Neighborhood affairs

My secretary, JJ, was on the phone when I walked by her office on the way to Tuesday’s staff meeting. I only heard a short snippet of the conversation: “Why do you think he’s throwing it over the fence, sir?”

When she came into the meeting a few minutes later, I could tell it was an exhausting conversation, but I only had one question: what was the “it?” I knew it had to be a ball, tree limb, leaves, dog poop, or grass clippings. It was the dog feces. The caller wanted to make an appointment with the police chief to explain the details of his neighbors bad behavior.

Here are some short excerpts from Incident Reports detailing the precipitating grievance of some neighborhood disputes our officers have responded to lately. This is just a small sample, though:

A9-042875

…about the neighbors to the west always coming over into their back yard to retrieve their basketball that ends up in their yard.

A9-048089

…has been running their lawn mower into her drainage spout and knocking it loose from the stakes that hold it down.

A9-047754

…says there is new doggy poo in his backyard and he believes that they are letting their dog poop in his backyard.

A9-042898

…reported that her neighbor called her a [#@$%&$#! &$] when she asked him to move his vehicle forward so she could park her vehicle in front of her residence.

A9-040835

…reports that she gave her neighbor in the building an office chair, in exchange for his recliner. She stated that the chair she received broke while she had it and wanted her chair back