Fight over shoveling and parking spot leads to standoff in Delaware, police say

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An argument over shoveling led to a man attacking another man, threatening him with a gun, and barricading himself inside a Del. townhome, police said.

Fight over shoveling and parking spot leads to standoff in Delaware, police say

An argument over shoveling led to a man attacking another man, threatening him with a gun, and barricading himself inside a Del. home, police said.

www.nbcphiladelphia.com

 

[skeets]

Here in Da Burg you clean out your parking spot and a lawn chair goes in it when you move your car,, gawd forbid someone takes your spot!!

 

[Scm]

Been a week, still have not touched a shovel. laughing at all the new "clean your sidewalk LAWS"

 

[chim]

Although I spent my first 21 years in town, the last 55 spent where there are no sidewalks and a 100 yard driveway instead of on-street parking were more enjoyable. I sometimes wish we'd have bought more acreage farther away from town.

 

[GeoHorn]

Although I spent my first 21 years in town, the last 55 spent where there are no sidewalks and a 100 yard driveway instead of on-street parking were more enjoyable. I sometimes wish we'd have bought more acreage farther away from town.

When I divorced and bought my place 40 miles from the nearest city, my ex sarcastically said, “Well,…you got what you Wanted! …. a Loong-Commute!”

But, …in retirement….. and Especially THESE Days….. it’s beginning to look like it wasn’t Far Enough!

 

[armylifer]

Reporters don't know how to report news anymore. There is nothing about how the fight started. Just an argument over shoveling and a parking space? What was the beef? Worthless reporting. They may as well just said man arrested and charged with ....

 

[Orangeglow]

I find all the news is like that these days. Sensationalize as much as possible. The sky is falling. How about getting back to reporting only the truth, and nothing but the truth ! They now forecast our weather precip in millimeters now, such a huge number, but when translated to inches, might be a grand total of 1/2 ".
And that is after a yellow weather watch warning. LOL

 

[Splinters and Sparks]

They should buy a 4wd and stop shoveling, then nobody else will want their spot!

 

[GreensvilleJay]

I find all the news is like that these days. Sensationalize as much as possible. The sky is falling. How about getting back to reporting only the truth, and nothing but the truth ! They now forecast our weather precip in millimeters now, such a huge number, but when translated to inches, might be a grand total of 1/2 ".
And that is after a yellow weather watch warning. LOL

yeah, 'sillymeters' ,totally useless ! Whenever the cops want a bad guy, they say 'suspect is 6 foot 3 inches tall, 225 pounds'...never ever use the 'great' metric system. Kinda surprised women's measurements aren't report in Metric though !

 

[GeoHorn]

They should buy a 4wd and stop shoveling, then nobody else will want their spot!

The PROBLEM is…. WHAT they’re shovelling.

 

[JohnDB]

yeah, 'sillymeters' ,totally useless ! Whenever the cops want a bad guy, they say 'suspect is 6 foot 3 inches tall, 225 pounds'...never ever use the 'great' metric system. ...

We (NZ) have had the metic system since the 1970s and I'm happy not to go back to that stuff like 19/64ths and the different US vs imperial liquid measure and weights. Here most engineering materials are in metric, sometimes inch sizes stocked alongside too. BSP sizes are often still in imperial, but slowly soft-converting to metic (3/8" BSP = 10mm BSP... not hard since the old inch BSP sizes were nominal anyway). Not to mention a kg is a kg anywhere in the world

The one thing I can't ever see changing here is newborn babies weights... Grandmas would have to mentally compute x generations of baby weights in lb/ozs to grams.

 

[mikester]

They now forecast our weather precip in millimeters now,

 

[Blue2Orange]

Around here the towns have what they call "snow emergency parking". Varies from town to town. Some combination of no parking on avenues or streets or even numbered or odd numbered streets or avenues or whatever..... Basically you cannot park on the street until the street has been cleared of snow. If you do. You get ticketed and towed. Not many apartment buildings in the towns around here. Most of them have off street parking lots or garages. Real urban areas with dense populations in this region have "snow emergency parking" restrictions. Bit weird people getting real territorial about a street side parking spot, but maybe understandable in areas with limited snow events.

Town crews seem to do a good and fast job even with their limited number of workers.

City across the Bay is relatively unique. Snow plows pile up the snow in the middle clearing lanes for travel. Then come by with larger front end loaders or gigantic truck mounted snowblowers and load up large trucks which then haul the snow to a dumping area. When the center piles are cleared the street or avenue is opened to parking. Other towns just plow to the edges filling in peoples driveways and onto the sidewalks.

City south of here most people have their garages located along the alley. But some people have more vehicles or recreational things (boats, RVs....) than garage bays. They snowblow out an area of their front yards for winter parkings. Looks a bit weird seeing vehicles parked on what would be their front lawn. But legal and common practice.

 

[GreensvilleJay]

We (NZ) have had the metic system since the 1970s and I'm happy not to go back to that stuff like 19/64ths and the different US vs imperial liquid measure and weights. Here most engineering materials are in metric, sometimes inch sizes stocked alongside too. BSP sizes are often still in imperial, but slowly soft-converting to metic (3/8" BSP = 10mm BSP... not hard since the old inch BSP sizes were nominal anyway). Not to mention a kg is a kg anywhere in the world

The one thing I can't ever see changing here is newborn babies weights... Grandmas would have to mentally compute x generations of baby weights in lb/ozs to grams.

What irks me is when someone makes something and BOTH Metric and Imperal are used, yeesh use one or the other, please....
As for baby weights... no scale could measure me as I was less than 4 pounds (<<2KG) when I arrived.

 

[Blue2Orange]

What irks me is when someone makes something and BOTH Metric and Imperal are used, yeesh use one or the other, please....
As for baby weights... no scale could measure me as I was less than 4 pounds (<<2KG) when I arrived.

My NH had both SI and SAE bolts and nuts. Real pita. Personally I could live with just SI. USA, Liberia, and Myanmar are it for those who's official measurement system is Imperial King George's system of choice. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin supposedly were proponents of metric. Guessing the business class of early USA had too tight a connection with England.

Tangent. My friends from GB laughed at me as I kept making mental conversions from mph to kph. Not sure if they were just having "fun" with me. Someone needs to be the butt end of a joke. Pick on the American, because we are too pretentious. Snobbs. Noted in GB they use both speed measurements. Depends on at what speed and where. Which made no sense to me. But then using hands and stones as units made no sense and I was clueless to what the conversions are to metric or USA standard measurements.