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Angry Guy Blasts Neighbor For Trimming Tree

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0:00 [Music] all right now that we got a good amount of homeowners in the room this will be a good article for you guys to uh give your opinion on have you ever had a dispute with your neighbors at all about like a hedge or a fence something that nature my HOA guy he's like the he's a Karen for sure uh he wants to like oh the decorations aren U right oh you're not leaving your trash cans here like dude he's uh and he now he's running for um HOA president so he needs your vote but then I'm like why if you need my vote why would you make me take down my decorations right here for Halloween I'm like I already my wife and I we ain't voting for you but we need him to win other like he but he does other things that are good so like we're trying to CH not and my wife since she walks dog a lot she's very vocal with the neighbor so she they need her vote but now this

0:51 guy is trying to not blackmail me but trying to like hey if I do this for you you do this for me so so my brother owns a security business business well if he wins as HOA president he can get my brother's security business in in the account and my brother want that so he knows that like politics no he sends me a mess hey I hav have you talking to your brother lately I'm like oh yeah yeah yeah I like hey uh I'm doing this I need your wife to join the board so I can vote it in so like he'll throw it out there how's your brother do he'll check in on my brother I'm like and then then now I see the behavior he'll just check in cuz we need he needs more votes to win so he's trying to KI kick out the HOA lady too as well so he's uh you got leverage yeah so but then like dude how bad do I want to brother have this account that I have to deal with this guy that everyone hates you know but does is she more likable they're both not likable most most ho people are not don't they have

1:42 to kind of be Caren in order to do that job very well yeah it's in their personality even want that job I think like who has time to like volunteer you don't get paid it's volunteer work correct correct yeah you don't get paid are they usually retired this guy's he's not he's getting there he's about to be or people that are just power hungry yeah yeah see that's the weird thing too is like how do you even navigate that maybe cuz like you know for HOA it's you got to think of the whole community and then maybe they're like no one's going to do this no one sees this ████ and then they they are like bothered enough to go man we got to make sure that our property value is like good but you want Jordy living in the neighborhood so that's what we're wrestling with so like what are you leaning towards are you leaning towards backing him you know what there's not now because my son's so young so like like when When Christmas Comes we put lights everywhere like if I want to come in at Santa Claus I want to do something in then if I want to act like a goofball in the middle of the

2:33 street like he if he actually ran the name he would give me he would give me tickets you know dress up as Santa Claus no if you like if you like dress up at Santa Claus and you were like just you rented a bus or you rent you did something stupid right or like you said you want to do something extravagant for your kids like let's say I want to go down and bring down some snow okay I want to bring snow or I want to have a bunch of elves here to do whatever if you don't go through the permits with the with the HOA you can't do it so even if it's just a one day thing yeah he'll he he well if he is uh HOA the shot caller he can like give you tickets so like okay you're shot caller and you help him get there can't you just be like hey times when like he needed our vote but he still ticket us for these trash cans or he pushed the envelope for the like you you're being a bad president so like if you need something from me why are you being a Karen but like that's why like okay do we want to

3:23 deal with this so like in the neighborhood since a lot of them know my wife and they know me they're like wa they'll swing with whatever we swing we don't want that responsibility cuz it's volunteer work so where do you so that he's putting pressure on us more cuz elections are coming up even for him too to win so like he's doing rallies yeah so he's rally he's rallying and he's up against a lady yeah he like hey man you want to go pick up trash and be like I won't Enzo you know like he just like he just some like ah kind weird maybe my son was older yes but my son's too young where if we you know want to decorate new things like outside the norm then he would so you get ticketed for putting Christmas lights up if you don't if you put up Christmas lights and you put it let's say in the on the yard that's not your like it's community yard right but then like you want it to kind of match with your house he would ticket you for that

4:15 or make you take it down or let's say you use uh an outlet that's like part of the community outlet but then they like everyone by goes by your house and look at the lights anyway so he wants he'll makes you cut it how much he doesn't have kids that's why how much would a ticket like that be couple hundred bucks but they keep just racking them on and on as you don't you know so what happens if you don't pay yeah who forced to pay uh that I don't know we paid every ticket like what time you hey man did you get that ticket in the mail you asked me to my face so you told me you got to stop this guy I think what ends up happening is when the house sale goes through that's the first thing that gets deducted really so you have ho fees you have to pay uh penalties like you can if you rack it all up you just avoid it you avoid it avoid it there's something in like the escrow process I believe where like the minute you sell the first thing you have to do is pay all that stuff first and then you get your proceeds so you so you have to you have to pay you want to be Petty and just like run for HOA president even though you don't have to do as much work no they have to walk so if you are President you you you

5:07 agree to do these obligations like you supposed to walk the neighborhood make list of things that are you know you got time for that ████ I know that's why I'm like but he does but then like if he does he's like like he they are hired to be professional like they're caring you know yeah so it's like is it worth it or not like like my kid too young for it to be worth it right now like the Trunk or Treat like you couldn't Trunk or Treat without cuz it's not it wasn't you didn't go through the sanctions to get the Trunk or Treat what's that trun when you pop your trunk and you dress you design it like very Halloween is and you give out candy you can't just so oh you let's get together and do it no you have to follow know about that yeah does that work it is a thing right now trick or treating orating giant tailgate party right you have all the cars line up and just make your car the cool haunted house that's kind of cool H what do you do you meet up in a parking lot meet up in parking lot yeah but you can't even do that you know or is that just so that the walking is less I don't know they did it at uh

5:58 they do at schools a lot they did at taica schools so there was like 50 cars lined up I thought I thought was pretty cool that's kind of tight that is really it's like a drug deal for children yeah like an arms deal well this isn't really about HOA but it looks like HOA could have saved this from happening um so what happened is you got a dude in Minneapolis uh it's this this black neighbor was arguing with this grumpy white neighbor which you know can happen sometimes sounds like a racial thing is about to crack it's really not it the ra thing doesn't really have much to do with it other than the fact that a tree was growing from the white guy's house into the black dude's yard and so the black dude was really cool about it and he was just like asking them hey you know you got this tree thing can you trim it and even the mention of that just sent the grumpy white dude into like a weird TI raade and so the white

6:48 dude would constantly be threatening the guy like literally saying he's going to kill him over this which makes what the ████ and then theat is crazy the yeah he would like brandish like he' be like in the window with like a knife or something like out of his own window looking at him and stuff um and then the the black dude actually reported it to the cops like multiple times over the course of a year like every time a threat would happen and then nothing even got done So eventually the uh black dude's trimming the tree himself and then this is what happened video obtained by our NBC affiliate k 11 shows David M trimming a tree outside his Minneapolis home Wednesday when according to court documents a bullet was fired from his neighbor's upst oh ████ down um through my neck and then all the way back to my spine my ████

7:39 ████ He's also recovering from broken ribs and a concussion he got shot 11 months since he and his wife moved in they've been living a nightmare next door to John Shack Port documents show the victim John Shack sounds crazy harassment hate speech and verbal threats It also says Shaw Shack suffers from mental illness sh Shack has been charged with attempted murder but he is not in jail allowing him to stay in his home because they say he's a threat to himself and others the likelihood so just let him let it leave him alone then he's a threat to everyone others I didn't understand that last sentence that doesn't make sense that's so shouldn't he be in jail so he's not a threat maybe he's such a threat he goes we don't want the inmates getting hurt by him know dude that's crazy yeah that last sentence makes no sense to me so

8:29 he's a to himself and others so they are putting him in his own house didn't know Minnesota was like California right tocharge his firearm because the guy was on his property cutting he wasn't on his property oh that was his own house they went over to his side of the bro you shoot somebody out of your ████ window ████ crazy you got to go to jail yeah for sure immed to go to jail immediately dude ████ and the guy still not wow attempted murder but this is Minneapolis right mhm maybe it's a little bit weird there care where it is like where the laws are like a little bit different cuz you know how like in Texas right you can you can basically blast someone if they're on your like front lawn but he Minneapolis he's on his own Line stop defending him Joe maybe it maybe there's some laws there that I just don't get blast Thy Neighbor yeah

9:19 it's like it's some weird ████ that they can't really get cuz obviously the cops aren't bringing him in for some get shot either they brought him in he got arrested he got released bro that's crazy they arrested him and then it was that was that'd be a DA issue right oh so it is gas con's running that too huh they're not Prosecuting yes yeah the way here's the timeline so October 11 2023 that's the first time that uh black dude approached this crazy white guy about it and then um that's when the dude like told him like if you touch the tree I'm going to take care of you that's what he said oh ████ March he approached him while he was working outside and then got verbally harassed April uh the white guy was throwing household items from his window at him May uh that's when the white dude verbally threatened him called oh called him a black bastard saying I'm going to kill you if you call the police again all you people do is

10:11 lie and commit crimes so yeah I guess it is racial holy surpris with black bastard that was 19 times yeah in August he uh threatened him from the window holding a large knife to the window threatening to kill him and his wife October of this year he verbally threatened and screamed racial slurs from his window again showing a knife from the window and then October 14 uh that's when the the black dude saw the white dude outside of his house so this imagine there's just your neighbors outside your house holding a firearm pointing it the firearm at you through the window that's ████ damn so this like wow that's like very like you know how many ████ more C how many more reports do you need and then at the end of it after all this he gets shot and the guy's still just in his own house

11:01 after being released that was that was a misun threat when sha when sha Shank Redemption or whatever was on his property with a gun pointing it at him on his own property if that's when he should have shot him je yeah but then he probably would go to jail because that's how he probably would yeah it's so weird I guess the lesson is if you guys are going to move or buy a house also try to meet the neighbors if you can yeah if you see a house that's next to the one that you want and it's all ████ up and has CU yeah the windows all boarded up that's why you need HOA they'll deal with that guy yeah let the they'll be get the HOA guy will be getting shot yeah man a Karen would defeat him that guy's the HOA president he runs the block bro that's so ████ up messed up my neighbor is ████ cool right now he just gave me

11:51 ████ like six trees the Indian guy yeah congrats he gave you six trees he's do he's doing uh he's redoing his front yard and then he was like okay you want some trees I'm going to throw them away he's like I see that like your front yard has some missing spots I was like dude I'll take all of them that's a burn a slight he was like he's being dick prob get some more ████ trees in your FR oh hell yeah dude so my my front yard looks a more filled out now oh that's cool what have you given him anything before um well like when we first moved in he had to go somewhere and then he was like can you help water in my backyard for like a week and that's I was like yeah sure of course like for 500 bucks I can I just went back there and watered all his plants and stuff you didn't do any Shenanigans while you're back there you pee on any of the plants I save that for our BL that's the

12:42 good stuff

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