Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Death by silverware

More trouble in the neighborhood. This time, we're looking at a criminal case, not just a dispute over property. The Abbotts and the Scaranos of New Jersey shared a common driveway. The Scaranos were having their driveway paved and Abbott obtained some asphalt from the paving to keep his door from swinging onto his neighbor's property. I thought this was pretty nice of him. But Nicholas, son of the Scaranos, did not see things from my angle and suddenly he and Abbott are in a fist fight.
If this was it, the case would still be pretty random. A fistfight over some asphalt? Calm down, boys! But it gets better. Nicholas's dad sees the fistfight and then came at Abbott with a hatchet. Nicholas's mom followed, "armed with a carving knife and a large fork." Can you imagine that procession? Hatchet, carving knife, large fork. Where did they get their weapons, a garage sale???

And do you know what happened in the end? ALL THREE SCARANOS were hit by the hatchet! That'll teach you from wielding cutlery at your neighbors over asphalt. GRahhh.

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