You know how siblings tend to argue a lot? They don’t always grow out of it when they grow up. At least, that’s what I’m getting from this story.

It’s about two grown men who happen to be brothers and really aren’t getting along, but as I read it, I can only picture two little boys picking at each other.

These brothers don’t work together or live in the same house, but they’re neighbors, and they work in the same industry. That means their paths cross almost constantly.

When one brother gets mad at the other about a work-related issue, the drama doesn’t end at work. Since they’re neighbors, they literally bring the drama home. And the police follow.

Keep reading to find out what leads up to one of the brothers getting the other arrested.

Escalating Feud Leads to Dad Orchestrating His Brother’s Arrest

My uncle has always been a self righteous, petty slime ball, with a foul temper and grandiose idea of his own importance but little to no brains.

My dad always just took it and tried to keep the peace because family is so important to him.

This is the story of how my uncle finally pushed my dad too far and ended up getting arrested for his trouble.

It is pretty long since it covers several months of a feud between them.

It seems like the brothers see a lot of each other.

As background, my dad and my uncle are neighbors in a rural community of 600ish people.

My dad built the house my uncle lives in and sold it along with a small plot, so my dad’s remaining land is about 6 acres and runs along the side and the back of my uncle’s smaller property.

My uncle is a dealer for HVAC units.

My dad is in the HVAC business and would buy some things from his brother, even though his brother’s prices were higher and he had a more limited inventory than other dealers, in order to help his brother out.

Here’s some more context about their work.

My dad also rented a building his brother owned and used it as his shop/office.

He only rented the building and parking lot, but in the field out behind the shop my uncle and my dad both would collect old HVAC units.

These things are rusty and all around fugly, but when they didn’t have anything else to do they could go get one of these old units to break down for scrap.

This is how the war started.

This story starts when one day my dad went to his brother and said he needed a certain unit, but his brother quoted him a really high price and also couldn’t deliver in the time frame my dad needed.

So my dad called up another dealer he works with and that guy had a unit on hand to give him for a much lower price.

A no brainer.

My uncle found out about this somehow (dudes in the HVAC business are apparently like gossipy teenaged girls) and confronted my dad, basically giving him an ultimatum that if my dad wouldn’t commit to buying 100% of his units from my uncle then my uncle wouldn’t sell him anything.

Perhaps the uncle didn’t really mean what he said.

I already told you my uncle is an idiot….

So my dad didn’t say anything to his brother, but he took him at his word and stopped buying anything from him.

A month or so later my uncle showed up at my dad’s shop and confronted him again wanting to know why my dad hadn’t ordered anything from him that month.

When my dad told him why, my uncle exploded.

The dad seems like the calm one in the family, although he may be a bit of a pushover.

They apparently had a screaming match, and in the end my uncle announced that my dad was no longer his brother, they were no longer doing business together, and my dad was evicted from the shop.

I will note that legally my dad was not evicted because evicting him would have required a legal notice, a certain period of time, etc.

But my dad was over it, so he said fine and began converting the barn at his house into his new shop.

So my uncle, who apparently had thought my dad would not call his bluff, showed back up at the shop a few days later and informed my dad that he also has to move all of the old HVAC units scattered around in the field behind the property or he would sue my dad for the cost of removal.

They live next to each other, and the dad used that to his advantage.

Now, this too probably had no legal power, since my dad’s lease was only on the building, not the field, and my uncle contributed to and used the old units as communal property…

But when my dad is ticked off he is really ticked off. So he agreed to move the old units.

He took his tractor over and loaded each one onto his flatbed trailer, drove out behind his barn, and painstakingly arranged hundreds of rust bucket fugly old HVAC units an inch or two off the property line at the back of my uncle’s house.

Note that my dad could not see these things from his house due to the way his property is set up, but my uncle had an HD view of them in his backyard.

A fence seemed like a good idea.

My uncle started being even more of a creep than usual and was always spying on my dad’s house, so my dad decided to build a privacy fence down the side of his property that runs along my uncle’s property (but not the back of the property where the HVAC units are).

The fence guys arrived and worked for a few hours before my uncle came screeching into his driveway and exploded out of his truck already screaming because these poor fence guys had laid posts or tools or whatever temporarily on his side of the property line as they were building the fence.

My uncle called the police, who basically told the fence guys okay dudes just don’t put anything on this crazy man’s property and left.

The uncle is just pestering the police at this point.

The next day apparently someone left a hammer across the property line so here comes my uncle screaming at them again.

He called the police again but by the time they got there the guy had already moved his hammer so the police were just annoyed by this point but could only warn them not to do it again.

Later that afternoon, my uncle called the police a third time, I kid you not. This time he wanted to report that my dad had stolen a backhoe from him. Like one that attaches to the back of a tractor. One that, again I kid you not, my uncle had given to my dad two whole years prior because my uncle didn’t even have a tractor big enough to attach the thing to.

The cop was not amused when this story came to light, and since it was the same cop who’d been there earlier that day she was beyond annoyed at that point.

Then the uncle had another request.

My dad helpfully said “Come get the backhoe if you want it,” knowing full well my uncle had no way to pick the thing up or haul it even the few feet to his own yard.

My uncle replied that my dad was just trying to trap him and would say he was trespassing if my uncle came onto his land (even though the cop was standing right there when my dad offered and, by the way, this conversation was taking place in my dad’s driveway).

He then said that he wanted to file a complaint with the police that basically amounts to a restraining order against my dad (it isn’t a restraining order because it isn’t issued by a judge but the cops treat it that way–it’s for habitual trespassers).

Annoyed Cop helpfully informed my dad that this would mean that even if my uncle texted or emailed him and invited him to come over to his house to discuss things, even if my dad had that written proof he’d been invited, if my uncle called the cops or even took a picture of my dad on his property he could potentially get arrested for trespassing.

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The dad is going to use this to trick his brother.

My dad said he wanted to file one against his brother too.

The ProRevenge part of the story is now upon us.

My dad knew full well that his brother had no real clue where the property lines were and was not going to dig up his survey to check. He only “knew” where the lines were because my dad knows exactly where they are and maintains wooden stobs in the ground periodically along his property lines.

He basically set a trap.

So when his brother was away for a few days my dad moved all of the old HVAC units along the property line over further onto his own property by a few feet and moved the stobs back the same distance.

So basically it looked the same as it had before, except it looked like the property line was a few feet further back than it actually is.

He then placed some random piece of scrap across the fake property line (still on his own property but it looked like it was across the property line if all you had to go by were the incorrectly placed stobs), set up a few game cameras aimed at the line, and waited.

Time to call the police again.

Sure enough, his dumb brother came storming out of his house as soon as he noticed this scrap on “his” side of the “property line,” crossed the real property line to get a good look at the scrap, and called the police.

My dad was waiting for them with his survey showing where the actual property line is, a copy of the report Annoyed Cop had given him, and game camera footage of his brother clearly trespassing on his land, and it was my uncle who got arrested.

The only way his revenge for all the trouble and heartache his brother caused could possibly have been any sweeter would have been if it were Annoyed Cop who showed up at the scene and arrested my uncle, but alas he had to make do with someone he and his brother had both gone to high school with, which worked out since it was especially embarrassing for my uncle to be arrested by someone he knew well.

And who could make sure everyone else in town knew.

I’m sure it would’ve been satisfying for the police officer who came out all those times before to be the one to arrest the uncle. He certainly fell into the dad’s trap.

Let’s see how Reddit responded.

This person wants to know what happened next.

Another person shares their opinion.

His dad did kind of bring this on himself.

“Tiger King” was a pretty crazy show.

It seems that OP’s dad really valued family, including his brother. He did so many things to try to help him out. But instead of being grateful, his brother, OP’s uncle, was angry and turned on him.

I hope they were eventually able to put this spat behind them, but it might be better if the dad finished building the fence around the whole property instead of tricking his brother into trespassing.

These brothers may never be friends.