Posted on 08/03/2012 5:37:26 AM PDT by cotton1706
Working in a stout former bank building with windows closed and air conditioners humming, Orleans County, Vt., sheriff's deputies didn't know what was happening in their parking lot until a neighbor called 911. A man on a big farm tractor, angry about his recent arrest for resisting arrest and marijuana possession, was rolling across their vehicles -- five marked cruisers, one unmarked car and a transport van. By the time they ran outside, the tractor was down the driveway and out onto the road.
Thursday afternoon's incident ended when city police in Newport, the county seat of the northern Vermont county, caught up with Roger Pion, 34, a short distance away.
No one was injured. At least two deputies had gone inside a few moments before after washing their vehicles, officials said.
"Nobody was hurt. That's the thing everybody's got to cherish," said Sheriff Kirk Martin.
Vermont State Police said in a statement that Pion would face seven counts of felony unlawful mischief, one count of misdemeanor unlawful mischief, one count aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, one count of gross negligent operation, and one count of leaving the scene of an accident.
Pion was being held at the Northern State Correctional Center in Newport on $15,000 bail.
Sheriffs said they did not know if Pion had a lawyer. A phone number for him could not be located.
Martin estimated damage to the vehicles at more than $300,000; state police put it at more than $250,000.
Not only were their roofs and hoods caved in, but "the radios are ruined, the radar detectors, the cages in the cars ... We're going to have to get the jaws of life up here to pry the trunks open and see about the rifles and shotguns," Martin said.
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There are a few libertarian FReepers who might be displeased by that statement.
” one count aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer”
Who might that be?
They said there was no one in the cars..
If he wanted to get even, he should have run over their personal cars.
Nope. No accident. Quite on purpose. Do they have a "leaving the scene of a purpose" charge?
Take that, the South! LOL! Dukes of Hazzard my butt. !!
Good question. Cops NEVER exceed the speed limit when they’re on routine patrol, or using their cop cars for personal business.
It has been awhile back but one day a state cop came on our property with his lights on and stopped my husband who was on a tractor. OMG! That poor cop.
The stupid idiot said that my husband was making dust.
I see an image from future events...
Its cars with Internal Revenue Service on them.
Probably one of those black “assault tractors” with high capacity gas tanks.
A Vermonter would be most likely to maintain a steel, stoic gaze, perhaps only allowing a light smirk and even a cross between a chuckle and a cackle only after observing his finished handiwork.
Which reminds me of something from E.B. White:
To the world, a Yankee is an American
To an American, a Yankee is a northerner
To a northerner, a Yankee is from New England
To a New Englander, a Yankee is from Vermont
To a Vermonter, a Yankee is someone who has pie for breakfast
He was singing ‘’Green Acres” along with Ava Gabor as they smoked some weed and some cop cars.
me too, I side with the farmer.
To a pie eater, a Yankee is one who has apple pie with a slice of jack cheese for breakfast.
Mmm,mmm, but try getting that in TX.
A picture showed the tractor to be a fairly large IH Case, but I’m surprised it wasn’t done with something bigger like an articulating Steiger or such. I’m actually amazed a nonarticulating piece of equipment was big enough to do that.
/johnny
This guy is gonna be in a world of hurt, but I gotta laugh at this...somehow I can’t feel sorry for the cops in this.
I’ve thought I would like to have an old WWI or WWII tank, operational (no need for weaponry) that I could use when the SHTF and they start coming for whatever...just roll it down the drive and crush ‘em. And maybe have a big dozer blade on the front to then push ‘em out of the way.
“Which reminds me of something from E.B. White:
To the world, a Yankee is an American
To an American, a Yankee is a northerner
To a northerner, a Yankee is from New England
To a New Englander, a Yankee is from Vermont
To a Vermonter, a Yankee is someone who has pie for breakfast”
“Pot” pie?
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