Escrowlation
Wednesday, 14 August 2019 10:41![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vixy Well.
Creepy Yelling Guy, aka Ed, did a new thing today. I've seen him once or twice over the last couple of weeks, and he just walked by and glared without yelling.
This morning, I put out the food and water dishes as usual when I got in. About an hour later, I noticed they were gone, just a big splash of water on the ground. I went out and looked around, thinking maybe someone had walked by and kicked them or something. Not a sign on the sidewalk anywhere. Then on a hunch I looked in the dumpster, which is normally in the garage but gets moved out front for pickup. Sure enough, there were my dog dishes, at the bottom of the mostly empty dumpster. (I'm not dumpster-diving for them.)
I went next door to ask the neighboring business if they'd seen him that morning, and yep, they had seen him walk by around then. *sigh*
So I called the Property Manager again, and explained what happened. She, again, is TOTALLY on my side here. Not least because she recalls when this building had a big pigeon problem, and the pigeons clogged the building drains, and they attracted hawks that preyed on them, which were apparently also a problem. (I didn't ask more about the hawks. Maybe they left pigeon guts around?) Did you know there are services you can pay to have pigeons *relocated*? I didn't! She did that rather than have them killed.
Anyway, she considers crows a beneficial animal, because they keep all that away. As long as I don't feed them something like peanuts in the shell (because the shells clog the drains), and bring the dishes in at night so we don't get rats/raccoons/coyotes and we don't get drunken passersby throwing the dishes at someone's window, she's actually glad to have the crows around.
She is also very firmly not okay with a resident targeting people, as she put it. And apparently Passive Aggressive Ed has also gotten in some of the residents' faces about smoking pot in their apartments/on their balconies, which is legal here (and I assume not against building rules or she'd have said so.) So it's not only me that he's been inappropriate with.
I mentioned that it didn't really cost me much money, dog dishes aren't that expensive (although I get ones that are weighted at the bottom so the crows can't drag them around as easily), but pointed out that it *is* still taking someone else's belongings and throwing them in the trash, which is kinda rude. She said yeah, it is.
She said she is going to leave her business card on his door and ask him to call her, and she is going to talk to him in person. I'm not exactly sure what she has in mind; she said some things about education and redirection and positive activity and asking him to do jobs around the building or something, which I can't imagine will sweeten his disposition any, but hey, it's her job to deal with it. I'm just glad she's supportive of me and taking the issue seriously. And kinda glad to know he's a problem to some of the other residents, too. Reassures me that I'm not overreacting.
Meanwhile, I have other dog dishes at home that I'm not using since we installed our super-nifty crow feeder, so I'll bring those tomorrow, but for the rest of today I just put out two regular bowls. The crows didn't seem to mind the change. Every time I see movement outside the window I'm glancing up involuntarily. I wonder if he'll keep throwing dishes in the dumpster and I'll keep putting out more.
Still keeping the door locked.
Edit: oh, I forgot the part where she brought up medication again. "Maybe he's undermedicated or overmedicated or something." She also brought up the time of the month and the full moon. I said as genly as I could: "He doesn't seem to do this on any particular schedule. Maybe it's not about medication. Maybe that's just his personality." She said yeah, maybe it was.
Edit Edit: Oh great. Office-next-door neighbor just told me she ASKED Passive-Aggressive Ed whether he did it, and he was like "whaaaaat? [no-idea face]" Yeah bullshit. When she first suggested this morning that she might say something to him, I said "no, please don't do that". Because what possible good could it do, coming from another tenant, and obviously nobody who would do something like that is going to *admit* it. Like seriously?? What did she think he would say???
Creepy Yelling Guy, aka Ed, did a new thing today. I've seen him once or twice over the last couple of weeks, and he just walked by and glared without yelling.
This morning, I put out the food and water dishes as usual when I got in. About an hour later, I noticed they were gone, just a big splash of water on the ground. I went out and looked around, thinking maybe someone had walked by and kicked them or something. Not a sign on the sidewalk anywhere. Then on a hunch I looked in the dumpster, which is normally in the garage but gets moved out front for pickup. Sure enough, there were my dog dishes, at the bottom of the mostly empty dumpster. (I'm not dumpster-diving for them.)
I went next door to ask the neighboring business if they'd seen him that morning, and yep, they had seen him walk by around then. *sigh*
So I called the Property Manager again, and explained what happened. She, again, is TOTALLY on my side here. Not least because she recalls when this building had a big pigeon problem, and the pigeons clogged the building drains, and they attracted hawks that preyed on them, which were apparently also a problem. (I didn't ask more about the hawks. Maybe they left pigeon guts around?) Did you know there are services you can pay to have pigeons *relocated*? I didn't! She did that rather than have them killed.
Anyway, she considers crows a beneficial animal, because they keep all that away. As long as I don't feed them something like peanuts in the shell (because the shells clog the drains), and bring the dishes in at night so we don't get rats/raccoons/coyotes and we don't get drunken passersby throwing the dishes at someone's window, she's actually glad to have the crows around.
She is also very firmly not okay with a resident targeting people, as she put it. And apparently Passive Aggressive Ed has also gotten in some of the residents' faces about smoking pot in their apartments/on their balconies, which is legal here (and I assume not against building rules or she'd have said so.) So it's not only me that he's been inappropriate with.
I mentioned that it didn't really cost me much money, dog dishes aren't that expensive (although I get ones that are weighted at the bottom so the crows can't drag them around as easily), but pointed out that it *is* still taking someone else's belongings and throwing them in the trash, which is kinda rude. She said yeah, it is.
She said she is going to leave her business card on his door and ask him to call her, and she is going to talk to him in person. I'm not exactly sure what she has in mind; she said some things about education and redirection and positive activity and asking him to do jobs around the building or something, which I can't imagine will sweeten his disposition any, but hey, it's her job to deal with it. I'm just glad she's supportive of me and taking the issue seriously. And kinda glad to know he's a problem to some of the other residents, too. Reassures me that I'm not overreacting.
Meanwhile, I have other dog dishes at home that I'm not using since we installed our super-nifty crow feeder, so I'll bring those tomorrow, but for the rest of today I just put out two regular bowls. The crows didn't seem to mind the change. Every time I see movement outside the window I'm glancing up involuntarily. I wonder if he'll keep throwing dishes in the dumpster and I'll keep putting out more.
Still keeping the door locked.
Edit: oh, I forgot the part where she brought up medication again. "Maybe he's undermedicated or overmedicated or something." She also brought up the time of the month and the full moon. I said as genly as I could: "He doesn't seem to do this on any particular schedule. Maybe it's not about medication. Maybe that's just his personality." She said yeah, maybe it was.
Edit Edit: Oh great. Office-next-door neighbor just told me she ASKED Passive-Aggressive Ed whether he did it, and he was like "whaaaaat? [no-idea face]" Yeah bullshit. When she first suggested this morning that she might say something to him, I said "no, please don't do that". Because what possible good could it do, coming from another tenant, and obviously nobody who would do something like that is going to *admit* it. Like seriously?? What did she think he would say???
no subject
2019-08-14 20:54 (UTC)no subject
2019-08-15 19:15 (UTC)no subject
2019-08-17 10:40 (UTC)no subject
2019-08-19 15:36 (UTC)no subject
2019-08-29 03:26 (UTC)