Sometimes, you apparently have to do what you have to do. For example, Gordon Pierce III stole an 800-pound cannon from a park in Wichita, Kansas to pay off a $20,000 drug debt. Pierce, who has used meth for 20 years, told police his dealer gave him a pound of meth to sell, but it was stolen. The dealer didn’t believe him and threatened to shoot Pierce and his family if he didn’t pay.
Feeling scared, Pierce dragged the historic Spanish-American War cannon over a mile to a friend’s house, cut it into pieces with power tools, and showed the chunks to his dealer to prove he was trying to pay. To be fair, even the dealer thought this was a bad idea, and told him to get out before he could “bring heat on this house.”
Police found him after following tracks from the cannon. Unsurprisingly, they also found meth on him. Pierce is now in jail, charged with theft, property damage, and drug possession, with a court date on May 22nd.
The cannon was gifted to the City in 1900 and is said to be “irreplaceable.”
Source: Fox9
