Dear Eric: We have a neighbor a few doors up who hates us. We don’t really know why, but he doesn’t want us to walk on “his” sidewalk. He considers that harassment by us – just us. We walk up and down the street for our health and pass his house six to 12 times a day. If he sees us through his window, or one of the more than 12 cameras on his house or next to the sidewalk (so he can eavesdrop), he runs out and turns on his sprinkler so that it sprays across the sidewalk, over his cars, and into the street.
The police and a lawyer told us to walk on the other side of the street. We are in our 70s and I am unsteady on my feet, and the other side has more tripping hazards. I also meet up with cats on my side who wait to be petted, and I don’t want them running into the street to see me on the other side.
It is not legal to water beyond the lawn and illegal to block passage on the sidewalk, but no one will stop him. He did take us to court in 2022 to stop us, but the judge told him that we have every right to walk by as many times as we want to. Lot of good that did. We heard from the police that he’s preparing to try again. What can we do?…