We had a nut that lived about 5 doors down that had no life except his stupid lawn. He was an old retired guy who did nothing but mess with his yard, and got very nasty when someone even walked on it. There was a house next door with 8 kids, a house 3 doors down the other way that had 13! Like nobody walked on his lawn?
One day my dog broke the cable that ran between two trees that we hooked his chain too, and he took off after a rabbit.
I heard the line snap, and saw him take off, but was in my bathrobe, so I had to put my clothes and shoes on. Of course, he ends up at the old kook's house, and that crazy old man was chasing him around with a pitchfork! I yelled at him, "Hey, WTF are you doing?" He says, "I'm gonna spear this damn Beagle here!" I walked up and we start struggling over the pitchfork and I won. He runs into the house and calls the police. Then he comes out of his garage with a shovel! I kind of figured that I was going to have to use the pitchfork on him to keep him from whacking me with the shovel, but when he made a charge at me, actually foaming at the mouth, the cops appeared and grabbed him up. He wanted them to arrest me for trespassing, and the cops said if he filed chages on me, he would be charged with assault. He whined about dogs crapping on his lawn, and the cops told him that since my dog is normally in my yard, he had nothing to do with that, and to try to get a grip on reality.
A few days later, my mom and I go to the grocery store, and there he is. He comes up and starts yelling that if my dog goes on his yard, he's gonna shoot him. I shoved him up against the frozen foods freezers and told him, very seriously, that if my dog was to get shot, or poisoned, or dissapear, that I would beat him so badly that he would beg me to finish him off, and he had to ask if hurting my old dog was worth the pain he would feel, and besides that, he would never get to play in his yard again, since the nursing home wouldn't have a yard like his at home. He tried to punch me, and started yelling, and I just told him, "I'm not fooling with you, I will put you into a nursing home if you hurt my dog!"
I guess I really scared him, as he put his house up for sale and moved to Florida soon after that!