Boyfriend's comment about girlfriend's 'OK' spaghetti dinner leads to hours-long standoff with N.H.

[brooklynite]

New York Daily News:

Jodi Ecklund of Merrimack, N.H., barricaded herself inside her apartment with a Glock .9-mm and a M4 assault rifle after her live-in boyfriend told her that her spaghetti dinner was "OK," NH1 reports.

Before fleeing the apartment and calling police, Jason Martin was allegedly punched in the face and arm by his girlfriend, who locked the door once he left.

When officers with the Merrimack Police Department arrived, Ecklund allegedly warned officers she would kill them if they entered her residence.

As the standoff continued Saturday afternoon, the piqued provider of pasta began destroying items inside the apartment, even going so far as to launch some of Martin's possessions out a window to the parking lot below.

"Live Free or Die"

[yallerdawg]

1. "...the piqued provider of pasta."

[irisblue]

22. Ramen!

[pinboy3niner]

2. Meecy micey...

[steve2470]

3. wow that's one pretty pissy pasta provider! nt

[DesertFlower]

4. holy crap.

[uponit7771]

5. Damn ... 6 felonies for this?! Really?! ... some things

[Baitball Blogger]

6. There's a whole culture of violence out there.

Guns don't help that equation.

[90-percent]

7. What an artistic way

for a woman to ruin her life! I give her one news cycle! As the pinnacle achievement of her misdirected life.

-90% Jimmy

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

8. Wow, kind of over the top. n/t

[svpadgham]

9. Glad it doesn't begin with "A Florida man...:

[steve2470]

10. me too lol nt

[Blue_true]

19. Florida has 20 million people thereabouts. Plenty of

Room for nuts.

[democratisphere]

11. Rule #1: Never piss off the cook.

[Trust Buster]

12. Good sauce should not be taken lightly.

[pepperbear]

13. not to condone, but.....

of course she over-reacted, to put it mildly, but could this could this have been the result of a history of severe under-appreciation and neglect on the part of the boyfriend?

[msongs]

15. her personal choices have nothing to do with any boyfriend nt

[Skittles]

17. she has extreme issues

the press trivializes mental illness when they claim such ridiculous reasons are the cause

[yortsed snacilbuper]

14. I wonder how her chile tastes?

[randome]

20. Just like her spaghetti, I hear. It's all she knows how to make!

She puts spaghetti on cakes. She has spaghetti with milk on it for breakfast. Spaghetti & mustard sandwiches for lunch! She's like Lisa Douglas, only with spaghetti instead of hotcakes.

[eleny]

16. My husband even knows to never ever say that something I prepare is "not bad!"

.................... ....................

I say that there's a long history of contention over meals in that household. He finally plucked her last nerve. But she should have just dumped the whole dinner into the trash and walked out. Grabbing a weapon?

[DavidDvorkin]

18. New Hampshire Woman

Not up to Florida standards.

[Historic NY]

21. It wasn't al dente.