BATON ROUGE, LA – Saying she wanted to become more involved in the community, local resident Denise Landry joined her neighborhood Facebook group Thursday to gather detailed information about people she routinely avoids at the mailbox.
Within hours, Landry had identified three troubled marriages, two suspicious sheds, and the woman responsible for saying “following” beneath every request for a plumber.
“It’s important to know your neighbors,” said Landry, declining an invitation to meet any of them.
Landry has activated notifications for every post, despite previously telling her husband she “doesn’t have time for all that neighborhood nonsense.”
Her monitoring operation includes screenshots, a working knowledge of everyone’s property lines, and a private ranking of residents most likely to make an anonymous complaint.
She recently spent 47 minutes investigating a missing garbage can belonging to a man whose wave she has ignored since 2019.
Landry had rejected the group’s invitation to Saturday’s block party but requested that someone livestream it.
“I just like to keep to myself,” she explained, opening a second tab to research who Brenda’s daughter married.
