Please won't you be my neighbor?

I mentioned in The Last Word before about how I had a neighbor who vandalized the Peace Bike, threatened to rub dog shit on the other neighbors' front door, and shoved rotten food into their own refrigerator drain (apparently hoping that the next person would have to deal with it).

Well, some moron in Toronto also terrorized his neighbors for no apparent reason - for 7 years. And now he's been convicted on 49 charges over his ongoing campaign.

This had to go on for 7 years before the law did anything about it?

It went on that long before ANYONE did anything about it?

Time was, people didn't tolerate bullies like that. Nowadays, everyone learns early in life that if they look at a bully cockeyed, the bully isn't the one who gets punished. So people are conditioned to think there's really no point in ever fighting back.

We've seen the results of this mentality in schools - and now in neighborhoods.

(Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090327.wscala0327/BNStory/National/home)