I have been suffering sadly with a lot of lies being spread about me in the building by two spouses whom my parents were unhappy with. As the eldest I supported my parents in everything, including their dislike of these two. So once my parents passed, the hate was transferred to me.
Endless run ins with lies which were so obviously just that, but over the years they harassed me with. Living in a building with them has been a nightmare as my other siblings don't live in the country. If I had their support it would have been happier.
It began a couple of years ago over the siblings daughter’s pals from college. They would come into the building and park their motorbikes in front of the GF apartment.Then when it was time to leave they would start the bikes, spewing dirty lead laden smoke into the GF apartment. No requests were heeded, instead they brought in more bikes to annoy.
One evening we had come home from a trip to enjoy dosas at Konarak restaurant on the top of the road. Walking down the road we slipped into the gate and nearly fell over a girl sitting bang in the lobby on the floor. Nearly tripping over her and her bag and books spread out, I asked whom she had come to see and she said she was waiting for the relatives to return.
I requested her to sit on the third floor steps to avoid being hurt with people coming and going in the lobby area and then just went into our apartment. The next thing I knew was she had told the relatives that I had wanted to kick her out of the gate at 8pm -- obviously playing on the woman in danger rhetoric. As a lecturer in college that was a damaging statement on my credentials, and I fought back. But I had to finally accept and swallow the lies.
The next problem I faced was their GF tenant was near the gate with her dogs which were loose, when I returned from college.I am diabetic and for many years were asking them to leash their dogs in the common areas. She refused, something she would not do by law back in her home country. The dogs came towards me when I stepped back to listen to her tirade and I shooed them away with my bag. The next thing I know was she hit me across my head and face. The mistake I made was to say I would complain to the police. She played her immunity card and got the cops to frame a civil and criminal case against me.
I had to take it to the High Court to get the matter quashed. Harassment was the idea and nothing else. It was hard and was an emotional roller coaster for me. Never having faced the law ever and this time it was a completely fake case. Luckily the principal of the college called me and gave me the name of an excellent lawyer to use to fight my case. A lawyer who took Media law classes in college -- cocky and brash and so angry that they were bullying me. In a week he had the case dismissed. Egg on their face which they did not like.
Again it was too quiet for them to bear and so the loutish BIl decided to take all the draws from a stand from our ad agency, kept by my husband in the basement, and throw them into a bin. The security informed us or we would not have been aware and would have lost the draws if thrown away in the trash. Knowing his crude and nasty ways we just picked up the draws and put them back. I had called a scrap dealer to come and buy the stand rather than have any more run-ins with him.
The next thing we knew was there was huge screaming and yelling in the basement by my brother and his tamilian wife and this loutish man and my sister-- his wife. The screaming said they could see CCTV footage where I had taken a draw and dinged his car. Wow! What else was I to face?? Dinged his car?? There was a tiny line on the side of his car which he swore I had done. I just walked away, fed up of his childishness. The CCTV showed me carrying the draw which he swore I hit his car with. To what depths was the man going to sink I wondered?
Silence cannot reign, they have to keep harassing me. So the next EVENT that the two of them cooked up was that I took pictures of the GF tenant. A huge screaming event outside my door saying I was so jealous of their tenants! I just shut the door on their faces after recording them and sent them a lawyers notice. They had landed at my door now, I was tired of it. I have the video, I can make it criminal whenever I want to says my lawyer.
What was the screaming about you may ask? I had taken pictures of their wonderful tenant apparently !! I wondered if I was hearing right, pictures of an old silly lady with dogs, she really had an ego problem and the money she was paying the brother and SIl obviously was enough to set them off.
Tired and pretty fed up I yelled at my Dad and grandfather at night. I ‘spoke’ to them and said, ‘what the hell are you guys doing and allowing these people to harass me??’
Then I cam down for my regular run early morning to learn that the loutish BIL’s daughter had parked her car on the road where work is going on. The crews work at night, through the night as in the day, regular traffic impedes them. They are terribly disturbing but there is no other time that they can work. Imagine the ego of the girl to park her car on the road in front of the gate and walk away!
The security guy told her to climb the pavement slightly and park, as huge earth movers go up and down all night working, but she did not bother. Sometime early in the morning the earth mover or some truck must have brushed the side of the car and smashed off the mirror and the side window glass into smithereens.Pretty hefty damage.
With all the noise of the work happening no one realised what had occurred and so it was only when the lout took his dogs for a walk early morning at 3:30am did he notice the damage and went ballistic.
I guess Dad heard my requests and so did Grandpa. I was tired of being bullied and harassed. Peace reigns for now as I guess he is licking his wounds. Dad PLEASE keep a watch over me, I cant deal with these two nasty people alone.
