If your travels bring you to my town, and you'd like a great cup of espresso and a dose of neighbors acting un-neighborly, please drop by our office. While I fix the coffee, my wife, Anne, will hand you a box filled with emails, photos, video clips and frustrating correspondence from readers who have begged neighbors to please trim or remove trees that pose an imminent, direct risk of harm.Fans of Judge Judy will immediately see a parallel: Some dog owners — who left their dogs off leash and someone was bitten — remain in complete denial of all responsibility, despite clear evidence of fault. They love their dogs and can't grasp that their well-trained bundle of face-licking joy is still an animal who might not always be a good boy, and possibly, because of his breed, could be excluded from homeowners insurance coverage.
