I’ve heard some pretty heinous tales in my time, but nothing quite like what I was told by a Burnaby man about his elderly parents being terrorized for sport.
The perpetrators are a couple of real beauties. She’s a “sex trade recruiter” and he’s a drug trafficker. Both use multiple aliases and enjoy making lives miserable for elderly people.
This includes the parents off Bobby, who has read some of my recent posts about warring neighbours. Bobby said it’s a one-side war with a couple who own multiple houses despite not signs of actually having jobs.
“They dress the part and portray themselves as well-to-do people,” said Bobby, who obviously fears for his life to give his full name. “However, she is a known escort and sex trade worker recruiter, who aside from bragging about sitting in first-class seats on one of the multiple yearly vacations is also collecting welfare and defrauding the system, and he is a known drug trafficker who has no job yet own multiple houses in Burnaby and Coquitlam, has all the toys but has never had a job.”
Bobby would be fine with all of this if they minded their own business, but they’ve threatened, intimidated, harassed and tormented his elderly parents, telling them things like “I’ll make your life hell until you sell me your house.”
The house next door in Burnaby was rented out to a series of sketchy types until this couple decided to live there themselves.
They love calling in complaints about Bobby’s parents and other neighbours – even so that the city has actually flagged them for it.
“They went to the city complaining about an elderly gentleman’s vegetable garden because it overlapped onto city property, while not being a direct next-door neighbour and being in no way affected,” Bobby said. “They would look up the neighbourhood property lines and check to see who isn’t within their lines and make calls demanding that people break down walls and fences that were over 50 years old.”
The couple also creates issues, like throwing garbage onto a nearby city lot and falsely reporting the elderly neighbours of that lot.
Bobby says these visits from city staff are confusing for elderly residents and are designed to “terrorize” them. Bobby’s parent are in their 80s and have been reported over their garden encroaching on city property.
When a small load of garden soil was delivered for this garden, “he jumps into his beater minivan he uses when not driving his Range Rover and starts driving over the small area of dirt that spilled over the divider while she unravels as much garden hose as she can and crosses the street and starts spraying it down with water while he continues to make high speed passes over the dirt in attempt to make as big a mess as possible.”
Then the couple calls the city to report the couple for making a “mess.”
Bobby has had to resort to constantly filming around his parents’ house to document these incidents to prove his parents are innocent.
It’s exhausting.
Things even escalated with the drug trafficker being charged with uttering threats – and still harassing Bobby’s parents while out on bail.
“They’ve lived like prisoners and in constant fear,” Bobby said. “Their last few years should not be like this, it’s heartbreaking. If you talk with her and see her cry and the constant fear she feels, it’s soul-crushing.”
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