This is something that happened in my Godfather's neighborhood about 15 years ago. I used to hang out at his house all the time and this was the tale he told me.
My godfather had moved into his house in the winter. It seemed he had a neighbor who lived about a block away... older, retired guy, probably in his 70's.
The guy had WAY too much time on his hands.
When spring rolled around he would regularly go around the neighborhood and complain at people whose grass was too high, had cracks in their concrete, or anything else that he viewed as a violation of local statutes.
He crossed my godfather's path when he tried to complain about his forge in the back yard. (my godfather did some blacksmithing in his free time) Fortunately my godfather is a bright cookie and did his research into town laws before building the forge. Everything he did was by the book and the old guy seemed super pissed when this was pointed out.
So at some point during that summer, the old guy lost it. He put together his own UNIFORM and started patrolling the neighborhood. A friend of my godfather's who is a cop in the town later told him the old guy had called them over 100 times reporting statute violations. The cops finally had enough of it. They told the guy if he called one more time for anything other than a felony being committed, they were hauling him off to jail. He was also told to stop wearing the uniform.
No word on what happened to the old guy, but he was probably pretty pissed off.
My godfather joked about calling the cops on the guy for the grass in his lawn being too long but he didn't do it.
My godfather had moved into his house in the winter. It seemed he had a neighbor who lived about a block away... older, retired guy, probably in his 70's.
The guy had WAY too much time on his hands.
When spring rolled around he would regularly go around the neighborhood and complain at people whose grass was too high, had cracks in their concrete, or anything else that he viewed as a violation of local statutes.
He crossed my godfather's path when he tried to complain about his forge in the back yard. (my godfather did some blacksmithing in his free time) Fortunately my godfather is a bright cookie and did his research into town laws before building the forge. Everything he did was by the book and the old guy seemed super pissed when this was pointed out.
So at some point during that summer, the old guy lost it. He put together his own UNIFORM and started patrolling the neighborhood. A friend of my godfather's who is a cop in the town later told him the old guy had called them over 100 times reporting statute violations. The cops finally had enough of it. They told the guy if he called one more time for anything other than a felony being committed, they were hauling him off to jail. He was also told to stop wearing the uniform.
No word on what happened to the old guy, but he was probably pretty pissed off.
My godfather joked about calling the cops on the guy for the grass in his lawn being too long but he didn't do it.
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