Imagine going for a walk with your family in a neighborhood where there aren’t any sidewalks. What would you do when a car drove by?

In this story, one family was in this situation, and the stood in the grass at the edge of a neighbor’s property. The problem is that the neighbor is super annoying and seems to care more about her grass than the family’s safety.

That really backfired!

Keep reading to see what happens when the dad notices something unusual about the neighbor’s property.

Dont walk on your property… You got it.

This one goes back to the previous neighborhood our family lived in.

It was a really nice quiet horse shoe shaped street but it had no sidewalks. When my wife and I would walk the dogs and our kids, we would have to walk in the street.

This was not a problem unless a car came and we would have the kids step aside into the grass to stay out of the street while the car passed.

There always seems to be one awful neighbor.

The neighborhood was built in the 80’s and many residents are original owners.

Mostly nice but of course we have some nasty humanoids among them.

One neighbor in particular seems to always have to say something mean when we go by. (She is a deacon at the church my family goes to and is the type to be religious for face value only).

She really was horrible.

One day in particular she yelled at us for allowing our kids to step in her grass (while avoiding a car in the road) and I told her that they were just stepping aside until the car passed.

She got overly angry and started spraying a hose at us and screaming like a banshee.

We hurried the kids away and told them that they did nothing wrong and from now on we will walk on the other side of the street.

He discovered something interesting about the neighbor’s property.

About 2 weeks later, her and her husband got a new shed installed at their house and had to have the property surveyed for it.

As I drove by I noticed something… The front property boundary was about 10′ back from the road. The houses on their side of the street all day a little farther back.

I had a friend who does surveying come out and do our property and sure enough our boundary was about 3′ from the road.

We did some digging through the archives at city hall and found that the neighborhood was permitted and designed to have a sidewalk that ran the length of the horseshoe on her side of the street. The 10′ right of way was designed to have curbing, grass, and then a sidewalk.

It was time to take action.

So I did what any sane person would do in this situation and I contacted the township to have a sidewalk put in.

The township notified all residents of the request and held an open hearing for it during a township meeting.

Most of the neighbors showed up in support of it, most didn’t care, but that nasty woman showed up to protest it and raise all hell.

The neighbor couldn’t prevent the sidewalk from going in.

A month later they began excavating for the sidewalk and when they got to her house, she had planted a big landscape piece with flowers and shrubs and a tree right in the way.

The township told her to remove it, she didn’t, they fined her and removed it themselves.

The best part of the story is that 2 weeks after the sidewalk was finished and in, we listed our house and moved to another neighborhood.

She still makes nasty remarks to my mother at church and we drive by her house while visiting our old neighbors every now and then.

If the neighbor hadn’t been so upset about the kids on her grass, the sidewalk wouldn’t be there. She brought this on herself. However, she technically doesn’t own that land anyway, so she was upset about nothing.

Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.

She definitely sounds like a hypocrite.

One person shares a story about her ex husband.

This woman can relate to this woman…kind of.

A surveyor weighs in.

She got what she deserved!

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