The Final Crazy Neighbor

The final crazy neighbor isn't mine--she's my son's. He realized she was crazy and very bad news almost as soon as he moved in but what are you going to do right after you have bought the house? So now several years later, she hasn't gotten better, just worse. She has lived in the house her whole life, inheriting it from her parents at their deaths. She seems to think that makes her the boss of the block, but most of the time my son ignores her.

He couldn't ignore the latest episode. She doesn't work and therefore has plenty of time to get to know everyone's schedules, watching out her windows as the block goes about its business. So when she saw my son drive away followed shortly thereafter by his wife, she knew the coast was clear, at least for a while. She had always hated this one tree in my son's yard--she was always complaining about the leaves falling or mostly blowing on her adjacent property, even leaf blowing them back on to his property. I don't know about the laws where you live, but where he lives that is illegal. The tree was lush and healthy, growing a fine new crop of leaves, so when she knew everyone had left, she notified the fellow she paid to come and cut down the tree. Not trim the tree, not cut back the tree, but cut down the entire tree. My son has one of those outdoor cameras so he got video of the fellow carrying out the mission but once again, what are you going to do? He did make a complaint of malicious mischief to the police but I doubt very much anything will happen.