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Parents move into their home early 70's. Most houses are still unoccupied - building boom at the time, more houses than buyers. A "nice" Israeli family checks out the house above theirs. Convinced them to buy it. Husband, wife, 3 kids. Somewhere down the line, the crazy gene kicks in, they find out that property markers were set wrong, chain-link fence is 5' on their property. The property in dispute is unusable anyway. They take it upon themselves to take part of the fence down and bash newly installed solar panels and pipes for our pool that are on "their" property. They deny any wrong doing, though no one from the street can get to the panels. Cops come, reports taken, court date set, they don't show. Judge rules in our favor, "squatters rights" law. Property becomes ours, neighbors don;t sign papers acknowledging this..... The dad dies, they blame us. Rest of the family starts to have very loud arguments with each other on a daily basis, two kids move out. Youngest son and mom still have it out. That son starts behaving erratically, when I was a kid and running my RC cars in the Cul-de-sac, he would come out and threaten to take my cars if they got "too close" to their property. Fast forward many years, mom is gone, son still lives in house. It's a mess, he collects crap from all over town and dumps it in his yard. Freaks out when he sees any of us. Very erratic when in his truck. Threatens people, cops can't do anything. Finally another neighbor gets verbal with him and the looney tries to it him, neighbor puts him to the ground, cops are called, looney gets arrested, spends a week in the mental ward, shows to court, has outbursts, judge warns him that he will be held in contempt if he continues. Restraining orders are written... Phew... Now the looney is quiet around us, but is harassing a few family's a street over. Cops show up again to my parents, talk... The looney is still free to roam the streets and is dangerous.