3 People Dead in PA (2 killed + suicide) After a Snow Shoveling Dispute

[Xterrian]

Snow shoveling dispute ends with three dead

Police believe a neighbor shot a husband and wife and then turned the gun on himself.

www.wnep.com

Stories like this always give me anxiety when it comes to any dispute/confrontation with someone I'm not close with.

Rest in peace to the husband and wife.

 

[Khanimus]

Fucking insanity. Utterly pointless loss of life.

 

[shaneo632]

Snow shoveling dispute ends with three dead

Police believe a neighbor shot a husband and wife and then turned the gun on himself.

www.wnep.com

Stories like this always give me anxiety when it comes to any dispute/confrontation with someone I'm not close with.

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Yeah as a non-American I think about this quite a lot, how I'm a lot more aggressive with assholes but I wonder if I wouldn't be in a country with a shitload of guns?

 

[Double 0]

This is why the 2A needs reform.

 

[Goddo Hando]

we have "dibs" here in chicago, which is reserving your parking spot with furniture on the street after digging your car out of the snow.

if you "steal" someone's spot, it can get get very dangerous. i wonder if this is what it is

 

[Irrotational]

The only way to solve this is if the husband and wife had guns, so that they could have defended themselves and their property.










/S

 

[Alfredo]

I'm curious how they know that this was the result of a snow shoveling dispute, since all three people are dead.

 

[Dekuman]

Guns don't kill people, snow shoveling arguments do.

/s

 

[Lobster Roll]

we have "dibs" here in chicago, which is reserving your parking spot with furniture on the street after digging your car out of the snow.

if you "steal" someone's spot, it can get get very dangerous. i wonder if this is what it is

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Chicago here. Dibs can die. I spent half an hour digging out a spot yesterday fully expecting to lose it when I returned. My beautifully cleaned spot was gone when I returned so I put my hazards on and speed-cleaned another spot and jammed my car in there instead. It is what it is. If I want private parking, I'll pay for it.

 

[hey it's that dog]

The only way to solve this is if the husband and wife had guns, so that they could have defended themselves and their property.










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If everyone had more guns they could have just shot the snow for trespassing before it even hit the ground and this never would have happened.

 

[Zoph]

America is so broken, jesus.

 

[tobascodagama]

I'm curious how they know that this was the result of a snow shoveling dispute, since all three people are dead.

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Witnesses, I assume.

 

[Damaniel]

America is so broken, jesus.

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At least school shootings are way down over the last year...

...oh, wait.

(Yes, we're pretty broken. Gun nuts would let every American die of gun violence before they give up a single gun though.)

 

[B4mv]

Dibs was definitely a thing at my old apartment complex in NJ. Difference was if there was a problem, someone would get their car key'd/tires slashed. Not shot.

 

[Weiss]

I can't imagine the sheer naked horror of living in a country where there are enough people around that saying the wrong thing to one of them over something innocuous could end with you and your spouse dead and this isn't cause for immediate revolution of gun laws.

The only time in my life I flipped somebody off from my car the dude caught up to me, pulled ahead, slammed his brakes in front of me and walked out into ongoing traffic to make me apologize to him. That was bad enough, but the idea that a guy like that can carry a fucking gun on him all the time?

 

[Gaming_Groove]

Stories like these make me feel so hopeless. Gun ownership is a vice. It's like a disease from which the United States cannot cure itself, and that idea is just so depressing. An instrument of death should never be a solution to a personal or societal problem.

 

[Rocwell]

So we're applying castle doctrine to parking spaces now huh?

 

[RedBlue]

I get and don't get some people when it comes to moving snow around. Shit sucks in my neighborhood, queens NY. My neighbors don't shovel their cars out or they just shovel the snow in front of their house pretty much onto the car in front of their house. They do that despite having a small yard area they could shovel it into instead.

I have to park on the street so I do my best not to get plowed in, I always get plowed in. I have to shovel my car out and you bet that if i go anywhere, that spot is gone when I come home. My neighbors have no problem moving their car from the shitty spot they neglected to clear up to a nice neat spot I cleaned up, a little animosity there.

I was out clearing near my car earlier while my kids were outside and i noticed a car hovering. I wasn't going anywhere, but they were there ready to take my spot while there were plenty of spots, that just needed to be shoveled a little. I walked back to the house and they drove off.

This has little to do with what happened in PA, I assume it was a dispute on where to put the snow. Obviously murder suicide is way overboard and something else was clearly fucked in that guy's head. But I do understand snow removal can get intense.

 

[gozu]

I can't imagine the sheer naked horror of living in a country where there are enough people around that saying the wrong thing to one of them over something innocuous could end with you and your spouse dead and this isn't cause for immediate revolution of gun laws.

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True, that IS horrifying but lower taxes tho.

 

[Nida]

We just had an elderly man stabbed to death in front of a grocery store over what was alleged to be an argument over a handicapped spot.

Stuff like this is why I try to be as non-confrontational as possible.

 

[Deleted member 21709]

Ban guns

 

[Autumn]

A dude on my street shot his neighbor because he played his music late at night. Crazy he called the police and just waited for them to arrest him.

 

[Twister]

If only we didn't let citizens have guns, but no the second amendment is so important

 

[Mammoth Jones]

We just had an elderly man stabbed to death in front of a grocery store over what was alleged to be an argument over a handicapped spot.

Stuff like this is why I try to be as non-confrontational as possible.

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Yup. This is my go-to stance. As much as I have to lose I always keep in mind a lot of folks have absolutely nothing to lose and will gladly take it there if they feel pushed. So unless someone physically puts their hands on me I'll let them enjoy their ego.

 

[rycisko]

we have "dibs" here in chicago, which is reserving your parking spot with furniture on the street after digging your car out of the snow.

if you "steal" someone's spot, it can get get very dangerous. i wonder if this is what it is

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I lived in the city and in downtown Milwaukee for 5+ years and always thought people who put out chairs or cones were assholes. Every time I'd shovel myself out if my spot was taken when I returned, I found another one. Thus is the life of a street parker.

Sad story. Hopefully didn't escalate from something as stupid as that

 

[Alucrid]

The Plains Township Police Chief says the murdered couple leave behind a fifteen year old son with autism. He will be taken care of by his grandparents.

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jesus

 

[VorpalNonsense]

shooter should have just saved everyone the trouble and downed himself instead of taking two people with him first, whats the point
better yet just sit on the couch and angrily eat a bag of chips but merica and their guns gotta shoot
jesus what a waste
too many guns in too many hands

 

[Nilou]

As completely awful and tragic as this news story is;

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