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Bizarre confrontation.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
On June 19, William Glover of Parkman, Maine, left home wearing camouflage clothing and carrying two shotguns. His wife later recalled that he was not acting like himself.
Sometime after 4:30 that afternoon, Glover emerged from the woods behind the residence of Mr. and Mrs. David Tweedie (some two miles distant from Glover's own house). Mr. Tweedie and his daughters (ages 11 and 15) were home at the time.
With one shotgun in hand, and the other on a sling, Glover approached Tweedie and demanded some beer. When Tweedie (who did not know his distant neighbor) replied that he had no beer, Glover left without incident. Tweedie nevertheless decided to call 911 to report the incident and the man's peculiar behavior.
About 10 minutes later, Glover returned, brandishing a shotgun on each hip pointed in the direction of Tweedie and one of the girls. Concerned for the safety of his children and himself, Tweedie pulled his own ...
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