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.
Cops are a lot more stupid than they used to be.
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That tattoo just might get him killed someday.
$#%&!@*s didnt take his gun this time,but next time……
Not the smartest tattoo it could get him killed by some idiot overreacting
IDIOTS ON BOTH SIDES!
Gut what the hell is wrong with “a man with a gun” as long as he is not threatening any harm?
He should sue the police department to teach them a lesson!!!
All we have from Obama’s Administration and Obama since 2008 is lies, lies, lies, lies, and more lies. If Vladimir Putin says the United States is behind the violence in the Ukraine, I believe him. Obama and no one in his Administration has any credibility.
Every one of our current Senators and Representatives should be fired for not keeping their Oath of Office and should never be allowed to work for any state or federal government in any capacity for the rest of their lives. If they are a lawyer their licenses to practice law should be revoked.
they are becoming the terrorist officers need to be retrained to know the American people aren’t the enemies obama hillary and holder and the rest of the administration are the terrorist