Curiouser and curiouser.

And if it wasn't the neighbors immediately surrounding the property who called, does it make sense that it was someone even further away? The "noise" would have been even less.

This isn't looking particularly good for the Sheriff Department.

"We're liberal Democrats -- we have a Buddha on our table."

I just love this line.

Harrumph! Every time I get up on the table, my people tell me to get down!

Maybe Goodsell didn't make the call but it is certainly possible that this houseguest (Buddha) was distrubed by parading gay democrats!

Back in the '80s, I was involved with the implementation of a system called E911 ( the "E" standing for enhanced). When a call came in, the screen would display both the phone number and the physical location of the call's origin--or "unknown" if it was a cellular call.

I imagine that E911 technology has made quantum leaps since then, with hard drives replacing magnetic tape for recording calls, GPS for locating callers' locations, etc. It will be very difficult for the Sheriff's Office to cover up any internal hanky panky without attracting a whole bunch of unwanted attention.

The other thing that's a bit troubling about this is the language used in the police complaint cited in flashreport (assuming flashreport didn't make up the report):

"On 6/27/09, at about 2112 hours, Deputy ***** and *****, Clinician ***** responded to 1366 Rubenstein Avenue, Cardiff, Calif, regarding a Loud Democratic Rally with Loud Speakers. The reporting party's residence is located on Summit Avenue just west of 1366 Rubenstein Avenue. The reporting party told dispatchers he was willing to sign and wanted deputy contact. It was later learned that the rally was a fundraiser for Francine Busby who is running for Congress."

Summit is west of Rubenstein. There is no outlet from Summit to Rubenstein and the only way to get from one to the other would be to go either a quarter mile north to Santa Fe and then back south (a trip of about a mile) or a quarter mile south to Westminster and back north (also about a mile). How many people can tell the police the exact address of a stranger who lives in a house whose back faces their back diagonally, across over a hundred yards of orchards, behind them when there's no outlet or access for over a mile?

Also, according to GoogleEarth there are only two homes on Summit that share a property line with the Barman residence - the Goodsell's and the neighbor to the north, who Goodsell exonerated. This means that the call had to have been made by somebody on a non-contiguous parcel at least two parcels removed from Goodsell in either direction, which would've meant distances of 600 and 700 heavily wooded feet respectively (northwest and southwest) before we get to any structure. I see almost no way that one could've made out that this was a "Democratic rally" just from auditory information alone at that distance and under those circumstances, so they had to have known in advance from some other source and complained not because they heard anything but because they knew it was going to happen (from an advertisement or whatever).

Finally, there's the issue of the heckler. Assuming that the caller and the heckler are the same person and that person lived on Summit, it pretty much could only be one particular parcel, two houses removed from the Goodsells (I won't say which one for obvious reasons), again assuming Goodsell's information on her immediate neighbor to the other side is correct, which, although it does not share a common property line with the Barman residence, maybe within earshot if somebody stands at exactly at the right point (over 400 feet esat of their house, by the way) for the specific purpose of trying to listen-in on the Busby event.

Its all pretty fishy, in my opinion. The most logical scenario is that someone knew there was going to be a rally and called in the complaint for that reason and that reason alone.