I'm not sure if anyone here remembers a thread I made a while back about a super around here that I used to work for who ended up being a criminal drug addict, if not long story short is before I knew how bad he was(He's the type of person who puts up a front of being friendly, helpful, etc and then does all kinds of stuff behind people's back) I made an agreement with him that Id help him out in the buildings he works at as a super in exhange for letting me keep scrap in his basement, went well for a while and I thought he was my friend, until tools and things of mine started going missing, being broken, etc and I found out it was him and that he's actually been harrasing and stealing from people in the neighborhood for years. Eventually he started telling me that I was holding him back from making money and that I should be paying him $500 or $600 a month for keeping stuff in his basement and by that point I had had enough and I left.
Ever since then I've been having problems with this guy, scrap had been going missing, someone's throwing construction garbage in the driveway and courtyard of my building(I know 100% that this is him, when I used to deal with him he was always trying to get me to dump construction trash in other peoples buildings), and I've found out that he's been going around the neighborhood trying to ruin my reputation, telling people that I'm a thief, cocaine addict, etc he's been getting his hoodrat friends to try and intimidate me and mess with my stuff. Threatened to punch my grandma in the face, publicly mooned us, told me to my face "You're dead, I'm gonna get you just you wait and see", there's a vacant apartment in his building that he used to spy on me when I'm bringing scrap back from curb shopping on trash nights, so I've tried changing my schedules and not going out at the same times every trash night. I've confronted him many times, my grandma and cousin have confronted him, made a police report about the threats, the cops know he's a low life but he's very good at hiding while doing illegal things. The harassment never ends.
Reason I'm so angry today is because there's a Burger King that's been around forever in my neighborhood, it's being renovated and I went and talked to the guys there, and after talking to their boss said I could take everything. Loads of #1 iron, electricial systems, air ducts, chairs, etc I went back home to get my sawzall and put on some shoes and my friend was gonna go pick up the uhaul, I went back to the site and the boss then told me that they changed their mind, that I have a bad reputation around the area and I'm not in good standing with the residents, which is a load of crap because I only have problems here with the super and one other neighbor of mine who's mentally ill and doesnt like anyone. He wouldn't tell me anything about who told him this except it was "word on the street" that someone told him. My grandma was upset and I ended up going back over there with her and my cousin(My crew for all intents and purposes, they always work with me on big scrap jobs) to try and straighten this out and the guy kinda changed his story about who it was, first he claimed it was one of his bosses, then he contradicted himself and said it wasn't, etc the manager of Burger King came out, we ended up talking with her and she said that it wasn't one of the bosses who said that, it must have been someone he was talking to on the street. Turns out she knew the super too since he usually goes there for lunch when he's working on trash days, and she said she knew all about what a bum he is. My cousin and I ended up running into him later and when he saw us he went running, then I saw him again later coming out to sweep the front of his building and he ran away again. I know its him who bad mouthed me over there and made me loose the job. I have no idea about what to do to deal with this guy, nothing stops him, confronting him just makes him escalate his behavior and there's no reconciliation with him since the reason he's doing this is out of jealousy that I always find jobs and ways to make money meanwhile his job never pays him and he's too lazy to do anything else.
You guys might think I'm crazy for posting all this but I just need to vent! Has anyone here ever dealt with someone like this? How do you get rid of such an obsessive harasser? I can't think of anything else except trying to find evidence of the things he does to get him arrested.
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