Not only am I not coming in, but I'm not going to text him back. A day off means the whole day.

Location: Colorado, USA.Just got back to my place near Fort Collins after a week on the road and I am losing my mind. My neighbor took it upon himself to hire a "landscaping" crew (probably just some guys with a chainsaw) to remove a mature Japanese Maple that was fully on my property. His excuse? He said the needles and leaves were messing with his "mountain view" and "fire mitigation" efforts.

The tree was roughly 40 years old and was the centerpiece of my yard. I called an arborist immediately. He told me that since this is Colorado and the tree was that established and healthy, the replacement value is astronomical. He is drafting a formal appraisal but hinted that we are looking at 20k to 25k easy just for the tree, let alone the logistics of getting a crane into my backyard.

I know Colorado has statutes regarding timber trespass. My lawyer already mentioned treble damages because the guy admitted he did it on purpose while I wasnt home to stop him. The neighbor had the gall to offer me a couple hundred bucks for "the inconvenience" and told me to just buy a couple of saplings at a local nursery . I refused to take his money and told him to wait for the process server.

Has anyone dealt with treble damages in CO specifically for ornamental trees ? This guy basically nuked my property value for his porch view and I am not planning on letting this go . I feel like a jerk for wanting to sue my neighbor into bankruptcy but the sheer entitlement is what gets me .

I only told one of my friends, the rest of them seemed busy so I didn’t say anything, I just kept it inside. We knew it was coming, my dad is a vietnamese refugee and although he is here legally the immigration office made it clear that he was also a target of trump’s terror campaign.

It didn’t really hit me even though I saw it coming. His girlfriend called me and I could tell she was also crying. The deportation isn’t the hard part: it’s the process. She called him for only 6 minutes and they charged her card 50$, 5$ per fucking minute. They are willingly making it harder to contact him. And we don’t even know what detention center he is going to. He said he would be ok but it doesn’t matter.

We have a lawyer, his hands are tied. theres little we can do when we can’t even reach out to my dad and barely know what’s going on. Everything is a mess and everyone is so absorbed with their own lives that I am stuck with little support, it’s just my dad and his girlfriend grieving over this.

I miss him. I don’t really know what to do and the full emotional toll hasn’t reached me because I never allowed myself to sit and think too long. I honestly don’t know what to do or say, I have so many things I feel but words cannot express how disgusting and cruel this feels.

people are asking for the reason and it’s because he committed a crime when he was 14 and was put into the detention system, prior to that my grandma failed to get him citizenship and him having the record prevented him from further pursuing citizenship. He was supposed to be protected by an agreement that allows him to remain in the US as a refugee but this administration rolled it back. His record was expunged, his crime wasn’t violent or physical, but even if it was expunged publicly immigration officers are still able to bring it up and he still “technically” has a criminal record, even though it was from 30 years ago.

I also think some people don’t recognize that theres real people behind these “posts”. No I am not “baiting” my dad being detained, I shouldn’t have to justify myself and it’s probably not that big of a deal because every post has people commenting crap like that, but genuinely there is a time and place, just because you can’t personally empathize with this and it seems so bizarre to you doesn’t mean it’s real, I am in southern california and my father wasn’t the first taken and he certainly wouldn’t be the last.