Dinner and a Movie

Festering frustrations and flying food brought a sheriff’s deputy to a Kingsbury Road duplex on the evening of July 1. According to the man on the ground floor, the guy upstairs had been a fly in his chowder ever since moving in four months ago. Upon hearing the top-floor man return home earlier that afternoon, the first-story fellow headed for the patio with his video camera hoping to film his adversary during an un-neighborly moment. Imagine his chagrin when – without any provocation at all, mind you – hot entree and cold beverage came raining down from the deck above, nearly soiling his shirt and fouling his lens. In his defense, the accused supper-slinger said he’d merely stepped outside to dine al fresco and, startled by the sight of a camera pointing up at him from below, accidentally dropped his dinner. Eager to put a lid on the simmering hostilities, the landlord dropped by and offered to let the second-story man out of his 1-year lease, and the earlier the better. Having perhaps lost his appetite for conflict, the tenant agreed to vacate the premises by the end of August. Although no charges were filed, nobody went to bed hungry for justice.

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