Eighty­year­old retired tailor，James McKay，spent Saturday night in jail after __16__ thirty­year­old Keith Smith over the head __17__ his walking stick.McKay's wife，Laurene told us that while McKay is usually a __18__ person，he had been __19__ to this act of violence by getting wet just once too often.

　　Smith lives above the McKays and it appears that not only is he a keen gardener，he is also a __20__ collector.Unfortunately for him，the water he sent over his balcony every day ended up on the McKays'，or too often，on the McKays __21__.

　　“For the last fortnight，since Smith moved into the flat above us，we have hardly dared to go to our __22__，”said Laurene.She added that it wasn't so much the water falling onto their balcony from Smith watering his plant __23__bothered them，it was more the way he cleaned his fish tanks.“We'd be __24__ there happily reading our newspapers，when __25__ so much water would come from above that we'd be as wet as if we'd __26__ with our clothes on！Neither could we get rid of the __27__ of fish！”

　　And on Saturday evening it was just too __28__.“It was James's birthday，”explained Laurene，“and I'd made him a birthday cake.The candles were a great sight as you can imagine，but James didn't get to blow them out.”__29__，Smith emptied one of his larger tanks over his balcony and both the McKays and the cake were wet __30__.Rarely had Laurene seen McKay move so fast.“I couldn't __31__ him.He was up there in a flash.It was the fastest I'd seen him move since 1964.”

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