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    PA couple shot over long-going dispute with neighbor

    double homicide+ suicide over a dispute about a couple shoveling the early eastcoast snowstorm snow onto their neighbors property. This was obviously a longstanding animosity between the people. The video with incredibly good audio was caught on the couples camera system

    NSFW language and gun violence (delete the link if the content is too much for OT it's a link to the page the video is on, not to the video.) just search for the story if link is deleted, the video was leaked like only 2 or 3 days after the incident. It honestly plays out like the climax of a horror/drama movie.
    https://www.reddit.com/r/ActualPubli...ltercation_in/

    Pretty dumb, shitty, and petty thing to be die over. the couple leaves behind a teenage son with autism who is now in the care of grandparents.
    Sometimes it's better to not escalate. and ofc: guns guns guns

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    link to the story: https://nypost.com/2021/02/05/shoote...-navy-veteran/

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    Quote Originally Posted by ohtlmtlm View Post
    double homicide+ suicide over a dispute about a couple shoveling the early eastcoast snowstorm snow onto their neighbors property. This was obviously a longstanding animosity between the people. The video with incredibly good audio was caught on the couples camera system

    NSFW language and gun violence (delete the link if the content is too much for OT it's a link to the page the video is on, not to the video.) just search for the story if link is deleted, the video was leaked like only 2 or 3 days after the incident. It honestly plays out like the climax of a horror/drama movie.
    https://www.reddit.com/r/ActualPubli...ltercation_in/

    Pretty dumb, shitty, and petty thing to be die over. the couple leaves behind a teenage son with autism who is now in the care of grandparents.
    Sometimes it's better to not escalate. and ofc: guns guns guns
    I see the first few posts in the thread there are saying that it's such a dumb thing and this is why you shouldn't aggravate people.

    And that's horse shit.

    What it really means is that the guy who attacked them is so much worse than otherwise. He took a petty, stupid, rude argument, and decided to fucking kill two people over it, rather than just sucking it up and dealing with it like a normal human being.

    That this was so petty and that the victims were being insulting and rude does not in any way justify the guy's response. It does not suggest you shouldn't be rude or you'll get fucking murdered. That's victim-blaming, and worse, attempts to essentially use this event as a threat of future force against anyone else who might dare to be rude and insulting to others, that they might be "asking for it" by doing so.

    I really don't give a shit if the couple were assholes and caused the argument for no real reason. Doesn't matter. Didn't mean they should've died for it. Just means their neighbour was completely out to fucking lunch. The alternate timeline where this outcome didn't come about is the timeline where that neighbour was committed pre-emptively to get treatment before his rage issues led to him harming anyone, not a timeline where everyone's so scared of their violent and crazy neighbours that no one's willing to risk angering them.


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    1) They didn't deserve to die
    2) They are partly responsible for the situation that led to their deaths

    Now, when you talk shit to someone over something as petty as snow on a driveway then obviously you would not reasonably expect to be murdered as a consequence of engaging in a row of that nature. But that does not absolve you of all complicity in creating that situation, especially when you are goading someone who is pointing a gun in your direction.
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    I detest people who are big tough men when they have a gun. Massive overreaction.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Endus View Post
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    For once I can agree with you. You know, leave a flaming bag of shit on their doorstep, just dump all that snow(plus yours) in a massive pile at the end of their driveway then toss some cold water(or piss) to freeze it hard. There's so much more you can do to fuck with someone being an asshole instead of killing them, and it's way more cathartic and fun. Plus you get to do it more than just the once.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DarkAmbient View Post
    1) They didn't deserve to die
    2) They are partly responsible for the situation that led to their deaths

    Now, when you talk shit to someone over something as petty as snow on a driveway then obviously you would not reasonably expect to be murdered as a consequence of engaging in a row of that nature. But that does not absolve you of all complicity in creating that situation, especially when you are goading someone who is pointing a gun in your direction.
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    Some straight up executions and he even went back for the big gun when the handgun was emty, must have had a really bad day.

    Well he did kill himself too so that's that.

    Also a good example why you shouldn’t antagonize people you don’t know like someone said and in this case throwing snow onto the neighbor's property as he was shoveling.
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    “He was a loving son, brother and uncle who will be greatly missed by his family and friends,” his obituary read.
    Excuse me? He executed 2 people for an argument about shoveling snow. If my brother did that, I would kick his corpse in the nuts, burn it and throw it in the garbage, instead of holding a funeral for him. Not even worth remembering.

    If he hadn't killed himself like a coward he would have deserved the chair for that. And probably any jury, if they would legal means for convicting him, would have done so. Dying by his own hands got him off way to easy, avoiding responsibility.
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    Senseless. What a waste of life all around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Winter Blossom View Post
    So he went out to confront them with a gun? If so, sounds premeditated.
    At this point it's only an academic distinction.

    But during the argument he gets his handgun and he shot them, walked up to the wife laying in the middle of the street, shot her at least twice more, walked up the driveway to where the husband is off screen, shot a few more times. Then he goes back into his house...comes out a minute later with his rifle and shoots them both again at point blank range. When the cops show up he apparently shoots himself.

    So, even if one were to consider the initial shootings as second degree murder... going back inside, grabbing his rifle, and coming out again would upgrade the charges to first degree. But, since he committed suicide, it's really a moot point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Endus View Post
    I see the first few posts in the thread there are saying that it's such a dumb thing and this is why you shouldn't aggravate people.

    And that's horse shit.

    What it really means is that the guy who attacked them is so much worse than otherwise. He took a petty, stupid, rude argument, and decided to fucking kill two people over it, rather than just sucking it up and dealing with it like a normal human being.

    That this was so petty and that the victims were being insulting and rude does not in any way justify the guy's response. It does not suggest you shouldn't be rude or you'll get fucking murdered. That's victim-blaming, and worse, attempts to essentially use this event as a threat of future force against anyone else who might dare to be rude and insulting to others, that they might be "asking for it" by doing so.

    I really don't give a shit if the couple were assholes and caused the argument for no real reason. Doesn't matter. Didn't mean they should've died for it. Just means their neighbour was completely out to fucking lunch. The alternate timeline where this outcome didn't come about is the timeline where that neighbour was committed pre-emptively to get treatment before his rage issues led to him harming anyone, not a timeline where everyone's so scared of their violent and crazy neighbours that no one's willing to risk angering them.
    The victims are not merely victims in this case - you haven't read the details. I'm not saying your point of view re escalation isn't entirely correct, but the couple that was murdered had their own issues and used violence and intimidation in the overall and ongoing situation. I'm also not saying the outcome was justified, obviously, but saying it was all one sided is wrong. And there is no victim blaming - both sides were at fault.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cubby View Post
    And there is no victim blaming - both sides were at fault.
    That's victim blaming.

    Nothing they did warrants this reaction.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fencers View Post
    Senseless. What a waste of life all around.
    Agreed. How can people let things like this just go on and on. Sounds like the shooter was irrationally fed up with all the bullshit the neighbor couple sent his way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Egomaniac View Post
    That's victim blaming.

    Nothing they did warrants this reaction.
    No, it's not. That's not victim blaming. Period.

    What did the neighbor couple do?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cubby View Post
    The victims are not merely victims in this case - you haven't read the details. I'm not saying your point of view re escalation isn't entirely correct, but the couple that was murdered had their own issues and used violence and intimidation in the overall and ongoing situation. I'm also not saying the outcome was justified, obviously, but saying it was all one sided is wrong. And there is no victim blaming - both sides were at fault.
    Unless they were pointing a gun at him and he shot in self defense. They are very much victims in this case. No if and's or but's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cubby View Post
    No, it's not. That's not victim blaming. Period.

    What did the neighbor couple do?
    They didn't pull a gun and shoot at him did they?
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    Quote Originally Posted by cubby View Post

    What did the neighbor couple do?
    Nothing that justifies murder.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cubby View Post
    Agreed. How can people let things like this just go on and on. Sounds like the shooter was irrationally fed up with all the bullshit the neighbor couple sent his way.

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    No, it's not. That's not victim blaming. Period.

    What did the neighbor couple do?

    You know. I'm about to get infracted for this. but it's dumb fucks like you that think this way that make this country sooo fucking shit....

    So FUCK YOU and your victim blaming
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    Quote Originally Posted by Egomaniac View Post
    Nothing that justifies murder.
    You might feel that way, but the law says your wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Egomaniac View Post
    Nothing that justifies murder.
    True but some people are just like that guy so not a good idea to antagonize people you dont know, well they are all dead now so it does not matter but still if they havent antagonized him they would be alive. Still a waste of human life but that's how it is on this planet. Plenty oh plenty of similar videos online.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cubby View Post
    The victims are not merely victims in this case - you haven't read the details. I'm not saying your point of view re escalation isn't entirely correct, but the couple that was murdered had their own issues and used violence and intimidation in the overall and ongoing situation. I'm also not saying the outcome was justified, obviously, but saying it was all one sided is wrong. And there is no victim blaming - both sides were at fault.
    Only one side pulled a gun. Only one side went back to his house, to get another gun to finish the job. There are no execuses at all. He is a murderer. The couple are not.

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    I know it's insane to think that anything the couple did made the shooter's reaction justified/felt warranted in the shooter's perspective... but how are we to know?

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