Its been a while since I’ve done this, but I thought what better story than this one to return everyone to the “Off-Beat Story of the Week”
In the city of Farmington, New Mexico the 45,000 residents don’t take kindly to law-breakers. But one man took his distaste for criminals to new heights Sunday night.
New Mexico authorities say one man hogtied a suspected drunken driver after the driver allegedly barely avoided several head-on collisions.
You read that correctly: Hogtied.
IF this were the New York Post, who knows what the cover story art would look like. I know the headline, though: “Hogtied: For citizens trying to be cops.”
Get it, pigs = cops? Okay, not that funny, I know.
The Farmington Daily Times reported that 22-year-old Justin Canuto was seen driving southbound in the northbound lanes and narrowly escaped multiple head-on crashes.
That’s when an un-named “Protector of the People” came to the rescue. After Canuto pulled into the parking lot, Sheriff’s Sgt. Al Jamison said, the un-named “PotP” – along with a group of a few other people – confronted Canuto.
Canuto, according to the Associated Press and The Farminton Daily, at that point allegedly “became belligerent” and “tried to run away,” which didn’t sit well with the group. So the “PotP” tackled and hogtied Canuto and waited for sheriff’s deputies to arrive.
Canuto was charged with drunken driving. The un-named “PotP” got a great story to tell at the bar the next night.
“I think they were trying to save lives,” Sheriff Ken Christesen told the paper. “And if you look at that intent, I’ll stand behind them everyday,”
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