Sometimes I write these titles so that the information gets out even if I don’t get around to writing the blog entry for a while. In this case, it appears that the Albany mobbers aerosolize, draft, siphon, pump or float toxins and sickening substances into the environments of those they are trying to eject from their homes. I suspect they use this tactic to indemnify themselves in the event that soil or air samples are used to trace the poisons back to their properties. It’s similar to the case of a Florida man who injected a sickening substance under the door of his neighbors (Albany doesn’t care). The phenomenon reminds me of an early morning a few months back when I woke to the amplified musings of a mobber, presumably over some local radio link, walkie talkie or WiFi call. They seemed to be wondering why they hadn’t made me ill: “…all the stuff we’ve put in there [a laugh]… must be immunity.” Hard to imagine that those who harm others in this way would be block coordinators, workers in emergency services or public works, medical professionals, or anything but sociopaths.
I mentioned the likely use of insecticides in a recent post—we can often recognize these poisons by their smells. Rodenticides may also be recognizable in the dead rats mobbers throw over the fence or otherwise poison hoping that the rodents transport the toxins onto the property of the neighbors before they die. Some smells that drift my way from the Albany mobbers’ properties smack of animal pheromones applied for travel into neighboring homes. Another substance that was distributed yesterday and times too numerous to count from the south property lines is acrid, harsh on the breath, and may be furnace condensate. Furnace condensate, considered an acid (https://welterheating.com/condensate-neutralizer/), is toxic to plants, corrosive to piping, and should be filtered and not drained outside (https://hvac-boss.com/furnace/is-furnace-condensate-toxic/). The substance is so corrosive that it is against national plumbing codes to discard the condensate without neutralization. Untreated condensate is a pollutant and can pollute groundwater. For some things you might don an N-95 mask but protecting oneself becomes more complicated when the substance may be aerosolized through pump, siphon or plumbing system. On the battlefield, these are the tactics of guerrillas. On the home front, these are the tactics of terrorists. In the City of Albany, these are the tactics of at least some block coordinators entrusted with knowledge of emergency systems and services, real estate speculators or those who expect to collect a “bounty” for turning over your house to them, and those who can always find a reason to punish women.
Given what I’ve been through and continue to have to endure in Albany, California, it would not surprise me if this acrid substance was dumped where it could do the most damage to trees and foliage that stand in the way of speculators’ manifest destiny and mission. It would also not surprise me if such substances contributed to the collapse of my mother’s lung and her eventual decision that she would live longer if she left her home. If furnace condensate is corrosive to pipes, one can only imagine its effect on the human lung.
