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.
hahaha I do like the Swazis on his arm though. I don’t think anyone noticed that. =P
Good thing he didn’t have to scratch his belly when they showed up.
Lol,what a bunch of morons
At least the police didn’t shot on sight and find out later!
this time anyway
yep you are right they are morons.
AWWWWWWWWW a bunch of guys who work in a very dangerous job trimming trees around power lines got the c**p scared out of them by a gun tattoo! LMAO
Next 0bama will be banning ‘gun tatoos’…once he finishes intimidating Putin with his stern looks and threats’.
That tattoo would definitely get a kid kicked out of school in the communist controlled areas in this country.
I guess this is called, “jumping the gun..” Idiots!
Man they gotta feel like dip $#%&!@*s
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