To the editor:
Talk about lowering the bar. Read this. You be the judge.
Am I the only person who didn’t know that a barrel hitting a fence and “a couple of leaves on the lawn” (according to one of two LPD officers called by one of my neighbors) constitutes “encroachment”? It does when there are two residents, their first lawyer/relative and the second lawyer who arrived after the duo was served a No Trespass Order.
Lawyer #2 states: “Please accept this letter as formal notice they are issuing a reciprocal No Trespass directive, which includes not only access to their property but also prohibits the placement or encroachment of your personal property onto their land, whether intentional or incidental.” This educated man is talking about “a couple of leaves” in the wind. These letters are not binding, and considering the flimflam farcical essence, not bound to any semblance of credibility. Nothing has been filed.
These are members of the bar, not Magical Mystery Tour Guides twisting the law to suit every familial issue-du-jour. The male came at 9 a.m. on a Sunday (in pajamas, slippers and a Winter jacket) screaming (and shaking) about the barrel. I thought it was a medical emergency. The female arrived, two days later, screaming about leaves she said I threw in her yard.
There is a history here including when gas lines were installed. All residents were told their homes would have some impact — no exceptions, well one. Their property was untouched. My driveway had heavy equipment, a 5×5 trench, a police detail and simultaneous service. They had no idea how this happened.
A year later, I had to send the female a note stating I would have to document if anyone stood in my driveway again demanding, “Come up here now.” Two weeks later, a constable came to my workplace with #1 relative/lawyer’s letter advising me to cease communication. I did that a year before. Nothing suspect in that action.
The incident was referenced by Lawyer #2 in his letter: “Your subsequent decision to report their former attorney for sending that letter was an unexpected and disproportionate reaction.” Was I just chastised by an Officer of the Court, in a letter purported to be advocacy for his “genuinely disappointed” clients, for filing a justified claim?
I accept (according to the clearly superior among us) that I am an unimportant resident of Lynn, not wrapped in the regal cloak of power worn by these two, but I think I’m allowed to defend myself. The complaint was two-pages of incidents from babyish to impacting.
Paving a driveway 5-feet past a property line for additional parking and blocking three other driveway views is documented. These two, again, insist they don’t know how that happened. Wouldn’t that be encroachment of city property? It seems better suited than lawyer #2’s quote acknowledging “your items blown into their yard.”
This is not my first go-round with this element, but it will be my finale. It is also not a condemnation of lawyers, especially Lynn lawyers. I worked with two law legends, and this would horrify them and any other true practitioner.
When you stand up to this caliber, you are vulnerable. They don’t stop until you bow. There’ll be no bowing to adult bullying (the original four, now eight), and I’ve been told many times I’m “too stupid” to be afraid.
I did nothing to these people, and I, like most of us, want to believe they are not the majority. I think we’re wrong, and the truth is they are growing, if not in numbers, in delusions of grandeur. These are not “est” category females, but they are brazen enough to self-aggrandize ad nauseam until people give in. When my life is disrupted, property value impacted and my sense of security shaken, I have no give left.
You be the judge.
Robin Connolly
Farrell Road.
Lynn
