Excuse my curiosity, but what happened to him and why didn't you get along?
Some or other form of degenerative disease that literally wasted away his insides.
Near the end he made for a gruesome sight.
Why didn't we get along? lol
That's such a nice way of putting it.
Where to start? hmm.....
He was known to call the police if my kids jumped/played in our own swimming pool. Apparently, the sound of water was enough to get him very annoyed.
He had this thing where he would stare especially if the kids or my wife were in the pool/braai area. Made everyone feel very uncomfortable.
He would routinely lean over an 8ft high boundary wall and stretch right into my property to saw some of the main branches off my tree or whatever was close by. Nevermind the fact that none of what he was hacking away at was not creating any sort of mess or was encroaching within his property.
Couldn't put up an electrical fence on that particular wall (even though I'd gladly carry that cost alone) as he would go ballistic if even the topic was brought up.
He had this thing where he would regularly insist that the property boundaries were "wrong". Of course, when I offered to have the property lines re-surveyed at his expense and specified that he would have to cede any land of his that should go my way — that ended that nonsense.
He would just decide to leave his car engine running at night. Garage door open. "because the alternator is faulty and doesn't properly charge the battery".
The cars exhaust/silencer was shot to hell and would make this enormous racket. Of course no chance to get a proper nights sleep during that commotion.
One of my dogs died of poisoning. He was known to use Aldicarb on as he put it on "rodents and other pests".
Very placid older dog that was friendly with everybody. Nothing ever materialized from my enquiry with the cops.
The above is just a sample and a mild version of events. I could go on if prompted to do so.
And just in case you're wondering, there is no two sides to every story as far this goes. The version of events are as I'm stating them without exaggeration or falsehood.