Man Threatens To Castrate Ice Cream Truck Driver With Hedge Clippers

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WEST HARTFORD -- A West Hartford man, frustrated by the jingle of an ice cream truck, was arrested Sunday night after threatening to castrate the truck driver with a pair of hedge clippers.

The incident capped what West Hartford police say was an unusually animated weekend in town - one that included a major drug arrest at a U.S. post office, a gun altercation involving teenagers, and a bar fight that sent one man to the hospital for 100 stitches to his face.

"It's been an active weekend," said Sgt. Jeff Rose of the West Hartford Police Department.

Police arrested Matthew Flynn, 46, Sunday night and charged him with threatening and breach of peace for his alleged threat to a Melly's Ice Cream truck operator who was driving by Flynn's house on 50 Seminole Circle.

Police say Flynn was trimming his hedges when the truck drove by at 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Flynn became enraged at the truck and the jingle it was playing. He stood before the truck, yelling at the teenage driver. He demanded that the driver turn down the music and to refrain from driving down that street again since children don't live there.

Then, according to police, Flynn threatened the driver with his clippers.

"He's making the chopping motion with the hedge trimmer," said Officer Nick Roman, who arrested Flynn. "He may have taken it a little farther than necessary."

Flynn will appear in court on Tuesday morning.

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If I had a sibling in "The A-Team" I'd have already bought an anti-tank missile off him.

Hoo, boy . . .

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:(

:eyes:

"Turkey in the Straw" one can hear before one goes over the edge. I've been there.

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