Public indecency laws in California?

Need to know this just off the record. Can you be arrested for being vulgar in in your own backyard? I kind of had a spat with the neighbor and told her where she can shove it and next time she complains that I am going to have stripper bowling in my backyard.

Stripper bowling includes a slip and slide, a gallon of lube, strippers, loud music, beer and suction dildos. Plus some assorted tatoo'd bike riding friends of mine.

Nobody else can see my backyard as I live on the edge of a cliff but she is ~10 feet higher in elevation and can see down in and is 80 years old and seriously nosy.

Taller fence maybe your answer.

I can't remember if it was in Cali or not, but somewhere a guy would stand in his door naked and there was nothing the law could do.

wearymicrobe wrote: Need to know this just off the record. Can you be arrested for being vulgar in in your own backyard? I kind of had a spat with the neighbor and told her where she can shove it and next time she complains that I am going to have stripper bowling in my backyard. Stripper bowling includes a slip and slide, a gallon of lube, strippers, loud music, beer and suction dildos. Plus some assorted tatoo'd bike riding friends of mine. Nobody else can see my backyard as I live on the edge of a cliff but she is ~10 feet higher in elevation and can see down in and is 80 years old and seriously nosy.

Private property. As long as its a closed area, its her own berkeleying fault for looking.

Shame on you for saying unkind things to an 80-year old lady.

I'm curious about the scoring. I can guess what a strike is, might have an idea of whats considered a spare....

So, uh, what prompted the interaction?

In reply to MrJoshua:

Scoring:

MiniVan. LOLzers.

In reply to wearymicrobe:

Evaluation is subjective. PM'd my address so I can offer my opinion at said event.

Tom Suddard wrote: So, uh, what prompted the interaction?

Started by calling the cops when I was working in the garage on a car with the door open. Heaven forbid.

Then something about not bringing in my garbage cans out for collection. Even though they get picked up at 10:30 on a Wednesday and well I am at work. IE come home and do it.

Its been coming. Taller fence is out as apparently its against code here. But the city has told me I can to 60 foot tall trees and she cannot say anything as plants are unrestricted.

Telling my neighbors that I am breeding cats in the house and that they are big. (All neutered males here)

Something about my windows reflecting light into her kitchen for a few minutes a day and that she wants me to remove the window.

This has been going on. Been leaving passive aggressive note all around my house lately as well. Much quieter since I said what I said a while back though.

wearymicrobe wrote: Been leaving passive aggressive note all around my house lately as well. Much quieter since I said what I said a while back though.

All around? Did she have to enter you property to do that?

I don't know if being passive aggressive back to her is a good solution. Take the higher road.

stuart in mn wrote: Take the higher road.

He cant. Her house is 10 feet higher.

I suggest buying the hillside land just below her house and investing in a large drill & blasting instruction....

BoxheadTim wrote:

wearymicrobe wrote: Been leaving passive aggressive note all around my house lately as well. Much quieter since I said what I said a while back though.

All around? Did she have to enter you property to do that?

Yes she is doing that. I have asked her not too.

Apparently getting onto other neighbors properties I found out from someone walking by today. To move things in there yards that she does not want to see out her windows.

The cops were called and she was warned, they told her to stay off there properties but not mine. Might need to gently warn her that it is a universal thing and not just their houses because she was told to stay off of them by the cops.

Just needed to vent a bit. All of the cars are acting up and while I am fixing like 2 or three things on each every-time I get out I find another major thing I need to go through.

She is 80. Just wait her out.

You should be able to fix your cars with a seafoam treatment sucked into the intake.

bearmtnmartin wrote: She is 80. Just wait her out.

Or, just give her a push.

wearymicrobe said: I live on the edge of a cliff.

I seriously doubt it if you're on your own property. On a side note, stripper bowling sounds awesome.

My son caught a lot of grief from an old battle ax that succeeded her husband's place on the HOA when he croaked. She finally got a boyfriend and found something else to occupy her time.

Hi wearymicrobe,

I’m not an attorney but I’ve lived my whole life in California and after owning four properties in the state, I’ve encountered a fair number of these types of situations before.

Unfortunately, the law usually isn’t black and white but rather is based on what is deemed “reasonable”. Basically, the question comes down to “would it be reasonable to expect your neighbor to be visually exposed to what you’re doing on your property”.

So, if she say’s “if I climb on my roof and hang off my chimney with a high powered pair of binoculars for several hours, I sometimes see something inappropriate” , that wouldn’t be considered reasonable.

Having said that, the burden seems to be placed on the accused…in less she’s being ridiculous, you’ll probably have to capitulate to her wishes.

Sounds like you need a Beverly Hills fence - aka tightly packed 30 foot high hedges and trees.

Set up some cameras to catch her in the yard (and footage to share of said stripper bbowling). Concrete evidence of her trespassing, forward to cops.

Sadly, the neighborhood busybody is hard to defeat. They have nothing but time, and you have no time for them.

Is this the place that you just bought for well below market value?

I think I might know what was driving the buyers away.