Some of the ongoing nonsense from the Dynamic Duo next door.
The following crap has been going on for several years. We decided to have a security system installed a few years ago after things began to escalate. Here are some of the recent highlights:
May 12/25: Bylaw paid them a visit about the condition of their property. Here's their reaction.
Jun 9/25: It was a busy night for Marty. The police have told him to keep off our property. But, being warned by the police doesn't slow him down. He's like the Energizer Bunny. The trespassing and aggresive videos were compiled from several video clips taken that night. The editing is a bit rough (I'm new at this) and the driveway camera hadn't been cleaned recently.
He started his trespassing routine at 2am and kept it up for an hour. Marty met someone at 2:39am, is he buying drugs or showing him the photos/videos he took earlier?
He didn't get a reaction, so at 3am he became more aggressive. That's when the police were called.
Unfortunately, the police missed the action and arrived about 2 minutes after Amanda dragged a whiny Marty back to their place. So much for his tough guy image. Near the end of the video, Marty tosses his lit cigarette onto our wooden steps. He was probably hoping to set them on fire.
The police brushed off this evening's activities with the excuse...he's just drunk...
When I let the dogs out later that morning, I found one of Marty's beer cans that he tossed over the fence early in the morning.
Jun 21/25: Marty tried to damage my car at 1am.
As he's looking at my car he takes a drag on his cigarette to get the tip nice and hot, then he tosses it onto the roof of my car and stands there waiting to see if anything will happen.
The police also brushed off this incident. Their reasoning was it was "attempted" vandalism and nothing was actually damaged, so no big deal. I felt like saying ...if I attempted bank robbery and wasn't successful, then I could just walk away free, right?
Apr 29/26: I found this note in our mailbox from our lovely neighbour Amanda. The personal belongings she accused me of handling was some scrap wood and other junk they had piled up against our fence. I may have had my toes on their property when I leaned over to shift their shit. She also claims this was the second time, wrong again princess, it was the only time.
Out of curiosity, I went over to ask her about it. She was sitting on the front porch and wouldn't acknowledge my presence until I placed a foot in their front yard. Then it was someone's trespassing, action stations. I asked why it was OK for Marty to go wandering around our property taking pictures of our vehicle details and other things. Her reply was something along the lines of... so, what.. if your car was parked on the street he could take pictures. The concept that Marty had trespassed wasn't even a possibility in her so-called mind. At this point, Marty emerged from hiding and stuck his head out the door.
They seem to understand the concept of trespassing and private property, except they think it applies to everyone else and they're exempt.
May 6/26: We had No Trespassing and Keep Off signs posted on their side of our fence. These 2 idiots think they can go wherever they want unless there are no trespassing signs posted. If you've seen some the videos showing Marty going where the hell he likes, then you'll realize why those signs were posted where they would see them.
In following videos you'll see one of them is busy recording while other one is busy tearing the signs off. They were obviously hoping to get a reaction.
I reinstalled the signs, then it's Amanda's turn to remove them, and that's when the "skirmish" started. Notice that Marty was hiding out of sight until I approached the fence.
Marty (or Amanda) called the police and tried to have me charged with assault. They also called an ambulance to have Amanda assessed for any injuries. Marty apparently argued with the police for about 20 minutes, demanding that I be charged with assault. Luckily the police saw through their charade and I didn't get charged.
The police told us "do not to post any No Trespassing signs on the fence because it irritates them." WTF!!! We were also advised to contact police if there were any further escalations or confrontations.
May 8/26: Now they're putting up sheets of plywood against the fence. The base of their "wall" is against the bottom of our fence and therefore is on our property. They've also put a LOT of 4" screws through the plywood just above the top of the fence. More screws and a spike thing on the top edge of the plywood were added after the first photo was taken. They eventually covered about 14' of our fence and by doing so they've blocked our view of anyone using the sidewalk who is approaching our driveway when we're driving out.
We did as we were told and contacted the police (twice) about this escalation and, as expected, no one called back!
May 22/26: They had a busy evening:
I installed a better lighting system recently. Marty probably thinks he's wandering around in total darkness.
At around 9pm they start up their karaoke system, the system is located INSIDE their house with the speaker pointed towards our livingroom window. This time Marty was being "creative" with the lyrics and ad-libbing. Here are a couple of audio clips for your listening pleasure, they were recorded from inside our house: Audio #1Audio #2Audio #3Audio #4
And this is the audio from our driveway camera.
Around 10pm, Marty started wandering. As mentioned earlier, he's been told to keep off our property, but that doesn't slow him down. The noise you hear in the background is Amanda, who sounds like she's in agony on their karaoke system. It's certainly painful to listen to it. Video #1Video #2Video #3Video #4Video #5Video #6
He takes a short break from wandering at 10:20pm, gets some sidewalk chalk and decides to write SLOW on the sidewalk in front of our driveway. Does he want to be a traffic warden when he grows up or is that a self-assessment?
May 23/26: I filed a trespassing report using TBPS's online reporting system at 2:49am, complete with 8 video clips showing Marty's "activities" and audio clips of the threats he screamed to the neighbourhood using their karaoke system.
I also filed a noise complaint with bylaw and included the audio files.
May 24/26: I heard back from bylaw. They were shocked by the language and the threats, said it was beyond what they could handle and said I should file a report with the police. I told them I had already filed a police report. Bylaw is going to treat it as a noise complaint.
May 26/26: I received an e-mail from the TBPS Online Reporting Team about my report.
Here's what they said "...Unfortunately, Thunder Bay Police Service had to reject your report... This is a ongoing neighbor dispute last handled by Constable... Please contact the non-emergency number at 807 684-1200 to have that officer contact you with any issues stemming from that incident". We've phoned them twice and no one has ever called back! So, I've been brushed off AGAIN!
My reply to their e-mail was "...This has nothing to do with a neighbour dispute. He's been told by the police to keep off our property. This was trespassing plain and simple! Did you listen to the audio clip (it was included in the e-mail)? This was broadcast very loudly through his karaoke system to the entire neighbourhood. If this isn't harassment, then what is??"
I never did get a reply to my e-mail.
I don't get it. WTF is going on, and why won't the police deal with this asshole properly? After all, by not taking care of this, they have indirectly enabled and encouraged his ongoing activities. Is it because several police officers bought lemonade from their kids last summer and think Marty and Amanda are fine upstanding citizens? Whenever the police showed up at the lemonade stand, Marty would be out there shaking hands and chatting with the officers promoting his image as Mr. Wonderful. Some officers would occasionally bring the kids promotional items.
June 5/26: It's karaoke time with Karaoke Klowns. They started around 8:30pm, went until 2am and it was loud (and bad) as usual. At one point, they were stumbling around in their front yard swearing about something probably involving us. Just image what a fine example these 2 are setting for their kids.
June 6/26: I came across an interesting Facebook post today from New Hope Dog Rescue, and it mentions one of the Karaoke Klowns.
June 23/26: Now they have a camera at the corner of their house pointing directly at our side door. I took this photo of their camera while sitting on our steps. I came up with an easy fix. It's effective, but it's not very nice looking.
June 30/26: They're still trespassing even after the police have explained the definition of trespassing to them several times. The neighbour across the street is out of town for a few days, so these idiots used her backyard to launch their fireworks. We called her the next the day and asked if she had given them permission to use her yard. She said no and said she'll tell the owner of the property about Marty's activities. Hopefully, the owner of the property will file a trespassing report with the police.
Since the Klowns were in a celebratory mood, they fired up their karaoke system and wailed until about 2am.
July 1/26: What else is there to do in the evening on July 1st except karaoke? The "talent" show started in the evening and went on until about 4am. Although, things got interesting around 2am when someone else joined the festivities. In the video, Marty can be heard saying, "I'll hit you like a man" and later it sounds like he's threatening to kill her.
I went to the police a few days later with my video. They didn't seem interested. They took my name and phone number and said they might contact me if anyone files an assault report.
July 5/26: More late night, bad and LOUD karaoke. It sounded louder than usual and went on until about 12:30am. So much for leaving the windows open tonight.
July 6/26: I went to the police station on June 28 to find out what, if anything, could be done about their camera pointing at our back door. The officer listened to my story and came up with an idea. He suggested I should go to the courthouse and get a No-Contact Order. To support the claim, he provided 4 occurrence numbers (harassment, suspicious person, neighbour dispute and today’s camera complaint). He said it was an easy process and once the order was in place, if Marty or Amanda contacted us in any manner (even a note in the mailbox), we simply had to call the police and they would come and arrest him. It sounded perfect. I had intended to get the order the next day, but other stuff came up, and luckily I didn’t get there. I was out with friends a few days later, and they were curious about the latest goings-on. A couple of them are lawyers and when I got to the part about the No-Contact Order, they both said don’t do it! It’s the worst thing you could do. The police want you to do their job for them.
It turns out that if I had got the No-Contact Order, then we would eventually end up in court and lawyers would have been needed because I was charging Marty instead of the police charging Marty with various offences. Marty would have access to legal aid and a free lawyer, while I would have to pay for one. And it could turn out to be very expensive.
I definitely caught a lucky break by not heading to the courthouse right away. A big thank you to (you know who you are)!!
July 7-8/26: The Klowns were extremely busy tonight:
Another late night of bad and LOUD karaoke. This went on until 2:30am. Late night karaoke is becoming a regular thing with these idiots, usually 2 or 3 times/week. I won't bother with any more karaoke updates unless something interesting happens, since it just adds needless bloat to this page. There's no point reporting it to bylaw anymore either, since they don't seem to be able to do anything useful about the noise complaints.
The ugly camera blocking thing I put up on June 23rd came tumbling down. Marty couldn't push it over, so he took a power saw to it at 4am and pointed his camera at our backdoor again.
He was still up at 7:30am when my wife went out to take care of the bird feeders. He started harassing her. Stuff like your husband is a woman beater...why doesn't he come out and face me like a man..he's a chicken shit...
I gathered all the video evidence and did as I was instructed. I called 911 and the police arrived shortly after 10:00am.
About 20mins later, the police went to have a chat with Marty, but he hid indoors and didn't answer the door (now who's a chicken shit?). I don't know if they left a note or managed to call them because Amanda was outdoors a few hours later and pointed that camera back into their front yard.
Marty stapled a Private Property sign on our side of his great wall. hhmm...should I remove it because I find it irritating (see May 6th entry)?
Best of all, Marty is finally being charged with something, criminal mischief. I didn't think a mischief charge sounded serious until I looked into it. I wonder if I'll be asked to advise the crown prosecutor about the history/escalation of his behaviour.
Here are some of their activites from 2025, these weren't reported to bylaw or the police.
Jul 8/25 They've set up a spotlight aimed at our living room window. We have to place a piece of cardboard in the window to block the light so we can watch TV.
Then they started with Karaoke. The following sound level readings were taken with a calibrated sound level meter from across the street (approx 100' away). Except Aug 24th entry which was about 30' away.
The City's Noise bylaw (#131-2005) states that "Yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling, singing or the playing of musical instruments" is prohibited from 11:00pm and day until 7:00 am the following day.
Jul 25/25 Started at 9:30pm. Finished at 2:00am. 69db
Aug 2/25 Started approx 8:30pm. Finished at 4:47am. 72dB
Aug 4/25 Started at 9:45pm. Finished at 2:50am. 66dB
Aug 5/25 Approx 2:15pm. A bylaw officer showed up to do another follow up inspection of garbage in their backyard and mentioned there had been a noise complaint (it wasn't us).
Aug 8/25 Started at 9:15pm. Finished at 12:40am. ??dB. It sounded louder than usual. A (new?) neighbour from further down the street told them to turn it down at 12:35am.
Aug 16/25 Started at 9:20pm. Finished shortly after midnight. 64dB
Aug 24/25 Started at 9:50pm. Finished at 11:45pm. The speaker is now in their bedroom window and pointed directly at our house. It's 78dB inside our living room and 88dB outdoors in our carport. According to WebMD, sounds above 85dB are harmful.
We managed to ignore all their karaoke noise and none of it was reported. Marty is agressive, violent and a bully. My wife was worried about what he might do if we submitted noise complaints.
They've got 3 small kids. I wonder how they're able to sleep through all the noise?
I called the police a few times when they were doing their karaoke late at night and asked if they had a patrol car in the area that could take a drive-by. As far as I know, they never did do a drive-by.
When, why, how did all this shit get started?
It all started several years ago. Someone called Children's Aid and suggested they do a wellness check on their kids. These Wellness Checks apparently had been occurring when they lived elsewhere, even before they moved into the house. Whoever called CAS apparently described the living conditions inside the house. Marty and Amanda accused us of calling them. We told them it wasn't us. We'd never been inside their house and hadn't got a clue what it looked like. They said... we asked all our friends, they all said, "it wasn't us" and they looked innocent. Therefore, you must have called them. And it's been downhill ever since.