Cheer up, we had a neighbor's maid throw baby diapers in the street for the dogs to drag all over the place.

Lasr I heard, utility theft was legal up tp a certain dollar amount, but this guy seems over the limit.

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Someone steals electricity the surprise for them. 240 volts instead of the expected 120. Poof! Pretty irritating when neighbors park their car right in front of the drive when there is plenty of room on the street without blocking it. Thorny leaf plants deter that.

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I checked all my lines in and out of my house. I had my box checked and upgraded. I keep the same bill rate now every month. Due diligence is all that has to be done. like anywhere.

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I Understand your Frustration Long Hammer. I grew up in Nicaragua and Have been living In North America for Quite some time but, The one thing that hasn't changed is what a neighbord is... I have always been able to Communicate and build a friendship and in some cases strong bond with most of my neighbors. I have a feeling that there's more to your story that we are missing. A simple meeting with your neighbor to discuss your frustration and lack of respect from him/her for not borrowing your hose might stop the problem. If Not? at least He/She would know that you are on to them. Getting a pit bull also works in some cases. ;) Good Luck!

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In my old neighborhood, also upscale, two of the wealthire Nicas were stealing electric to run their airconditioners by bypassing the meters. 5 others got one time hookups to Internet and cable TV. Each of those cost 280 cordoba and you never received another bill. I was offered the same but declined. Neighbor currently on one side is also a US Citizen. I know he would not steal. One who had been using my phone has three air conditioners and two US 4X4 trucks. I get along great with the poorer Nicas. It is the wealthy ones or wannabe wealthy with a view of entitlement that are the problem. Mostly living large on inheritance rather than work. But two things wrong on homes here. My water faucet is much nearer my neighbor's drive. And an outside light lights their drive not my own. Old neighborhood had the wealthier getting construction workers work free. I was the best employer of those construction workers. The philosophy of reward for good work is something I will never lose. Nor to treat other's like I want to be treated. But also not just drive up prices. I make a good part of what I give a gratuity or tip. And use their services in the future. I am the type that only gets cheated one time. I think most Europeans and North Americans are the same. I don't sell some of the poor workers short. Just that few have the tools. And if they do, the wealthier Nicas still pay the same, in fact usually less because they will comment on how little time it took.

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Neighbor had been using my hose (water) not phone. Don't know why the word was l.

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I'll never understand why people move to any LA country that requires a person to have large dogs, a wall around their property, barbed wire on top of that, alarm systems, flood lights and be armed to the teeth to feel safe in their country of choice. All I can say is that Nicaragua, etc. must be great places to live to have to go through all that. The only thing I haven't heard of yet is land mines. BOOM!!!!!

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BLUE, THE FIRST TIME I MOVED TO LATIN AMERICA I LEARNED WHY THERE WERE METAL ROOFS; SO WHEN THE EARTHQUAKE HIT YOU DID NOT GET KILLED WHEN YOUR ROOF FELL. I LEARNED WHY YOU HAD METAL GUARDS ON YOUR WINDOW; TO KEEP 'CRITTERS' OVER 40LBS OUT. I OFTEN WONDERED WHY UP THE ROAD THERE WAS A SMALL HOUSE WITH A 2 FOOT HIGH FENCE AROUND THE PROPERTY. IT IS CUSTOM. ALSO I NOW LIVE IN NICARAGUA AND OUR PEOPLE LIVED THROUGH TWO WARS IN THEIR LIFE TIME. SECURITY IS STILL A PART OF THE ARCHITECTURE. ALSO WHEN YOU LIVE WITH POOR PEOPLE YOU NEED TO GUARD YOUR THINGS. i WATCHED FOR YEARS AT XMAS, WHEN PEOPLE RECEIVED THEIR 'ALGUINALDOS', EXTRA MONTHS BONUS, XMAS PRESENTS IN THE FRONT WINDOWS MOVE FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE. ALSO CONSIDER METAL WORK IS PART OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF MOST EUROPEAN CITIES. APPRECIATE AND LIVE WITH IT OR MOVE TO YOUR OSCAR WINNING "LA-LA LAND", WHERE I BET YOU WILL BE MUCH SAFER.

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HOGWASH AND HORSE FEATHERS!
We switched to digital cable and no one can steal it, they need a console. As to utilities we checked all our lines and secured them removing any lines not to our home. Water, moved the taps to secure locations. (and who really cares, H2O is cheap, when you get it). You people are so hung up on a couple hundred cordobas. Get over yourselves. You are rich gringo guests. I am surprised at how many here talk about how a hundred cordobas ruined their day.

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Let me put it this way. A person's definition of safety in Syria would be very different than someone living in Sweden. A person in Sweden would probably see things differently than maybe someone in South Africa. Safety is relative. For me at my age, being able to leave my home to take a walk or go shopping knowing that the chances of someone breaking in and stealing my stuff is a big deal to me. If I want to just take a stroll at night to my favorite restaurant for something or go hang out with some people for a few beers and not be concerned about my safety or just sit in a park and people watch; I should feel safe doing those things. I don't think that's asking for much. Just basic living.

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Blue, not to call you naive, but anyone, anywhere needs to take basic security cautions. If you don't, others see you as their game. I walk easily, do my thing in public, but I know I am a 'gringo', and embrace it with a sense of security. I have a safe in my house where I keep any documents, passport and cash. "Things do not matter'. And no one really wants them anyway. I give generously when I can and let them know what my limits are. I live happily and safe in my 'adopted community. But I am guest resident, always will be. I embrace my difference and accept who my 'friends' are. Don't be so expectant of others, as then you become their fool. I expect honesty in interactions. I make this a prerequisite up front in every interaction I make. I have very little circumstances that it is not reciprocated. I am myself and let them know it. Respect is a 2 way street. I give it, I get it, even late at night on the street or in the Friday street market. Grow up, get some balls or don't bother to travel.

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To say no one can steal something is rather foolish . I have 51 years experience with IBM computers. A little surprise is if you have Wifi rather than cable, there is a handshake from computer to ISP. And that can be recorded. Easiest on sign in but it repeats on its own every few minutes. Of course it does take a while and it is not something anyone can do or has the equipment to do it. It involves using a spectrum analyzer. Familiarity with SUN Systems used by the Internet is also helpful. In the case of the mentioned wifi and Internet theft the only one it was being stolen from was Claro, not other customers save possibly for taking some of the overall bandwidth. Once upon time bank vaults were deemed unbreakable. But that is just not reality. Not even the US Government or Microsoft will claim they cannot be hacked. In fact they complain of it and from desperation end up hiring the hackers. Crime by the poor here seems to just be open opportunity. I have known of a few loosely held $1000 and over cameras being snatched only to be offered in stores for a few hundred cordoba. I am consistently the only person in my neighborhoods without a vehicle (I travel too much, am not a resident here, and enjoy walking. I do not own a TV. So other than being a gringo I am not presenting a target. I pretty much did the same in the US. I had two RV's and was surrounded by $400,000 homes and each with at least one 3X4 and a German luxury car. Breaking into my place would have been a disappointment. Well one thing. No one can use my credit cards. I don't have any and haven't in the last 30 years. In God We Trust, all others pay cash. I can't think of many places in the US that would be as safe as here. Though if one went back to the 1970's or earlier there was. An era where you could leave your house unlocked and keys in the ignition and be gone 2 weeks and return and find everything the same as left.

Reminds me. Ransomeware has become popular. Wiyth most you will get a message your computer has been infected and instructing you not to leave the page. So here is the advice. Hit your power button and shut down immediately. Run virus scan like Kaspersky from DVD or CD. Once past that go ahead and reboot normally, though that shut down may require a Scandisk. If you leave the page any other way or follow the threat directions it claimed your entire hard drive will be erased. They end up making you pay $300 to $4000 to not erase your drive. Don't risk it. I am citing what I did. But I ran Kaspersky, MalwareMalbytes and SuperAnitSpyware all from DVD. I also have a USB backup hard drive and a 512 GB PenDrive as backup. So if my hard drive was erased or simply went back, all will be restored in minutes. I do better. I wrote a BIOS infection in 1989 that will turn any IBM computer into junk. Written in Machine Code 664 digits in length. It makes it so you have no memory, no operating speed, no storage device, no input device (as in keyboard and mouse) No monitor. When I wrote it it could be restored simply by powering down, flipping the DIP switches on the motherboard, power up, power down, reset the DIP switches and all would be fine. No more dip switches. To restore all you need do is desolder and reprogram the Central processor and resolder. Damn those the and 5 layer boards. Maybe I do it 20% of the time. Here not a chance of 1 in 100. But it simply isn't worth it. So consider it junk parts or buy another motherboard. See even after 51 years other out there are skilled enough to get through all defenses like a sapper. 3 times Graduate from US Army Signal School, Master's in Electronic Engineering/Computer Design, from Northern Arizona University.

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Hammer, Your epic life, past war stories , motorcycle journeys, and your exciting garden hose experiences and now your vast knowledge of internet hacking issues, is not something anyone wants to listen to; even at a bar where you bought the booze and the girls for your buddies. Get a grip, a residency, and a current relevant life, gringo, before you become more of an embarrassment.

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Keep in mid your best home protection is and likely always will be your neighbors. Personally I have found so many Nicas don't want to associate with neighbors fearing gossip. To that I say, if you make friends you will at least learn of the gossip. You can't live in an armored shell. If you do you are a prisoner and not free. I could have liked Costa Rica but everyone was paranoid about crime. I was never able to determine what fears were valid and which wren't. But I knew I could not live in a place long like that. I make a habit of making friends. And beginning with the poor. I trust them more than fellow gringos as well as more than the gentry. They ever get a functional postal system I would be as happy as a clam. The only place in Latin America I reliably receive mail is at my PO Box in San Marcos Costa Rica. Never received mail here or in Panama or at my PO Box in Alajuela Costa Rica. A recommended Nica Export might be their police training. Nothing north of here or other than Chile to the south has such low crime, and incredibly on such a low budget. So much of real freedom is not be in fear of being a victim of crime. On that, at least for me Nicaragua excels.

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When you speak sober, Hammer, I agree with much of your insights. Mail i knew who was politically popular. After years now in Nicaragua, once 'they all' know who you are it has become quite reliable. Important things and packages go Fedex, but most regular mail, including renewed credit cards now come land mail with no issues. It is one post mistress, one motorcycle guy., once they know you, it works.
And on the second point you make, yes, you are paranoid. Get over it or learn to live with it. Stop blaming everyone else.

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When you speak sober, Hammer, I agree with much of your insights. Mail i knew who was politically popular. After years now in Nicaragua, once 'they all' know who you are it has become quite reliable. Important things and packages go Fedex, but most regular mail, including renewed credit cards now come land mail with no issues. It is one post mistress, one motorcycle guy., once they know you, it works.
And on the second point you make, yes, you are paranoid. Get over it or learn to live with it. Stop blaming everyone else.

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I meant to say <..Even when it was mail in Costa Rica, it was dependent on your political affiliations if you get serviced in CR. The most corrupt country in LA..gringo beware!> Nicaragua is the best!

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Good JohnChip, please do ignore my input as I will ignore all yours. The Internet advice is directed towards those accepting of actual advice. Not for the local experts such as yourself.
I can see you enjoy making enemies of friends or just making enemies from the onset. I won't be reading any more posts of yours. So fire away!

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I can relate to your problem. A friend of mine gets a twice a week dirty diaper delivery service from a car passing on the road at the side of his house. Looks like industrial loads too.
Oh well, I've seen worse in Oregon. Dirty diapers left on BBQ grills in campgrounds. Kind of a turn off on grilling a steak or hotdogs.

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I have often said some of your advise is often very astute. Yet you continue to rant about expertise in technical and international journeys. No one cares to hear your journal outside of living here.., write the book of your great accomplishments, and I may rent the movie. When you give accurate input to life in Nicaragua I agree. Yet you continue your rants off topic. Get a grip..,and maybe your residency to validate your forum existence.

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John Chip-- Why don't you take a deep breath and count to 10? It's not like he insulted your Dear Leader, Comandante Ortega.

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longbummer....please fo not stop writing all these long and delusional posts...they are invigorating to those of us who have not lost our minds.

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johnchip
Your post was very helpful and thanks for that, but as far as growing balls to travel; I have traveled a lot outside the States and have no problem doing that. I enjoy traveling and meeting people from different cultures. I'm not a resort person, but would rather find places to hang out with the locals, and I have no concern doing that. My post was in reference to actually living in one of these countries which is of course very different than just visiting. It is very clear that many people feel a need for whatever reason to build a compound to live in. I was just saying I wouldn't live anywhere including the States where I would have to go to such extreme measures to simply feel comfortable in my own home and I just don't understand why anyone else would. But they must have their reasons. Like I said before, LA countries must have a lot going for them for people to go through all of this to live there.

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'Stradeler', if the fence post fits, why not you just sit down on it? My deep breaths are not needed to speak forthright to men who claim their macho greatness when their lives fall apart over a garden hose or keep ranting about being unsafe yet world traveled. My president, Daniel Ortega, does the best job of keeping me and my adopted country safe, free of terrorists, drugs and violent crime, better than most. I am proud to live in Nicaragua and find it my home, not my problem.

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From my experience in Nicaragua there are times when you leave your things lying around, they can grow feet and walk away. It's unfortunate and dishonest but it happens. I used to get mad when people did that, until I realized that it's part our fault too. It takes two to "tenemos" as my profe used to joke. You are lucky that it just seems to be your neighbor at this point. I used to work with missions teams in the El Convento/Santa Maria community just outside of Leon. They quickly learned that you can't leave stuff lying around; even small things like pliers, hammers. I would suggest to you to keep your hose (and other tools) indoors when you aren't using it. A bit of a hassle to be taking it off and putting it back on perhaps but it certainly would stop it from slithering over to your neighbor's driveway.

For example, my husband's uncle lives in La Bolsa in the Masaya department. He brings in his motorcycle/dirtbike thing indoors every night.

Another thing which someone else suggested is to speak to your neighbor about it. Most Nicaraguans don't or won't beat around the bush like my husband (who is Nica) although there are exceptions to this. When there is a problem they take said prob in a face to face discussion. Keep it respectful though, call him "hermano" to keep that respect and humble tone if you are comfortable doing that.

"Assume nothing" indeed. Whether someone is poor or rich, some people will look for ways to save a few pennies even if it means taking something that wasn't earned by you or isn't yours. They'll take advantage of the situation. Nicaraguans are no exception and are quite resourceful. It certainly happens in North America by both rich and poor. Greed, dishonesty, apathy are part of all cultures.

Good luck with this situation. I hope you can resolve it.

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jc, if you are truly able to rise above problems why do you rant so much over every minor thing, it gets tiresome to read that trash.

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Ricky-dicky-ding-dong, Your constant criticism of others is what is tiresome and as you repeatedly say, 'crass'. Your standards of behavior are impossible to please and you are always telling people on here 'how to behave'. My comments go to the issues, not the attitudes. But while we are on the subject, I have yet to see you offer any good advise other than your regular 'tea and sympathy' soap opera dribble.

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JCruz, it's odd that my friend just told me how people have been walking off with his tools, folks that he knew and trusted. The moral is do not trust anyone and do not lend if you want to keep it. I ask for a deposit greater than the cost of the tool - how quick they change their minds, lol.

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Want some good advice jc? First learn the English language, your spelling, for one is atrocious. After you have learned those lessons I just might consider helping you further IF you can humble your self!

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jc, you say, "Your standards of behavior are impossible to please". I say only for those uneducated in proper NORMAL manners.

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You are unbelievable, Rickster. Let's break down 'your' language skills. 1. "your spelling, for one..." (where is the comma after 'one'?). 2. "after you have learned those lessons..' Since you suggested only one lesson, you pluralized with no cause. 3. And thanks for making my point: you come on here to prove some self appointed superiority and tell people how to behave and meet your standards. You are a joke. Keep your "help" to your self and go to hell.

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You are unbelievable, Rickster. Let's break down 'your' language skills. 1. "your spelling, for one..." (where is the comma after 'one'?). BTW, that would be a punctuation error, NOT a SPELLING ERROR 'professor' 2. "after you have learned those lessons..' Since you suggested only one lesson, you pluralized with no cause. AND is a conjunction,
3. "And thanks for making my point: you come on here to prove some self appointed superiority and tell people how to behave..." That's typical of you "junior", when you cannot conceive an original thought you copy others and try to make it your own. >"you come on here to prove some self appointed superiority and tell people how to behave and meet your standards." Interesting that you rant at what I do while you 'grant yourself the right to do what you object to', probably with impunity, NOT! "You are a joke. Keep your "help" to your self"... Set me an example, "junior". >"and go to hell." Thanks for the invite to your abode, however, I decline.

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Ricktree are you taking over for antz? Take what you want from a blog. Leave others to judge what hey need or what they want to read. Becoming a troll on a site is lower than maggot poop.

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Why are you trolling then?

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John Chip--Oh, I see what you did! You take poster's screen names and alter them in childishly degrading ways! How very clever of you!

Seriously, are you 12 years old? The internet bully/tough guy routine is tiresome and it may be time to make that much overdue switch to decaf as well.

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