos]

Without knowing what kind of person this guy is, I wouldn't be able to really say if it was a threat or not. Attitude, tone, emphasis; all these things would be important to actually hear to make a proper judgement.

[b]But.[/b]

On the other hand, whenever I hear someone say "Just test me" or "Go ahead and try it" or some chest-thumping one-liner, I automatically think they're blowing hot air and trying to weasel their way to a win. And if he was sneering or smirking when he said it, that would just reenforce it.

Luckily that wasn't me at your house, because I would have stabbed the *** for making a mountain out of a mole hill. Haha.

Is this a repeated incident, or just him having a pissy day?

[Ellerby]

[FONT="Tahoma"][COLOR="DimGray"]Keep your dog off his property? By "test me" I'm assuming next time he'll just call the pound or something. Frankly if a hairy mutt was shedding his fur all over my nice furniture I'd be pissed too.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[Boo]

[size=1]I recommend watching the movie [b]Bad Day on the Block[/b] with [b]Charles Sheen[/b] and then draw your conclusions.[/size]

[Akieen Cloud]

[COLOR="Navy"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Chaos: He's been really rude ever since he moved in next to us, if he ever has anything he wants to say to us he never says anything politely he always comes over banging on the door, hollering and cursing. So no not just a pissy day. Just an ***.

Lrb: I would''t call it furniture to be honest. Its more like out side chairs. But the neighborhood we live in is overrun with stray cats that lay on it all the time and he's seen them, so I think it's just a thing against dogs. Not only that the way he said it was more of an "I;ll poison your dog with out you looking" Kind of tone. But my husband was the one doing the talking so I dunno what his facial reaction was.

Boo: Don't think I've ever heard of it.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Ezekiel]

[SIZE="1"]As much as I love dogs and dislike people beings jerks, I have to agree with Lrb. There's no reason for your dog to be going over and laying on his porch. Just keep your dog on your own property and he shouldn't have a problem =/[/SIZE]

[Rachmaninoff]

Regardless of your neighbor being a jerk as you just mentioned, pretty much no on likes having someone else's pets running around on their property. Usually you just ignore cats since attempting to limit them doesn't work unless you have them inside, but dogs are different.

In the end, whether or not his furniture is nice isn't the point, what is the point is you're obviously letting your dog run around without any form of restriction. Frankly, that's not really a bright idea period. You sound like your using the fact that cats roam to justify not being more responsible with your dog.

Anyway, it could be a threat and it could get messy, it's hard to tell without actually having been there. Though it sounds like he was definitely a jerk. If it were me, I'd look into ways to keep your dog out of other people's things.

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]While I am with the whole: Keep your dog on your propert movement (and it can get hard= especially if your dog jumps the fence like some larger dogs do) I would say to keep an eye on the dog and the kids. Especially since this seems like one of those angry for no reason guys. They're not much fun.

I've nothing else to add except I really would be careful around the guy if this is an on-going thing. If it escalates further it is definately a threat.[/color][/font][/size]

[jomz]

Sounds like a threat to me...

I hope you do keep your dog off his stuff... You never know might he might do - like call the pound, or feed something awful to your dog.

[Lunar]

[COLOR="Navy"]Wow. I've never heard of that before....
Hmm, I think that this is a whole bunch of "fluff." I doubt that he'd actually do something to your dog at all, but.........
You'd better keep your dog off of it just to be safe. Makes me kind of think of Lakeview Terrace.
Anyways, yeah, I doubt he's serious but better safe than sorry. :animesmil[/COLOR]

[Aaryanna]

[FONT="Tahoma"][COLOR="DarkGreen"]It sounds like a threat to me. However as a dog owner myself, I have to wonder why you're letting your dog roam around. o_O No offense, but that's rather careless on your part and even if he was a jerk, why should he have to put up with your dog getting into his stuff?

I don't let my dog wander around because one: they don't need her pooping on their lawn and two: they don't need her chewing up their belongings. I definitely recommend not letting your dog roam freely since that would solve the problem right there. [/COLOR][/FONT]

[Akieen Cloud]

[COLOR="Navy"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Okay, I forgot to clear up the fact that my Golden was on a chain and he was connected to our porch, we live in base housing which if any one on here is a military brat you know housing really isn't all that private. So my dog was on a chain he was not roaming around with out proper restrictions and it's not like he has much room to roam, our porches and yards are connected so there's the blind spots filled in. I'm sorry for not specifying that but now that those are filled in now make the choice. Cause like I said, there is a wall dividing our porches and a sidewalk dividing our yards so it's close quarters. I just think he's being an ***, but that's just me.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Rachmaninoff]

Ah, I see. If you're that close, it makes it nearly impossible to keep your dog out, he does need some room to roam after all. In light of that it sounds like your neighbor is just being a jackass. In which case I'd keep an eye out since I'd hate to see anything happen to your dog.

[Drizzt Do'urden]

Well being military personel myself I've dealt with these kinds've people, and my question is: is he a civilian, is he enlisted, officer, and if he his enlisted or an officer, does he outrank your husband?

One thing you have to do, and I'm sure you've been through this or know somebody, figure out what his deal is. I'm not saying check into him or anything, but its nothing to figure out if he has some sort've stress from having somebody overseas, or the like.

If all of the above are no then you need to confront him. The one thing that makes living in base housing so great is the closeness of the community, so if he's giving you gruff I'm sure there are plenty of people in the area who will "have your back" so to speak in the event you want to push for him to be moved (have Knuckles talk to...not sure what the official term is for those in charge of base housing). Or better yet (though I know it's not reccomendd) let me know where you guys are stationed (I know a LOT of the active duty bases C.E. guys, if it gets too bad his water could go out for quite some time. or power.....or telephone :animesmil )

Oh and just a heads up, anybody who thinks KG is exaggerating when she talks about the close quarters needs to think again. Base housing can get pretty tight, and if her dog was running loose she wouldn't have a dog.

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[quote name='Knuckles' Girl'][COLOR="Navy"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Okay, I forgot to clear up the fact that my Golden was on a chain and he was connected to our porch, we live in base housing which if any one on here is a military brat you know housing really isn't all that private. So my dog was on a chain he was not roaming around with out proper restrictions and it's not like he has much room to roam, our porches and yards are connected so there's the blind spots filled in. I'm sorry for not specifying that but now that those are filled in now make the choice. Cause like I said, there is a wall dividing our porches and a sidewalk dividing our yards so it's close quarters. I just think he's being an ***, but that's just me.[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]


[color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva][size=4]Okay now I understand, thanks for clearing that up. Those yards on base don't give much room for a dog to roam. Hells they don't give much room for humans to roam. (Ft. Hood alumni of 2002-2003!) Of course my brother's dog is on a chain too in a fenced civilian yard up here and he used to jump the fence and get into other neighbours' yards as well when he lived with my parents. :animesigh. So I did give you the benefit of the doubt there.

I think what you really have here is a neighbour with a severe failure to not be a jackass. I had one of those too when I was living off base. Depending on the guy's rank (or lack there of) you could just go to his CO if the problem persists. Or maybe MPs (I don't really remember if all on base neighbourhoods have MP stations since Hood was such a large base and some of the on base housing was off base.) If the situation does get more extreme (ie: he starts shouting or threatening you or your kids I'd definately say to find out which company he's with along with the MOS (well I think it's how it goes, they did stick a bunch of 31 Fox together) and call up his CO to get the problem solved, but do it anonomysly. Some guys (like my ex roommate) get quite pissy when you go behind their backs to report that they were threatening you.[/color][/size][/font]

[Aaryanna]

[COLOR="DarkGreen"][FONT="Tahoma"][quote name='Drizzt Do'urden']Oh and just a heads up, anybody who thinks KG is exaggerating when she talks about the close quarters needs to think again. Base housing can get pretty tight, and if her dog was running loose she wouldn't have a dog.[/quote]Why would we think she's exaggerating? There are fourplex's here where four families share the same yard no less. So anytime someone lives in an environment where there isn't much space, it would make more sense to hear of someone's pet getting into someone else's furniture.

Anyway, now that you've cleared this up Knuckles' Girl, I'd be more inclined to consider it a threat. Your neighbor knows your dog is kept chained and that space wise, it's not going to be that easy to keep your dog off of his furniture.

I don't know what you can do, but honestly, if you don't have much space, then you just don't. It sounds like he's being a jackass and yet at the same time I'd be concerned that he'd do something stupid. I don't know if it's possible to fix things to keep your dog off his furniture, but if there's a way, I'd try to implement it. [/FONT][/COLOR]