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[October 08, 2007]  CARROLLTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- Officer James Kellett knows it's job to serve and protect -- even when it comes to nature's stinky black and white creatures.  [Caption: A skunk, with a glass T. Marzetti Supreme Caesar salad dressing jar stuck on its head, walks on the sidewalk in front of the Carrollton Township administration building in Carrollton, Mich., on Thursday.  A Carrollton police officer used a BB gun to shoot off part of the jar, but then the skunk was able to move better and it scurried off with the ring of the jar still around its head. (AP Photo/The Saginaw News, Jeff Schrier)] click on picture for larger image

When a skunk with its head stuck in a salad dressing jar wandered into the Carrollton Township police station's parking lot, he grabbed a pellet gun and shot at the jar from about 40 feet away.

The shots cracked and shattered the jar, leaving a glass collar around the skunk's neck. With its head free, the skunk ran off.

"I didn't want to use deadly force, and it is a residential area," Kellett told The Saginaw News. "The way he was when he took off, he was able to eat, breathe and spray -- and do anything else skunks like to do."

Kellett didn't get much in the way of gratitude, but he's grateful the skunk didn't spray. But there is one bonus -- the makers of T. Marzetti's salad dressing are sending the officer coupons good for free dressing as a reward.

[Associated Press]

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