[From article]
A Whitman man told police he shot at a snowplow driver at the height of this weekend’s storm because the driver swerved toward his Jeep as he tried to pass and began tailgating him, prosecutors said.
Bruce O’Brien, 60, told Plymouth officers he “feared for his life and fired three shots” from his .45-caliber handgun shortly after 7 p.m. Saturday on Rocky Hill Road, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz said in a statement.
O’Brien, who is licensed to carry a firearm in Massachusetts, was released on $2,500 bail yesterday after pleading not guilty in Plymouth District Court to discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building, carrying a firearm under the influence of liquor, assault with a dangerous weapon, and disorderly conduct. He was ordered to surrender all of his firearms to Whitman police and stay away from the plow driver pending a Feb. 23 pre-trial hearing.
O’Brien told officers he and his wife were on their way back to their Asiaf Way rental home from Isaac’s Restaurant, where he had two glasses of wine, when he became frustrated by the snowplow in front of them because it wasn’t removing snow from the road and its rear flashing lights were bothering his eyes, according to police.
O’Brien told officers he flashed his lights a couple of times at the snowplow driver, who pulled to the right of the travel lane but then veered toward the Jeep as the couple passed.
When O’Brien “gave him the middle finger,” the driver began to follow him “extremely closely,” O’Brien told police, so he took the gun out of the Jeep’s front center console and fired three shots toward the ground.
A man who was driving behind the couple told police he saw the Jeep pass the plow in the opposite lane while the plow swerved toward the SUV. The man then heard three “pops.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2016/01/motorist_i_fired_shots_to_scare_off_plow_driver
Motorist: I fired shots to scare off plow driver
Says he was in danger
Marie Szaniszlo
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
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