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.
he’s probably lucky they didn’t shoot first then ask questions seem protocol these days for cops Love the tattoo by the way
Obviously the the gun was never pointed at anyone, and as far as carrying a gun in your yard, we’ll there is no law that says you can’t, now had he pointed his tattooed gun at someone…. Lmao….most of this country should be euthanized for being so dumb
In this case the police did what needed to be done. They received a phone call about a man with a gun. Should they have asked the caller if they were sure it was a real gun and not a tattoo? Of course not! They did not over react, the police had no choice to do what they did under these circumstances.
so home owner had a gun? and they weren’t over reacting?
Their actions have ‘UN’ written all over them.
so he has the right to own ut $#%&!@*ing idiouts
I think some of these people are suffering from brain freeze. Kudos to the cops for not going trigger happy.
Will liberals now move to ban ‘assault tattoos’?
Really Daren? Is it illegal to have a gun in Maine now?
why do you guys even listen to liberals or acknowledge their stupidity?? if they pass a law that contradicts our Constitution, bill of rights etc… KILL.