Contact The Editor
Articles By This Author
• Ryan Ferry and his wife moved into their Clearwater, Florida, home with great expectations about living in a neighborhood they loved.
But their next-door neighbor, Ken Nielsen, had other plans.
"He's threatened to shoot me in the face numerous times," Ferry told WFLA. "My wife can't go out back and sunbathe because he will pull up a chair and take pictures of her."
The final straw came on Oct. 24, when Ferry hung lights on his side of their shared fence for a birthday party that evening.
Nielsen called police, who asked Ferry to remove the lights. But he called 911 again, telling the operator, "I've got a ton of ... weapons. I got ... hand grenades. I'll blow them out of the ... ground."
Ferry can take comfort in the fact that it's not personal: Nielsen assaulted another neighbor in 2016 for power washing while he was trying to watch the Olympics. [WFLA, 10/30/2020]
• On Oct. 8, as an Advent Health worker checked visitors' temperatures at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, she noticed a woman removing something from the stroller she was pushing and place it in the bushes outside the entrance to the park.
The woman then proceeded through the checkpoint and into the park. The witness alerted authorities, who found a purse and, inside, a handgun.
The woman, Marcia Temple of Georgia, returned to the spot and told the officer the purse was hers, but threw her 6-year-old son under the bus: "I had told my son to hold it for me and stand right here while I go get my brother. He put it down, and messed with the plants and I put them back, but I didn't know he put it down and I didn't know he left it over here."
Unfortunately for Temple, security cameras captured her planting the purse in the bushes, ClickOrlando.com reported.
Orange County deputies said the firearm was fully loaded, and Temple did not have a concealed weapons permit for either Florida or Georgia. She was charged with carrying a concealed firearm. [ClickOrlando.com, 10/30/2020]