Tinkling noise likely not sound of breaking glass in Sebastian

Will Greenlee | Treasure Coast Newspapers

SEBASTIAN — It must have been a lovely sight, David Bender extending his middle finger and urinating in his neighbor’s mailbox.

That’s what a man identified as a victim told police happened May 13 outside his home on Newhall Terrace in Sebastian, an affidavit states.

Bender, 44 at the time, was arrested on a misdemeanor criminal mischief charge following the alleged urination situation.

The victim told Sebastian police he’d twice contacted them about his neighbor – Bender – playing loud music.

“According to (the victim), after the officers left his residence, from his front bedroom window, he witnessed David Bender … (pull) his pants down and point his middle finger at him then urinate in his mailbox,” an affidavit states.

Pointing or extending the middle finger at someone generally is not an act of solidarity, nor is relieving oneself in another’s mailbox.

The victim said that about 10 minutes later Bender was “acting strange,” using binoculars to see in the victim’s home.

The victim also accused Bender of busting a homemade bamboo planter, valued at $10, attached to his mailbox.

Bender, who police reported smelled of booze, told investigators “what happened was not done out of hatred for his neighbor, but rather because law enforcement was called about the noise complaint.”