BUFFALO, OK -- There is a fight between neighbors in this western Oklahoma community that has reached a level almost unheard of.
One Oklahoma woman tells NewsChannel 4 the folks who live next to her are throwing feces and urine near her property and claims it has been going on for years. So many neighbors have complained and taken graphic pictures that authorities are finally stepping in.
"You can hear the definite clank of the handle of a bucket. You can look out one of these windows and see him tossing it," Michelle Seifert said.
The "it" Seifert is referring to is human feces and urine she says her neighbor throws outside.
"The urine smell, the feces when it's warm and humid out it's just overpowering," Seifert said.
The odor prompted several complaints to authorities, but what police found inside the home was even more shocking - milk jugs and two-liter bottles full of urine. They also spotted an ice chest in the living room more than half full of feces.
"I asked them what it was. They said it was stuff from an old picnic. That's not what it appeared to be," Buffalo Police Chief Jeremy Murrell said.
Police arrested 59-year-old William Lewis and 57-year-old George Rettig.
NewsChannel 4 wanted to get their side of the story and asked about the accusations and the apparent dumping of human waste in a hole covered with tin.
"This is what I'm doing, filling the hole not with (expletive), but with ashes," Lewis said.
He claimed to have a report from the Department of Environmental Quality. He says it clears him of the incident, but he would not let NewsChannel 4 look at the report.
Lewis does acknowledge he was cited by the city for illegal dumping, but he insists it was not for what is in the hole in his yard. He claims any waste goes in the proper place.
Police also found drugs, paraphernalia and firearms inside the home.
A Department of Environmental Quality Spokeswoman tells NewsChannel 4 the case was closed, because no one could get permission to go on the property to investigate.
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One Oklahoma woman tells NewsChannel 4 the folks who live next to her are throwing feces and urine near her property and claims it has been going on for years. So many neighbors have complained and taken graphic pictures that authorities are finally stepping in.
"You can hear the definite clank of the handle of a bucket. You can look out one of these windows and see him tossing it," Michelle Seifert said.
The "it" Seifert is referring to is human feces and urine she says her neighbor throws outside.
"The urine smell, the feces when it's warm and humid out it's just overpowering," Seifert said.
The odor prompted several complaints to authorities, but what police found inside the home was even more shocking - milk jugs and two-liter bottles full of urine. They also spotted an ice chest in the living room more than half full of feces.
"I asked them what it was. They said it was stuff from an old picnic. That's not what it appeared to be," Buffalo Police Chief Jeremy Murrell said.
Police arrested 59-year-old William Lewis and 57-year-old George Rettig.
NewsChannel 4 wanted to get their side of the story and asked about the accusations and the apparent dumping of human waste in a hole covered with tin.
"This is what I'm doing, filling the hole not with (expletive), but with ashes," Lewis said.
He claimed to have a report from the Department of Environmental Quality. He says it clears him of the incident, but he would not let NewsChannel 4 look at the report.
Lewis does acknowledge he was cited by the city for illegal dumping, but he insists it was not for what is in the hole in his yard. He claims any waste goes in the proper place.
Police also found drugs, paraphernalia and firearms inside the home.
A Department of Environmental Quality Spokeswoman tells NewsChannel 4 the case was closed, because no one could get permission to go on the property to investigate.
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