Hard To Have Sympathy With This Couple

[Redhelen72]

They appear to think that everyone is out to get them - they could have quit whilst ahead but continued.

all this money over a lamp!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13011341/Pensioners-100000-bill-neighbours-lantern-kent-hunt-pollard.html

[ToraToraTora]

MAABOF!

[andy-hughes]

Neighbourhood disputes can, and do, develop into the most entrenched and bitter arguments two people can ever have.

Everyone's home is his castle, but even if your neighbours vex you in any way, a war of attrition is never the answer.

Rarely are such disputes settled in court without ruinous expense, as this couple have discovered.

The problem is, what starts out as a nuisance becomes a crusade, and then an obsession, and that 'need to win' wipes out all reason, and that is why this couple find themselves where they are.

Of course they see themselves as 'victims' because they were 'victims' from the start, that's their default position.

The notion of  not chasing your quarry over a cliff never enters their minds, and I would not be surprised if they carried on with their legal actions until they bankrupt themselves.

You have to pick your battles, they didn't, and pronbably won't again.

[naomi24]

Barmy.  Fitting a blind to the window would have done the job and been a lot cheaper.

[andy-hughes]

naomi - // Barmy.  Fitting a blind to the window would have done the job and been a lot cheaper. //

Brace yourself - I cannot but agree entirely.

[wolf63]

If I don't close my bedroom curtains fully I have a traffic light lighting up the room all night.  Who do I sue?

This sort of situation is usually between two middle-aged and older males.  They may have problems selling their house as a result of this dispute.

 

[Untitled]

they sound paranoid and entitled. i love the quote from their poor son... "i told my parents not to do this"

i bet he did! 

[THECORBYLOON]

It's not even direct light from the lamp, it's reflected light bouncing off a church.

Blinds or thick curtains would have solved the issue but clearly, they wanted to prove their case in court.

[Redhelen72]

Even after going to court for the first time they would not let it go!

Fit a pair of blackout curtains like everyone else who is bothered by lights do!

Personally I don't mind light coming in my window and actually sleep with my blinds open.

[jno]

traffic lights need to be there, wolf, but this looks like a purely decorative, and quite large, addition to the house.

I have a lot of sympathy with the couple. You shouldn't be forced to install curtains because your neighbours choose to shine a light in your windows at night.

[ToraToraTora]

I think AH at 11:29 is correct, neighbour disputes tend to become fanatical. All common sense and reason goes out of the window. Light does not bother me, easy to block, now noise! that's a far worse issue. Thankfully I am lucky with my neighbours.

[Untitled]

"having to put up curtains"? oh boo hoo cry me a river. 

[youngmafbog]

Bizarre behaviour, just buy blinds and/or blackout curtains as suggested above.  It's what we did for the grandchildren here.

//You shouldn't be forced to install curtains because your neighbours choose to shine a light in your windows at night.//

Read the story, they didnt the light is 'bounced' of a wall(See TCL's post) Besides if you want total darkness go live in the country.

[Peter Pedant]

Bammy.  Fitting a blind to the window would have done the job and been a lot cheaper.

as AH said, agreed - BUT the lawyers should NOT have said "oh goody goody where is your pension? - give me every last penny!"

but instead - a JR ( hundred thou for one day, Jesus) was a waste of time.

( translation: JR is a high court action, ( v.v. V expensive) where they asked a judge to rule the county court was obviously wrong. He didnt) - 

 

[choux]

They need to lighten up, instead they have lightened their bank balance.

[Canary42]

A little light relief for the Lawyers (pun intended) 😀   😀   😀   😀   😀   

[Peter Pedant]

we got up to £10 000 in a  border dispute - and each side found its own costs

and THEN the opposing solicitors were run out of business ( yes Milne and Lyall of Bridport) on another matter where their icky practices caught up with them

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Law/Question1687218.html#answer-12240301

and for the mods

https://www.bridportnews.co.uk/news/8627638.bridport-15-jobs-to-go-when-legal-practice-closes/

( clozzied - not there now - all gone)

[anneasquith]

That's the sons inheritance gone .

[ToraToraTora]

14:10, so you know their finances then anne? I'd say that 100k is a drop in the ocean to them. Still madness of course but I don't think the saucepan is going to be rowing.

[Untitled]

there are very very few people indeed for whom 100k would be a drop in the ocean

that being said some people have more money than sense

[Canary42]

//// the saucepan is going to be rowing  ////

...... when the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea