Arizona Hit-and-Run Injures Seven in Arizona
06-19-21, 05:28 PM
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06-19-21, 09:56 PM
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Or a liquid breakfast. I used to do the second largest MS 150 ride in the country. One year a woman hit a rider on a bridge with what has to have an 8’ shoulder. Another driver who witnessed the incident recognized the car as belonging to a local woman. Police found her at home drunk off her ass well before noon.
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From the Daily Mail "Where America gets its news"
Arizona police shoot man, 35, who plowed into group of cyclists on benefit race hospitalizing 7 | Daily Mail Online
Been in that hardware store a few times. Since the cops had to shoot him to get him to stop, sounds more like it was intentional, although inebriation was likely involved as well.
Arizona police shoot man, 35, who plowed into group of cyclists on benefit race hospitalizing 7 | Daily Mail Online
Been in that hardware store a few times. Since the cops had to shoot him to get him to stop, sounds more like it was intentional, although inebriation was likely involved as well.
06-20-21, 09:17 AM
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Drunk, high, sober, or just road raging against cyclists, that driver (if he recovers from the gunshot wound) should face attempted murder charges.
Edit: I won't shed any tears if he doesn't recover.
Edit: I won't shed any tears if he doesn't recover.
06-20-21, 09:41 AM
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Wow, I sort of (through social media not in person) am acquainted with someone who was racing in a different part of that race (not old enough to race masters). Scary stuff.
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Another case of trigger happy police work. (Unless I learn that he was intending to use his truck to ram the police or others behind that hardware store.)
06-20-21, 10:13 AM
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It bothers me that they shot him. At that point, was he a threat to anyone? Shoot out his tires. (If they had killed him - and both bullets appeared aimed at his head - he would have received a far kinder sentence than he deserves. As it is, he have have received a TBI and never be fully aware of what he did. And wounded drivers have been known to depress accelerator pedals and do real damage with their multi ton weapon.)
Another case of trigger happy police work. (Unless I learn that he was intending to use his truck to ram the police or others behind that hardware store.)
Another case of trigger happy police work. (Unless I learn that he was intending to use his truck to ram the police or others behind that hardware store.)
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06-20-21, 10:24 AM
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It bothers me that they shot him. At that point, was he a threat to anyone? Shoot out his tires. (If they had killed him - and both bullets appeared aimed at his head - he would have received a far kinder sentence than he deserves. As it is, he have have received a TBI and never be fully aware of what he did. And wounded drivers have been known to depress accelerator pedals and do real damage with their multi ton weapon.)
Another case of trigger happy police work. (Unless I learn that he was intending to use his truck to ram the police or others behind that hardware store.)
Another case of trigger happy police work. (Unless I learn that he was intending to use his truck to ram the police or others behind that hardware store.)
06-20-21, 01:21 PM
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This man was using a vehicle as a weapon. And, continued to pose a risk to everybody on the streets from police to pedestrians to other road users. This likely could be deemed an immediate risk.
If he survives, he'll be a public liability, potentially for the rest of his life.
06-20-21, 01:33 PM
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SLPD Sgt. Brandon Clark said the black Ford Super Duty pickup was traveling eastbound in the fast lane when it veered across the street and struck the group of bicyclists who were traveling westbound.
“For whatever reason, he crossed over the lines. There was a group of riders that we are guessing were about 40 to 50 that were heading westbound in the number two, or the curb lane. They were involved in the Bike the Bluffs. He ended up striking several of the riders in that group,” Clark said Saturday morning at the scene on Deuce of Clubs.
The pickup then struck an APS power pole, breaking it and fled the scene.
https://www.wmicentral.com/motorist-...nAj0hhPhSc_ly8
“For whatever reason, he crossed over the lines. There was a group of riders that we are guessing were about 40 to 50 that were heading westbound in the number two, or the curb lane. They were involved in the Bike the Bluffs. He ended up striking several of the riders in that group,” Clark said Saturday morning at the scene on Deuce of Clubs.
The pickup then struck an APS power pole, breaking it and fled the scene.
https://www.wmicentral.com/motorist-...nAj0hhPhSc_ly8
06-20-21, 02:01 PM
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^^^Reading the comments, I'm reminded how willing some folks are to expose their derangement to the world.
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I will be curious when all the drug tests come back. Perhaps phone records. And, also work hours, or hours behind the wheel. Accident reconstruction.
It is possible that somehow he "accidentally" drifted across the street and found himself with a totaled pickup and 7 critically injured cyclists.
We are beginning to see very harsh sentences for drugged drivers that cause multiple deaths.
So, he made the conscious choice to leave the scene.
It may well be difficult to hide the pickup.
It is possible that somehow he "accidentally" drifted across the street and found himself with a totaled pickup and 7 critically injured cyclists.
We are beginning to see very harsh sentences for drugged drivers that cause multiple deaths.
So, he made the conscious choice to leave the scene.
It may well be difficult to hide the pickup.
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06-20-21, 02:27 PM
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Just horrible. Following too-close on the heals of the terrible incident in Las Vegas late last year. The driver in that case got 40 years, btw.
I don't have the energy to speculate on what happened with the driver in this case. He'll be penalized one way or another, but what difference will that make to our safety?
I don't have the energy to speculate on what happened with the driver in this case. He'll be penalized one way or another, but what difference will that make to our safety?
06-20-21, 02:39 PM
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I will be curious when all the drug tests come back. Perhaps phone records. And, also work hours, or hours behind the wheel. Accident reconstruction.
If cell phone: he chose to pay attention to the phone guilty.
If to tired: he made another bad choice guilty.
It is possible that somehow he "accidentally" drifted across the street and found himself with a totaled pickup and 7 critically injured cyclists.
A few years ago an elderly gentlemen had a heart attack and plowed some bicycle riders. That was an accident. When events happen out of our control we can call it an accident.
A few years ago a police officer on his way home saw the aftermath of an incident involving two bicyclists. He spoke to a man at the scene who bragged about passing them and slamming on the brakes. Even though Doctor Thomas Thompsons layer tried to call it an accident, he still got a 5 year sentence and is no longer an ER doctor.
06-20-21, 04:25 PM
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As someone who was recently hit by a car, this is assault with a deadly weapon. Whether it was with malice or negligence, this was assault that resulted in grievious bodily harm and should be prosecuted as such.
06-20-21, 08:42 PM
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It bothers me that they shot him. At that point, was he a threat to anyone? Shoot out his tires. (If they had killed him - and both bullets appeared aimed at his head - he would have received a far kinder sentence than he deserves. As it is, he have have received a TBI and never be fully aware of what he did. And wounded drivers have been known to depress accelerator pedals and do real damage with their multi ton weapon.)
Another case of trigger happy police work. (Unless I learn that he was intending to use his truck to ram the police or others behind that hardware store.)
Another case of trigger happy police work. (Unless I learn that he was intending to use his truck to ram the police or others behind that hardware store.)
After the truck’s driver hit a telephone pole, cyclists ran up to the truck and started pounding on the windows, screaming at the driver to get out. Instead of stopping, Quinones said the driver hit the accelerator and backed out, drove down the road, made a U-turn and then headed back toward the cyclists but did not hit them again and drove away.
Payne said the driver did not comply when officers tried to arrest him, but the circumstances of the shooting were not immediately made public.
https://www.azfamily.com/news/ap_cnn...fe2a4bb63.html
06-21-21, 06:32 AM
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I was going to post this AP article when I found this thread. I have to ask myself what's wrong with people that do these things?
https://apnews.com/article/arizona-s...2f181764ca8618
https://apnews.com/article/arizona-s...2f181764ca8618
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I don't think that mattered to the driver. Either that, or he was unaware.
Do you really think someone like that cares about others he doesn't know?
Do you really think someone like that cares about others he doesn't know?
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06-21-21, 09:28 AM
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I don't see how politics really fits into this scenario at this point in time, but it doesn't matter for the purposes of this thread. We don't allow politics to be discussed outside the Politics and Religion forum. I guess you can try your political stereotyping and mind reading skills there. But my general advice is to avoid those things because people are complicated and you'll probably be wrong.
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Not everything fits into nice neat boxes. This event was sponsored by the local Ford dealer...This event was a benefit for what looks to be an Evangelical Protestant school... Yet, there are those who would try to use this to further their political agenda.
From: https://booksvooks.com/scrolablehtml....html?page=382
He went there. The cage was empty but it had the usual notice reading “Macaque Rhesus.” It had been hurriedly scrawled and nailed to the plywood. It said: “The little monkey that used to live here was blinded because of the senseless cruelty of one of the visitors. An evil man threw tobacco into the Macaque Rhesus’s eyes.”
Oleg was struck dumb. Up to then he had been strolling along, smiling with knowing condescension, but now he felt like yelling and roaring across the whole zoo, as though the tobacco had been thrown into his own eyes, “Why?” Thrown just like that! “Why? It’s senseless! Why?”
What went straight to his heart was the childish simplicity with which it was written. This unknown man, who had already made a safe getaway, was not described as “anti-humanist,” or “an agent of American imperialism”; all it said was that he was evil. This was what was so striking: how could this man be simply “evil”? Children, do not grow up to be evil! Children, do not destroy defenseless creatures!
He went there. The cage was empty but it had the usual notice reading “Macaque Rhesus.” It had been hurriedly scrawled and nailed to the plywood. It said: “The little monkey that used to live here was blinded because of the senseless cruelty of one of the visitors. An evil man threw tobacco into the Macaque Rhesus’s eyes.”
Oleg was struck dumb. Up to then he had been strolling along, smiling with knowing condescension, but now he felt like yelling and roaring across the whole zoo, as though the tobacco had been thrown into his own eyes, “Why?” Thrown just like that! “Why? It’s senseless! Why?”
What went straight to his heart was the childish simplicity with which it was written. This unknown man, who had already made a safe getaway, was not described as “anti-humanist,” or “an agent of American imperialism”; all it said was that he was evil. This was what was so striking: how could this man be simply “evil”? Children, do not grow up to be evil! Children, do not destroy defenseless creatures!
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