Some yard sale shoppers like to browse in peace was one seller’s theory.

Shelly Serra apparently disagreed.
The Mesa County, Colorado Sheriff’s Office reports two neighbors were having a joint yard sale in Clifton when the pair began “drinking heavily and eventually they began to physically fight.”
The altercation happened after Serra “was starting to get out of hand by turning up the radio and being loud,” according to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.
Serra’s neighbor told her to turn the music down because it was “scaring away customers,” and instead of letting the shoppers peruse in peace, Serra allegedly slapped the neighbor and “swiped at her table of wares, sending some of the items crashing to the ground and breaking.”
According to the police report, the neighbor asked Serra to stop, but instead, Serra “started punching her in the head,” and Serra “struck her in the head with a glass object and she felt it break on her head.”
The police say Serra continued to strike her fellow seller with the piece of broken glass.
The victim’s husband arrived at the sale and “beat Serra back with his walking cane.” According to the affidavit, Serra left the premises and returned to her house across the street.
The paper reports Serra told sheriff’s deputies the fight was between the other seller and her husband, adding she was hit in the head with the cane “on accident” when the husband was allegedly striking his wife with it.
Deputies determined Serra’s story was false and she was arrested. Evidence included the “large amount of broken glass on the ground.”
According to the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office, Shelly was arrested on “second degree assault with injury and using a deadly weapon, and criminal mischief.”
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