Man smashed up neighbor's camper because 'it looked like he was going to get froggy'

Curtis Leatherberry of New Port Richey, Florida, told deputies he grabbed a soda and a pastry from the house next door. It was an agreement he had with his neighbor. He didn't think there would be any trouble. At 1:45 on Tuesday morning, his neighbor came over. Tony Barney struck up an argument. He said food had been missing from his house and blamed Leatherberry, 52, a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report states.

Barney, 31, punched out a window of Leatherberry's live-in camper. Leatherberry told Barney that if he put his hand in again, he would stab it. Authorities say Barney then punched out every other window. He lobbed a cinder block into the trailer, breaking Leatherberry's dresser and microwave.

Barney broke off the supports to the camper's out-board sleeping area, then he began "literally tearing the walls off the trailer." He then stuck a water hose in the camper, turned it on and left. Deputies wrote they arrived to find shards of glass around the trailer and clinging to its window frames.

A 32-inch TV lay in its face nearby. The camper's siding was torn off, the frame broken, the inside soaked. In the middle of the floor sat the cinder block. Asked why he did it, Barney told deputies, "while I was talking with Curtis, it looked like he was going to get froggy. That is the only way I can describe it." Barney was arrested on a charge of criminal mischief. He remained on Wednesday at Land O'Lakes jail in lieu of $5,000 bail.