Thread by @DoctorCrackle, Mate on my estate has hit the skids & I can't deal [...]

Mate on my estate has hit the skids & I can& #39;t deal with him.
Yeah I could carry on trying to keep him on the straight & narrow but I ain& #39;t. I also know that now it& #39;s apparent to him that I won& #39;t help him, the first thing he& #39;s going to do is to try & rip me off.
He& #39;s a crackhead.

I& #39;m sitting up tonight & because he& #39;s desperate & he will try & get over the fence & steal my tools

Sounds harsh huh? Well dig this... Last year I gave him all my spare kit - a lawnmower, rake, shovel, clippers, I even fixed his strimmer for him. Basically I gave him everything he needed to do the gardens on my estate. Essentially I gave him a hand up so he could earn money...

I do the gardens on my estate, so I basically created my own rival & gave him some regular work to keep his head above water. The Winter wasn& #39;t kind to him as it ain& #39;t for all of us & he got on the pipe, sold all his kit, ripped off his regulars & now he& #39;s knocking my door again.

Everyone has been complaining to me about him & just how bad he& #39;s got has been made obvious by all the people he& #39;s fucked over phoning me to get their gardens done. Some haven& #39;t called & I dread to think what he& #39;s been doing. He& #39;s gonna take me down with him & #39;cos he doesn& #39;t care.

So I& #39;ve been ignoring him & he knows it & & #39;cos he can& #39;t tap me up for money or food, I know he& #39;s gonna try & rip my tools, so I& #39;m sitting here with a fucking pick axe handle waiting for the milk bottles I& #39;ve stashed to alert me to him breaking into my garden & trouble will ensue.

It& #39;s a real bitch to come to terms with & all sorts of thoughts are going through my head & #39;cos I know that what I& #39;m doing is pre-meditated & depending on what happens, I could come out of this worse off than him. But what the else do I do? Can& #39;t let him fuck me over. Police? Meh!

I& #39;ve resigned myself to the fact that things are going to get ugly. I don& #39;t have the money for cctv & other security measures. I can& #39;t call the police & #39;cos round here that is absolutely taboo. I& #39;m stuck here contemplating using & #39;reasonable force& #39; on my drug addict mate ffs..!

Reasonable force is one of those fucking sound bites that doesn& #39;t exist, like & #39;compassionate Conservatism& #39;, or & #39;community policing& #39;.
I know he& #39;s coming.
I know he& #39;s fucked up.
He may be out of his head, he may have a weapon, he may try & hurt me if I try to stop him, or worse...

Even Dealer McDope has basically green lighted him & #39;cos he flung him some weed to work off his debt & make some change but the prick even ripped him off. That news didn& #39;t sit well - it pushes me further up the target list & I know that he& #39;s gonna get a real beating from McDope...

So my fucking lockdown ain& #39;t going so well, peons...
I& #39;ve got an extremely vulnerable old man to look after, who just wants to die in peace, a rampaging, out-of-control crackhead wanting to sting me, McDope associates checking on me that I ain& #39;t harbouring or helping him..! Fuck!

It& #39;s like an episode of Porridge with the comedy replaced with anxiety. All I wanted, like everyone else was a decent Summer, a nice bit of gardening work, maybe even a holiday! Instead & unlike everyone else, I& #39;m dodging coronavirus, rockheads & tough guys.
This is my frontline!

At least if some fucking shit occurs, I have left my audit trail of woe here. I don& #39;t have any intent or malice but if I get pushed &/or pulled, I can use this thread to defend myself & defend myself & hopefully not end up a victim to the virus, the running man or his pursuers.

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