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The Secret Rules of the Neighborhood Email List
Please do not invite everyone to your kid’s piano recital.
Preliminary reports of a blood trail winding through a D.C. community were all neighbors needed to go wild with speculation. Suddenly, the Caroline Street email list was flooded with messages guessing about injuries and ranting about the neighborhood going to hell, says resident Lee Berkeley Shaw.
As rumors flew, officials discovered the real blood source: a dog that was being treated at a local vet’s office, where the blood droppings stopped.