Whatever happened to the Love Thy Neighbor motto? Across the nation and around the world, good neighbors are asking themselves this question while trying to get their hands around the surprisingly hostile neighbor conflicts they are now more and more likely to find themselves entangled in.

From noise and pet issues to boundary disputes and sanitation, from threats and intimidation to lawsuits and top-story violence, the age-old problem of Neighbor Versus Neighbor is taking a 21st-century twist. Behind the headlines where one neighbor is rushed off to the hospital while the other is on his way to jail — over seemingly minor differences like snow-shoveling or barking dogs, loud music or child bullying — lie stories of long-lived trauma close to home, where police didn't help, where the bad guys kept triumphing over the good. But it's the untellable millions of events and situations that don't make the news that make up the real story here.