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Frustrated by Neighbors' Dogs Ruining His Lawn, This Man Devises a Clever Plan to Teach Them a Lesson

On Saturday morning at nine o’clock, a van from the local council pulled up on Clover Lane. Out stepped a uniformed officer from the Animal Management division — a serious woman named Officer Hadley, whom Walter had phoned two weeks earlier to report the ongoing issue and politely request an educational visit. Behind her van came another car: a journalist from the local community newspaper, tipped off by Mrs. Chen about a story on “neighborhood pet responsibility.” And parked at the end of the street, looking very official, was a portable display board that Danny had helped Walter build, covered in laminated photographs.