Gun tattoo in Maine prompts heavy police response

[SecularMotion]

Police armed with assault rifles descended on a Maine man's home after members of a tree removal crew he'd told to clear off his property reported that he had a gun.

Turns out 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, who works nights, 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.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/19/gun-tattoo-in-maine-prompts-heavy-police-response/

[Uben]

1. Idiot....

...nuff said.

[uncommonlink]

2. Yeah, the guy who called the cops is an idiot.

I agree.

[davepc]

3. That guy has quite the collection of white power tattos on his arm.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

4. Obviously, we need gun-tattoo-control.

[friendly_iconoclast]

5. Ban assault tattoos!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

7. Would a tattoo be...

...an assault tattoo if it had a "thing that goes up"???
Inquiring minds want to know.

[friendly_iconoclast]

9. Only if it also had a bayonet mount...

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

10. or maybe...

...a detachable magazine???

[Eleanors38]

11. A true gun humper?

[petronius]

6. Nobody actually *needs* a tattoo, right? So yeah - if it brings peace of mind

to just one landscaping crew, or to one sheltered soul that accidentally watched an episode of Sons of Anarchy, or really to anybody at all, a ban on ink would be completely justified. I mean c'mon, what kind of society do you want to live in?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

8. get serious....

...it's all "for the children"

[Nuclear Unicorn]

12. Considering the anti-gun, pro-authority types have already claimed the life of a child

for nothing more than the carrying of an airsoft rifle this guy is lucky to have escaped with his life.