"CELEBRATION, Fla. As if the Thanksgiving murder were not enough to ruin things in this subdivision that Disney designed. Now, tanks and SWAT teams? Enlarge This Image Chip Litherland for The New York Times

"Here in a community built 14 years ago by the Walt Disney Company as the happiest subdivision on earth and which, to be fair, has been largely free from urban strife two major crimes in the span of less than a week have made even the fake snow that blankets the town square every evening hour on the hour seem a little less cheery.

"Late into Thursday night, sheriff's deputies barricaded several blocks in this neo-traditional town of 10,000 people and miles of white rail fencing, trying to talk a despondent and possibly armed man out of his home."

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