p2pnet news | Off Topic:- You’ve heard of Road Rage?

Now meet Snow Rage.

Wintery conditions may make for pretty postcards, but they’ve also been responsible for, “a series of violent ’snow rage’ incidents,” says Reuters.

And it seems La Belle Province is where a lot of the weather-induced anger is erupting.

“Police in the French-speaking province of Quebec said on Wednesday that people were fighting over snow clearing and even parking spaces,” says the story.

A man in an upscale Quebec City neighborhood, “became so upset a woman from a snow removal service was putting snow on his yard that he shouted at her and then took a shovel and hit the window of the vehicle she was driving,” says Reuters, going on >>>

“The woman apologized and returned to work … a bit later the man opened his garage door and emerged with a shotgun, pointed it at the ground and looked at her in a threatening way,” said police spokeswoman Catherine Viel.

Police arrested the man, who will be charged with negligent use of a firearm, and seized a total of 13 weapons from his home. Viel said snow-related fights were unusually common.

In Montreal, a man who brandished a toy gun during a heated dispute over a rare parking space, “may face weapons charges,” says the story, adding:

“There may be more trouble to come, since Environment Canada says there is no sign winter is about to end.”

[The pic on the right is a clip from an amazing photograph taken by Canadian Press' Luke Hendry showing International Women's Day marchers in Ontario.]

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Also See:
Reuters – Guns and fists as “snow rage” erupts , March 12, 2008

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