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.
liberals are just morons and they and there leader obummer should be sent to Russia or better yet give them free trip with talaban
sumbag ignorant morons
morons, peace thru OVER WHELMING FORCE!!!!
Run that $#%&!@*ing tree company off
someone needs glasses
Idiots, what do you expect?
Well that escalated quickly.
So, POSSESSING a gun on you won property is now a crime? Pretty sure he wasn’t waving it around.
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Once again, common sense goes out the window. Why not send a officer or two to knock on the door. That’s how we done it in the past. Knock on the door and find out what is going on. Try it, its not that hard to do. and does not take a swat, SRT, SRU to respond.