Word: neighborly
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's grades, nor covet his fellowship, his law school admissions, his formal date nor anything that is thy neighbor...
Children are especially vulnerable to the junk that your neighbor's lawn service fogs around or to the "completely safe for humans" stuff that you bought at the hardware store. Lawn poisons can cause headaches, dizziness, eye problems, mental disorientation and lasting damage to the nervous system. Cancer is also a possibility, since some pesticides contain known carcinogens. Of course, your lawn looks great...
...legal responsibility and collecting damages in such cases are difficult, and Latimer has had no luck. Nor, so far, has Christina Locek, 42, of River Grove, Ill., a onetime professional ice skater and pianist who says her health was destroyed in 1985 when a lawn-care service sprayed her neighbor's yard. Her cat and dog died the same day, she says, and she continues to suffer partial paralysis, substantial vision loss, headaches and blood disorders. Another woman told the Senate subcommittee that she sometimes slept in her car to avoid lawn spraying in her neighborhood...
During the past five months, private investigators have been contacting acquaintances of mine, ranging from neighbors to a former colleague, to inquire about subjects such as my health (like my credit rating, it's excellent) and whether I've ever had trouble with the IRS (unlike Scientology, I haven't). One neighbor was greeted at dawn outside my Manhattan apartment building by two men who wanted to know whether I lived there. I finally called Cooley to demand that Scientology stop the nonsense. He promised to look into...
...neighbor turned out not to really look like Frug at all, and police have since discarded that line of investigation, Reilly said...