A furious farmer from Newport, Vermont flattened 7 police cars with a tractor the size of a monster truck. “It’s pretty much the biggest tractor you can get,” said Police Chief Seth DiSanto during an interview with the Burlington Free Press.
34-year-old Roger Pion was arrested, obviously, after his audacious stunt. Pion had been arrested the month before and charged with posession of marijuana and resisting arrest. Although his arrest came at the hands of the Newport Police Department, Pion decided to take his revenge on the local Sheriff’s office.
The deputies inside were completely oblivious to his rampage until they received a phone call from a witness and heard a car horn. When they ran outside Pion made a break for it. “We had nothing to pursue him with,” said Chief Deputy Philip Brooks. “It’s more than half our fleet. We have 11 cars.”
With his car destroyed, Chief Deputy Brooks had to ran to a nearby mechanic where one of the fleet vehicles was being worked on. He took the remainign car and began pursuing Pion. Moving slowly in a giant tractor, Pion was apprehended barely a mile away by the local police department.
The angry farmer faced 11 charges including a couple felonies. Fortunately no one was injured, but Pion’s outburst cost the Sheriff’s office more than $250,000 in damages to their vehicles and equipment inside. “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, but the radios are ruined,” Sheriff Kirk Martin said in an interview with the Associated Press.