Recondo Vs. the Tent Caterpillars

Recondo was on patrol the other day when he came upon an infestation of tent caterpillars in the backyard:

There they sat, waiting for their moment to emerge and de-leaf the Jones backyard. As sworn protector of the Jones clan, Recondo knew what he had to do. He had to blow those caterpillers to kingdom come. Thank goodness he had recently brought the MOBAT (Motorized Offensive Battle Tank, of course) out of mothballs.

BOOM! BOOM! Like shooting fish in a barrel, thought our hero. But, unfortunately, like shooting fish in a barrel (you ever try it? Wicked hard. Best to use a buckshot loaded shotgun, or one of those 10 gauge trench-sweepers we had in 'Nam... Those babies would take out those friggin' fish, let me tell you...) Uh, anyway, Recondo missed, and blew a couple of good sized holes in the shed.

Hmm... So that wasn't going to work.

He had another idea. "Ah, we'll burn those suckers out. All I've got to do is get them with a flaming arrow, that'll do the trick!"

He pulled back on the sting and let that arrow fly! Again unfortunately, archery was never one of Recondo's strengths ("Oh, sure, that bitch Scarlett was good with a crossbow, but she's off with Duke somewhere, snoggin' and shaggin'. She could'a been mine, but she wanted me to shave off the mustach. First of all: I like the 'stach. It gives me a sort of jaunty "devil may care" look. Plus, I'm frickin' plastic! What does that tramp want me to do, drummel it off?!?")

So he missed. And caused a slight fire in the back yard:

Which, unfortunately, attracted the attention of the local constabulory.

Due to Recondo's past service on behalf of the public, the judge went easy on him and only gave him probation, as long as he promised not to shoot off the MOBAT in city limits without first getting a permit.

After grumbling something about "Cobra don't wait for no stinkin' permits" Recondo agreed to the judge's conditions and was released into my custody. Wifeypooh was not so lenient on him and is making him resod the backyard.