Portsmouth police were called to a 4th Street apartment after a caller reported two men with tasers were trying to get inside the home and remove property.
The call came in around 8:30 p.m.
When officers arrived, the situation turned out to be less home invasion and more landlord-tenant chaos.
Police said the dispute involved people switching bedrooms inside a communal living apartment.
According to the log, the landlord told officers the tenants had not paid rent for two years and had switched bedrooms without permission.
The landlord said one of the bedrooms had been prepared for another tenant who was moving in, and people were trying to get the current tenants to move their belongings back to their original room.
Officers assisted at the scene.
No arrest was listed in the information provided.
It is not every day a “two men with tasers” call turns into a fight over who gets which bedroom, but that is exactly the kind of twist police can run into on a landlord-tenant call.
The lesson here is simple: communal living works best when rent, rooms, belongings, and boundaries are very clearly spelled out before everyone starts rearranging the house.
