A snow blower duel between two neighbours was decided with the click of handcuffs after punches were thrown and one man tried to choke an elderly woman.
Lévis police said it started in a swirl of snow on Monday night as the woman cleared snow from her front walk but blew it onto a neighbour's entrance. Her 43-year-old neighbour saw it and got his snow blower to send the fluffy white flakes whirling right back.
"Then the 72-year-old woman grabbed her snow blower again and blew it onto her neighbour," said Alain Gelly, a police spokesman. "The man again blew the snow back. Both of them were blowing snow on each other. It was a real battle of the blowers."
The tempest lasted about 10 minutes until the combatants faced each other in the street, their engines roaring.
"That's when the 43-year-old man got angry and started insulting the 72-year-old woman before grabbing her by the throat and pushing her to the ground," Mr. Gelly said.
The woman's 70-year-old husband saw what was happening from the window and ran out to intervene. He got punched several times before he could say much. A neighbour saw the commotion and called police. The 43-year-old was arrested and later released on a promise to appear in municipal court. He will likely be charged with assault.
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