Man dodges rival’s sword after trash pile dispute

OAKLAND PARK – An Oakland Park man out for an evening jog figured he found a nifty item when he ran by a vacant home with a pile of bulk trash in front of it.

It was July 15th and there, near Prospect Road and Northwest 11th Terrace, was a junk pile containing dump cart made out of heavy duty plastic.

Another man — who was driving an older-model white pickup — was already scouring the trash pile and wasn’t happy when he noticed the jogger apparently staking claim to the cart, the Broward Sheriff ’s Office said.

“The other man became upset, feeling he had rights over the pile since he was looking through it,” agency spokeswoman Keyla Concepción said.

As the two exchanged words, the jogger grabbed the cart and ran behind it as he pushed it home.

The sheriff ’s office Monday released surveillance video of what happened next, outside the jogger’s home, in the hopes of trying to identify the other man who apparently followed him there.

In the video, the plastic cart is sitting on the jogger’s front lawn as the other man approaches carrying an item that appears to be a red stick.

It wasn’t a was a sword.

He simultaneously swings the sword and grabs the dump cart.

The jogger, still wearing his blue bandana and running togs, dodges any blows from the sword and manages to keep the disputed cart in his yard as his attacker walks away.

Minutes later, however, a woman in a pink top approaches and drags the cart away “as she flung insults at the jogger,” Concepción said. Detectives think the pinkclad woman and the man who was swinging the sword know each other.

The sheriff ’s office asks anyone who recognizes the sword swinger or his alleged accomplice to contact Violent Crimes Unit Detective Tiberio Barbosa at 954-321-4278. Tips can also be made, anonymously, to Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477 or online at browardcrimestoppers.org. Tips that lead to an arrest are eligible for a reward of up to $3,000. red stick, though, it