I’ll take this paint, and
a beating to go
5:30 p.m., Sept. 19, West 88th
Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard
A fistfight broke out between a father and his son at a Checker automotive store . The father, who works at the store, began pummeling his son after the boy said “you are not my father” and mouthed off to the man. The boy originally was sent into the store by his mother to pick up paint and the family’s child support check. As the father was ringing up his son, the two started arguing because the boy had not called his father the night before. The son accused his father of never being there for him and then ran out of the store to the car, where his mother was waiting. Shortly after, the son returned looking to get the child support check. The father told his son he should stay off drugs because they were “messing up his head,” and said the boy should see him about the check when he grows up. The son then tried to hit his father, to which the father grabbed the boy’s neck and starting to beat him. Police issued the father a ticket for assault.
Chopping away
at the neighbors
11:47 p.m., Sept. 22, 5000
block of West 65th Avenue
A 52-year-old man and his neighbor have had an ongoing dispute over property lines. Recently, the man’s neighbor cut back some bushes that had grown over onto his property, upsetting the 52-year-old and restarting the fight. To solve the problem, the two men put up wooden stakes to mark the property line, but the 52-year-old said his neighbor keeps moving the stakes. The two have had many fights about the property line. On Sept. 22, shortly after the 52-year-old man’s bushes were cut, he returned home to find his neighbor had cut down a tree on the 52-year-old’s property and placed it in the back of a pickup truck. Police suggested a professional surveyor assess the proper property line to settle the dispute.