Why Is This Not Happening in Florida?
Oct. 9th, 2009 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nightdog_barksOur local news has devoted their ENTIRE news hour to a police chase, of a guy who stole $20 worth of gas from a station in Sherman and then tried to hit two cops who attempted to stop him. They've driven from Sherman (way north of Dallas) to Corsicana (way south of Dallas). One tire is out and he's driving on the rim.
He's rolled down his window at least once and WAVED AT THE HELICOPTERS.
ETA that it's just now ended, with the guy forced off the road and into a rain-filled ditch. The chase lasted for a total of TWO HOURS.
He's rolled down his window at least once and WAVED AT THE HELICOPTERS.
ETA that it's just now ended, with the guy forced off the road and into a rain-filled ditch. The chase lasted for a total of TWO HOURS.
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Date: 2009-10-09 06:02 pm (UTC)Oklahoma needs to brace itself.
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Date: 2009-10-09 06:05 pm (UTC)Hee.
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Date: 2009-10-09 06:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-09 06:08 pm (UTC)Heh!
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Date: 2009-10-09 06:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-09 06:16 pm (UTC)"Babe, hi! You been watchin' the news? No? Well, I'm gonna be needin' a bail bondsman pretty soon here -- hey! ouch! I'm tryin' to give up!"
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Date: 2009-10-10 08:15 pm (UTC)Can you imagine if he had been shot while talking on that cell?!?
Talk about legal fiascos...he'd no longer be the bad boy but the cops would be, ya know?
Ironic how "who's bad" can shift in a moment's notice.
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Date: 2009-10-09 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-09 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-09 08:11 pm (UTC)Which, on $20, might not be very long these days. I mean, depending on what he was driving.
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Date: 2009-10-09 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-09 08:29 pm (UTC)I get around 18 to 19 mpg highway in my truck.
ETA that I'm wondering if the truck was stolen, or contained something illegal (methamphetamines or something). Because, seriously, trying to run down a cop rather than get stopped for a gas-and-dash?
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Date: 2009-10-09 08:40 pm (UTC)I dunno. I just couldn't help feeling that I was watching one of my characters suddenly come to life. Hee hee hee.
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Date: 2009-10-09 08:45 pm (UTC)It ain't even his fuckin' meth in the glove box, it's his brother Bobby's, and it's his brother's truck too except it probably isn't, really. He doesn't know where the hell Bobby got it.
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Date: 2009-10-09 09:04 pm (UTC)The wash of helicopter blades thunders overhead. Jimmy grins and rolls down the window.
"Come and get me, coppers!" he yells.
His passenger -- okay, his hostage, if you want to get technical about it, stares at him.
"That's from a movie," Jimmy explains.
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Date: 2009-10-09 09:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-10 12:30 am (UTC)"Once," his passenger says. He squints upward through the truck's windshield. "In Louisiana."
"Whoo-whee, buddy! They got some bad ass jails down in the bayou. What'd they getcha on?"
"Vandalism."
"Shit. That ain't nothing."
Passenger Guy turns and stares at him. "Destruction of property."
"They put you in jail for that?"
"Assault," the guy says firmly.
"Damn! Now we're getting somewhere!"
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Date: 2009-10-10 12:49 am (UTC);-D
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Date: 2009-10-10 01:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-10 01:30 am (UTC)And they said, 'What was you arrested for, kid?' and I said, 'Littering,' and they all moved away from me on the bench, there, with the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, until I said, 'And creatin' a nuisance.' And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time there on the Group W bench ..."
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Date: 2009-10-10 01:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-10 02:15 am (UTC)Heh. Heh heh heh.
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Date: 2009-10-10 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-10 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-09 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-09 08:20 pm (UTC);-D
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Date: 2009-10-09 09:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-09 09:19 pm (UTC)If it had Ended Badly, I definitely wouldn't have been so amused. But this -- running from the cops, leading them on this long chase, waving at the choppers ... he really was still talking on his cellphone when he got out of the truck.
Talk about chutzpah. *g*
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Date: 2009-10-09 10:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-09 10:12 pm (UTC)That's what quite a few folks commented on the news story site.
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Date: 2009-10-09 10:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-09 10:40 pm (UTC)In other news the entire newscast is about the fact that it is raining. apologize for brining Virginia's weather with me.
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Date: 2009-10-10 08:12 pm (UTC)Actually, in Florida it's been common enough not to make the news anymore! Especially during hurricanes. Yes, Oklahoma beware, as Mare said. LOL!