Small Town Misfit

Goleta Valley, CA
A 76-year-old man landed in the emergency room after charging his neighbor with a stick. The neighbor quickly gained control of the situation, grabbing the wooden weapon and, ultimately, used it on his would-be assailant. The two men, both in their 70s, have been linked to an ongoing property line dispute, according to witnesses in the Plumas Avenue neighborhood.

Spotting his neighbor defacing his fence, the younger of the two admitted starting the brawl after being pushed to his wit’s end.

“I blew my stack and went after him with a stick,” he said to deputies from the hospital, where he was treated for cuts on his head.

“I don’t recall hitting him, but he got the best of me,” he added.

After citing the senior citizen for assault with a deadly weapon and tending to his wounds, the suspect was released from the hospital.

Found in the Goleta Valley Voice

Amhurst, NY
A Noel Drive resident complained that the neighbor’s sprinkler was on and was getting her driveway wet. She didn’t want to wait for police but wanted them to tell the neighbor to move the sprinkler. When police arrived neither party was home, the sprinkler was on but the water wasn’t hitting the driveway in question.

Found in the Amhurst Bee

Mukilteo, WA
A party called to report that a neighbor kid’s soccer ball went into her backyard. He then knocked on her door but she did not answer so he went inside her backyard to retrieve his ball. She was very upset about this and wanted trespass charges filed against the juvenile. Upon arrival, the officer discovered that the juvenile had not retrieved his ball. It was explained to her that the juvenile had acted reasonably and that charges would not be filed against him. The officers also had her throw the ball back into the juveniles yard.

Found in the Mukilteo Beacon

Chattanooga, TN
Police said a burglary trail at the Cypress Street Courts did not lead far - just next door.

Warrants were filed against Delisia Timmons in the theft of items from her next-door neighbor, Karessa Sanders.

Ms. Sanders said she got a call that her apartment door was open. She said she found that a screen had been damaged and a window was open.

She found that her washing machine, TV, air conditioning unit, a grill, dishes and some food were gone.

Ms. Sanders said neighbors told her she could find the stolen items next door. She said they advised that they saw Ms. Timmons and two others carrying out the washing machine.

Officers said the washing machine was in plain view in Ms. Timmons’ residence and the stolen grill was out front.

Warrants were taken against Ms. Timmons for aggravated burglary, theft over $500 and vandalism.

Found in the Chattanoogan

Rio Grande, NM
1:28 a.m. — A caller said her next door neighbor only listens to Arabic music and is possibly involved in terrorist activity. She said she left the house because of the music and now had gotten her truck stuck in the mud of an arroyo. Police told her that the neighbor was not breaking any laws.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Rio Grande, NM
4:51 p.m. — Police took a report from a man who complained that his next door neighbors broke his gas cap and were next door giving him the finger.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Rio Grande, NM
12:18 p.m. — An anonymous caller asked that police speak to subjects in a neighboring mobile home about their noisy peacocks. No report was taken.

Found in the Rio Grande Sun

Atlanta, GA
On Tumlin Street, a woman said her husband was angry because she wouldn’t let a neighbor use some cooking oil. She said her husband went to the neighbor’s house to give him the cooking oil and wash his clothes. (The neighbor is also the husband’s friend.) She said her husband returned around 30 minutes later and hugged her and said he would be a better man.

The woman said she was in bed, and her husband got under the covers and started pulling on her ankles. She said this hurt, so she told her husband to stop, but he wouldn’t. She said she grabbed his hand and squeezed to try to make him stop. She said he let go, walked to the door and threw his phone at her — and the phone hit her arm. She said she threw the phone back at him. She said her husband screamed, “Don’t break my phone!” She said her husband then broke her phone.

She said she put on her clothes and told her husband she was calling the police, and he just flipped out. She said he pushed her onto the bed, jumped on her and pushed her head. He told her she was dirty and no good, she said. She retorted by saying that her ex-husband loved her more. Then, she said, her husband spit on her. Eventually, she said, the husband left the house with a friend, and she called 911.

Found in Creative Loafing

Grass Valley, CA
At 6:17 p.m., a caller from the 15000 block of Skaith Bend reported his marijuana was being contaminated by bleach. The caller believed his neighbor was responsible but he did not have any proof his neighbor did it.

Found in the Union

Tracy, CA
6:12 p.m.: A person on the 2300 block of Saffron Court complained that a neighbor mows his lawn in his underwear.

Found in the Tracy Press

Erie County, NY
A Lancaster woman reported that an unknown person scattered roofing nails over her driveway. The victim believes it may be a neighbor because she has received two anonymous letters requesting she take down the chimes she has hanging on her porch because they keep the letter writer awake at night. The victim is going to take the chimes down.

Found in the Bee News

Waynesboro, GA
A local woman called police last week when her neighbor wouldn’t quit staring at her.

According to a report, the man stood in front of the woman’s residence and would not speak.

She added that she had caught him in her yard at night peeping into her bathroom window before, but he would run away when she saw him.

She also complained of damage to her property and rocks being thrown into her yard.

She said that when she returned from a “night out” two weeks prior, she noticed two posts missing from the back of the residence.

Found in the True Citizen