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**Ikaika** · **Ikaika** User ID: 113216 08-08-2012 04:45 AM **Posts: 15,787**

Donations pour in to defend Vt. tractor rampage suspect

NEWPORT, Vt. -

Roger Pion, 34, of Newport, has been behind bars since his alleged rampage at the Orleans County Sheriff's Department last week. Pion is accused of using a monster tractor to flatten seven police cruisers. And it's still the talk of the town.

http://www.wcax.com/story/19215746/donat...ge-suspect

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 113108 08-08-2012 04:49 AM

One day I aspire to be like Roger Pion.

Anon

**Ikaika** · **Ikaika** User ID: 113216 08-08-2012 04:51 AM **Posts: 15,787**

LoP Guest Wrote:

One day I aspire to be like Roger Pion.

**Ikaika** · **Ikaika** User ID: 113216 08-08-2012 04:54 AM **Posts: 15,787**

He took a stand......

Gotta admire that.

EVERYONE is laughing about this.

A little Performance Art.

chuckle

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 69486 08-08-2012 05:00 AM

YAY for posting GOOD news!!!!
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**Ikaika** · **Ikaika** User ID: 113216 08-08-2012 05:02 AM **Posts: 15,787**

LoP Guest Wrote:

YAY for posting GOOD news!!!!

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 40826 08-08-2012 05:04 AM

Were all 4 cars parked in a row?
The one picture where they are together looks like where
they were dropped off by a tow truck.
But, it still made me curious if he was on his tractor already at
the time of the alleged incident or he departed their company to
get on it to play Monster Truck jams or could someone give me
the scenario as to where these cars were situated?

On behind another in his driveway? He was certain all were unoccupied at the time?

Then the question of insurance and taxpayers arose in the comment section.
Are taxpayers really on the hook for the loss?
Are cruisers insured? And if not, why not, they are exempt from the
law of all motorized vehicles carrying insurance or are "self-insured"
by the state?

**Ikaika** · **Ikaika** User ID: 113216 08-08-2012 05:06 AM **Posts: 15,787**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Were all 4 cars parked in a row?
The one picture where they are together looks like where
they were dropped off by a tow truck.
But, it still made me curious if he was on his tractor already at
the time of the alleged incident or he departed their company to
get on it to play Monster Truck jams or could someone give me
the scenario as to where these cars were situated?

On behind another in his driveway? He was certain all were unoccupied at the time?

Then the question of insurance and taxpayers arose in the comment section.
Are taxpayers really on the hook for the loss?
Are cruisers insured? And if not, why not, they are exempt from the
law of all motorized vehicles carrying insurance or are "self-insured"
by the state?

Insurance is on the hook.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 40826 08-08-2012 05:20 AM

Then someone should call out the cannard of "taxpayers being on the hook" in the news reports.

Still, no one knows how these cars were situated that he was able to roll over them like that? Side by side? One behind the other?
In a knot at various angles at his farm?

Where was he? He saw them pull in, drives up on his tractor and then no questions asked starts flattening them across the passenger compartments?

Or they were in deep discussion and he says, could you excuse me for a moment jumps in and fires that mother up?

Wouldn't they be shooting at him?

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 25289 08-08-2012 05:32 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Then someone should call out the cannard of "taxpayers being on the hook" in the news reports.

Still, no one knows how these cars were situated that he was able to roll over them like that? Side by side? One behind the other?
In a knot at various angles at his farm?

Where was he? He saw them pull in, drives up on his tractor and then no questions asked starts flattening them across the passenger compartments?

Or they were in deep discussion and he says, could you excuse me for a moment jumps in and fires that mother up?

Wouldn't they be shooting at him?

From what I understand, it happened at the police station. The vehicles were not occupied, and no officers were even outside to witness it. I do not know how the vehicles were situated prior to being flattened though.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 40826 08-08-2012 05:37 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
Then someone should call out the cannard of "taxpayers being on the hook" in the news reports.

Still, no one knows how these cars were situated that he was able to roll over them like that? Side by side? One behind the other?
In a knot at various angles at his farm?

Where was he? He saw them pull in, drives up on his tractor and then no questions asked starts flattening them across the passenger compartments?

Or they were in deep discussion and he says, could you excuse me for a moment jumps in and fires that mother up?

Wouldn't they be shooting at him?

From what I understand, it happened at the police station. The vehicles were not occupied, and no officers were even outside to witness it. I do not know how the vehicles were situated prior to being flattened though.

OK. Then I am starting to smell some fishy about this story altogether.
Thanks.

**Byers**

Per the TV news story, more than half the sheriff's vehicles were destroyed. So the county of Newport, Vermont, Orleans County, has 9, 10, or 11 cruisers for a county with a population of only 27,000, plus an unmarked van? What does the state government (county government is consolidated at state level) think they're doing? This is way way beyond needs. Citizens should be demanding a return to county government from the state and a cut in their taxes with a sharp decrease in the sheriff's department budget and staffing when they have enough time to bully and harass residents.

**We'll be back !**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Were all 4 cars parked in a row?
The one picture where they are together looks like where
they were dropped off by a tow truck.
But, it still made me curious if he was on his tractor already at
the time of the alleged incident or he departed their company to
get on it to play Monster Truck jams or could someone give me
the scenario as to where these cars were situated?

On behind another in his driveway? He was certain all were unoccupied at the time?

Then the question of insurance and taxpayers arose in the comment section.
Are taxpayers really on the hook for the loss?
Are cruisers insured? And if not, why not, they are exempt from the
law of all motorized vehicles carrying insurance or are "self-insured"
by the state?

All the cars had keys in the ignitions (and rifles and shotguns in the boots/trunks) . Pion pulled into the police car park , got out of the tractor , got in every car and placed them in a row , he then drove over them and then reversed over them again . He turned off the tractor and waited to be arrested , he waited 10 minutes and no one came so he decided to drive to the next police station to flatten their cars as well . A person who witnessed all this rang 911 and told the cops what was going on outside , that's when they ran outside and chased him on foot .

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 113030 08-08-2012 11:07 AM

The problem I have with this is that tires cost a crapload of money.

**Dial-up**

His bond is set at $50000. Anyone have link to where the donations for him are going to?