Driving down the road, turned around in the road, not in their driveway, and proceeded to get shot at by a 12 gauge (so it sounded like). I stopped and yelled out the window at the flashlights on the hillside (the neighbors porch), asking if they had just fired upon us. They responded with many expletives, and told us yes they did fire at us and to get our dogs(WTF?) out of their trash.
Number one, no dogs were out.
Number two, they shot directly at us, my landlord hearing the shot, and me and my girlfriend witnessing the muzzle blast and projectile breaking pine tree limbs.
Now here comes the kicker.
We immediately told our landlord who proceeded to go over there and talk to them like a civil person. We were not going to get the cops involved, thinking that this might have been a misunderstanding and not wanting to cause any neighbor rivalry thats further than shots being fired, if you understand that. We waiting for landlord to return before we would call the police, but i guess they decided to jump the gun, once again and call the police on themselves!
The cops came, and would not take a report for us, did not ask us for our names, and told us to pen our dogs, or we'd get a ticket.
We have chi-chi dogs, that are penned. They couldn't even knock over a 5 gallon bucket if they tried let alone a trash can...so its impossible for our dogs to get into their trash. Plus, these neighbors have 3 huge dogs, and my chi chi's are deathly afraid of strange big dogs. No way our dogs have dug in their trash.
Cop said they they called saying that we were shooting at their dogs.
Confused?
We said we wanted to press charges.
The deputy then proceeded to tell us he wouldn't, he could, but it would be pointless and it was getting late, because the DA would just throw the case out and actually write us a 400 dollar ticket for having a dog running loose.
He then proceeded to tell me how he told the neighbors that they legally couldnt shoot my dogs, but legally could shoot them if they were running after their cows!
THIS WAS LAST THURSDAY!
We dropped it, thinking these people would just let it go.
We just got done dealing with ACS, who came and wrote us a ticket (without witnessing anything) for unregistered dogs.
We now want to press charges against these guys for firing upon us. After a little bit of research, shooting a gun at someone can hold a pretty hefty sentence, and i think is something that shouldn't be held lightly.
WHAT DO WE DO NOW?
Number one, no dogs were out.
Number two, they shot directly at us, my landlord hearing the shot, and me and my girlfriend witnessing the muzzle blast and projectile breaking pine tree limbs.
Now here comes the kicker.
We immediately told our landlord who proceeded to go over there and talk to them like a civil person. We were not going to get the cops involved, thinking that this might have been a misunderstanding and not wanting to cause any neighbor rivalry thats further than shots being fired, if you understand that. We waiting for landlord to return before we would call the police, but i guess they decided to jump the gun, once again and call the police on themselves!
The cops came, and would not take a report for us, did not ask us for our names, and told us to pen our dogs, or we'd get a ticket.
We have chi-chi dogs, that are penned. They couldn't even knock over a 5 gallon bucket if they tried let alone a trash can...so its impossible for our dogs to get into their trash. Plus, these neighbors have 3 huge dogs, and my chi chi's are deathly afraid of strange big dogs. No way our dogs have dug in their trash.
Cop said they they called saying that we were shooting at their dogs.
Confused?
We said we wanted to press charges.
The deputy then proceeded to tell us he wouldn't, he could, but it would be pointless and it was getting late, because the DA would just throw the case out and actually write us a 400 dollar ticket for having a dog running loose.
He then proceeded to tell me how he told the neighbors that they legally couldnt shoot my dogs, but legally could shoot them if they were running after their cows!
THIS WAS LAST THURSDAY!
We dropped it, thinking these people would just let it go.
We just got done dealing with ACS, who came and wrote us a ticket (without witnessing anything) for unregistered dogs.
We now want to press charges against these guys for firing upon us. After a little bit of research, shooting a gun at someone can hold a pretty hefty sentence, and i think is something that shouldn't be held lightly.
WHAT DO WE DO NOW?
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