A winter storm can bury streets, slow traffic, and turn every errand into a chore. But as two separate 6abc Philadelphia reports made clear this week, snow can also flip a normal neighborhood annoyance into something far uglier – fights, threats, weapons, and in one case, a long police standoff.
In Elizabeth Worthington’s report out of New Castle County, police said an argument over snow being shoved into an assigned parking space spiraled into a violent home invasion, an assault that left a victim unconscious, and an eight-hour SWAT barricade in a townhouse community.
And in Briana Smith’s separate report from Philadelphia, surveillance video captured a street brawl over a snow-cleared spot that sent a man to the hospital in critical condition – prompting police to warn residents that “saving” spots with cones, chairs, and random objects is illegal, and that these disputes keep turning dangerous…