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In honor of Valentine’s Day, QuizLaw presents a tale of two loving neighbors
Down in Maryland, the Cerny and Elliott families used to love each other like two neighboring families rarely do. Eight years ago, Timothy Cerny and his family decided to put a pool in their backyard, a pool which would have faced right towards the front yard of David Elliott and his family. The Elliotts apparently weren’t so keen on this plan, and the love-fest then ended. Instead of loving thy neighbors, the Elliotts and Cerneys entered into a bitter feud.
The feud came to a head last spring when Cerny and Elliott got into a fight over some bags of grass clippings that were near the Cerny yard. And so Mr. Cerny did what any loving neighbor would do, and he hocked a big ol’ loogie at his neighbor. The incident was caught on tape, which helped the court convict Cerny, on Monday, of second-degree assault. As punishment, the court hocked a two-day-in-the-clink sentence on Cerny.
And if there was any question, the fighting between these two families definitely qualifies as a full-fledged feud. Over the last eight years, there have been about 100 (!) calls to the cops because of this family feud, 12 criminal cases filed, and now a civil suit - last month the Elliott clan sued the Cerneys to get some money to cover their legal costs in these various criminal cases.
