At about 10 a.m. on Jul. 11, deputies were called to a Booker Lane address where persons unknown may have been trying to send a message. According to a woman at the scene, her absent neighbor had prevailed upon her to watch his house and, that morning, she’d noticed a small forest of commercial signs and solar lights had suddenly sprung up like promotional mushrooms at the end of his driveway. Investigating, officers found 14 signs and 14 solar lights posted in the drive, plus a solar-powered address sign and a cardboard box that had been used to cover the man’s mailbox. The ornaments seemed to have been filched from yards across a wide area, and deputies were able to repatriate only a few of the signs and none of the solar lights to their rightful owners. The woman could shed no further light on the incident except to say that her neighbor “does not have a good reputation in the neighborhood.”