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.
Gonna protect the hell out of him
idiots !
just shows you how brainwashed some of our police officers are becoming. Paranoid.
haha a swat team for a pistol. and theyre suppose to be brave and protect us police r a joke n law breakers banding together cuz theyve been paranoid n beat up thru school bring all the ars u want id still be able to take em with my pistol only $#%&!@*n ass clowns just shows how much lack of confidence they have in themselves n their stinkn badges
Is having a gun illegal in Maine?
Hahahahaha dumb asses. Those tree trimmers must be some big babies. Oh no a gun!! Ahhh
Another Obama ,hitler policies that they keep pushing on us. Get real. Get rid of the people who dream up this c**p.
This is distressingly pathetic.Funny,but pathetic!
Brian Britton haha
Idiots!!!!!!!!