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Armed Maine Residents Cut Down Tree to Force Quarantine

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They placed the trunk across someone’s driveway so they could not get to the main road, police said.

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Knox County Sheriff

Some Maine residents are taking this quarantine thing too far. According to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office, several people with guns cut down a tree and dragged it into a driveway to force someone to isolate in the island community of Vinalhaven on Friday afternoon. “Deputies have learned that there is a general belief by some island residents that the Cripple Creek Residents are supposed to be quarantined because they came here from another state and could have Covid-19,” the sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook. Police said the targeted people have been in Maine for 30 days and have no symptoms.

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