You've got mail! Unfortunately, it's two raw fish, and their severed heads are stinking up your mailbox.
One Northwest Knoxville woman had that experience on Wednesday afternoon, and she said it's not the first time someone has put fish in her mailbox.
Angela Brookshire called the Knoxville Police Department's non-emergency number after someone put the fish — whole, with their heads sliced off and lying next to their bodies — in the mailbox at her home on Woodglen Drive.
A plastic bag left on the ground identified the fish as tilapia. Two cans of sardines had been placed in the mailbox, which had no mail inside. The newspaper box also had fish in it.
"Our paper smelled like fish," Brookshire said.
According to Brookshire, the KPD officer who responded to the home said the family should report the incident to a U.S. postal inspector. Mailboxes are considered federal property; tampering with them is a federal crime.
Wednesday's special delivery marks an escalation since last week, when Brookshire said someone mixed canned sardines and anchovies with mustard and left it in a pile in her mailbox.
"Whenever my soon-to-be son-in-law checked the mail, he said that somebody had put poop in there," Brookshire said. "And when I went out there, I said, 'No, it's not poop; it's fish.' "
Brookshire and her family think they know who's responsible. They believe their neighbors are exacting revenge after Brookshire's husband backed out of a deal to sell them a puppy for $20.
The Brookshires decided the puppy, a one-month-old Boston Terrier-Boxer mix named Brandon, needed to stay with his sister, Precious, who is the runt of the litter.
Angela Brookshire said her husband gave the neighbors their money back two days after the first fish delivery. The second delivery followed.
On Wednesday, a man answered the door at the house where Brookshire said the neighbors lived.
He said he was going to buy the puppy before the Brookshires backed out but denied putting the fish in their mailbox. When asked why the family had accused him, he said, "They're crazy," and, "I don't know what they're talking about."
He said he did not want to see a photo of the fish in the mailbox.
As for Brookshire, she said she was going to go inside and get a jacket.
"Then I'm going to come out here, be the bigger person and clean my mailbox out."
Reporter Travis Dorman can be reached at travis.dorman@knoxnews.com or on Twitter @travdorman.
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