Stakeout follows split-rail skirmish

If good fences make good neighbors, the longtime Harebell Lane resident who recently called JCSO may need a better fence. According to her complaint, she had her property surveyed about two years ago in anticipation of installing a split-rail fence. That morning, she’d found one of the surveyor’s stakes broken and another removed and thrown down the hill. As certain neighbors had vocally and vigorously objected to the fence at the time it went in, she suspected they’d belatedly fought back by pulling up stakes. Since she couldn’t prove it, however, she volunteered to enter mediation if certain neighbors were willing. Later that day, a certain neighbor phoned the deputy to deny any involvement in the de-staking. “I honestly do not know why” the complainant doesn’t like her family, a certain neighbor lamented, but was convinced the complainant has harbored “ill feelings” against certain neighbors ever since they moved in, and flatly ascribes all dog dirt appearing in her yard to a certain pet of theirs. She said she’d talk to her husband about mediation, but hubby called a short time later to nix the idea. “I wouldn’t touch her silly property markers,” he declared. “I’m not going to waste my time.” If the complainant wants peace, she “needs to leave us alone.”