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.
I’m surprised he never got shot
Absurdity and stupidity on display, sue for wrongful accusations we are allowed to complain!
dumb pigs
So what if he had a gun, what right do they have to come to his house in force????
sue the cops
this is a typical case of the news and the libtards scaring everybody to death about guns
Liberals ever read the story about the boy who cried wolf?
What idiots!
Exactly, this article is an example of typical media attempting to condition you that you can’t have a gun or the police will come and point guns at you.
Troopers were out of line because it should not matter if he has a gun or not. The Constitution allows him to have guns free from their interference. Secondly the Tree company should be boycotted and put out of business. We have too many jerks like them working with the anti gun coalition as it is.