Funny Neighbor Stories
MAN WITH MACHETE ARRESTED AFTER ARGUMENT WITH NEIGHBOR OVER GRASS CLIPPINGS
A dispute between Jacksonville neighbors over grass clippings involved one man armed with two small knives vs. another with a machete and five Rottweilers. When police said the one threatened to sic his dogs on an officer, that was enough to get him arrested Tuesday.
Officers found 44-year-old Bobby Riggs Williams screaming and making racial comments toward David Burke when they arrived to the 10400 block of Ebbitt Road about 11:15 a.m., according to the arrest report. Williams is black.
The neighbor, whose age and race were not listed, told police he took out a pocket knife for protection after Williams threatened him about grass clippings that were blown onto his property, the report said.
The neighbor said Williams got a machete from his car and returned raising it toward him and threatening to kill him, the report said. Burke armed himself with a second small knife and told Williams to leave, which he eventually did.
When police tried to get Williams to come outside his chain-link fence, they said he refused and repeatedly said he would release his dogs to attack, the report said.
By about 2 p.m. officers were able to get Williams to leave his property. He was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest.
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78 YEAR OLD CHARGED AFTER POINTING GUN AT NEIGHBOR OVER MASHED POTATOES
Ferrelview, MO. — Some neighbors at a mobile home park in Ferrelview are worried about their elderly neighbor, who is now charged with a felony count of unlawful use of a weapon, and violation of an order of protection. The suspect is 78 year old Roy Sportsman.
“I was sitting in my room and I heard a bam and I went outside and looked, and he was standing in my driveway firing his shotgun over my house,” said Nick Warger, who lives across the street from Sportsman.
Warger says two weeks ago Sportsman fired off his guns several times as he stood in the driveway of him and his roommate’s home.
“He came across the street and he was dropping bullets and he even pointed the gun at me and threatened to kill me and my roommate,” said Warger. “Other times he aimed the gun at us after he accused us of stealing his mashed potatoes and light bulbs from his home.”
“He has a different weapon on a different day. He has a revolver, a pistol and a 410 shotgun, ” said Jared Wittwer about his neighbor.
One mother who lives nearby is also very concerned.
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LIFE INSURANCE PAYOUT
“This guy got a bunch of money from a life insurance payout and spent it on rims and a paint job for his car but I guess he ran out of money to fix the convertible top. He lived with his mom forever on top of that. weird.”
- Kayla Modschiedler
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“Window isn’t as fogged as you might think…”
When your neighbor unexpectedly shows up at your doorstep and the first thing they say is, “This is going to be just as embarrassing for me as it is for you” chances are the conversation is destined to be an awkward one.
In the moment Mrs. X approached me a couple weeks ago with “this is going to be just as embarrassing for me as it is for you” my mind was racing. What is she about to say next? What could we have possibly done to bring about such a discussion? The next sentence she uttered will forever go down in family history. “I don’t know how else to say this, but the fogged glass in your shower window isn’t as fogged as you might think it is.”
It took me a few seconds to compute what she was saying. Once the implications set in I wanted to curl up in a little ball and hide. Our master bathroom shower window to which she was referring is on the back of our house directly facing our neighbors. Our yards aren’t enormously deep, so you get the picture (no pun intended).
Shocked and mortified, my husband and I stewed over her claim for hours, well, more like days. Actually, we are still stewing a little. How long had this been going on before they finally decided to confront us?
Then my husband recalled what might have been the straw that broke the camel’s back. The night before the conversation he had taken a shower, with the light on no less, and had decided to clean and scrub the shower including the tile ceiling of the shower while showering. To reach the ceiling he had to stand on the bench to do the scrubbing.
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MASSACHUSETTS WOMAN STEALS CHRISTMAS GIFTS FROM POOR NEIGHBORS
Turns out the Grinch is real, and he’s actually a woman. Janice Tully of Barnstable, Massachusetts was arrested on Thursday after she stole $500 worth of toys donated to her neighbors’ five children. The kids were set to receive a haul of toys from the charity ‘Toys for Tots’, a program which distributes toys to children whose parents cannot afford to buy them gifts for Christmas.
On Christmas Eve, Janice Tully volunteered to drive the children’s parents to two Toys for Tots pickup locations so their kids could have “the best Christmas ever”.
But after they picked up their toys at the second location, Ms Tully bolted off with $500 worth of goodies and left the parents stranded. They took a taxi home and when they confronted Ms Tully, she told her neighbors that the toys were gone.
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