{"id":8113,"date":"2025-09-27T21:42:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=8113"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:42:18","slug":"i-caught-my-neighbor-stealing-from-me-and-confronted-him-but-now-hes-threatening-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=8113","title":{"rendered":"I Caught My Neighbor Stealing From Me and Confronted Him\u2014But Now He\u2019s Threatening Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>I\u00a0came home a\u00a0few times last week to\u00a0find an\u00a0extension lead running from my\u00a0neighbor\u2019s garage into the socket on\u00a0the back of\u00a0my\u00a0house. I\u00a0unplugged it\u00a0the first time, figured it\u00a0was an\u00a0honest mistake.Then I\u00a0caught him doing it\u00a0again. I\u00a0had a\u00a0quiet word, saying, \u201cMate, that\u2019s my\u00a0power you\u2019re using, it\u2019s on\u00a0MY meter!\u201d He\u00a0just laughed it\u00a0off and said, \u201cC\u2019mon, man. It\u2019s only pennies!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>He\u00a0did it\u00a0again while\u00a0I was out, so\u00a0I\u2019ve now installed a\u00a0lockable cover over the socket. This morning, I\u00a0froze when\u00a0I found a\u00a0note through my\u00a0letterbox saying: since I\u2019ve \u201cblocked the community socket\u201d, he\u2019ll need to\u00a0charge his e-bike inside my\u00a0house when it\u00a0rains, and asked me\u00a0to\u00a0leave my\u00a0back gate unlocked for him for that on\u00a0Saturday.I\u2019m not trying to\u00a0cause a\u00a0war here, I\u00a0even offered to\u00a0go\u00a0halves on\u00a0getting a\u00a0sparky to\u00a0fit an\u00a0outdoor socket on\u00a0his own wall and he\u00a0refused. Now I\u00a0hear he\u2019s telling other neighbors I\u2019m being tight. Have I\u00a0gone over the top by\u00a0locking\u00a0it, or\u00a0is\u00a0he\u00a0just being unbelievably rude? This is\u00a0just mad!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0came home a\u00a0few times last week to\u00a0find an\u00a0extension lead running from my\u00a0neighbor\u2019s garage into the socket on\u00a0the back of\u00a0my\u00a0house. I\u00a0unplugged it\u00a0the first time, figured it\u00a0was an\u00a0honest mistake.Then&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":352,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8115,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113\/revisions\/8115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}