DEPUTY LASSOS SUSPECT

Deputies from the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office in Washington state received a call Saturday afternoon about a domestic incident involving a fight between an adult son and his parents. The deputies found the son, a 32-year-old man in the throes of a mental health crisis, standing in a lake holding a chainsaw. After nearly an hour of negotiations, one officer – a member of the unit who often encounters large animals on the job – went to his car and grabbed his lasso. The deputy tossed his lariat over the man, jerked him off his feet, he dropped the chainsaw, and nobody was injured. The man was taken to a local hospital for psychiatric evaluation.
* …and then sold at the cattle auction.
* It helped that one of the other cops dressed up as a rodeo clown to distract him.
* What was the fight about? Whether he should catch them a fish for dinner? A really, really, really big fish?
* It’s like Indiana Jones crossed with Yellowstone. A new action hero: Yellowjones.