Man Crushes 7 Squad Cars With Tractor

[April]

Quote:MONTPELIER, Vt. -- 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.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02...35673.html

[yeti]

Goddamn pot smokers are a menace!

[Anarchist]

He shouldn't have stopped there...That building was still standing!

[CharliePrime]

No pictures of the tractor. Rip-off! I like tractors.

Somebody could earn a bit of scratch by publishing a history of America's best heavy equipment protest incidents.

My favorite will always be KILLDOZER. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbG9i1oGPA

[Anarchist]

(08-03-2012 05:06 PM)CharliePrime Wrote:  No pictures of the tractor. Rip-off! I like tractors.

Somebody could earn a bit of scratch by publishing a history of America's best heavy equipment protest incidents.

My favorite will always be KILLDOZER. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbG9i1oGPA

I was thinking of that, and wanted to post a link but could not find it! I remember watching a mini-doc on History (?) about him, and how he spent years preparing it in him garage. Now if only every guy who was done with the system would do this. Sadly, Killdozer was targeting him rivel, and not necessarily the government.

This guy would not take it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqb6ZIXoX2w
Now if only he used the bulldozer on the town afterwards...

[April]

Thanks for the added links you guys.

[CharliePrime]

(08-03-2012 09:24 PM)Anarchist Wrote:  This guy would not take it:

That was pretty funny.

These remind me of the Farm Bust of the 1980's. Back then the U.S. government used international trade policy and Fed policy to destroy small farmers and give their land to giant agricultural corporations owned by the big banks.

There were many mass murders, suicides, and protests with heavy equipment.

Back then the idea of shooting cops was unthinkable. I believe today people are a bit more willing to defend themselves than the farmers were when I was a teenager. At least I hope so.

[Anarchist]

If 3 pigs died for every time they committed a wrongful act, things would be fine in a week. I have seen videos where a guy is wrongfully getting arrested, everyone sees it, there is a crowd of 30+ surrounding 3 pigs picking on an old man and hurting him, sitting on him... I wonder, if only they all got a big stick and started bashing in the heads of those pigs, how long would it take for police brutality to end?