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CLEVELAND, Ohio - A man who hollered "pigs" to police officers will soon find himself on a street corner standing next to a pig, according to The News-Herald.
Painesville Municipal Court Judge Michael A. Cicconetti is known for his creative sentencing. His latest was handed out to Steven H. Thompson, 44, who made obscene hand gestures when police were in his neighborhood on a disturbance call. He also yelled "pigs."
He will have to stand with the pig for two hours or spend three days in jail. The pig that will stand next to Thompson will be wearing a sign that reads: "This is not a police officer."
In the past, Cicconetti has made a man charged with playing his car stereo too loudly sit in the woods in order to appreciate silence.
He also made a group of high school students who vandalized school buses throw a picnic for a group of grade-school students whose picnic was canceled because of the stunt.
Cicconetti also made some teens who threw rocks at cars from a bridge hold a giant sign on a busy road at Christmas saying what they did and that they were sorry.
