Posted : September 2013
Author : Shawn W. Larson
We’re all familiar with neighbor disputes. They parked their
car a little too close to ours, they’re using our garden hose again without
asking, or their dog just took a massive, steaming crap on our front lawn.
These sort of things happen all the time, but sometimes neighbors aren’t
emotionally stable enough to handle them. You never know which steaming pile of
crap will be the straw that causes a psychotic break.
Seattle’s
Barry Swegle was tired of arguing with his neighbors about the fence line. He
quickly became fed up with asking nicely and decided to hop in his TD-25
Harvester for some payback. That’s a bulldozer, in case you were wondering. By the time he was finished, Barry had leveled the fence in
question, demolished four of the neighbors’ homes, and taken out a utility
pole, cutting power to nearly 1,000 homes in the area. He was charged with
malicious mischief, a Class B felony.
9 No Control
Stanislaw Okruta, age 78, liked to invite his downstairs
neighbor, Julian Stroz, up for a few beers on occasion. One night, the two
became so drunk that a heated argument ensued over who would get to hold the
remote control, and Stroz was thrown out. Upset at being kicked out of Okruta’s
apartment, Stroz went downstairs, grabbed a knife, and came back to settle the
score. Okruta took the knife from him, and stabbed him repeatedly.
Stroz was treated and released from the hospital, and no charges were filed.
8 When Fireworks Fly
Glen Berry and Robert Price of Orange County, CA
were long-time feuding neighbors. When Price let off a series of fireworks in
his backyard one night, Berry
decided he’d had enough and went to confront him. Price responded by shooting
him in the face through the screen door. Price was arrested for murder and
faces up to 50 years in prison if convicted.
7 Ask Or Axe?
Ever ask to borrow something from your neighbor? Were you
upset if they turned you down? Lucas Walters of Braintree, Massachusetts
was. The 32-year-old didn’t enjoy being denied after asking his neighbor,
Jeffrey Phillips, to loan him a few bucks. Instead of hurling an insult at him
or walking away, Walters picked up an axe and savagely attacked him with it. He
was caught and arrested when he used Jeffrey’s credit card to buy cigarettes
and gas - on his way to dispose of the body.
6 Takin’ No Crap
After a long shift at work, the last thing Frank Santana
wanted to come home to was a huge pile of crap from the neighbor’s dog in his
front yard, but there it was. Determined to keep his cool, he went next door
and asked Tyrik Harris if he would please clean up after his pet. Apparently, “please” meant something entirely different to
Tyrik, who responded with, “You getting cocky with me?” before shooting him in
the face. While Santana was on the ground, Harris shot him several times in the
chest at point-blank range. Harris was convicted of third degree murder and
faces a 20–40 year prison sentence.
5 Move It Or Else
Christopher Arellanes was charged with two counts of assault
with a deadly weapon when he stabbed two of his neighbors for refusing to move
their car. It was garbage day, and their car was parked in the designated spot
for trash pickup.
4 Ain’t That A Ditch
William Littleton of Onslow
County, North Carolina
was worried about the drainage ditch in his yard. He had children who could be
out playing and accidentally fall into it, so he cemented it over. But that
didn’t sit well with his neighbor, Luther Kaemming, whose yard was now flooded
with water every time it rained. During a heated dispute, Littleton shot and killed Kaemming and was
later convicted of murder. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
3 Checkmate
When neighbors Ronald Swinton and Robert Spears got into a
debate over a chess game in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, Swinton stabbed his
neighbor in the stomach with a snow shovel. Spears was in critical condition
but was expected to survive with surgery. When the police came knocking and threatening to break the
door down, Swinton asked, “Is this about that guy I hit with the shovel?”
2 Flaming Pissed
Dale Zuder of Muskegon,
Michigan is facing arson charges
for allegedly burning his neighbor’s car after a dispute. An empty milk jug
that reeked of gas was found in his yard. He faces seven years in jail if
convicted.
1 Poo Pranks
Chung Kim of Dallas
had been complaining to his upstairs neighbor about the mess their dog was
leaving in the grass, so they decided to deliberately irritate him one day.
Leaning over their balcony, Jamie Stafford and his fiance began tossing dog
droppings onto the patio below. After a brief argument, Kim pulled out a gun
and shot Stafford’s fiance twice as she stood
on the balcony above. He then went upstairs and shot Stafford,
returning downstairs to shoot him again because he’d fallen from the balcony.
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