Woman makes news in Boston by legally having a gun

[philip964]

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/0 ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Apparently you shovel a persons driveway without permission then go to the door and demand money.

Amazingly this woman wasn't arrested when she came to the door with a gun at her side. But it was reported to the police by her neighbors and it did make the news.

[Keith B]

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/0 ... story.html

Apparently you shovel a persons driveway without permission then go to the door and demand money.

Amazingly this woman wasn't arrested when she came to the door with a gun at her side. But it was reported to the police by her neighbors and it did make the news.

[ELB]

So, the winter equivalent of the squeegee/windshield scammers.

And how pitiful that someone called the cops, not because of the scammer, but because the 79 y.o. neighbor had a gun while telling the scammer to buzz off.

[steveincowtown]

The man fled, but was found by police walking in the area. Neither the woman nor the shoveler are pressing charges.

That is great that the shoveler didn't press charges....

[jimlongley]

The man fled, but was found by police walking in the area. Neither the woman nor the shoveler are pressing charges.

That is great that the shoveler didn't press charges....

I don't know what charges the shoveler could rightfully press. He was told to go away twice and came back for a third round. If that, combined with the banging on the door, is not a threat of bodily harm, I don't know what is.

And "The man fled, but was found by police walking in the area." says to me that they did indeed call the police to report him.

And one wonders if she really has to have a license in MA to defend her home, particularly on Bunker Hill Av. in Lowell, but I do note that the first sentence in the article set the tone for the rest of it, implying that she answered the door with the gun, rather than correctly stating that she responded to the threat.