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Old 04-08-2012, 12:18 PM   #1
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NEWPORT — Orleans County Sheriff Kirk Martin was just outside Fenway Park in Boston on his way to Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, but back home it was anything but that for one local resident.

Martin said Friday he had stopped for lunch when his cell phone rang at about 1 p.m. Thursday and he learned seven department cruisers had been crushed by a huge tractor in a scene that could easily been from the “Smokey and the Bandit” movies.

According to Vermont State Police and Newport police, an armed and disgruntled Roger Pion, 34, of Newport, had taken his father’s jumbo-sized tractor and rolled over three cruisers before moving to another part of the sheriff’s department parking lot to crush four more police vehicles.

One witness, Jeremy Delabruere, 38, said the tractor rolled over the cruisers multiple times, State Police Detective Trooper Lyle Decker said in an affidavit. “Jeremy advised he saw the tractor going back and forth over the Sheriff’s cruisers several times. Jeremy estimated that the tractor went over the cruisers three or four times,” Decker wrote.

After the tractor stopped, it appeared the driver was waiting for somebody to come out of the sheriff’s office to confront him, Decker said in his affidavit. Delabruere estimated it took about 10 minutes for that to occur.

Because the office is a former bank, it is tightly constructed. Add in air conditioners and police radios in operation, and it was hard to hear outside, Martin said. Nothing was heard by sheriff’s employees until a horn sounded in a crushed cruiser about the time a 911 call was received.

Authorities believe Pion was upset over a July 3 arrest by Newport police on charges of possession of marijuana and resisting arrest. In that case, he carried a loaded and concealed .38-caliber weapon, Newport Officer Aaron Lefebvre said in an affidavit made public Friday.

Pion was armed with a different firearm during the cruiser incident, Vermont State Police said Friday. Pion had a loaded Czech-made .32-caliber handgun on Thursday, police said. “I’ve never even seen one like it before,” State Police Detective Trooper Lyle Decker told the Burlington Free Press. State police initially listed the gun in court papers as a “VZPR .70 cal 765” with a loaded magazine.

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Old 04-08-2012, 12:22 PM   #2
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Default Re: Haha, this farmer will be popular!! Tractor drove over 7 cop cars!!

er... thread already about this in the pub section

edit: well there was until this morning. Appears to have been deleted.

Hardly funny... Sherrifs dept gets its money from the community coffers.
The community will be paying to replace all these vehicles.
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Old 04-08-2012, 12:27 PM   #3
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where? Maybe you dreampt it?

You dont think its funny? Go back to knitting...
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Old 04-08-2012, 12:28 PM   #4
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Not to mention the fact that this guy was busted for going armed in public with a loaded firearm. Seems taking responsibility for your actions is lost on this muppet.
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Old 04-08-2012, 01:29 PM   #5
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Nope, not funny, taxpaying community has to pay for this dopedheads rampage.
Best thing would be to seize and sell his tractor and anything else to help pay back the costs. Now that would be funnily ironic.

Like these idiots that throw bottles at cop cars at partys smashing windscreens. Cops dont care, they dont have to pay for it, taxpayer does.

And yes it is a repost, at least the other guy put up pics.
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Old 04-08-2012, 02:03 PM   #6
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where? Maybe you dreampt it?

You dont think its funny? Go back to knitting...
Nope its not funny, if it were in OZ YOUR tax money would be spent fixing/replacing the damaged cars.
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