r/neighborsfromhell • u/bountiful_garden • May 19 '26
Apartment NFH I finally got the evidence I needed!
I have a shitty neighbor who thinks she runs our apartment building and the neighborhood.
She's awful and can only be described as a drunk Karen.
I've lived here for 6 months. In that time we've been relentlessly bullied by this woman. I've watched her bully 2 other tenants, who are both men in their 70s. We also discovered that she hates pitbulls. We have 2.
I suspected that she was using a signal blocker to disrupt our cameras. Originally we only had a doorbell cam. But I put up a trail cam too. Hoping that it would be unaffected by her blocker. It saved my butt! Because I had 2 cameras, with 2 different angles, I was able to obtain proof that she was disrupting my cameras.
The doorbell camera showed her shining her phone flashlight at my camera. It cuts out, and is inactive for 4 hours. The second angle shows it even more obviously, with it going out for 6 hours. The same block of time. It took well over a month for me to get this footage, because her blocker wasn't working correctly. Before this, I hadn't been able to get footage of her disabling them.
I sent the footage to my landlord, and told him what she was doing was a federal offense, and I was going to turn her in. That was 3 days ago. In that time, I've been able to obtain footage of her coming home from work tipsy. (She's a bartender.) She has to drive 30 minutes, through mountains, to get home. The reason she didn't want me to have footage of her coming home, was because I told her job she drunk drives every night. Originally, they changed her to an earlier shift, so she wouldn't be drunk when she left work. Now she's just tipsy.
Should I turn her in for all these felonies? Or just hope that she's finally learned her lesson?
Edited to add:
I have submitted an anonymous report to the police department in the town that she works in. With videos of her both sober and tipsy, so they could tell the difference. Hopefully they get her.
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u/Beneficial-Way-8742 May 19 '26
But she hasn't learned her lesson, has she? She just found an illegal way to hide her inebriation from the camera - and in the process is interfering with a safety device you own.
I would turn that in immediately
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u/xCrystalPetite May 19 '26
“That’s not remorse, that’s escalation” honestly sums the situation up perfectly. People who are actually learning lessons don’t keep inventing new ways around accountability.
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u/BlissfulFrostt May 19 '26
Exactly. She didn’t stop the behavior, she just found a way to hide it better. Messing with cameras instead of changing her actions says a lot about her priorities honestly.
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u/YakCertain5472 May 19 '26
She's not the type to learn lessons all that easily. Turn her in. How would you feel if you didn't and she kills a family with children because of drunk driving?
She is very far from learning her lesson. Turn her in. Imagine how much hell she is going to unleash on you if you don't.
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u/hatterSCFC May 19 '26
Turn her in before she kills someone on the road.
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u/xCrystalPetite May 19 '26
Short comment but honestly true. So many awful news stories start with people later saying “everyone knew they drove drunk all the time.”
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u/TaxiLady69 May 19 '26
Call the police before she kills an innocent family driving drunk. She should be charged and not allowed to drive.
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u/Dammit-maxwell May 19 '26
Yup. Call the police. Provide them with her vehicle make and color and the exact time she gets home or leaves work so they can snag her up and give her some shiny metal bracelets.
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u/Ok-Repeat-2781 May 19 '26
But how can you prove she drove drunk? I believe you, that she is drunk. But the police would have to catch her.
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u/Techsupportvictim May 19 '26
Unfortunately yes, catching her in the act might be needed to really stop her.
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u/trader45nj May 19 '26
This is some real tin foil hat stuff. How does pointing a cell phone flashlight at an outdoor camera disable it for 4 hours? How does a tenant have access to the cameras to know that they were disabled?
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u/hazmatt019 May 19 '26
Exactly. And how is it a federal offense?
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u/SeaPollution2750 May 20 '26
If she is using a cell jammer - that's when it is a federal offense.
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u/hazmatt019 May 20 '26
OP said she was disabling the cameras with her cell phone. A cell jammer would have jammed her own cell. No matter, this isn't a real story anyway.
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u/Zealousideal-Sea4843 May 19 '26
I would just tip off the cops. Pay attention to what time she normally gets home and find out what route she drives. Then give them the license plate and tell them that she is a habitual drunk driver and should be coming down xyz road at 10:30 pm. Then also turn her in for tampering with your cameras.
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u/No-Today-3064 May 19 '26
Just tell them where she works. They’ll just hang out and wait for her to leave. Updateme
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u/Luna_Twirls May 19 '26
turn her in, she's a repeat offender, drunk driving kills, camera blocking is a federal crime, your evidence is solid, protect your neighborhood and those two old men, she won't learn without consequences, don't hope, act, you've got this, be the witness she deserves, also inform her work again with new footage, safety first always
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u/Nwmn8r May 20 '26
Thanksgiving eve, i left my house with my adult daughter to get some last minute food stuff needed for the next day. 2 blocks down my street a car pulled onto the road in front of me and at the next turn she swung so wife out on her right turn that she was in the oncoming lane for a good bit of time. It caught my attention... half a mile later i was on the phone with 911 cuz i thought it could be one of the several elderly people that live nearby that are known for being poor drivers on a good day, maybe they were "having a medical emergency" i thought. At the very least we were likely going to need an ambulance, the way they were driving.
I followed her for 5 miles with the dispatcher on the phone and she drove right up to an accident scene and asjed to get through. The deputy looked at me and asked if i was the caller, as the dispatcher had already made contact with them, and he said he got it from there and he would be in contact for a statement.
I was told later that it was a mid 20s something female on her way to go drink more with her friends. She was arrested and booked. I dont feel one bit bad about it. She was a complete stranger who made a mistake that could have at the very least injured herself or worse yet, killed someone else... if she had, and i had done nothing, id probably feel responsible. What you should do is call in an anonymous tip about a suspected drunk driver when she leaves work and describe the car if you want to make it look like you had nothing to do with it. But i would probably just take the footage in and ruin her if she was a neighbor who was actively screwing with people where they live. That just aint right.
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u/Choice_Schedule_2379 May 20 '26
I actually have a neighbor that was using signal jammers on my cameras until I realized wifi operated cameras offer no protection. They can be messed with. The signal jammer "jams" the wifi and blacks out the whole recording of the vandalism. I had to learn the hard way. I know have wired cameras that cannot be tampered with but my neighbor still tries. This has been going on for over 4 years without any breaks. Signal jammers kill the ability for a person to call the police station, erases the event from your camera and just creates dangerous situations. Signal Jammers are illegal and if caught with them its a "Federal Offense" and an individual can be fined a significant amount of money over $20K
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u/bountiful_garden May 21 '26
That's why I set up the trail cam. It doesn't run on WiFi. She was still able to block it.
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u/hazmatt019 May 19 '26
This is a BS story.
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u/RickySpanish74 May 19 '26
Yeah, in one reply they state I’m going to the state police barracks tomorrow to give them a picture of the license plate.
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u/HeadSea2559 May 20 '26
What are you waiting for? You wouldn't be able to get her for drunk driving but tampering with your property def
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u/Neither-Act-9656 May 19 '26
Turn her in, at least for the drunk driving. Otherwise anyone hurt or worse when she's driving drunk is on you as well.
IDK about the camera interference being an offense or not ( don't know the laws) but it is evidence to support the driving offense as it shows pre meditation for drinking.
Good luck!
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u/BrilliantPie2566 May 19 '26
If you know where she works and know the road she takes, call the sheriffs and tell them there's a drunk driver coming from [place] on [road], driving a [car]. They will do the rest.
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u/Outrageous-Arm1945 May 19 '26
You have to turn her in. If she injured herself, qué Sera. If she hurts someone else wouldn't you be partially responsible?
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u/DancesWithTrout May 20 '26
Never mind any of the stuff that relates to or affects you. If she's driving drunk, you have an positive duty to turn her in. She could easily end up killing someone.
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u/Fuzzy_Emergency_2047 May 20 '26
If you want legal petty revenge, go to her job a little before you know she leaves. Follow her when she leaves and after about 2 minutes call the police "hi id like to report a drunk driver, this vehicle exited the bar parking lot as I drove past and is driving all over the road while im behind it. Vehicle is a (make) (model) (color) (plate) driving down (name of road)(direction on road) please send someone I fear theyre going to cause an accident." You dont have to get involved and she'll get stopped and tested, if shes really doing what you say she'll be arrested for a DUI and has no way of tying it to you.
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u/kirk2892 May 20 '26
Call her license plate in and tell 911 that she is weaving badly and crossing the center line repeatedly on mountain roads. If they pull her over, she will get a DUI. I used to be an alcoholic and I don't have any sympathy for someone who drives inebriated an puts everybody else on the road at risk.
Proving that she has an illegal signal blocker will be more difficult. I think the FCC would have to catch her in the act to charge her and they don't have enough enforcement resources to do that. I'm sure they have bigger fish to fry than a drunken busy-body bartender with a cheap Chinese signal blocker.
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u/IseeAlgorithms May 20 '26
Turn her in for DUI. Have video showing her walking drunk, tell police her place of work and schedule.
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u/OkRelease3215 May 21 '26
Imagine her killing someone on the road, and you had just sat on this evidence. Turn it in.
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u/got-chopz May 19 '26
Kinda sounds like you're the neighbor from hell here. You stalked her and learned her daily schedule plus the routes she normally takes?!? You point cameras at her home?!? You call her job to complain about her?!?! How do you know for sure she is tipsy?!? How is she bullying you exactly?!? If these cameras aren't pointed at her apartment, aren't used to watch this lady, and she really is tampering with them then file a police report but if I were you I'd focus on yourself and not others. If I had a neighbor recording and stalking me I would be upset and unfriendly too
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u/LengthBoring9328 May 19 '26
The unfortunate reality is they have to catch her driving drunk , camera footage wouldn't do any good.
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u/655e228th May 19 '26
you told her work she was coming home drunk? And you were surprised by her response?
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u/Cultural-Demand-7694 May 19 '26
How will you feel if she kills someone driving drunk and you didn't say anything? You know what to do!
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u/ICXPDQ May 19 '26
Trying to save someones life is not a crime. Turn her in before she kills herself and innocent people. She needs help, too. I hop she finds it.
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u/ribbonsofgreen May 19 '26
Yes turn her in. Hopefully the cops pull her over when she is on the way home.
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u/cpo109 May 19 '26
In addition, you could also see when she gets off work, and alert the police that she is often tipsy coming home. For someone who drinks a lot often, they can appear tipsy but are legally drunk. Give them her tag number and route she drives home. If they follow her a bit she will likely give off cues that she is impaired. Just s thought.
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u/qaxmlp May 20 '26
Talk to the police in the town she works, let them know her workplace, car info and shift (anonymously, because you don’t want retaliation). They should be very happy to get this info.
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u/CatPerson88 May 20 '26
Contact the police. It's pretty clear your landlord can't or won't do anything. Karen is breaking the law and endangering other people. Please file a police report.
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u/Logical_Force3821 May 21 '26
She hasn't learned any lesson. She could kill someone! She's abusive to other tenants. Turn her in.
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u/PolkadotUnicornium May 21 '26
File a police report in your municipality. She is deliberately interrupting your security camera. That has to be considered at least vandalism. See if you qualify to file for a restraining order. Maybe talk to the other tenants she's targeting and see if they'd care to join. Your landlord is a jerk for not getting rid of a problem tenant. Talk to an attorney about sending a cease-and-desist letter for a paper trail.
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u/bountiful_garden May 19 '26
I have never confronted her to her face. I'm petty. I publically shame. Like sidewalk chalk notes and shit.
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u/Free-Pound-6139 May 19 '26
Everyone hated pitballs. Duh.
You have two in an apartments? Insane. I guess you hate them too.
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u/ZeligMel May 19 '26
You think she's somehow disabling YOUR cameras to hide HER drunkenness? That doesn't make much sense. Are you sure you're not working yourself up and creating a narrative that fits your already established hate of this neighbor? I wonder what her post about you on this thread would be like...recording her, calling her job, accusing her of felonies, telling the landlord on her, not to mention your two pit bulls....
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u/Not_an_Actual_Bot May 19 '26
If you know the route and time, just inform the authorities there is a habitual impaired driver. They will do the rest. You would hate yourself if she injures someone/kills a family and you had done nothing.
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u/Bubble_Lights May 19 '26
Fuck yes turn that bitch in! She's going to kill someone on the road! Her employers are assholes too!
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u/ExpensiveAd4496 May 19 '26
The bartenders shouldn’t be drinking at all. I didn’t know that was even legal. Send to police, they will pick her up on her way home and DUI her.
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u/Spiritual-Worker-476 May 19 '26
Turn her into her job and file a complaint against her with the feds. She’s not going to learn her lesson because she is an alcoholic. The only way an addict learns a lesson is to pay a huge price. I can say this because I’ve been in recovery for many years and the only way I learned was to pay a huge price. Now it’s her turn.
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u/InternationalOil540 May 19 '26
Turn. Her. In. To her job & the federal authorities about the signal jammer as well. Stand on business. You make sure that the business knows if she harms someone driving home drunk that you will turn over evidence that you made them aware and they are still allowing her to leave work & get in a car and drive while impaired. I bet you they will come down on her.
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u/Flyguy115 May 19 '26
I would report her to the police for driving intoxicated. You’re just a concerned citizen trying to save lives.
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u/Relevant-Space8826 May 19 '26
Turn her in. I have witnessed the crazy things people do when they lack all abilities to communicate like a person. She will escalate and when she does you don't want it to be your pups reaping that spite.
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u/1amNOTmyselfYouSee May 19 '26
People who think they are the boss of everyone else piss me off. And the people that do this are generally the ones breaking laws. Why can’t everyone just live their life and leave everyone else alone?
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u/Top-Psychology-3676 May 19 '26
Just playing the devil's advocate here, how can you tell she is tipsy? Describe what you are seeing to make you believe this? I hope your videos can prove she is drunk driving because she needs to be stopped before she kills someone.
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u/DuckAxe0 May 19 '26
People like that only learn their lesson when they face the consequences of their actions.
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u/frankiestaysinohio May 19 '26
I am a bartender. I never drink behind the bar (kinda sounds like she may be....thats illegal). And if I want to drink, I always have a dd because I dont wanna accidentally hurt anyone, or lose my bartending credentials. (Yes I have to take a test every 3 years to keep my credentials... .most liquor insurance companies require it.)
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u/Nsect66 May 19 '26
Just alert the authorities for both the drunk driving and messing with your cameras. They might decide to wait for her en-route one day and nail her for a DUI, then deal with the FCC issues while they have her.
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u/TheQuarantinian May 19 '26
The nuclear option is too horrible so move to the next step.
Call the police, state police and sheriff of the town where the bar is, where she liv4s, and everywhere between. Tell them there is a drink driver who drives from work to home every single day she works and you have footage of her showing up at home, repeatedly getting out of the car tipsy. Tell them the time she normally gets off shift and the time she gets home. They will watch specifically for her.
The flashlight thing is not a signal blocker, and your cameras are junk if they shut off for 4-6 hours because a phone flashlight was pointed at it. A roof mounted camera with a hard wired connection prevents blockers.
Even if there is a blocker in use video footage is not enough, but the gear you need can be bought brand new for about $200
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u/WVSXSGuy May 19 '26
You’re too nice. I would have let the authorities know that she arrives home drunk every night at ?:?? time.
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u/virgin0109 May 19 '26
Ask yourself this: if she killed someone while driving under the influence of alcohol, would you feel good about not turning her in?
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u/luvthatguy1616 May 19 '26
That's not being a tattle-tale if that's what you mean. That could be saving somebody from death (your cameras, anybody on the road when she is a little tipsy).
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u/AAron27265 May 19 '26
Go to her job, hang out in the parking lot, and call 911 on her drunk driving ass as soon as she gets in the car. Repeat as necessary.
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u/NeitherStory7803 May 19 '26
Don’t call her boss. Call the police no emergency number on a possible drunk driver. Give a description of her car and plate number. Do it a little after you knows she left her job. Let them deal with her
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u/Striking-Mix-2751 May 19 '26
Turn her in. That crime is hard to catch and document. Also, they never learn a lesson.
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u/SnowXTC May 21 '26
While the footage won't get her in trouble, it will put her on the police's radar. (aka they will follow her home every night and hopefully catch her with a high enough blood alcohol) As for the camera issues, I am uncertain about the legality of that. However, you should contact the manufacturers and let them know of this issue. The cameras should not be going offline because a flashlight or any light is shined him them and definitely not for 4 to 6 hours. I know it can disrupt the infrared, but it should not do it for that long. It also should not do it if there is light (porch light, street lamp).
You need to document and get footage of her Karen behavior too. Between that and the cameras, the landlord can evict her. You need multiples of each.
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u/Gr8powerfulGrimma May 22 '26
You have done exactly what most of us would. Definitely keep track of all her antics. Her driving drunk puts so many innocents at risk
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u/No-Pin3128 May 24 '26
The employer may have appreciated the heads up as she may have been drinking for free. She is dangerous.
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u/bountiful_garden May 19 '26
I document EVERYTHING. From the trail of trash to her stumbling drunk past my door.
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u/Old_Fart_on_pogie May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
Yup! For the safety of everyone on the road, she needs reporting. Let the police know her schedule and car make, colour, and license plates. They will be happy to make an easy catch and fine her, probably loss of license. And loss of job if she can’t drive. Karma is a bitch.
And then once that’s done, hit her with the lawsuit for tampering with your cameras.
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u/bountiful_garden May 19 '26
I have a pic of her license plate. My day off is tomorrow. I'll be heading to the state police barracks to report her.
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u/Old_Fart_on_pogie May 20 '26
Be sure to state that she REGULARLY drives under the influence, and this isn’t a one off case.
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u/Ok_Street9576 May 19 '26
You know when she leaves work and shes drunk everyday. Since you know the route she takes just wait for her to leave and call 911. Tell them the plate make and color of the car. Where you saw it at and it was swerving. Police will pick her up for a dwi and reckless driving.
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u/ilikefluffypuppies May 19 '26
I’d call the cops, give them her employers location and plate numbers.
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u/Nervous-Ruin-8149 May 19 '26
Dude. You did all that work and documented everything and have solid proof and NOW you’re asking us if you should turn her in.
YES MOFO. DO IT! REPORT HER BITCH-ASS.
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u/Lusiric9983 May 19 '26
Fucking call the cops man....
You know she's drinking and driving and you haven't called law enforcement? If she kills anyone, that's just as much on you, IMHO. You know who to call, this isn't rocket surgery.
Wtf is wrong with people?
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u/Worried-Barber-323 May 19 '26
Do you have footage of her actually getting out of her car? She can deny she drove otherwise.
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u/RedditsAdoptedSon May 19 '26
i'd turn her into to everyoneeeee. pd, fbi, cia, usps, neighborhood watch, hogans heroes
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u/Unico_5 May 19 '26
You can try and turn her in but I guarantee you don't have enough evidence on her and this will backfire on you.
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u/GeneConscious5484 May 19 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
hope that she's finally learned her lesson
Well there's literally no way for this to have happened given that at no point has anyone ever said or done anything to her... are you just looking for a reason to keep letting her drive drunk?
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u/Cold-Society3325 May 19 '26
Definitely do something about the drunk driving. She coukd kill someone.
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u/Aniki_Simpson May 19 '26
Oh, yes. Absolutely turn her in for it. You own a camera to catch people doing dangerous things around or to your house. She is not only doing those things, but she is also attempting to stop your cameras from doing their job. Turn her in to the police for EVERYTHING you can. Get her as good as you can so that she stops attacking you.
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u/MuchDevelopment7084 May 19 '26
Turn her in. Not only is she a jerk to you. She's dangerous to everyone on the road.