Residents protest about sign urging cancer patient to die

A nasty note in a neighbourhood dispute has led to nights of protest in front of the Cranston, Rhode Island, houses after one neighbour told the other he was happy he had cancer. Bob Gold is 55 years old, and after a two-year fight, he appears to have beaten cancer. Now Gold is fighting another battle.



"It caught my attention and I had to go back several times to go back and make sure I’m seeing what I thought I saw," Gold said. Scrawled on a note, hung on his neighbour’s home facing Gold's house, was a message that read "Glad you have canser, (sic), so die stupid." Gold said the note was unprompted but that he and others have had problems with his neighbour before.

Police told Gold that his neighbour, Edward Jimmis, wasn't breaking any laws. Neighbours were showing their disgust with signs on Wednesday for the second night in a row. Jan Lamond says she's been harassed by Jimmis before, and she also lost her husband to cancer two years ago.



Jimmis has since changed his sign. Now the note within the wreath reads "Love your neighbor." The dispute started when Gold was doing yard work the same time as Jimmis and then there was some disagreement over the property line. Jimmis said that he's sorry he put the sign up. Gold says Jimmis has not apologized.

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