Police in Norridgewock, Maine, descended on a man’s home armed with assault rifles. They were responding to a report from a tree removal company that the homeowner ‘had a gun’.
Alas, the “gun” the tree crew had seen on Michael Smith of Norridgewock was just a life-sized tattoo of a handgun on his stomach.
Smith tells the Morning Sentinel the tattoo has never been a problem before. Police didn’t charge him. “Obviously it was a misunderstanding and he didn’t have a weapon, but we had to respond to the initial report as if he did,” Maine State Police Trooper Scott Duff said. “We take all precautions when we don’t have the details.” Norridgewock resident Michael Smith, with a tattoo of a gun at his waistband, stands beside a Somerset County sheriff’s deputy Tuesday morning Trooper Scott Duff points his rifle toward the home of Michael Smith on Tuesday morning as other police call for Smith to come out of the home in Norridgewock. Tree workers called police earlier after they mistook a pistol tattoo on Smith’s stomach for a real firearm Source: Connecticut CBS Photos: Portland Press HeraldSmith works nights and was asleep when the tree crew contracted by a utility to trim branches near power lines, woke him up at about 10 a.m. Tuesday.
He went outside shirtless and yelled at the workers to leave. When he’s not wearing a shirt, the tattoo looks like a gun tucked into his waistband.
There is an ass born every minute and this article proves it. If you don’t like the noise during the day then stop working nights. I wonder how much would he complain when his power goes off because a tree limb fell on it?
so how much did this cost the MAINE tax payers for a gross stupidity stunt. this couldn’t happen if there were no tax money to be had. control it or loose it. polititions will throw your money away on anything they want to. hookers, booze, rubbers any thing.
Eventually, we will be so conditioned to fear even the mere picture of a gun that we will kowtow to any and all authority that professes to protect us from our perceived and abjectly illogical fears.
I saw a young man in the Las Vegas airport who was wearing a cap with the IDPA (international defensive pistol association) logo and the picture of a semiautomatic pistol on the front. The Southwest Airlines gate agent was telling him he couldn’t board the aircraft while wearing his cap. He asked why. The gate agent replied, “Because you have a gun on it.” The young man patiently explained, “No, you see, this is a picture of a gun, not the genuine article.” He finally asked the agent to call his supervisor, who allowed him to board the plane. Is this what our society has come to?
if a homeowner comes to his door with a gun on (real) that’s cause for a swat team in Maine ? WTF