30 Crazy Next-Door Tales That Make It Impossible To Love Thy Neighbor

A Neighbor’s Warlike Creation

I awoke one day to a startling sight where my cedars once stood. My neighbor, wielding only determination and a saw, had transformed them into a spiked barrier, their points menacingly angled toward my home. It was as if a piece of an ancient battlefield had erupted onto our quiet street, a homemade abati in suburbia.

An abatis was a defense made of felled trees, historically used to block enemy advancements. Never had I imagined such a barricade emerging over a property, yet there it was—an archaic siege line in an otherwise modern neighborhood dispute.

Next: There’s an unusual glow in my neighbor’s dog house.

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