Last night I overheard my lovely neighbor in a bellicose rage shout about how he is going to "shoot everyone over there" and "give dem dogs antifreeze...it'll take three minutes". He did not know I was outside and within earshot.

His problem is that there are mosquitos from our yard (which has trees and bushes and lots of plants) biting him ("If I get West Nile I'm going to shoot them") and he generally hates our dogs, who do not bother him. We are extremely conscious of them interacting with him in any way because he has threatened us in the past. They are never outside without one of us there so that if they take an interest in him (like a bark) they go in immediately. They rarely get to just play outside because of this jerkoff.

This guy is...I'm sorry, but if there is a stereotype of "white trash" he is it, complete with stripped Camaro and the can of beer in his hand and the wife beater. We called the police on him last fall because he was literally beating his girlfriend in the street. He saw us watching and threatened us then, too. He yells at everyone in his midst; he even screamed one day about how his buddy was mowing the lawn for him. He is just an incredible waste of flesh...this man has taught me what hate is, because i never hated anyone until now. And I know how draining hatred is...

My nerves are frayed. I paced around the house for hours last night being generally unproductive (not something I can afford time-wise right now) and very upset. I will not let the dogs outside without my boyfriend there. We inspect the yard, I'm afraid of being attacked in my house, coming into my house, leaving my house, getting it set on fire (he said he was going to "fire bomb" it) ...all the worst case scenarios have fled through my mind.

We finally had a discussion about moving.

I have no idea what else to do. We sprayed the yard this morning with stuff, although honestly mosquitos are a problem everywhere but we want to do what we can.

The cops around here don't care. If we file a complaint, it's his word against ours and there is retaliation fear.

The problem is that neither of us have the time right now to put forth into finding a new house, mortgage, renting this one...all that crap. So meanwhile I live here despising this a55 and afraid of him.

To top it all off, I'm ticked that I'm this upset; this guy doesn't deserve my time, energy, anything.

Dammmmit!