Continuing the discussion from So, someone set our car on fire (which happened last July). Now this… we apparently live on some cursed street!
This just happened (turn your sound on, but not too high):
A car with no license plate and covered windows went screeching down our street at extremely high speed and crashed into two parked cars. It hit so hard that all the neighbors felt it and walked outside, at which point the driver pulled away and sped off again, only to hit another car before then fleeing the scene. Sirens were heard a few minutes later and there was debris up and down the street from all the crashes.
I just got a callback from a police officer, who said a suspect was taken into custody. The suspect was, and I quote, “charged with… <pause> a LOT of crimes.” He was very drunk, among other things.
Oi! Sounds a lot like the guy that managed to side swipe two cars parked one in front of the other (the second being my only new vehicle ever) and took the second for a ride halfway down the block before his front wheel came off and he got stuck.
His worst one (besides the speeding, running a stop sign, DUI, and attempting to flee the scene) was the three pounds of weed in the back of his SUV in Minnesota before legalization. Apparently, he’d never heard of the “only commit one crime at a time” motto.
ETA: Hopefully, no one was harmed. There was no mention of it.
Before we put up the big gate a guy on a 4 wheeler with cop cars chasing behind him came jones-ing up my drive way spinning out and flipping. The cops were on him before he stopped rolling bodily into my garage.
Drunk and no license plates usually also includes a suspended driver’s license to round out the trifecta. Plus leaving the scene of an accident. Virtually guaranteed that this is a male of youthful age who has now set himself up with a criminal record – if he didn’t already have one – that will follow him for the rest of his life.
I live in one of those streets that are pretty common in Australian cities now. Crammed with blocks of units with a street so narrow that, if cars are parked on both sides of the road any but the smallest vehicles cannot pass without one easing into a gap. As a bonus the short street is a popular route to the main road with far more traffic than would be normal. I have almost had collisions trying to get out of my driveway. A few times over the years that I have lived here someone driving in a manner similar to the driver in the video has managed to carom down the street damaging, to varying degrees, several cars. Hasn’t happened for a while now that I recall it but it sure draws a crowd.
As soon as I read your headline I thought “Probably an alcoholic in the neighborhood. Bet they don’t even know they did it.” I’m glad he was caught, and hope they get him into rehab - as well as teaching him about hard consequences.
Drunks don’t plan well, but I think this guy gets extra props for committing his crime spree while driving probably the single most distinctive car in that small town. Which will be extra distinctive after all the collision-induced customizations to the bodywork.
A few years ago a gentleman in his eighties, who had no business being behind the wheel, crashed into several cars parked on the street in our neighborhood. After he hit our car he just stopped his car, and was unresponsive when I asked him if he was ok. I was more concerned about him than the car.
Unfortunately destructive individuals like this typically have no insurance and have a negative net worth. Another expense society will have to absorb.
Late one evening when I was in high school a gas station was robbed ( I’ll call them Bonnie and Clyde) and the getaway car came hightailing it past my house with a cop car close behind when Bonnie tried to shoot at the cops. She missed. This was a sleepy little town where nothing ever happened. Well that’s actually not true, lots of nefarious shit was underreported or swept u der the rug.
So shocked to learn that Bonnie was an acquaintance who graduated the year before but I knew as good girl. She was an honors student and captain of the hi steppers squad. Clyde was a dirt bag older man who was buds with her stepdad. Sometimes I wonder how the rest of her life turned out.
We call our garage roller “Tom Cruise” because in some movie he did a whole bunch of rolling. And our guy was a small man. (I thought he was a kid at first, 43yo, known to LE man) A movie I do not remember the name of. But you get it.
