Steve Mustakos was back clearing Fountain Terrace in a snowstorm — until he ran into an angry neighbor with a snowblower.
Yet another winter storm Wednesday pulled Mustakos from his usual gig piloting a street sweeper or driving a truck for the city’s public works department.
He returned (click on video) to Westville’s Fountain Terrace late in the morning after having already plowed it earlier in the day. He was making a last lap and making sure the street was clear enough to check off his to-do list.
That’s when he saw a man blowing the snow off his driveway into the street, in violation of city law. Mustakos had seen him doing that earlier.
Mustakos stopped. “Sir,” he asked the man, “please stop blowing snow into the street.” He asked him to blow it into his yard instead.
“I can’t,” the homeowner insisted. His voice was raised, his face flustered, his arms gesturing in protest.
Mustakos drove on, not wanting to provoke an incident. He called his supervisor, Rich “Big Daddy” Christensen.
Mustakos returned to the scene a few minutes later, as Christensen rolled up. They conferred. Then Christensen approached the man with the snowblower and repeated the request to stop blowing snow into the street. The man continued to argue.
Christensen issued a verbal warning, then left. “Next time,” Christensen reported afterward, “I’ll give him a $100 ticket.”
As the supervisor left, the resident was moving his car into the driveway. Mustakos drove on along the now-cleared street. The battle was over, until, perhaps, the next storm.
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