r/ProRevenge - Steal MY Power And Water? Say Goodbye To YOUR Garden! - #493

hello and welcome back to another kcc video i'm rob and today we'll be jumping into pro revenge before we start please hit that subscribe button and click the notification bell so you know when the next video goes live our story today comes to us from older sparky nozzle nozzle nozzle nozzle hey hey hey goodbye a sparky's tail let's jump right in this is a bit of a read hey the title will make sense at some stage i promise some years ago i was working fifo fly in fly out out of mine leave the smallish town i was living in at the time fly to the mine for two weeks fly back home for one week rinse repeat as a dual trade sparky instro it was big hours and lots of beer tickets sparky and instro is electrician and instrumentation electrician with all the fat stacks of bills i was being paid i decided to buy a fixer-upper house that i could work on during my weeks off with a view to selling at some stage my construction industry mates would help on occasion for beer and barbecue this is the way the house was an old wooden single story four bed one and a half bath affair on a half acre 2 000 square meters 21 780 square feet with a big shed seriously the shed was a big four bay job with power and water and a john deere ride-on mower for all the green crap it had come up at an estate sale the previous owners having been there for over 25 years it needed the usual paint and mending a fair bit of modernization a bit of renovation but was overall a solid house in an established neighborhood all the blocks around there were half acre the first day i was moving in i hadn't been there for an hour and had one of the neighbors visiting there are two types of neighbors who come over within an hour the here's a casserole welcome to the neighborhood type and the bill and jenny type bill and jenny antagonist bill was a retired barrister jenny a retired surgeon a barrister is a highly skilled specialist solicitor who wears a wig a solicitor is a regular lawyer who doesn't wear a wig i had to ask a barrister some questions regarding an upcoming court case once thought i'd just ring them up 30 minutes on the phone cost me 500 wigs are no joke anyway bill and jenny came over with the hello peasant this is a quiet neighborhood yada yada bs they'd been at their house for over 20 years i was courteous and respectful explained that i would be in and out due to being a fifo contractor didn't party and the only noise would be fixing up the house well bill and jenny were most assuredly not impressed i don't know if it was the contractor bit or the fixing up the house bit but i don't think their faces could have looked any more sour or horrified if i'd lent in and given them a big lick up the face i received a legal brief on the noise laws and repeated assertions that this was a quiet neighborhood bill was also kind enough to let me know that everyone around here has pride in their gardens and lawns and it would be a shame if i were any different jesus f bill okay i get it bill has no chill i let him wander off with his alpha attitude and went about moving in dave and beck from over the other fence came over just on sunset with their teenaged kids beers and pizza dave was a high school principal and beck was a nurse they asked how it went with bill and jenny and we had a good laugh dave told me how bill comes over and gives unsolicited gardening advice dave beck and their kids were tops all through the first day i'd seen bill pottering around in his garden garden isn't the right word though apart from the house their half acre was like the local botanical gardens gazebo pool pond and all dave told me how bill bragged about his rare trees and flowers and stuff can you tell i love gardening honestly grass is just something you pull up to pave or concrete over after the first week i'd moved in and had begun the plans for the work i wanted to do with the title to the house had come a copy of the previous owner's application to build a deck off the rear and side of the house nice big deck i stepped out the plans decided that this big beautiful deck would do nicely and had my people begin looking into whether the plans were still valid or needed updating i'd also service the mower in my big shed and done the lawn to the not so surreptitious scrutiny of bill then it was off to the mine for two weeks each week off i'd catch up on sleep and work a bit this went on for a few months until i got my first proper quarterly utility bill power water etc now i could continue a habit i'd started years earlier just like everyone else does when i'd moved in i recorded the power and water meter readings in my utilities diary it's a good tool to monitor power and water usage comes in handy if you suspect a leak or power issues everyone has one right now that i'd had a bill i could keep records the issue unfolds month 5 i decided to replace the electrical switchboards in the house and big shed fuse box breaker panel load center distribution board i don't know where you live and what you call it there to do this i killed the power at the front main switch at the meter box this means my whole block would have no power while changing out the switchboards i'd also do a full test of the electrical cabling outlets etc this testing was done by law prior to sale but not by me so of course i had to check it two things were weird during this time the cable over to the shed tested not as expected bill was watering some of his flower beds by hand there are now some readers who have guessed what the underlying corpus delecti is in this tale some have probably figured out what the title means bill's whole garden like mine had an automatic irrigation system at set times and days the whole grounds would get watered by a pump and timers this usually happened three times a week around sunset his flower beds had misters potted plants and drippers and the lawn had the pop-up rotating chuck chuck chuck chuck sprinklers i wrote this out so you'd make the noise in your head you're welcome i'd never seen bill water by hand with a hose weird the shed circuit intimated that it either had a fault in the underground cable or it had some electrical equipment connected even though i'd unplugged everything for testing so the undergrounds then i'd have to try and find the underground and investigate this would mean pulling them out and possibly replacing them but that could wait for tomorrow i'd just do the house switchboard that day next day i borrowed a cable locator from a mate and traced the shed undergrounds marking with my favorite pink paint the shed undergrounds were about one meter or three feet inside my fence line and were fed from the power meter box at the front of the property about halfway between the house and shed i ran into more weird it appeared that there was a branch off the underground shed power cable heading into bill's property looking over the fence the first thing i could see in line with this branch was bill's little hut that housed his pool pump filter irrigation controls irrigation manifolds and valves this hut was about 3 meters or 10 feet inside his fence line because this cable locator also located water pipes i found that the shed water pipe also branched at this point things were less weird now after marking the whole underground services trench i packed up the gear and went about changing out the house switchboard and had a nice think the plan was formed the next day i got my people to look into public records of when bill's pool and my shed had been built i also went and bought some cameras and a recorder the last couple days of the week i did a few things using surveyor's pegs hammered into the ground i marked out where the big beautiful deck would be going i didn't want anyone suspicious about why i'd mark the shed underground services trench i put up the cameras one facing down the side of the house that would capture the water and power meter at the front of the property one facing my shed which would inadvertently capture bill's pool hut perfectly legal i installed a mini power meter just for the shed circuit so i could monitor power usage to the shed i changed my irrigation timers to match bills just in case the last thing i did before heading back to the mine was to turn the shed power circuit off and the main water valve off of course the meter readings went in my utilities diary my grounds might not be watered for two weeks but sometimes you gotta break some eggs and everything was that smug green shade anyway it could do with being taken down a peg when i got home the next week off i casually went over to the meters and wouldn't you know it the brand new power meter for the shed had numbers on it mainly because it was now turned on the water meter had a higher reading and the water valve was turned on so big bold bill huh just leaving this stuff on for me to find next i checked the cameras see bill at his pool hut the day after i've left looking at the irrigation system with puzzlement see bill walking off frame to appear on the other camera looking at the meters see bill turning the water and power on see bill going back to his place checking the irrigation system see the sprinklers come on i'd also had a call well at the mine from my people telling me that bill's pool and my shed had gone in around the same time 10 years ago bill bill bill you silly wig-wearing wanker phase two of the plan included making the hole deeper for bill one day when he was out in the garden i called over to him and asked if he'd seen anyone messing around with the power and water meters the meters were at the front of the property like they did back in the day to make it easier for the meter readers from the utility companies this meant that kinda anyone could come and mess with them bill came over and said no i made sure to stand in a particular spot at the fence so this exchange was captured by the camera when i left for the mine i not only recorded the meter numbers and turned the power and water off i put an out of service tag on the shed circuit and another on the water valve these were dated and i took photos so now we can establish just how bold bill was because when i got home the tags were gone and the power and water was on again i again went through the asking over the fence stick again bill denied any scienter two chances to own up okie dokie phase three just so everyone is caught up bill had been at his property for 20 years plus the pool and shed went in 10 years ago the pool hut with the pump and filter and irrigation system went in at the same time you could see that the hut had been designed to house all of it bill might have been knowingly stealing power and water for 10 years he certainly had no problem stealing power and water off me f bill and all his green crap i visited a couple of mates to pick up some items and went to work in the shed i got the borrowed 200 liter 53 gallon drum filled it with water and emptied a 20 kilogram 44 pound bag of goodness into it it took a while to stir it all in and dissolve i set up the dosing pump for the drum and ran a lead to my irrigation system to power it and turn it on at 2 am with my headlamp on feeling all jason bourne i went and turned my water off after running the taps in the house to remove the pressure i put some plastic down near the power and water branch for the dirt and very carefully dug a hole exposing the water line going over to bill's place i fixed a tapping saddle to the water pipe remember this pipe over to bill's place was coming off my water pipe onto the tapping saddle i fitted the end of a length of small clear plastic tubing and filled in the hole the grass fit back into place just nicely the plastic tubing i ran along the fence to the shed tucked into the grass and attached the other end to the dosing pump the delivery system was ready after turning my water back on i turned my taps on to repressurize the lines then i cleaned up and went to bed later that day around midday i went next door and knocked one last chance bill jenny answered the door and i asked if i could have a word with them both about their pool and irrigation water and power jenny knew she paused for a heartbeat and said they didn't have anything to talk about as she was closing the door i said that if bill wanted to come and see me i'd be home now you might be thinking okay this looks like it's going to be a bit of an extreme response here's what i'd put up with since i moved in bill or jenny asking me to keep the noise of the power tools down when i was working during the day i only ever started after 9am and finished before 5pm our houses were about 100 meters 330 feet apart i was disturbing their gazebo time during the day bill and or jenny calling the police to my place for noise complaints when i had mates over helping the worksite radio was low and we were just being jokular not rowdy dave and beck had no issue and came over for the barbecues bill had one of my effing trees cut down while i was at work because it was too close to his fence yeah okay francopani flowers do get kinda everywhere but still it had been there for years and he could have asked bill tried to legally bully the local council into denying my big beautiful deck plans the deck plans had again been approved by the local council let me say this again bill tried to f with my deck so at about 5 p.m bill's irrigation turned on and so did my dosing pump have you ever heard the term salting the earth the bag i'd emptied into the 200 liter 53-gallon drum was pool salt n-a-c-l when bill's irrigation turned off the drum was empty it had pumped all the salt water into bill's irrigation system 2 am i jason borne the tubing out of the hole sealed the tapping saddle and packed up the next morning i took my mates drum and pump back at about 8 am i started digging up the services trench all the way from the meter box to the shed with breaks it took the whole day when i got to the branch that led into bill and jenny's place i called them over to look at it they denied any knowledge i told them that's okay i was going to replace the cable and conduit to the shed anyway so i just cut the stuff going to their place i ended up jumping the fence and digging so i could rip the pipe and cable out of the ground on their side a plumber mate came and helped fix my water pipe fallout bill's garden when i was digging my trench the next morning i could see it all everything wilting if he'd gotten a heap of water on it right away the night before who knows some of his rare trees may have survived but by 8 am the salt had been doing its job for 13 hours when he saw what was happening and figured out the cause he connected his hose to the irrigation system and started watering everything turned yellow and brown it took him months to get the plants that lived back to being healthy he told the local horticulture society of which he was the president that the pool water had somehow gotten into the irrigation bill and jenny the morning after once he'd figured out what happened they confronted me i denied any knowledge and when he started threatening legal action i told him about the tags and video and utilities diary and pool shed building documents it drove him nuts not being able to do anything he knew i did it thankfully i had no more hassle from them me i sold the house one year after starting as planned to avoid higher taxes on the sale i bought another house and started again my people convince her like a human conveyor belt they move paper from one place to another big beautiful deck best deck ever it went along the whole back of the house and halfway around one side it was 5 meters or 16 feet wide roofed and had a barbecue station and sinks built in i still miss that deck my grounds i managed not to kill any of my plants or stupid grass thank you for reading opie included a glossary of terms at the bottom that was actually quite well written and i thought you guys would enjoy it here goes glossary beer tickets beer tickets are money you hand over a red beer ticket twenty dollar note you get five beers a blue ticket ten dollar note gets you two beers these conversion rates are from years ago i don't know what the current conversion rates are corpus delecti is either body of the crime or something to do with cooking i'm pretty sure i've heard gordon ramsay say it before but then who could tell salting the earth salt kills plants i reckon after seeing the results of one bag had i put in three bags and i would have there'd have been no recovery also i'm pretty sure the soil would have needed quite a bit of remediation to ever grow anything again it's kinda lucky for bill that my mate only had one bag i was in a bit of a mood that day i had hoped for ground zero neighbors or neighborhood i made sure to write this down as many times as i reasonably could just to annoy people with the u it's one of my favorite games grass 15 spots of rain and you have to cut it again oh look now it needs fertilizer no it needs shade oops too much shade honestly kids are easier i remember the time i mowed the lawn as a 10 year old ran over some rocks that was such a fun time mowing the lawn with bleeding legs and dad saying that's just part of mowing the lawn mate to be fair i did only have shorts and thongs on but still f grass op seems to be a real salt of the earth or a seasoned professional in getting revenge he totally assaulted that backyard okay seriously though the words cut down and tree were in the same sentence hello r tree law i'm kinda disappointed op didn't take that part any further but it's still a wonderful story thank you to op for posting this story in the pro revenge subreddit they are linked in the description down below please go check them out check out one of these other videos and if you haven't yet please hit that subscribe button for more daily reddit stories you

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Published: Mon Feb 01 2021