GabrielBrawn There are those who make things happen, and there are those who wonder ‘what the fuck just happened?’ . Gabriel Brawn, fr...
There are those who make things happen, and there are those who wonder ‘what the fuck just happened?’. Gabriel Brawn, from Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, is certainly someone who makes things happen – by cutting his neighbor’s garage in half with a Sawzall.
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In 2012, Gabriel and his family moved back to Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, to live on the property where he grew up. The land had once included an extra 0.23 acres just to the south where the neighbor’s garage currently stood, and there were no records that the property had been sold.
According to Gabriel’s wife, they were always on friendly terms with the man who built the garage next-door and never had any issues letting him share the land that they owned.
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“When the dad [Steve Ritter] was alive this was a perfect place to live. As soon as that poor man passed away this place turned to craziness and chaos.”
-Tracy Brawn
-Tracy Brawn
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After multiple confrontations with Steve’s son, Gabriel decided to have a land surveyor come out and confirm that the land was rightfully his…and that’s when things turned sour. The new neighbor, Blake, asked if he could retrieve his father’s ashes from the garage that marked the dividing line.
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“We said, please do. We want our property back because we’ve been paying taxes on it for years. But he went over there and started throwing trash all over the place and smashing glass and taking bureaus and throwing them outside in the yard.”
-Tracy Brawn
-Tracy Brawn
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For Gabriel, that was the final straw. The very next day, Gabriel — who works in construction — took a Sawzall and cut straight down the half of the garage that was on his family’s property.
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According to Police Chief Ryan Reardon, “There’s been a property-line dispute for a couple of months and obviously that was the result between Mr. Brawn and the owner of the other building.”
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Maybe young Blake will think twice the next time he decides to fuck with someone else’s property. Well done, Gabriel.
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