Posted on 04/29/2006 5:18:40 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
Members of a family in Southbridge who insisted on living in a van were arrested Friday.
NewsCenter 5's Jack Harper reported that they were forcibly removed from the van as police tried to serve an arrest warrant. Ed Wright, his wife, and two daughters were charged with resisting arrest.
"They started to smash windows. First, they smashed the back window," Ed Wright said. "Then they started smashing the side windows, and they maced us all in the face."
Police said that they ordered the family out of the van. Officials spotted the handle of a hunting knife in the van.
Wright's daughters, who are 19 and 21, allegedly threw bleach at the officers.
"The broke the glass, and I got cut," daughter Nicole Wright said.
"They took our pets and they maced our dogs, and I tried to keep the cat from getting maced," daughter Jennifer Wright said.
The family has been living in their van since January. Wright said that he moved his family into their van after someone destroyed their bus.
The town even changed the parking laws, hoping to force the family to move.
"We made a way of life. We enjoyed that stuff, going around with the bus and helping people, doing all kinds of things. The bus was destroyed. I (asked the chief) to investigate it and he won't," Wright said. "In my opinion, he is a terrorist -- an American terrorist."
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"I was offered six months free rent, and I said, 'No. We want the bus. I want whoever destroyed it to pay for a new bus,'" Wright said.
Even the police have donated money and offered parking behind the police station.
"What we will do is with anybody who is in violation of that, we will simply ask them to move on. Hopefully, that is all it will take, and we will be in compliance," Charette said.
"I told the chief we are not going anywhere," Wright said. http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/9023711/detail.html?rss=bos&psp=news
I feel like I'm missing a lot of this story
Sure peaks your interest, doesn't it.
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Southbridge Police Officers...or sometime called the Van Busters.
For Heaven's sake get those girls into a more normal family situation. That father ought to be horsewhipped putting them thru that and the mother is probably insane.
19 and 21, they are hardly girls anymore
Have you read, "The Glass Castle" by Janette Walls? Similar situation. I can't believe what she and her siblings put up with at the hands of the drunk father and nuts-o mother. A very good read that makes you appreciate your "normal" parents; warts and all. ;)
Why do those hats and uniforms look so familiar to me?
I can't believe something like this would happen in the Socialist Utopia that is Massachusettes!
I mean, don't they totally share the wealth in that state? Isn't there room for people like this in any of Kerry's 5 mansions, or at one of Fat Teddy's compounds? ;)
(This stuff happens in 'The Worker's Paradise' that is Madistan, WI, too.)
I guess I won't be boondocking at Walmarts any more.
Why?
Me does believe that the race of this family may play a role in the attitude toward them....assuming they are white.
SS?
It seems like the smaller a police force or army is the more crap they have on the uniforms.
Barny Fifes in dress blues.
Two M-16's? What, do they share if Al Queada shows up?
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