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.
THIS IS NUTS!
Tree company should not be a bunch of wimps
damn pig$#%&!@*s
Look… the homeowner wanted others to perceive him as a threat, that’s why he got the tucked gun and the skinhead and Nazi tats. I’d wager his initial “complaint” was aggressive in nature. And he got what he wanted… no harm no foul.
stupid cry babies
This IS INSANE!!!
I work nights too. Sometimes I get woken up by people doing NORMAL DAYTIME ACTIVITIES. Do i go outside and tell them to stop? No! Especially when they are only doing their job. This man needs to realize that the whole world doesn’t operate on his whim and buy some freaking earplugs.
yesterdays news head line,,,,this was just 3 towns over from me
this is just pathetic
this may be old news but this type of thing is happening more and more often , every cop that went out to this guys house because he had a gun are the bad guys here, you do know having a gun is legal in this country.