Armed vigilantes blocked a neighbor's driveway with a tree to force him into quarantine

[Demovictory9]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/us/maine-coronavirus-forced-quarantine-trnd/index.html

A Maine man said armed neighbors descended on his home and chopped down a tree to block his road and prevent him from leaving because they believed he may have coronavirus.

The Vinalhaven resident said he went outside Friday to check why his cable service wasn't working and found a tree blocking the end of his road, according to the Knox County Sheriff's Office.

"While investigating the downed tree, a neighbor started yelling at him and a group of people showed up and began to gather around. Believing the group may be there to harm him, (he) fled to his residence and told his roommates what he had found," the sheriff's office said on Facebook.

The three roommates stayed in the home, where they used a VHF radio to contact the Coast Guard for assistance and a drone to monitor the group's activity, the sheriff's office said. Vinalhaven is an island town.

When law enforcement arrived, the group had fled and it was "apparent" that a tree had been cut down and dragged to block the road, the sheriff's office said.

Officers learned that some residents believed the roommates needed to be quarantined. None of the roommates, who were from New Jersey and were renting a home in Vinalhaven while working a construction job since September, showed symptoms consistent with Covid-19, deputies said.

[2naSalit]

1. Hope the drone recordings help the cops find thise assholes.

[lunasun]

2. Hmm they were from away , NJ, so suspicious even though there a month + no symptoms

Hope more of this crap isn’t going to start up in places now with the virus

After a verbal altercation with a few locals who targeted the roommates because of their New Jersey license plate, "a group of local vigilantes decided to take matters into their own hands," McDonald said.
"Now is not the time to develop or encourage an 'us vs. them' mentality," she added. "Targeting people because of their license plates will not serve any of us well," McDonald said.

[EllieBC]

3. This is getting insane.

In my town there is a student with WA state plates. He’s had nasty nasty messages left on his car. He’s a freaking perm resident and student! Not a tourist!

Too many people acting like they grew up without parents.

[TeamPooka]

4. mob mentality will wind up killing more folks.

I will say this, you cut my cable and trap me in my house while you gather in a mob outside my house and I may just go Rambo on their asses.
Because self defense.
Who knows if they are going to torch your place or what, next.

[Jake Stern]

5. My advice to the fellows from NJ:

Buy a gun and use it the next time these asshole townsfolk come mobbing.

It’s plain as day that that the county sheriff has zero interest in justice or they would have jailed the people who did this.

[hunter]

6. Use it for what?

[Jake Stern]

7. Self defense

A mob is a threat

[hunter]

8. Gun fetishes are disgusting.

I don't let anyone I'd care to shoot live in my head.