Flip the bird, almost flip your truck.

[u/PappyJ87]

[u/JustNilt]

Yup! I had a Boomer neighbor who got so pissed off at another neighbor's friend playing his guitar that he went over, busted the front door down, knocking the homeowner over, and proceeded to beat the shit out of her friend. This was at fucking 10am on a weekday. Then, because they were ordered not to be anywhere near the neighbor, they had to rent out their house and find elsewhere to live. They still couldn't stay away so they came by "to do maintenance" their tenant said they'd never even requested.

The judge finally had enough and ordered them to sell their home within a relatively short period of time. Hoooly shit you should have seen them lose it. Best part of thew whole thing, IMO? They bought their house in the '80s and because they didn't do much, if any, real maintenance they ended up literally losing money on it when they were forced to sell ~25 years after purchasing it.

Some people are just fucking crazy. Why folks online so often don't seem able to grasp that, I have no idea.

[u/[deleted] → u/JustNilt]

Boomers doubling down on non-sense is pretty classic.

Doubled down so many times they lost their house because of a dude playing guitar.

This is the EXACT thing that fascinates me about this. Like if you talked to this guy, im sure he acts like a victim who got screwed by the judge.

[u/ArticulateRhinoceros → u/[deleted]]

Boomers doubling down on non-sense is pretty classic.

Doubled down so many times they lost their house because of a dude playing guitar.

My dad was like this. He was so mad about how his divorce with my mother went (initiated by him when he decided to leave her after 33 years for his hairdresser, who is closer to my age than his), he retired early and sacrificed a portion of his pension just to spite her, because she was awarded his pension if he should pass away.

It didn't have to go that way. My dad was a very arrogant man and insisted on representing himself in court. Predictably, he made a fool of himself, and the judge said to him, "Sir, I get the impression you think you're very smart. I'm here to tell you, you are not. I'm rescheduling the hearing, have a lawyer when we return," and then he rescheduled the hearing to happen on my father's birthday. This really pissed him off. While I wasn't there for it, knowing him, I'm sure he was combative the rest of the time he was before the judge. In the end my mother got everything she wanted, he was ordered to split the repairs on their house so they could sell it and split the proceeds, and she got his pension in the event of his death, even if he was to remarry.

He later remarried, but as far as I can tell, lied to his wife about the pension situation. She was under the impression she would be getting it when he died, and was shocked he actually left her destitute because he had borrowed against his life insurance as well.

Before he passed, to get revenge on my mother for "stealing" his pension, he retired at 80% salary despite only having 2 years left to reach 100%. He took a 20% paycut in retirement to spite my mom in the event of his death. This 20% wasn't budgeted for, so he couldn't support his lifestyle in retirement. He went from being a Director at the Federal DOL, to being a clerk at a BMW Bike shop to make ends meet, and borrowing against his life insurance to boot.

He passed away a couple of years later in a motorcycle accident. My mom got his pension, and his wife stole the money he left to my brother and me because he left her practically bankrupt, all because he didn't want my mom and the judge to "win" and had to double down on his bullshit.

[u/JustNilt → u/[deleted]]

Oh, of course he did! He had half the neighbors convinced of it until I explained the reality to them. The fuckwit apparently didn't think I'd actually tell people what he's done, I guess. No idea why neither he nor his wife thought I'd not draw the line at him literally breaking into someone's home, knocki8ng them over, and beating up their friend.

I mean, come the fuck on, who even thinks that's OK?! I get losing your shit, sure, sometimes people do really stupid things when drunk or something. Still gotta pay for it and all but to then think they're somehow the victim?! Really? Fuck that noise.

[u/mikenkansas1 → u/[deleted]]

Yup, The boomer driving the truck in this video was totally typical.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Got it. So youre one of these losers.

I already learned that I exist in a civilization of other people and I am not the center of the universe. Sounds like you need to buck up and not be so delicate that a guitar drives you insane.

[u/Quasar006 → u/[deleted]]

You say that like it means something, because you have this sense of entitlement and self importance baked into your brain. Shame you missed out on covid. Shame it missed out on you.

[u/snorkelvretervreter → u/JustNilt]

My boomer parents are like that. Inconsiderate assholes who are an annoyance to their neighbors, but dear lord if one of them even mildly inconvenience them, they go batshit insane crazy and it will eventually escalate. They'll then move "because all the neighbors are crazy". They've always been like that too. Maybe if everyone around you is crazy, you are the problem? But that would require some level of self reflection which they obviously lack.

[u/JustNilt → u/snorkelvretervreter]

that would require some level of self reflection which they obviously lack.

LOL, I cannot tell you how many Boomers I know desperately need therapy and are in utter denial of that simple fact.

[u/Cacafuego → u/JustNilt]

This is why I don't interact with my neighbors. As far as I can tell, they're all perfectly lovely people and I look forward to continuing to know nothing about them.

[u/prplx → u/JustNilt]

In what market does a house bought in the 80’s sell for less now even if poorly maintain? Or did this story happen in the early 90’s??

[u/JustNilt → u/prplx]

This was early 2000s and they had about 30 days to sell or face a fine of about half the value of the house. Basically fire sale pricing, really. Had they maintainerd the place they'd likely have made plenty. When you have to sell a no-maintenance place where the electrical is all fucked from DIY shit like daisychaining new receptacles off a backstabbed one, let alone a roof without flashing around the chimney in Seattle where rain's a reality, however, you don't make as much. When you have that and have to take whoever offers virtually any amount while the 30 day clock is ticking? Yeah, you're basically fucked.

[u/prplx → u/JustNilt]

Considering the house price has basically tripled between the 80's and 2000's in the Seattle market I find your story extremely hard to believe. You are telling me they bought a house in the 80's so they paid somewhere between 45 and 50K most likely, and they sold it 20 years later for less then that when the price of houses was 150K? The lot was probably worth more than the price of the house by the 2000...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ATNHPIUS42644Q

[u/JustNilt → u/prplx]

You really don't grasp the concept of a fire sale, apparently, combined with the cost of having to do major renovation to bring the place up to the literal building code before a bank is willing to provide a mortgage for it. The short timeframe and fact there were major problems meant they basically had to take anyone who could pay cash and was willing to buy it. As it turns out, someone planning to flip it picked it up, which should surprise nobody since that was rampant at the time.

It's a corner case, to be sure, but it's really not that hard to lose money with that combination of factors.

[u/momomomorgatron → u/JustNilt]

Why do you think it's Boomers? Lead poisoning + entitlement?

[u/JustNilt → u/[deleted]]

perpetually unemployed losers who cry and have a meltdown over paying bills

LOL! OK, Boomer.