I have a similar problem as you. He's maybe 60 years old, William Barry (or at least that's one of his pseudonyms) lives at the end of Mavus Road in Old Tappan on the edge of the golf course. I frequently walk up the road along the edge of the course and he thinks I'm violating his property if I so much as walk by it and pick up a ball on the edge of the course. His home is dozens of feet from the edge of the course and clearly does not own the land up to a couple feet from the green! He has threatened me twice over the course of several years and thinks I'm out to abduct or rape or somehow Do Something to his Dog! His dog is well Away from the course and I've only glimpsed the cute pooch once. He's a threatening nutcase though and, if I'm not mistaken, telephones his (like-minded?) neighbors who live along the same course periphery to "warn" them of my approach, and they sometimes go out into their yards to "watch" for me?
The nature of this town has Changed as have the neighbors. The new ones are extremely pretentious and attention/status seekers. Conservative types who probably still fear the "Reds under the beds"
and a communist take-over of the government. That sort of thing. I think this is an outgrowth of the Mafia mentality in my neck of the woods. I've walked the same course, on and off, for 40 odd years since I was a tot but never before came across such a disruptive, verbally-abusive madman.
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I have a similar problem as you. He's maybe 60 years old, William Barry (or at least that's one of his pseudonyms) lives at the end of Mavus Road in Old Tappan on the edge of the golf course. I frequently walk up the road along the edge of the course and he thinks I'm violating his property if I so much as walk by it and pick up a ball on the edge of the course. His home is dozens of feet from the edge of the course and clearly does not own the land up to a couple feet from the green! He has threatened me twice over the course of several years and thinks I'm out to abduct or rape or somehow Do Something to his Dog! His dog is well Away from the course and I've only glimpsed the cute pooch once. He's a threatening nutcase though and, if I'm not mistaken, telephones his (like-minded?) neighbors who live along the same course periphery to "warn" them of my approach, and they sometimes go out into their yards to "watch" for me?
The nature of this town has Changed as have the neighbors. The new ones are extremely pretentious and attention/status seekers. Conservative types who probably still fear the "Reds under the beds"
April 14, 2014 - 11:17amand a communist take-over of the government. That sort of thing. I think this is an outgrowth of the Mafia mentality in my neck of the woods. I've walked the same course, on and off, for 40 odd years since I was a tot but never before came across such a disruptive, verbally-abusive madman.
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