So, I'm sitting here at Midnight Thirty - wide awake.
The reason?
Mary put a pan on the stove with water in it - and then left the house.
I was sound asleep.
The smoke alarms went off. I say alarms because they are all wired together - when one goes off, they ALL go off. My bedroom, the other 2 tenant's bedrooms, my son's bedroom, the living room.
I come out here. How do you turn on a stovetop and leave the house? Are these the actions of a normal person?
Regardless, I took the pan, dumped the water out into the sink, poured cold water into the pan to cool it down. Put the pan away, put her box of macaroni back into her portion of the reach-in pantry.
Mary then comes in with Ken, the other roommate.
She raises her voice at me - then starts screaming. I told her if she didn't calm down, I was going to call the police. She yelled at me to "go ahead, call the police, call them, call them..........on and on". I looked at her. I will not tolerate tenants screaming at me in my own home, especially when I have an Order against them.
I call the police - turns out SHE --- ALREADY called the police against ME. I inform them I have an Order of Protection.
Police show up, the rest is history.
Mary is gone. If I weren't so sleepy, I would have recorded her "outrage". She did not get over the 'final' shock, she went on and on. It's a given she is going to go to court to try and have this thing removed. It's a given that I will be contacting my former tenant to please come and be a witness in court against her. I will have the police report from when Mary started the fight with Justine.
Mary stood there and told the police that I shoved her. Ummmm - okay, thank God for video surveillance. I will be burning a CD that will show her putting the pan on the stove, turning it on, leaving the house. It will go forward for however long it takes to show that she left the house. It will show me coming out.
I'm very tired, very sleepy. I wanted to write this to keep the story clear in my mind, though I have it on video, that's more clarity than anyone can come up with.
I'm quite sure this is only the beginning. The cops took her keys away from her and advised me to call them if she shows up again. She cannot get a court date for a minimum of 5 days. There may be other consequences to this - that I have thought about - but since she called the police on me, this was going to be a done deal anyway. I may be dealing with this in a multitudinal of ways.
Regardless, I am going to bed.
ben
7 comments:
oh boy Ben she is a nutter, am glad you got video proof though and hopefully the court will see through her too. Will keep you in my prayers.
You know that was a good move to have the restraining order. I learned something from you on this matter.
The video stuff is compelling as well. Hard to believe it has come to this isn't it?
You will prevail.
Bobby
susanne - she is definitely a nutcase. I can only imagine the revenge she must be cajoling about in her head that she will want to enact upon me. Thanks for the prayers!
bobby: yes, it is very hard to believe. I gave Mary warning about the police - didn't tell her why it would behoove her for me not to call them, but then I find out she called them before I did, anyway. The restraining order is only a good move if you can prove your side of the case pretty well in terms of having someone thrown out of the house. Mary had the former strike against her of starting that fight with a former tenant - of which there is a police report (that I have a copy of).
ben
Where is her "stuff"? If the cops have her keys, does this not give her and her insane friends incentive to smash their way inside to retrieve her belongings? I feel somehow I am missing a big piece of this puzzle.
Glad they got her out! A meth head no less. Sheesh.
Fin: The cops took her keychain from her and then proceeded to test the keys in the house lock, her room lock and the gate lock. They took those 3 keys and gave them to me. Mary was hysterical and was blabbering on and on and on, she was less than coherent. Anyway, she has ONE opportunity to come and get her stuff with police escort, according to the police. She has already gone to court today to file for a hearing which will take place next Friday. I have ample time to prepare my case against her. Just have to go through old emails and files that I still have from previous escapades with her, especially the event when she started that fight with Justine and all that happened there. THAT is the biggest juice of my case against her - that she is prone to violence and poses a serious threat to the health and safety of everyone living in my house along with the facts of the contaminants being spread throughout my house via the smoking of meth.
Mary cannot just come into my house whenever she wants, even with the police - she would have to come with the police and then they would have to contact me about gaining access to the house. My guess - she won't try to come back for anything until after this court hearing. I'm assuming she thinks she'll win (as she thought she would last time and did not) and then will have free access to the house. IF that happens - and I truly hope it does not, I will escalate the eviction to an "Irreparable Breach" of the rental contract if I can come up with a good enough case to do so. Otherwise, the 30 day clock is still ticking, regardless.
Kate - amen!
ben
OK. Thanks for the update. Continued good luck.
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