NJ Man Has Standoff Over Mom's Foreclosed House

2008_08_swatb.jpgJohn Brennan was arrested after drawing a gun on sheriff's officers who had come to move items out of his 88-year-old mother's foreclosed home in Saddle Brook, NJ. His mother was unable to pay off her refinancing payments and the home was sold at auction in May. When movers and officers arrived yesterday, Brennan refused to let them into the house, wielding a .22-caliber gun. Eventually, the officers were able to calm Brennan down. Charges are pending against the 60-year-old; his mother was taken away in an ambulance. A mover told the Bergen Record, "I don't want to have any more experiences like this again."

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He's just pissed that hes going to have to live with his mom again. A 60 year old living with his mom... how embarrassing.

Glad no one was hurt, but this makes me very sad and angry.

You mean George W. Bush and his bestest pal Jesus aren't coming out of the sky to help these people? May be bankers who got rich off of the debacle that is our economy develop flesh eating diseases.

And this is just the beginning!

next time it won't be a .22,
claymores. time to stock up like it's Y2K again.

I can only imagine if this gets worse in the south. sad that it came to this.

#2 . well said.

You don't evict 88 year olds, you just quietly wait for them to die.

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this country has jumped the shark. we're idiots being led by morons being swindled by self-interested & short-sighted douchebags.

we deserve to have the Chinese, Europeans & Middle Easterners own our collective asses.

The mom may have been sick, which is why the 60 yr. old lived with her.

Send him to Georgia if he is so itching for a fight...

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