Neighbour damaged my gate....I have CCTV evidence!

Doozergirl

gillybean129 wrote: »

It was in perfect condition before she rammed it shut now it's bent - end of

It's not "end of" at all. You're failing to convince anyone here and we'll be a more receptive audience than she will.

Things break.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

This is nothing to do with the Church.....

The problem you will have is that you can't vouch for whether or not the gate was 100% fully functioning before she shut it. It could have been on its last legs and she was the unlucky person who shut it when it finally jammed for you.

You have a film of her shutting the gate in a forceful manner, but many people are ham-fisted... you don't have a video of her hanging off the gate and jumping up and down on it cackling at the moon .... just a heavy-fisted woman shutting a gate that probably needed some maintenance and chose that moment to break in a manner that then caused you trouble to use it.

In short .... this is something just "best left". Stuff happens. It sounds like it's possible that this stuff "just happened".

Next time, if you can get a video of her hanging off the gate and swinging on it and jumping on it, while cackling at the moon, you've a good starting point.

It may be that she was forcefully closing the gate because .... it was jamming for her and she couldn't close it any other way because it was on its last legs.

You put it much better than I did.

If she is cackling at the moon, can we see the video please?

Jackmydad

Just let it go.
It does you more harm worrying about it than it's worth.
Why didshe shut it anyway?

gillybean129

I'd love to know why she shut it too...

MX5huggy

Put the vid on YouTube then we can decide.

shortcrust

I'm sure it would make the vicar's day to be dragged into this.

For what its worth, it's only criminal damage if done intentionally. This sounds like accidental damage. I'd argue that throwing allegations of criminal damage around is a worse thing than accidentally damaging a gate.

AndyMc.....

Doozergirl wrote: »

Why is it criminal damage? You think they deliberately broke your gate because you had an argument 15 years ago?

It doesn’t need to be deliberate to be criminal damage.

Doozergirl

AndyMc..... wrote: »

It doesn’t need to be deliberate to be criminal damage.

I had to phone the police on sunday morning after our CCTV picked up someone's car being robbed. The thief wandered off with a nice new scarf and two bags.

The police came out, looked around the car and that was it. Didn't even open the door or lock it. Just tried to contact the owner to let them know.

Their interest in a broken gate is going to be less than zero, especially if intent can't be proven, which I suspect it can't as the OP thinks there's no reason for shutting a gate when the entire reason for gates existing is for them to be shut.

AndyMc.....

Doozergirl wrote: »

I had to phone the police on sunday morning after our CCTV picked up someone's car being robbed. The thief wandered off with a nice new scarf and two bags.

The police came out, looked around the car and that was it. Didn't even open the door or lock it. Just tried to contact the owner to let them know.

Their interest in a broken gate is going to be less than zero, especially if intent can't be proven, which I suspect it can't as the OP thinks there's no reason for shutting a gate when the entire reason for gates existing is for them to be shut.

You don’t need to prove intent.

Doozergirl

AndyMc..... wrote: »

You don’t need to prove intent.

Call the police then. I'm sure they'll appreciate the call.

"My neighbour shut my gate because it was open. It's broken. The people on the internet said I shouldn't call the vicar."