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 an other good example of GOOD Police work, it would have been very easy for this scenario to go very bad and it didn’t. Good Police work, I compliment you. God Bless our Police.
talk about over reactng
What an idiot!!! Just a knucklehead looking for attention! Of course someone is going to call the police!
Your tax dollars at work
What a bunch of idiots!
They did there job if that is the Dept’s policy for this then they were 100% correct
I surprised they didn
t arrest him for somethinng
stupid law dogs there brains are no bigger than a mustard seed
and we are looking for law dogs to protect us God help us