Let me tell you about the first time I met a police officer. It was late Sixties and I was a child. I was outside hanging laundry on the line. For those of you young enough to have no clue, back in the day we had this primitive clothes drying device called the laundry line. It was several wires or strings hung across the yard where you hung your undies outside to dry for the whole neighborhood to see.

Horrifying right?

On Tuesday morning, 32-year-old Nathan Giffin allegedly robbed the Vermont State Employees Credit Union in Montpelier.

Shortly thereafter, purportedly for "making threats," he was mowed down by eight state troopers and one police officer: