I am creating this blog as a way to document the instability and harrassment suffered by my family from my neighbor. I live in the small town of Hurlock, Md. I am 25 years old married with an almost 11 month old daughter. I have lived in this town my entire life. We moved into our home in January of 2009. We knew from the start there would end up being conflict with the neighbor. She had numerous very large dogs, that often got out and would come after my husband and self. We didn’t want to be deemed the bad neighbor or have problems so we never took action or confronted the lady. A month ago things changed. I was sitting on my livingroom floor playing with my daughter when I happened to get up and glance out the window and saw a police car. I decided to investigate and looked out the side window at which time I saw the police officer conversing with the neighbor. Upon further observation I discovered that the lady we will call “Mandy”, was completely naked from the waist down. She was screaming at the officer something about her property and telling him to go get a warrant. The officer left and I texted my husband about the craziness. About 5 minutes later my husband arrived home on his lunch break as he did everyday. He started to go in the house when something caught his eye. Mandy was in our backyard throwing items that belonged to us around. My husband who is very short tempered confronted Mandy and asked her what the problem was. She started screaming at him telling him his trash was on her property and that was her property not ours. Well the just got in a screaming match and he called her a crazy bitch. She told him to go f*** himself. She tried to say he called her racial names, which was the other way around. The police were called and the officer that responded is the best officer in the HPD. He watched her come onto our property and apprehended her. He said that she was going to go to the mental ward of the local hospital and we would be ok for a few days. Dog control came and removed numerous cats and 8 dogs from the premises. One of the dogs was so vicious they tranquilized it 3 times and it still wouldn’t go down. The officer finally had to taser. When the animal control officer later went to remove the dog it bit her hand really bad which required surgery. Planning and zoning officials and the health department went in and condemned the house. She had no running water, no food for herself, rotten meat on the counter for the dogs, animal waste everywhere, wholes in floors caused by dog urine, and holes that the dogs ate through the walls exposing live wire. Later that night the lady came home and went off again. Apparently she escaped from the hospital. Police apprehended her and she was gone for about 2 weeks. During that time her father would come and clean up everyday. The health department came in and said the house was clean enough for her to live in. When she came home we had no run ins or altercations in the first week, but this woman really likes to test you and push your buttons. Last Saturday my husband and myself were painting our front door, he took over while I cleaned my car. The entire time I was cleaning my car in my driveway she sat on her porch right next to where I was at making comments about my husband and myself. Such things as “Wonder how long it will be before the son of a bitch next door calls the police”, “waiting for the rednecks nextdoor to call the police”, etc. We ignored it. I actually tuned her out by vaccuuming my car and as soon as I turned the vaccuum on she went inside, soon as it went off she was right back out making comments. I turned the car vac on three times, she went in and came out 3 times. We had a lot of paint chips on our porch and I didn’t want my baby to be playing on the porch and eat them, so when my husband was done painting I went and got the shop vac and vaccuumed up the debris. At which point she stood on the sidewalk infront of my home screaming while i was vaccuuming. I paid her no mind and continued to vaccuum. Throughout the rest of the day everytime I walked outside she was looking out the window and would come right out until I went in. I never did one thing to this lady. What happened was between her and my husband. I guess she figured I never say anything so she would play with me cause I won’t fight back. Over the last week she continued to go out when I was out and make her comments. One day my husband came home from work and she made the comment “Let me go put my arm brace on cause I might kill somebody.” Friday July 31, 2009 has taken the cake so far. My husband, myself, and infant daughter got in the car to go out to dinner. At which time she picked up a kitten on her porch and made the ugliest screwed up face pointing her finger talking. My husband rolled down the window and she was saying something about “kill you”. We ignored and went on to dinner. My husband asked his father to ride by and make sure the house was ok while we gone. His father rode by and she was running around talking to herself. He pulled across the street to make sure she didn’t mess with the house, at which time she approached his vehicle. She asked him if he knew the people who live in the yellow house, he said as a matter of fact I own that house (He don’t actually own it, my husbands grandmother does, but he said it to see what she would say.) She said “oh you do?”, then went on to tell him that we were harrassing her. He said “I’m sorry lady but I know for a fact because I’ve seen it that it is the other way around”.  She said that he was nothing but a redneck too and she was calling the president and governor on him. Then went back to her house talking to herself. Well a person can only take so much before they finally blow. When we returned home from dinner she was standing outside saying your father called me a n*****. He did not. According to the cops she says everyone calls her that and is a redneck, she even accuse the black cop of being a racist redneck. That is when I had enough and decided to fight fire with fire. I said what if he did?  It’s ok for you to call us rednecks and thats not racist? I said you know what you are you are mentally ill, and she responded saying that I didn’t know what mentally ill was. I said oh yea it’s standing right in front of me, truth hurts don’t it. At which point she started screaming leave me alone leave me alone, like we were the ones attacking her, which I have learned that that is how you get a person for harrassment is by telling them to leave you alone. So we left her alone and went to go into our house, when she called me a skinny bitch, and I told her that it is really messed up to be exposing my baby to her craziness. My husband called the police. The neighbor nextdoor heard the yelling and came out. The officer said to just ignore her that she is off her meds and may be drinking. She had been harrassing me since the weekend and nothing can be done about that? The officer left and the other neighbor informed us he was a retired psychiatrist and that she was paranoid schizophrenic and we should not ignore her. He said if she is not taking her meds she is a real danger to anyone. We thanked him and we went inside I got some stuff then left to get my sister so that I would not be home alone. When I was putting my daughter in the car she started yelling “wanna teach your daughter the word n*****” repeatedly getting louder and louder. I had my camera in the diaperbag and took it out when I got in the driver seats and rolled my window down videotaping how crazy this psycho was. She saw me and thought I was taking her picture and then came over to my car window saying take my picture oh take my picture. I said no I just got you on camera trespassing and pulled out. I picked up my sister and returned home. My sister sat on the porch holding the baby while I was unlocking the door. At this time my parents pulled up and I walked out to their truck to show them the video. Well Mandy was walking down the street coming toward us. At this point she has her right breast completely hanging out. She walks up to the passenger side of the truck where my mother is sitting and starts screaming at my father telling him she called the president and governor on him thinking that he was my husbands father. I said thats not even the same person at which point she got in my face yelling at me with spit hitting me in the face the liguor on her breath was awful. I said you need to do something about the alcohol on your breath at which point she came back and hit me causing my arm to fly back hitting my daughter. I called the police once again. What was I told? “I am sorry we can’t arrest her”. Hello what the hell is your job? The female officer said that I would have to go to the county commissioner to press charges and ask for a warrant then she will arrest her. So I went to file charges for trespassing and assault. I told the commissioner the officer told me to get a protective order. He said you can’t have a protective order it has to be a peace order so I said I would get one of them and he said it will take a few hrs to file, cost 70 dollars, and expires in 3 days. So, what good is that? I told him the officer told me to ask for a warrant instead of a summons, well that pissed him off. He said that he decided that, so for saying that she didn’t get arrested and he didn’t care what I had to say. Not to mention we have talked to the cheif of police about this and he told my husband not to call the police when she acts up to call her father? Again, what the hell is the polices job? We wrote a letter to the mayor and apparently he don’t care. I am about to email the adult protective services and see if the can help. I have learned one thing from this and that is a place that I thought was one of the safest and best places to grow up is actually the worse. It is a political town and nobody gives a hoot about doing the job or protecting the citizings and the court commission is a no better. I don’t expect this issue to be resolved I have a feeling no matter that she does her illness will be used as an excuse. If she is not competent to be held accountable for her actions, how is she competent enough to live by herself? You can expect updates when she flips out on us again and when we go to court, if the commissioner even filed the charges!!!