### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-the-guy-with-the-very-large-tractor/630390/1 "2012-08-04T04:30:45Z")
[This story](http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/03/13103499-vermont-man-uses-tractor-to-flatten-8-police-cars?lite) tickled my funny bone, especially since no-one was hurt.
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> Police said Roger Pion, 34, of Newport, Vt., flattened seven marked police cruisers and one unmarked personal vehicle at the Orleans County Sheriff’s Department in Derby, Vt., around 12:40 p.m. Thursday.
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> With the vehicles crushed, police had no way to pursue Pion after he drove off in the tractor.
They caught the guy, though, and there’s a picture of him in the linked story. He looks pretty much like someone that you might pick out of central casting for a story about a guy who runs over police cars with a large tractor.
The charges against him include:
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> seven counts of felony unlawful mischief, one count of misdemeanor unlawful mischief, one count of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, one count of gross negligent operation, and one count of leaving the scene of an accident.
Seems like he has a pretty good defense to the last charge: “That weren’t no accident!”
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### Author:  [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-the-guy-with-the-very-large-tractor/630390/2 "2012-08-04T05:20:10Z")
That isn’t a very large tractor.
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### Author:  [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-the-guy-with-the-very-large-tractor/630390/3 "2012-08-05T15:56:24Z")
So I guess the taxpayers get to help pay for some new police cars. Jackass. :mad:
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-the-guy-with-the-very-large-tractor/630390/4 "2012-08-05T16:01:32Z")
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> No one was injured. At least two deputies had gone inside a few moments before after washing their vehicles, officers said.
Isn’t it always that way? As soon as you finish washing your car somebody crushes it with a giant tractor.
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-the-guy-with-the-very-large-tractor/630390/5 "2012-08-05T16:02:08Z")
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> [The charges against him include:Seems like he has a pretty good defense to the last charge: “That weren’t no accident!”
I almost started a thread about that the other day. It would have been funnier if nobody had called it in and the cop’s didn’t notice till somebody went for a jelly doughnut run and the guy was long gone.
I noticed the accident thing too. I could see a Johhny Cochran moment: Your honor we plead 110 percent guilty to leaving the scene of an accident! DA: Ughhh okay, that was easy. Judge, now that we have determined it to be an accident all the other charges must be dropped! Judge: Man’s right! 60 days in lockup and a 500 dollar fine. Next!