Gentleman argues with neighbor about fence (video)

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http://goodsharer.com/ Aloisius

It must be hard to be so angry.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  That’s what meth is for.
http://twitter.com/justplainscott thomas scott

Um, what?
http://jimbeach.net mindfu

That’s just really, really sad.

It looks to me like the old bull is yelling mostly because he’s not a young bull any more.
- hassan-i-sabbah
  
  He is only 50.
  - http://www.facebook.com/stephen.m.moran Stephen Moran
    
    You’d better believe it!
    - Petzl
      
      Guess what? He’s American!
  - http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb
    
    Maybe fifty was the age when his short-term memory ceased functioning.
  - http://jimbeach.net mindfu
    
    Exactly. He’s just starting to slip from being king of the hill. And it’s a long drop.
- http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul
  
  Glenn’s just sad he lost his show on Fox.
- http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
  
  It looks to me like the old bull is yelling mostly because he’s not a young bull any more.
  
  It looks to me like he’s yelling because he’s the product of an intellectually impoverished authoritarian culture. He’s angry about a bunch of pointlessly harmful distractions his overlords have fostered to divert scrutiny from their nefarious business and drown out what remains in arguments over just how indecent public standards should be.
http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza

Nonetheless, that fence could do with some attention.
- jimh
  
  I’m thinking about a 9-foot tall cinder block “fence” right there.
  - Snig
    
    The video reinforces the adage “Good fences make good neighbors, inadequate fences encourage addled hostile conversation and legal disputes”
- SomeGuyNamedMark
  
  No way, it goes great with the collection of rusting cars and water heaters in the yard.
- hymenopterid
  
  Bad neighbors make bad fences.
Scratcheee

Was that footage shot from a drone?
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

I’m amazed Vidal got Buckley on tape like that.
- ImmutableMichael
  
  Having *just* heard the news, too soon…
  - http://twitter.com/perizade Perizade
    
    Nah, right on time. He’d have loved that.
    - ImmutableMichael
      
      Yeah, to be fair that’s true. *Insert cutting remark here*
      - http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
        
        Pretty hard to argue with 80 Likes…
arp

how did boing boing find a video of my crazy uncle?? Just dart him some paxil and he’ll go back to sleep for a while. Wait that’s not my uncle that crazy has his shirt AND pants on…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

I’m starting to house-hunt. I have nightmares of ending up moving next to, ahhhhh, fine folks like them.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Once you pick a place, walk down the street with a clipboard and do a voter registration drive. Great way to meet your prospective neighbors and see if they’re bugfuck crazy.
  - heligo
    
    nice idea until you finally move in next door and they realise that you’re probably nuts for faking a voter registration
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      I didn’t say that you should fake it.
      - alfanovember
        
        Anyway, it’s not like you’re setting up a Polio Vaccination Clinic, is it?
    - http://openid.aliz.es/Hobatovis Hobatovis
      
      No one’s saying you have to do a fake drive. Most places I think you could just contact your local elections office to get forms to do it for real.
      
      Anyway, there’s no need for pretense. Just go visit the neighbors, tell them you’re thinking of buying the house next door and ask them how they like the neighborhood. You’ll find the crazies soon enough.
  - robyn wells
    
    No need to do a “voter registration”. Going to the neighbor’s house and explaining that you are thinking about moving next door can reveal amazing things. It helped save us by revealing that a house with a few new additions was actually put in to cover up some major issues. Turns out the previous people were hoarders, the house was a drug den and that it required haz-mat to come in and clean the house. The inspection only revealed a few things, but what the neighbors shared saved us a future life of misery.
    - RedShirt77
      
      Sounds like that house just needed some prostitution and some fire damage to be the worst house ever.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/XM5SGOWF2RCNIXEGZIRWIUPB7U ask
  
  I know! They can’t even keep their fence up!
- http://twitter.com/gameism Steve Bowler
  
  The garbage in the yard is usually an excellent barometer of how crazy they are.
  - Off White
    
    Oh, I assure you that too darn neat is a different measure of crazy, be wary of both extremes.
Guido

Is it that my English is not good enough, or is it that the non-gentleman’s accent or diction are to understand for non-trained ears?
- thedreadpiratewesley
  
  As that isn’t actually a sentence, it may well be the former.
  - Wreckrob8
    
    I think there might be a missing ‘hard’ there, ‘hard to inderstand’, and you have a sentence.
  - method
    
    Well, you could just insert “too hard to” to make it a sentence. Or you could just be a dick to strangers. Guido, they have thick accents, but he’s slurring too.
    - thedreadpiratewesley
      
      (Snark redacted due to misunderstanding intent of original comment. D’oh.)
      - http://twitter.com/MartianEmpress Rezeya Montecore
        
        (snark redacted due to leonard’s later apology to Guido)
    - Guido
      
      Thanks for telling me, method.
  - Guido
    
    Sorry, I write like crap in Spanish too at 1 AM.
    - thedreadpiratewesley
      
      No, my mistake, I thought you were being nasty about the people in the video. I apologise for misunderstanding your intentions.
      - Guido
        
        Well, I honestly started watching, but I could not understand a single word. My English is OK for understanding “Standard English” accent, and Southern accents if they are not too thcik. But when I am exposed to some British accents, Indian, Scottish or East Texas, among many others, my ears just shut down. So, I wanted to gauge my understanding and see if others also had some trouble understanding. There was a bit of sarcasm, yes, but that was not the main point of the comment.
- Melinda9
  
  Not being able to understand to him is a thing sincerely to be wished for.
- http://msmith13.wordpress.com/ Mark
  
  I think we’re all indebted to Gabby Johnson for clearly stating what needed to be said.
  - Felton / Moderator
    
    Rurrurh!!
http://twitter.com/Stoutlagger Rob

Am I the only one that wants him to yell “Macho MAN! SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM! OH YEAH! ”.
- cub
  
  TOO SOON.
  - http://twitter.com/Stoutlagger Rob
    
    And the beat goes on, YEAH!
- harold miller
  
  ART THOU BORED?
- http://twitter.com/strugglngwriter strugglngwriter
  
  I was thinking that too, although I was thinking more along the lines of the Hulkster. Not enough oooh yeahs to be Macho Man.
http://twitter.com/mylesnyc Myles Gaythwaite

How on earth did these people become neighbors?
- http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
  
  I guess one of them moved next door to the other.
  - Culturedropout
    
    Zing! But now we know your secret identity, Nathan… or should I say… Captain Obvious…? ;-)
Melinda9

A feud with a neighbor should be avoided at all costs. My neighbor decided years ago that a section of the wall in front of my house belongs to him. We’ve just ignored his claims and now he’s moving away – problem solved. Well, if his house ever sells, that is.
Also “I ‘m out here cleaning up my yard.” – lol.
Christy Kane

I think he might have been a WWF Superstar.
- BombBlastLightingWaltz
  
  You most likely mean WWE not the WWF =World Wildlife Foundation.
  
  Agreed he is most likely a rabid wrasslin fan. Silly old drunk.
  - Brian Bell
    
    It used to be WWF – World Wrestling Federation (1982-2001), they changed it to WWE – World Wrestling Entertainment.
    - Culturedropout
      
      Yeah – when the World Wildlife Foundation dragged their silly, spandex-clad asses to court and took it away from them! Oh yeah!
  - Nick Hayday
    
    to be fair, it was called WWF until the early 00′s
Karen Sylte-Munson

I’m thinking they could take him to court for making threats. He very clearly threatens rape and says he is going to “get” them.

I had a crazy neighbor across the street for awhile who came over and screamed at me for parking in “his” parking spot on the street. He said it was his because he was disabled. When I said I was sorry if I’d inconvenienced him, but asked him how I could have possibly known he was disabled, since we’d never met beforer, he spit on my storm door. LOL. At that point I began speaking redneck so he would understand me better and told him to get off my property or I was letting my dogs out, calling the cops, and getting my shotgun. He left. He never came across the street to my house again. Sometimes it pays to be bilingual.
- ZikZak
  
  Why take him to court when you can take him to the internet?
- SomeGuyNamedMark
  
  “I was letting my dogs out, calling the cops, and getting my shotgun.”
  
  Sounds like an idea for a country song.
  - Culturedropout
    
    There needs to be drinking and cheating and twanging for that to work, though…
Frank W

It’s that God Damn George Liquor Show! In glorious 3D!
noah django

＼（－－）／マイッタ
http://imcravingpresidency.tumblr.com/ SedanChair

Christ, I think I’m gonna go take my neighbor some brownies for not being this guy
- Culturedropout
  
  Hey! How about making _me_ some brownies for _not_ being your neighbor…?
Bucket

Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed the courage little seen in this day and age.
- Bucket
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5Mr5eCF2U
TimmoWarner

I have finally learned the code and realized I will probably be happier if I don’t click on Boing Boing posts with the word “gentleman” in them.
- princeminski
  
  Yeah, I saw this tape elsewhere and knew *immediately* what this was gonna be from the title.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Murdock/783770273 Andy Murdock

I can’t wait to see what happens next. I think the grey haired man throws a bone in the air and then we crossfade to a giant space station.
- z7q2
  
  Nice, now I’ll have the Blue Danube in my head all morning
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QHS2JUGZGALAPD2FDGC6K27LZU Mister

lmfao this guy is awesome. Although i wouldnt like to live next door to him, i would love to hang out with this crazy mother fucker. He is so angry its lovable. Make sure to send him a christmas card haha just to see what he does. Btw holy fucking shit look how close he lvives to the train tracks- hes got a fucking freight litterally parked outside his bedroom window.

this guy sounds and looks suspiciously like the old dude who beat up the black guy on the bus. Somebody call an ambulampse
- noah django
  
  his name is Epic Beard Guy. also, it’s pronounced “amber lamps.” srsly.
  - http://www.aarongilliland.com/ Aaron Gilliland
    
    Dude, I totally forgot about Amber Lamps. I think the 4Chan community gave that name to the purple-stocking’d female who calmly sat through the whole thing.
    - noah django
      
      4chan? what the hell is that?
      
      http://cdn2.holytaco.com/wp-content/uploads/images/2009/12/pic-6.jpg
wrybread

An internet star is born.
http://twitter.com/ethanwc ethanwc

It’s like David Lynch did an episode of King of the Hill…
- cub
  
  boy ain’t right, i tell you what…
Bonobo

Seeing this video makes me uncomfortable. It seems like a very private matter between two parties that have no bearing on the rest of us. This feels like laughing at the freaks in a sideshow.
Not concern trolling, watching the video just makes me a bit ill and I’m not sure I gained anything in my life by watching it.
- IronEdithKidd
  
  You’ve gained some knowledge of a culture you perhaps knew little of prior to watching the video. You’ve now also exposed yourself to a dialect of American English that perhaps you hadn’t experienced before.
  
  If you squint hard enough and tilt your head, there’s a silver lining in every turd. ;P
- Guest
  
  I see your point. But there’s also some educational value to this. I’ve been in a few confrontations vaguely reminiscent of this, and I’m always on the lookout for ways to resolve them more civilly.
  
  This only provided a little help in that regard, but at least I know it’s not just me.
http://www.markcrummett.com crummett

And we were treated to that why?
- Peppermint
  
  Probably something along the line of “people are assholes”, I’m guessing?
  
  Edit: More precisely, because “oh look that guy is such an asshole aren’t you glad he’s so very different from us, ha ha.”
- princeminski
  
  Okay, sensitive people, please take heed of the earlier post that says “I’ve learned I’ll be happier if I don’t look at BoingBoing posts with the word ‘gentleman’ inthe title,” or words to that effect. For the rest of us, H.L. Mencken, questioned on a related topic: “Why do people go to zoos?”
  - princeminski
    
    I take it back. Just watched the video of the bearded guy and the black guy on the bus (and especially the comments). My turn to feel ill.
heligo

seriously how the fuck do these guys sleep at night with those crazies in the next house. scary
- yadayada
  
  They sleep in shifts.
Javad Ayaz

They took uuur jaaabs!!!!
Frank Diekman

“Guess what? I’m American!” This season’s new political slogan!
- retepslluerb
  
  Huh? I thought that was the national motto.
  - cub
    
    close! it’s: Guess what? Chicken butt!
- acidrain69
  
  It’s pronounced “Amurikan”
  - vrplumber
    
    Annif yoo don’t lake thet, yoo kin git out!!!!
- http://twitter.com/perizade Perizade
  
  Fuck you, I’m an ant eater!
  - princeminski
    
    I love that so much! Don’t even know why.
    - http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
      
      I think it’s the ‘you wanna fuckin piece o’me?’ pose.
Gerald Mander

Now I see why so many Southern states try to prevent the teaching of evolution — there’s no evidence for it there.
- cub
  
  Kansas just got Gerald Mandered to the South everybody!
  - Gerald Mander
    
    Oh, pardon me; I misheard that midwestern accent.
- noah django
  
  Rednecks know no boundaries. The poster doesn’t claim his real city. Don’t project your bullshit on me and my people.
  - Gerald Mander
    
    I grew up in the South, so my disdain is based on sad observation. But you’re right, stupidity has no geographical restrictions.
    - http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
      
      It sure has geographical preferences though.
http://twitter.com/kainoa3000 Kainoa

Am I getting this right? Angry man is 50 years old, and the woman on the phone is his daughter that also appears to be 50? THAT IS SOME CRAZY STUFF.
- fergus1948
  
  I believe it’s traditional in some parts of the country to have a daughter who can also be your wife.
- Boundegar
  
  Methamphetamine is bad for you.
- http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb
  
  I wondered that too, but I didn’t hear anything establishing that Not-So-Epic Beard Man was her dad. She might have pointed toward him or the house, so maybe her father is an older gentleman with the good sense not to scream and threaten his neighbors. Angry dude could be her brother, lover, pal. Or he was lying about being 50. Hasn’t aged well if he is.
  - johne2
    
    Nah, at one point she says something about “her father’s property.” Now, it may not be him, but the implication is there.
    
    And here in Central Cali, I can vouch for that young lady being an excellent example of a methed-out 35 or so years old.
    - cub
      
      lose the teeth, lose the looks.
- http://jimbeach.net mindfu
  
  They’re living a hard life. Hard work and cigarettes take their toll.
Labbit

TIL a new word: “sssshhhhitbitch”
Cowicide

This man is in reality a meat puppet forced without his knowledge to be strung around this earth performing inane acts to the evil delight of bored aliens who control him on occasion when they need a laugh. They excised the part of his brain that would control his own self-awareness just so they can keep this sick joke of a man going for as long as they’d like to play with him and his incredibly weak mind.

We could go in and rescue him from the matrix, but he’s probably too far gone to be saved at this point. The weight of reality would crush him and he’d just turn to babbling in the corner until death. Anyway, it might be amusing to see what he looks like when the aliens turn up his bigotry to eleven and remotely control his feeble brain to make him flail and flap his arms around like a headless, bigoted, chic-fil-a chicken.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000444450214 Genre Slur

Where in the usa was this captured?
- Cowicide
  
  Hell, USA.
  - http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb
    
    https://maps.google.com/maps?q=hell+michigan+usa&hnear=Hell,+Michigan&gl=us&t=m&z=15
- disky00
  
  Most of the USA, USA.
- cub
  
  assuming the owner has been sitting on this for six months (the trees were bare), could be anywhere, but the woman was doing some product placement for Polo Sport with her sweater and the one guy was in shorts… hard to tell.
  
  the accents were vaguely rural/midwestern, and i mean VAGUELY. like the man said, Authentic Frontier Gibberish.
- http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul
  
  He should send it to Andrew Sullivan’s “View From Your Window” contest so the internet can try to guess the location.
  
  He sounds more redneck than southern to me, so Hamilton, Ohio would be my guess on the accent.
http://openid.aliz.es/Hobatovis Hobatovis

I’m not sure why anyone acts like this when they know they’re being videoed.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  It’s their two minutes and forty-three seconds of fame. Naturally, they want to make the most of it.
- http://twitter.com/strugglngwriter strugglngwriter
  
  I really don’t think the guy cared he was on video. Or maybe he doesn’t know what video is. I’m impressed he was able to walk, make hand motions, and talk all at the same time.
  - Sparg
    
    At least his soul won’t be stolen.
    - travtastic
      
      He was previously videotaped, that’s why.
- retepslluerb
  
  Anyone who talks and dresses like this in public has no shame. Why should he care about being taped?
  - http://plagmada.org Tim H
    
    Being video taped tends to make angry, stupid people angrier and stupider.
hassan-i-sabbah

That Jackie, wheres Dunlap ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW2V6QsLrWg
- cub
  
  talkin’ to the devil and drinkin’ a coke (i reckon).
http://www.facebook.com/dpease Dave Pease

i’m still not clear what this disagreement is actually about.
- Glen Able
  
  Well, basically, it’s some sort of problem involving fences and motherfuckers.
bcsizemo

This is a fine example of “white trash”. I was pretty much expecting his shirt to either have an American flag on it, something anti-Obama, or the Confederate flag.

While I’m Republican…these are not my peoples.
- http://codeflow.org/ Florian Bösch
  
  He’s singing the song of his people for his neighbor. It’s considered a traditional greeting.
- http://scavenger-ethic.blogspot.com/ scav
  
  You know what? I hate that expression.
  
  a) people aren’t trash
  b) the emphasis on *white* makes it implicit that, to the originators of the phrase, non-whites are trash by default and whites are not.
  - retepslluerb
    
    Well, the term was introduced by black slaves.
    - cub
      
      –but like @scavph:disqus pointed out, it’s because of the implication.
      
      it’s the slur that keeps on giving.
  - http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
    
    I offer up the Australian equivalent for substitution: bogan.
    
    …I see it just entered the OED last month!
Dignan

I can see why they decided it would be best for him not to speak at this years Republican convention.
Richard Lord

My Guess is Tennessee,
http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

He’s presidential candidate material.
acidrain69

That’s Bill the Fence Guy; he’ll be Romney’s VP pick any day now.
- http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul
  
  “GrrrrraRgh! I can see Saudi Fucking Arabia from my motherfucking house!”
Adrian

Good fences make good neighbors and ugly fences make ugly neighbors.
- http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
  
  Effects precede causes now? How the hell am I supposed to navigate that reality?
snagglepuss

US Border Patrol – West Viriginia division.
DreadJester

To be honest, none of us know what started the argument. Obviously the man holding the camera could have done something very wrong and we don’t know it. What I mean is, with out knowledge of why the old guy was mad we have no reason really to belittle him. Perhaps his dog had strayed over into the guy filming the event’s yard and was shot by the same man. Think I’d be a bit mad about that too and perhaps I’d string up a hastily made fence to stop future issues. Not saying that’s what happend but it could have been anything really. Without context we have no idea and obviously the person recording the event has eaither edited out or missed recording anything that could have given us a better understanding of what all the fuss is about.
- Colin Curry
  
  From what I can gather, the videographer’s dog had jumped the fence into shouty man’s yard. Shouty man and his daughter decided to erect/fix said fence to prevent the dog from coming over. The videographer protested since it was his fence and he should decide how to fix it. Shouty man, needing little to no excuse, started shouting.
  - harold miller
    
    This isn’t what I’m getting at all from the banjo-speaking folks.
    From what I understand of banjo-speak, the 50-year-old woman, who is apparently the daughter of the 50-year-old man, who looks as though he’s actually 65, repeatedly references the neighbors’ “dopeheads” jumping over the fence at night.
    It seems to me that the alabaster refuse neighbors are accusing the Arabs of dealing drugs. Unlike the accusations of child molestation, etc, I took this charge to be one that the neighbors actually believe, though, chances are the Arabs just have some friends who occasionally come over to party and perhaps don’t constrain themselves to their yard when leaving, for whatever reasons.
    
    That said…
    
    You know how bad I want you?
    I wanna fuck you in the ass.
    
    Sheer poetry.
    - johne2
      
      Ok, so he’s the Iron Sheik, not the Macho Man. Got it. I was confused, until the ass-fucking comments.
    - princeminski
      
      “Alabaster refuse?” That’s poetry.
http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb

I can haz context? Why is angry man wearing a Los Pollos Hermanos t-shirt? I thought this might go in a totally different direction when he said, “I like you too.”
http://twitter.com/chrisjimson chris jimson

How old is this footage? It clearly isn’t summer there.
- Blake Andersen
  
  Maybe it’s in Washington (state). We don’t get summers anymore.
alstew

Ahhh BoingBoing, sometimes it is just Kittens and Outrage.
http://fiercefamily.com zdislaw

Jeez…put down the dang camera and fix your ratty old fence. Nobody should let a dog out in a yard as poorly protected as that.
- yadayada
  
  I think the fence belongs to the ratty old people.
  - thedreadpiratewesley
    
    When the daughter tries to help fix the fence, the Camerafolks explicitly say “It’s ours. We’ll fix it – we don’t need you to fix it.”
- http://plagmada.org Tim H
  
  Yeah, fences aren’t hard. If I had a nicely kept up house, and the shouting man doesn’t, I could imagine getting angry with my neighbors nailed up, unsupported, barely-uncoiled length of cyclone fencing. Angry enough to threaten to rape them.
- LinkMan
  
  Yeah, if you actually listen to the Angryfolks, it sounds like the root of the problem isn’t the fence but the fact that the Camerafolks’ dog keeps going into the Angryfolks’ yard and the fence isn’t sufficient to contain him.
  
  Two sides to every story. And every fence.
http://plagmada.org Tim H

I started to write about how the screaming bully is a perfect argument both for and against gun control, but erased it after realizing that I’d have two groups emulating the video at me…

Instead I’ll point at the rather normal looking guy or two walking around in the background – shouldn’t they have been stepping in to control the shouting man? They come and go from his house, they obviously have a relationship. Or shouldn’t they at least be watching the guy have his fit? That they aren’t standing there in slack-jawed horror would seem to indicate that these outbursts happen all the time.
- bcsizemo
  
  I just assumed they were family. If you seen a relative have one outburst like this, you’ve probably seen it a hundred times. Besides I wouldn’t want to be seen as part of this spectacle. If he has any adult children living with him (other than his 50 year old daughter..?), perhaps they will have a little more language skills and tact, and come apologize to the neighbors at a later time.
Paul Thoma

Die Antwoord, are you getting all this?
HeartlessMachine

I like to watch the video from this, with the audio from the previous post. “Look, Justice, he’s coming over to talk to you. … Oh no. oh no. oh no!”
50yearguarantee

Wow, if I’d realized that the Olympic fencing teams from the US and “Arabia” were having such a heated battle, I would’ve watched it live!
http://celesteagnes.blogspot.com/ Sekino

So when do we get the Auto-Tune remix?
Paul Bouchard

Can’t wait for the second episode of season 1!
http://twitter.com/zillustration pauliez

Yosemite Sam
desiredusername

Some context would have been good. Maybe the people filming were naked Djinn that were selling drugs while mid-coitus with their own mothers (and some children) at the same time they were filming. I think seeing something like would prompt a similar reaction from any decent person.
WillieNelsonMandela

If the fence did indeed come about as a result of camera guy’s dog running into the neighbor’s yard, I’d help the bearded guy build the fence and then patch things up over a couple cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon. The only thing worse than having hillbillies as neighbors is having angry hillbillies as neighbors.

The look and feel of the scenery tells me that this is probably in Ohio.
http://profiles.google.com/keithdtyler Keith Tyler

I guess if good fences make good neighbors, shitty fences make shitty neighbors.
Hakuin

think there are guns in both houses?
http://profile.yahoo.com/7KHAKR2DNGKSHFO3XJAIBJ5GPM Jim

Is this the bearded guy from the bus video???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz8_Y7mbrCk
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=763454490 Chris Willimer
  
  No. It’s clearly Gabby Johnson from Blazing Saddles.
  http://youtu.be/ke5Mr5eCF2U
Dumbfuckistan

White Trash Guy may be a member of Congress by this time next year the way things are going.
http://twitter.com/chrisjimson chris jimson

Yeah? Meet my old neighbor, we used to listen to this guy rant every day in between listening to Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and working on cars (that he was apparently selling illegally.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRC3ytAjGeo&feature=plcp
- WeirdAlGoreVidalSasoon
  
  Man. Car Talk sucks now. Is that Click or Clack?
- http://www.facebook.com/vespadaddy Dan Peters
  
  I made it 2:07 into that video. Surely there’s a prize for that, right?
  - http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
    
    Yep – a reconfiguration of part of your grey matter, reflecting your poor choice… doctors recommend moderation.
    
    I wiser head like mine chose to escape after 10-15 seconds.
djcarlito

i like what the little dog had to say about all of this
UncaScrooge

When I watch this video, I can’t stop thinking about how deluxe it would be to have all that yard and ugly fence between me and people like this — instead of sharing floors, ceilings, walls and public entryways with them.
Daniel Ewing

As amusingly ridiculous as the old man’s response is, the videographer is apparently also a first class douche bag. At one point in the video the woman who is clearly trying to improve the ‘fence’ mentions the ‘dopeheads’ coming over the fence and the Arabian with the camera responds that he can’t control everything they (presumable his friends and guests) do. Yes, Arabian man, you can. They are guests of you it is your responsibility if they trespass onto your neighbors property from your property. That’s your problem to deal with. The Drunken foulmouthed neighbor is the least of your problems if your friends are staging criminal trespass from your property and you don’t care to do anything about it.

Also, filming one’s neighbor so that you can ridicule him on the internet is generally a dick move, but it is surely a dick move given the circumstances apparent here.
- harold miller
  
  I’ll need to wholly disagree with the part about recording him for internet ridicule.
  This is the sort of shit that, for ages, we’ve relied on oral relaying and retelling of the stories, which can be awesome, but is no substitute for actually witnessing a bona fide white trash outburst.
  Finally, others are able to be there and see firsthand what this is like. I love telling these stories, but it’s nice to have video footage, as well.
  - bcsizemo
    
    I’m pretty sure Jeff Foxworthy became a millionaire making fun of “these” people.
- thedreadpiratewesley
  
  I agree. Putting up videos of people who lost out in the “born into privilege” lottery for others to laugh at doesn’t strike me as being particularly wonderful.
  - http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
    
    Ima Godwin the thread: Adolf Hitler wasn’t lucky enough to turn out some other way, too.
    
    Pointing and laughing has a valuable function beyond entertainment; it reinforces norms.
    - thedreadpiratewesley
      
      Nazism was the “norm” in Germany, and it had much in common with overlooking the hardship of others. Empathy, on the other hand, is rarely associated with the worst excesses of humanity.
      - http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
        
        /tips hat
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  When I was growing up, people walked across their neighbors yards all the time.
  - cub
    
    …in ARABIA!!!
- Petzl
  
  Sorry. You’re wrong. This whole video exists because shouty guy decided to give a infantile performance. If he’d gone about his business, and was just walking on his property there wouldn’t be a video.
  
  And, after viewing their behavior, you really believe their claims about “dopeheads”? From the guy who says Guess what? I’m American! He’s the reliable side?
  - Daniel Ewing
    
    Watch it again, listen to the dialog. The woman, who is upset but not at all belligerent, makes the claim and the arabian essentially acknowledges it.
    Sure the shouty guy seems a fool, who said he wasn’t? If he didn’t have a valid complaint it might have been entertaining. but he’s essentially the victim here. If the cameraman’s friends hadn’t been trespassing would this have occurred? Hard to say. But the old man has a valid complaint, and the camerman’s response is to ridicule him (no doubt anticipating the results he got) while filming the results? Total douche.
    - Petzl
      
      For some reason, you’re taking the word of alcohol-laden, crotch-grabbing yosemite sam. And the “douche” is the cameraman. ok …
http://www.facebook.com/eatsmyfood Joe White

I wish the video had more context. I think there is a story here.
eggonstilts

“I think there’s something I need to make clear about my fenced-in area. You see.. everybody in Gilbert County’s got a damn fenced-in area that’s cluttered with crap and brown weeds invading them like a cancer!

Well, see, I’m better than that. I’m gonna make my fenced-in area an area that’s neat and special, with a special purpose. And then all the nayayers will have to say, “Dammit! He really did something with his fenced-in area, and now I feel inspired to clean up my own fenced-in area!” And others will see my fenced-in area, and inspiration will go on and on and on, from person to person, just like that!

I want my fenced-in area to be an inspiration. And.. if y’all an’t understand that.. then I was born in the wrong world.” -Travis

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/01/01ffencedin.phtml
- princeminski
  
  Thank you for posting that. Don’t know how I missed it, but it may be even funnier in transcript form.
simonbarsinister

The term is ‘Gerrymandered’… oh.. I see what you did there…
Culturedropout

Am I the only one who sees things like this and thinks that, just maybe, the next ice age brought on by global warming can’t possibly come soon enough…?
- http://plagmada.org Tim H
  
  Us bearded, fat high-blood pressure types should do slightly better in the Ice Age, thank you.
beckyb

That made my blood pressure go up.
http://plagmada.org Tim H

One of the serious things no one has mentioned yet is that the camera in this situation is a tool for defense. It well mght be that the angry man would be a violent man if he wasn’t being recorded. Or he might just be angrier because of the videoing…
- http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
  
  I used my phone once to defuse an ugly situation between some strangers in public by threatening to put it up on Youtube…