It was @Betty who gave me that response, I merely adapted it a little.

@Triphid Adapted? You took a mere little thought and turned into something epic. Give yourself some credit, it was perfect.

@Betty No can do, the credit goes where it duly belongs, it came from you, I only "enhanced" it a little.

@Triphid Oh, you are so sweet. I thank you for letting me part of your team.

@Betty No team/teams here, we are ALL good and great friends are we not.

@Triphid That we are. Share and share alike. I'm just happy to be a part of this fun time with you.

@Betty What can one say but DITTO and treble it as well.

Oh, worry ye not, after this it could snow for a week and I'd still be grinning like a Cheshire cat.

@Triphid I feel you, I'm riding on your residual high.

NOW all I need is a cd with that old tune, " They're coming to take me away" on it and a hidden speaker attached somewhere on his front fence FACING towards his house.

I feel your pain. My sides ache.

@Triphid Wouldn't that be the frosting on the cake.

Damn I'm an evil minded person, just heard on the radio that tonight our local Commercial Station is holding a phone-in requests session available to all.
Now, Evangelfool REFUSES to watch television, movies and the like on ANY Saturday as in his words, " It goes against the teachings of Jesus, but radio is okay because God made the radio so we can listen to music."
And his favourite station is the local Commercial Radio Station since the Religious closedc down a few months ago after the police discovered that they were using it actually broadcast the arrivals of fresh drug supplies in to town.
Now, gues who just rang the Radio Station placed a request for the show tonight, for whom the request is for and what tune was requested.

@Triphid Did you really?

@Betty I most assured did.
And, I might add I requested it be announced as being in his name as well though mine WILL be withheld of course.
And IF not tnen the name I used was, get this, Paul Skelley.
That might throw a cat or two amongst the pigeons....LOL.

@Triphid @Anglophone called me a wicked woman, I wonder what he would call you? You are the best in my book.
Could you tell me the story of this "Paul Skelley"? The name is not familiar.

@Triphid

@Betty Yep, that is it and the D.J. ensured me that he WILL play at least 5 times tonight.

@Triphid He is finally getting a little payback. This will keep me on a natural high for the next few days at least.
Are you going to let the other neighbors in on the fun? They might have a few ideas of their own to add.

@Betty Have already let the rest of the neighbourhood in on this mornings bit of fun and we have all agreed, well almost all except for Herr (Mrs) and Frau (Mr.) Simons, aka locally Hitler who "wish to stay out of neighbourhood business," yeah right, they know everyone's business BEFORE it happens and if it doesn't happen then they invent it anyway, to keep it going for as long as possible.

@Betty Damn I loved this song when it first came out! Still makes me laugh!

@Triphid Teamwork is better than working as a lone wolf. I'm glad you have the support of your normal neighbours. Should be interesting to find out what the next few days are going to bring. Maybe you'll get to enjoy your fireplace in peace.

@Barnie2years I heard it for the first time when I went looking for it. It is funny and fits the situation perfectly.

@Betty It was banned from most radio stations in the US because it made mentally ill people feel bad. So, it rarely gets played anymore.

@Barnie2years It can be found on YouTube, so anyone who searches can find it. Isn't the internet great for stuff like that?

@Betty Funny that you should have just posted that because I decided to enjoy the fleeting bits of sunshine that we are getting atm and check out around my house exterior, etc.
Just as reached the front yard and gardens I heard raised voices, one definitely female and the other , most unfortunately, only TOO familiar, arguing quite heatedly and loudly.
The female voice was none other the neighbour who bought the house behind mine when her parents moved to Queensland, she is ex-Australian Army.
The other, well, it was the Evangelfool of course, they were arguing because Evangelfool had seen fit to run the outlet hose from the pump UNDER the dividing fence, which divides his property from hers as does mine as well since her property is not aligned with either of ours and fronts on to the street behind us.
His outlet solution has been sending water running through her property and has washed away parts of her recently re-paved driveway and some of her newly planted garden beds as well.
So to firstly STOP the flow of his unwanted waste water, she blocked up the outlet house completely thus, as I also heard, creating back pressures to pump and it has now either stopped working or shorted out completely.
His reaction, as per MOST Christian males, DOMINATE her, belittle her and then make certain she knows her place is as the holey babble tells him, subservient to him.
Big Joke, HUGE mistake, 7 years in the Army and he EXPECTS Linda to fold up like a wet cloth, not bloody likely.
She, instead and MUCH to his surprise, etc, etc, simply and VERBALLY only cut him down to size, then set about mincing in to tiny little pieces, VERBALLY only of course BEFORE she simply and very calmly walked away from him, out of his front yard with a parting comment of, If you think this is over, then you can kiss my arse."
Damn it was hard to stop myself from breaking out in ti fits of raucous laughter as she cut him down to size, laughed quietly so much my side are hurting.

@Triphid Oh boy! Did he get cut down to size. Love it. I hope your neighbour sues him for the damage and makes his life a living hell. He plays stupid games and now he is winning stupid prizes. I would like to give her a high five. This is going to be fun.

@Triphid Evangelfool expected to dominate a woman who has been in the army for 7 years? JFC with flowers on His bell end.

@anglophone I met Linda via her parents way back in 2019 when she was on her last leave from the Army and at home.
No uniform, just civvies, and would not taken for an army type until her dad and started discussing my old friend, the 1916 model German 7.69 mm Mauser rifle that I keep locked away in a gun that I built in a place that ONLY I know about in my house.
Linda's eyes seemed to light up, and her ears seemed to almost stand up by themselves, then almost literally begged me to show her the rifle.
After seeing it, holding it and examining it almost like a Doctor with a patient she almost begged me to come out in to bush for a trip, bring the rifle and some ammunition and to ,"Please, Please, can I shoot it just once, these rifles are the cream of the crop from 1914 thru to 1918-19 as far as any Australian Armourer is concerned and to actually have bragging rights AGAINST those other Testosterone Soldiers back at Barracks would be a real feather in my cap,"
How could I resist, we collected up "Fritz" and 12 cartridges, pack them in to her vehicle and went out on to a friends Sheep Property, let him know we were there and spent about 3 hours with " Fritz" sending feral pigs up to visit Jeebus and Sky Daddy.
Tally ended up, Linda - 6 shots five direct hits (instant dead pigs) and 1 crippled and dying, Me, shown up by a woman, not that it worried me, 4 Dead pigs, 1 severely wounded and immobilised plus 1 escapee with a bullet firmly lodged in its left shoulder that Linda shot and killed as it was coming back to start eating the other dead pigs.
She does NOT know as yet BUT it is in my Will that upon my Death "Fritz" and everything that goes with him will become hers and hers alone.
It may be well worth mentioning that I see Linda as being the kind of sister I would have liked to have had and she views me as her much older brother type of person.

Here am I a Psychologist and NEVER thought of using Reverse Psychology on the "turd" until @Betty mentioned about her idea/thought.
Now I'm kind of wondering IF he has gone home and is ardently praying for Sky Daddy and Son to fix it so as he can ring my phone number again.
Lot of good that is going to do.

@Triphid I wouldn't have minded being a fly on his wall when he returned home. The recordings of his rants alone would have provided hours of entertainment.

@Betty Just a wee up-date here.
Went out to check on "Cloud" the budgie as I usually do when she is in her cage out on the veranda and noticed himself loading what appear to be sodden carpets, ruined looking clothes and shoes, a couple of mattresses and the remains of a very ornate and expensive looking wardrobe, smashed into pieces on to his trailer, I suspect that they are bound for the local Garbage Dump.
Also, a Quick and Furtive peek over the dividing fence and what do I see, a large Electric Pump in operation busily pumping the built up water from his cellar, get this though, NOT in to the town sewer systems BUT in to his backyard that already still has accumulated rain water approx.6-7 inches in depth laying around in it from the recent rains.

@Triphid You know he will be busy for quite a while since the water will seep back to his basement. I hope his "Mummy" gets tired of bailing him out of he stupid ideas. It will cost him a pretty penny if he has to pay for all these screw-ups himself.

@Betty Yes, as the owners discovered back when I was about 11 years old and we copped some equally as heavy rains, since the cellar floor is about 12 feet below actual ground level and the sub-soil there is mainly a well compacted, over who knows how many millions of years, mix of drift sand, pebbles, etc, etc, the water, even though they concreted the cellar walls back then, there still are weak points and joins for the water to seep back in through and I'm estimating that PRE-starting to pump and that we recorded approx.2 and 1 quarter INCHES of rain in less than 24 hours, the weather being cool, hence things are NOT evaporating, then there would be at least 18 inches to 2 feet of water in the cellar and that electric pump, I am guessing, is the cheapest, smallest and lowest user of electricity he could hire so either it will simply work until it burns out, a big possibility btw, r becomes too overloaded by the water seeping back in that it just shuts down completely.
IF he had been anyone different, etc, then I would have offered the 3 h.p Diesel pump that I have sitting in my locked and secure storeroom.
It is rated to be able to pump 1,200 litres of water per hour and can actually lift that volume of water uo to a height of 16 feet with NO trouble what-so-ever.

@Triphid I hope he doesn't know about your pump. I bet he will be asking neighbours for help, maybe you should give them a heads up so they can be unavailable. He truly needs to be on his own to solve the problems he created.
Plus he just might have a mold problem to deal with in the coming days.
If no one helps him, you should hopefully have some peace for a little while. Well...That is my hope.
By the way...Keep an eye on your wood pile.

@Betty He has been here for 10 years now, seems more like a billion though, and has neither seen nor heard of my special pump and would ONLY get to even look at it over HIS dead body.

@Triphid They used to have a show called Neighbours from Hell. There could have been an episode just about him had they known he existed. lol
Keep an eye on your property, I don't trust him.

@Betty With my security system and cameras being much the same as the one I helped Stephen to install at his house just the other day almost nothing moves in my property with out it being recorded and except for the entrance gate from the street to my front door, a flick of a switch and any other entrance way to the property are locked off as well.

@Betty By Tuesday at the latest the entire wood pile will split or cut to size, wheelbarrowed in to the enclosed back veranda and ONLY accessible from inside the house itself.

@Triphid Good. Better safe than sorry.

@Triphid It's a shame that those measure are necessary. It's people like him that make people lose trust.
Take heart, if he keeps screwing up at this level either the psych ward or the jail with have a new occupant.

@Betty I bring the firewood in and stack it in the back veranda mainly because,
a) it is then conveniently placed for when needed, and,
b) it is always under shelter, stays dry at all times and, it may sound funny or silly, but fills in an empty space under the supporting stand for my kind large Evaporative Air Cooler, the one that Experts told me " Will not cool the house because it needs to be completely out side of the house," big surprise they came around one summer, a 42 degrees Celsius day, and discovered that inside my house it was a lovely and comfortable 25 degree Celsius and that was with the Unit on LOW all day as well, put it on High and the temp drops below 22 degrees Celsius and you start to feel kind of cold.

@Triphid Nice to know everything is safe and secure. He's already shown himself to be an entitled brat that can't be trusted. I hope your neighbours are just as secured. Seems like people are turning their back on him and it will be interesting to find out if he asks his church friends for help and what will they do for him if anything. Most churches like to take money not give it.
A cool house on a hot summer day is so refreshing and enjoyable. I'm glad yours works well.