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Don't bring a gun to a snowball fight, in Duke Ellington's neighborhood at that.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 This past Saturday morning around 10:30, the snow got so heavy that I made a U-turn back to my home in the Washington, D.C., suburbs when visibility got too difficult through my ice-covered windshield wipers and rear window that kept getting covered despite my defroster, with many side streets still unplowed. In the meantime, a large snowball fight was arranged through social media in Duke Ellington's neighborhood, at Fourteenth & U Streets, Northwest, in Washington, around twenty blocks north of the White House.  I knew nothing about this snowball fight until it was long over. A District of Columbia detective got out of sorts so much from being hit by snowballs that he drew his gun, and he soon thereafter admitted to it.  Granted, snowballs should not be aimed at those not part of a snowball fight...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on December 21, 2009 (boomark / email).