Vermont Farmer Crushes Seven Cop Cars With Tractor!

[gblowfish]

Greeeeeen Acres is the place for me!

Police: Vermont man crushed cop cars with tractor
By DAVE GRAM Associated Press The Associated Press
Thursday, August 2, 2012 9:31 PM EDT
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Working in a stout former bank building with windows closed and air conditioners humming, Orleans County 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.

With their vehicles crushed, "We had nothing to pursue him with," said Chief Deputy Philip Brooks.

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.

Brooks said the destroyed vehicles constituted more than half the fleet of sheriff's cruisers in the rural county on the Canadian border. Others were out on patrol at the time of the incident.

[MIAdragon]

[jd1020]

Destruction of police property is always the wise decision.

[Reerun_KC]

[TimeForWasp]

That's funny as hell.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

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.

I'd fight the leaving the scene charge. That was no accident.

[boogblaster]

ha ha .. run piggly wiggly .....

[CoMoChief]

Wonder if he was higher than a kite when he did this?

[gblowfish]

Here's a picture of the perp:

[Planetman]

[Kerberos]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Here's a picture of the perp:

Ya gotta love those "Mayhem" commercials. Rep to you.

[bevischief]

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

I'd fight the leaving the scene charge. That was no accident.

I agree.

[Baby Lee]

Reminds me of the ending of 'Take This Job and Shove It'

Bigfoot's first movie role.

[HemiEd]

, I hope that relieved some of his stress at least temporarily.

[whoman69]

We really need to decriminalize marijuana. The cost of enforcement is not worth it. The price could be dropped to around the price of cigarettes and tax the crap out of it. Put that money in the government's pocket to lower the debt.