Her Neighbor Threatened Her Over Her Halloween Decorations And She’s Telling The Internet There’s No Way She’s Taking Them Down
Around 2 years ago a woman and her husband moved into their house, right after they tied the knot.
The pandemic made it impossible to celebrate Halloween since they moved in, and it’s their favorite holiday of all.
Now that they’re finally able to celebrate their favorite holiday, she and her husband thought it would be fun to get a bunch of decorations.
“We filled our yard with tombstones and skeletons,” she explained. “All of our bushes and trees are wrapped in fake webbing, the tree closest to the street having a huge 6-foot spider dangling from its limbs.”
“The final touch was a huge rope web, that we added extra webbing to fill it out, that hangs from our roof all the way out to the street. We’re not into gory stuff so we got a couple of fuzzy spider decorations to place around the yard.”
“It took us hours to decorate and we were so excited, my husband looked like a kid in a candy store.”
Yesterday, she was home alone and her husband had gone to work. Someone knocked on her door, and when she answered it, she found her neighbor outside looking panicked.
Before she could ask her neighbor what was wrong, he screamed at her that she needed to take all of her Halloween decorations in her yard down.
Given that her neighbor has always been pleasant to deal with, she was just shocked.
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She asked her neighbor if her decorations were not compliant with their neighborhood’s HOA rules, to which he replied that his wife has arachnophobia and that’s why he wanted the decorations removed.
He said his wife was freaking out over the spider decorations, even though she’s positive they wouldn’t even scare children and she mentioned that.
Her neighbor threatened to make her life difficult if she didn’t do as he asked, before throwing it in her face that he’s a retired cop.
She made it clear to her neighbor that she and her husband spent a lot of money on their decorations and they are not scary or gory, but he wasn’t hearing it. After that, he stormed back over to his own property.
She really just wants to celebrate Halloween in peace with her husband now that she finally has the opportunity to, and she’s not going to take down the decorations she shelled out hundreds of dollars for.
Here’s what the internet had to say.
“…As someone with severe arachnophobia I can tell you that it doesn’t matter how fake they look to you, they’re terrifying.”
“That being said, it’s Halloween. Our neighborhood is full of the damn things (I literally cannot write what they’re called. I hate seeing the word), our new neighbors just put a giant one up on their kitchen window and it is what it is.”
“My husband warned me about it ahead of time.”
“I would NEVER ask a neighbor to take down their decorations. I avert my eyes and deal with it.”
“100% call and report him for making threats using his “power” as a former officer to threaten you.”
“Also please please get cameras if you don’t have any. I wouldn’t be surprised if he did something to them.”
“This is what to do. Call and report it. The cops will probably just talk to him, but the important thing is you will have things documented.”
“It is hard for cops to do much in these kinds of cases until things escalate. If you call and there is a documented pattern of harassment, things don’t usually reach a bad escalation point.”
“I have arachnophobia too and I don’t get scared to death from plastic spiders. I get uncomfortable around them and that’s it. My local bakery had this spider decoration in their display case that’s also cartoonish, that gives me a fright every time I go in.”
“However, once I realize it’s not real I calm down. If this guy’s wife cannot handle the cartoon spiders then she needs to go to a therapist.”
You can read the rest of what the internet had to say about all this here.
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