its just a little crush {vermont police cars}

[DirtyDan]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/03/13103499-vermont-man-uses-tractor-to-flatten-8-police-cars?lite

im not saying its right

but it is funny

smokey and the bandit lives

dan

[The emperor has no clothes]

"Police had no way to pursue him as he drove off in the tractor" 

[BobB]

How can he be charged with leaving the seen of an accident?  This was no accident!   

[Gavin_Sons]

thats funny, reminds me of high school when they would let the FFA members drive their tractors to school until one of them ran over 2 cars in the parking lot and smashed them. No more bring your tractors to school day.   

[wild6]

He got off!
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/10/vermont_decides_not_to_prosecu.html

[Gryphon Rider]

Also a catchy tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIhSnaqou0I

[HayHauler]

You can't make this stuff up!  Dude's name is Pion. 
"Police say Roger Pion took out more than half of the sheriff department's fleet -- some of its newest vehicles were only four months old."

Hay
Jimmyt

[The emperor has no clothes]

You can't make this stuff up!  Dude's name is Pion. 
"Police say Roger Pion took out more than half of the sheriff department's fleet -- some of its newest vehicles were only four months old."

Hay
Jimmyt

No disrespect to our LEO's but when I imagine this happening I see Barney Fife running out of Andy's Sherrif's office guns drawn  When I first read the story this morning I thought it was a recent event. I don't remember it. Seems like they would at least try him. He may be crazy but he's also very lucky.

[Jess from VA]

Seems like they would at least try him

When someone is certified as incompetent to stand trial, that's it, unless you can get your state doctor to certify that he's not incompetent (and have that fight).  And if you win on that, then his court appointed defense counsel claims he was insane (per state law) at the time of the crime.  

They're already out a fleet of cars, no sense spending the other half of the county budget to try and convict him of felony level (value) malicious destruction of property.  Esp when it is highly unlikely he could ever repay the cost of damages.  And you probably can't garnish his social security disability payments.... for being fruit loops and unemployable, and if you could it would take six lifetimes to cover the loss.

You never know though, he could run for Congress (or president).

Probably a good idea to take his tractor away though.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Seems like they would at least try him

When someone is certified as incompetent to stand trial, that's it, unless you can get your state doctor to certify that he's not incompetent (and have that fight).  And if you win on that, then his defense counsel claims he was insane (per state law) at the time of the crime.  

They're already out a fleet of cars, no sense spending the other half of the county budget to try and convict him of felony level (value) malicious destruction of property.  Esp when it is highly unlikely he could ever repay the cost of damages.  And you probably can't garnish his social security disability payments.... for being fruit loops and unemployable, and if you could it would take six lifetimes to cover the loss.

You never know though, he could run for Congress (or president).

Probably a good idea to take his tractor away though.

I did hear a rumor he was eyeing a Vice Presidential nomination.

[cookiedough]

thats funny, reminds me of high school when they would let the FFA members drive their tractors to school until one of them ran over 2 cars in the parking lot and smashed them. No more bring your tractors to school day.   

They still do that in our high school for FFA week which some kids age 15 even drive on the road some 10 miles or more into town with mommy/daddy's tractor.  Some drive pretty darn crazy as well tearing it up all over town. 

I just think our school is asking for all kinds of trouble with all this extra-curricular events they have weekly.   I am horribly waiting for the day these teachers take all these overseas and long distance field trips for weeks at a time and one kid comes back badly hurt or even worse, missing.   You'd be surprised at how much 'social' events they have every week at our school vs. cracking the books.  Oh wait, they don't have textbooks anymore hardly, all is done on laptops for the most part.  WE even share classrooms with another local school for some classes doing a virtual classroom on the 'white' board in some of the classes.  Basically, an overhead projector taking up a huge wall as well as video conferencing on their laptops. 

Whatever happened to taking 1 class trip at year end and very small local field trips vs. trips to Costa rica, New York,  Washington DC, Guatamala, and all over the place every single year?  Makes driving a tractor to school seem sort of small potatoes as compared to what these kids do for schooling nowadays.  This is even coming from a small school of 25 kids per class tops.  I just don't think the teachers want to teach anymore and prefer to go on field trips 3-5 times per year more like a vacation.