Residents Of Tiny Maine Island Go Rogue, Attempt To Trap Out-Of-Towners Over Coronavirus Fears

Picture yourself living on a tiny, heavily wooded island. It's a cloudy, cold, spoOoOOooky day and fog is thick in the early Spring air, but you're cozy in your house with the boys watching The Masked Singer on FOX. You're all pretty sure the current singer is that Dustin Diamond guy from Saved By The Bell but you're not sure... just a few more lines of the song and you'll be certain. The anticipation is peaking when suddenly?!?! The TV cuts out. What the hell?! You walk outside and a chill goes down your spine... something is amiss... Horror movie type stuff. 

That was kinda real life over the weekend...

From ABC News:

Police in Maine are investigating an alleged incident in which armed residents used a tree to block a man's driveway in order to quarantine him and his roommates from the coronavirus.

The man, who is renting the house in the town of Vinalhaven in the Fox Islands, left the house to check on a severed cable line Friday afternoon and discovered that a tree was blocking his path, the Knox County Sheriff’s Office said.

Several people with guns allegedly approached the resident and yelled at him, according to the sheriff’s office.

The man ran back into the home and he and his roommates used a VHF radio, their only means of communication, to contact authorities, the sheriff’s office said.

Apparently the man & his roommates were there from New Jersey working a construction job and had been there since September, but locals became paranoid that the men might have COVID-19 and infect the island…  

I looked up Vinalhaven, Maine on Google maps and it does NOT seem like the kind of place you want armed, panicky townies being mad at you. 

When authorities arrived they determined locals did indeed cut trees down to block the men in. They also determined none of those men had any symptoms of the virus… I want to say it's getting crazy out there but it's already been crazy for a bit now. It just seems a little freakier on a small Maine island. 

Also good to remember that as much wackiness is going on, there's a ton of good happening, too. Gonna try to focus on that as we start another week. ::sigh::