Photo by Kyle Walton

Cleveland Park residents already have it rough enough, what with a suspected flower thief running around the neighborhood and filching tulips and hydrangeas. But problems in the tony Ward 3 neighborhood go far deeper.

Thankfully, the Cleveland Park Yahoo Group exists to alleviate—or at least discuss—such issues. But for those who don’t feel like signing up for the neighborhood listserv and weeding through the seas of classifieds and event announcements, there now exists a Tumblr blog called Cleveland Park Complaints, devoted to cataloging the best the listserv has to offer. Specifically, neighbor-on-neighbor hysteria.

In addition to documenting the extensive griping and vigilante scheming over the rampant flower thief, the blog’s creator has also spotted such wacky episodes like one resident’s trepidation about calling animal control over a dead fox that appeared in the yard.

OK, that one’s kind of serious. But then there are the NIMBY-er complaints. Leaf blowers, for instance! Cleveland Park Problems memorializes instances such as those when a neighbor calls those wind-pushing garden maintenance devices “an invention of the devil.”

Then there are the residents who get scared by people going door-to-door selling magazine subscriptions, including one who dismissed the salesmen, apparently without incident, then proceeded to call 911. (The cops did not respond.)

But these Cleveland Park residents shouldn’t feel begrudged by their new chronicler. “I’ve lived in Cleveland Park for a few years, and I really like the neighborhood,” the author tells DCist in an email. “But I used to live in southeast DC and thought the comparison between my old neighborhood’s list-serv concerns (i.e. meth clinics moving in down the block, homeless shelters, etc.) and those in Cleveland Park was too good to be true.”

Why wait until now to get it started, though? Day job concerns, mostly. “I would’ve started this years ago,” says the author, who used to be a policy reporter for a Capitol Hill publication, “and felt I needed to be serious for such endeavors.”

Still, it’s not all easily scared people the author is keeping tabs on. Sometimes, Cleveland Parkers just need a good entertainment recommendation. Like the person who trolled the listserv for tips on a solid Elvis impersonator.