Late one dark night Lu Lu Bear got fed up with the tenants living in the apartment building across the alley from her lovely urban den. Lu Lu Bear minds her own Peas and Ques, stays within her own property line, doesn't bother her neighbors and expects the same in return. Sometimes that's not enough and she finds herself pushing the border back to where it belongs.

The owner of the apartment building decided he needed a garage for his tenants, so he built one. The big problem was he put it right on the edge of the alley with no apron at all for his tenants to use when parking their cars into each single car garage.

Well, when the occupant in the first unit would come home and try to park his jalopy in that very small garage, he found things a bit tight. He'd conclude that he didn't have enough room, so he'd get out of his car and move Lu Lu Bear's garbage can far and away from where she liked to keep it. However, he wouldn't put it back when he was finished parking. Lu Lu Bear would find her can parked all over the alley the next day and it was starting to irritate her. After all, her can was on her own property and that's the bottom line. She could put it anywhere she wanted and he had no right touching it. Actually Lu Lu Bear wouldn't have given a rip, all he had to do is return it to where it belonged.

One morning she went out to the alley to deposit the garbage. She found her can shoved way down to the end of the alley. Lu Lu Bear was not pleased. AND by now, she was not in a negotiating kind of mind after this rotten stunt. She decided she didn't need to take any more guff off this tenant.

In a fury, Lu Lu Bear went into her gadget drawer and found the duct tape, then headed out feeling strong and willful of mind. She took that tape around that apartment garage four times. The woman in the upstairs apartment was looking out her window and became upset. She called her landlord who told her to call the police and then informed Lu Lu Bear what she had done. Lu Lu Bear thought the whole thing was pretty hilarious, decided she had made her point and started taking off the duct tape when the police arrived.

Lu Lu bear was calmly removing the tape when the cop asked her what she was doing. She simply remarked that she was ..."taking the tape off." The cop wondered if she was the one who had called the police.

"No." she replied, "The woman in that unit up there was the one who called you. I am the one who did it."

By now the police were cracking up because they had never EVER gotten a call reporting an irate bear duct taping her neighbor's garage.

"Strangest call I have ever gotten!" lamented the cop to his partner between hysterical giggles. Lu Lu bear laughed along with them.

"I realize you'd just tell me to take it off, so that's what I am doing. I've made my point." said Lu Lu Bear.

The cops asked all sorts of rhetorical questions, took no action, but wrote their report anyway. The owner of the building showed up the next day at the precinct to read the report.

Lu Lu bear never had another problem with that tenant bothering her property again. Pretty soon after he moved out.

The owner of the apartment building later wanted Lu Lu Bear to paint a picture of his building, so she did and titled it "In the Light of the Moon". The owner never paid her for her irreverant reminder of the night of the duct tape caper, so Lu Lu Bear kept the painting. It's featured in the Folk Art Corner of her website galleries, called "In the Light of the Moon"..