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.
hope they felt very stupid
LOL!!!!!! That was funny!!! He fooled them!!
That’s in the past Rich Myers it’s a time of preparation for martial law and “order” for the nwo
Well, my question is, when did it become a problem to have a gun on you? Especially in your own home, or on your own property. If you don’t like it, too bad.
Real brave.
not to bright of a tattoo like that tho. Lucky the trigger happy cops didn’t shoot him for not dropping his weeapon. lol
see even cops be picking on Marines not just citizens, but they pick the wrong guy to $#%&!@* wit
yeah but here is my question. When did it become illegal to own a gun?
that’s a good one. lol
lots of homeowners have guns !