Epo! (hiccup in Spanish)

So, we've begun building, we're not counting our chickens yet though. There are so many possibilities for hold-ups (excuse the pun) here in Mexico.

Parachutists for example, people that "land" on your land & claim it's theirs. Being a Napoleanic justice system here, it is then up to you to prove it's not theirs... Well that didn't happen to us (touch wood) but we do have another of the 'possibilities' - a loco neighbour...

The piece of land next door is currently locked between 2 owners. The pommy guy that's trying to buy it & the Mexican guy that's trying to sell it.

There's a very long story attached to the 'how' they've gotten themselves in this position (almost worthy of another blog!) but suffice to say that the pommy guy is the landlord of our builder, & for some reason the Mexican guy thinks that our builder - Brian - can affect the sale of his land... so this is what he does.

He 'denounces' Brian & his builders saying that they have stolen rocks & re bar off his property. This means he goes to the denunciation department at the police station & makes these (false) claims against them, & thanks to dear old Napolean - they are now forced to prove their innocence - how do you prove you didn't steal some imaginary rocks & steel?

Brian is forced to go to the police department (a little daunting to say the least) to refute his guilt & ends up spending 2 hours there - with no outcome at this point.

We go to bat for Brian - who is this little worm that he can threaten our friend & his workers?! We meet with the guy, seems friendly enough. We explain we think he has been hard done by, by our pommy friend, but that we have nothing to do with that.

We also explain that Mr pom is in Canada right now, but that we will do our darndest to get him to 'right the wrong' as Mr loco sees it. Mr loco then all but agrees to remove the denunciation if we can achieve that, we shake hands & smile feebly at each other & leave...

So what happens next???