C5 vs pole...Pole wins
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St. Jude Donor '11,'13
"I voluntarily took 60 days off from OT"
Why thank you sire!!!....I see youre 28 years old....Dont wanna make myself sound old....but Ive been with the department longer than youve been alive
......But HEY...Im still having a GREAT time doing it!!!
Dan
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......But HEY...Im still having a GREAT time doing it!!!Dan
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Okay, here goes....
When I arrived on scene I immediately recognized the car...I had met the 20-something owner (I'll call him Dave) recently and invited him to join our local Corvette club. He had recently bought the car and it still had the "happy tag" (temporary license) on it..We had exchanged phone #s and I still had his cell phone number in my cell phone ID. Traffic units told me they had gone to Dave's registered address but he was not home. There was no regular phone listing for Dave. (Seems everyone under 30yoa these days only has a cell phone)
I remembered I still had Dave's cell# in my cell phone. I called the # and made contact. Dave told me he was on the way home from Denver (120 miles away) I asked him if he was in his Corvette. He tells me wasnt, that he swapped vehicles with a co-worker when they both got off work today as he needed the co-workers truck to go to Denver to haul some furinture back to Canon City. I give him the bad news about his Corvette....HE WAS NOT HAPPY!! He gives me the co-workers name, address and cell #. The co-worker lived about 3 miles from the crash-scene.
I then go to the co-workers address, an apartment complex, and make contact with him. It's after midnight, and it was apparent I had awoken him. I ask him about Dave's Corvette. He tells me it's in the parking lot. I ask him where the keys were. He tells me theyre on the kitchn table. I tell him to get them. He soon comes back and tells me theyre gone. He soon suspects his room-mate had taken the car. He tells me he had given his room-mate a ride in the car this evening, so the roommate knew he had the car, and knew where the keys were...Of course the roomate was not home.....He gives me the roomates name and description.
I leave the aprtment complex and head back to the crash scene with info for the traffic units...As Im driving I see a young fellow matching the description of the roomate walking my direction. I pull over to make contact, and the chase is on....I may be 50, but I can still catch a 23 year old...Course it helped that he was drunk...and I was in an Impala for most of it!!!
Anyway, I served him up to the traffic units on a silver platter....and they were most grateful....so was Dave!!
When I arrived on scene I immediately recognized the car...I had met the 20-something owner (I'll call him Dave) recently and invited him to join our local Corvette club. He had recently bought the car and it still had the "happy tag" (temporary license) on it..We had exchanged phone #s and I still had his cell phone number in my cell phone ID. Traffic units told me they had gone to Dave's registered address but he was not home. There was no regular phone listing for Dave. (Seems everyone under 30yoa these days only has a cell phone)
I remembered I still had Dave's cell# in my cell phone. I called the # and made contact. Dave told me he was on the way home from Denver (120 miles away) I asked him if he was in his Corvette. He tells me wasnt, that he swapped vehicles with a co-worker when they both got off work today as he needed the co-workers truck to go to Denver to haul some furinture back to Canon City. I give him the bad news about his Corvette....HE WAS NOT HAPPY!! He gives me the co-workers name, address and cell #. The co-worker lived about 3 miles from the crash-scene.
I then go to the co-workers address, an apartment complex, and make contact with him. It's after midnight, and it was apparent I had awoken him. I ask him about Dave's Corvette. He tells me it's in the parking lot. I ask him where the keys were. He tells me theyre on the kitchn table. I tell him to get them. He soon comes back and tells me theyre gone. He soon suspects his room-mate had taken the car. He tells me he had given his room-mate a ride in the car this evening, so the roommate knew he had the car, and knew where the keys were...Of course the roomate was not home.....He gives me the roomates name and description.
I leave the aprtment complex and head back to the crash scene with info for the traffic units...As Im driving I see a young fellow matching the description of the roomate walking my direction. I pull over to make contact, and the chase is on....I may be 50, but I can still catch a 23 year old...Course it helped that he was drunk...and I was in an Impala for most of it!!!
Anyway, I served him up to the traffic units on a silver platter....and they were most grateful....so was Dave!!
DANG! That's good luck and bad luck that you knew the owner and then happened to run into the guy who fled the scene. What are the chances... wow.
Regardless, cool story- even though the car didn't fare too well...
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St. Jude Donor '11,'13
"I voluntarily took 60 days off from OT"
They say good police work is 90% good luck and common sense...I believe it is!!
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I am 48 but still chase down 20 somethings. Last one was a foot chase for about 100 yards. After I caught him I walked him (in cuffs) through the neighborhood back to the patrol car. It was like showing off my trophy to the locals !!!
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1.Stolen vehicle will become unauthorized use at best.
2.DUI won't stick. Can't place him behind the wheel at the time of the accident. His attorney will say he swerved to avoid an animal and hit the pole. He then walked home and got tanked because he wrecked someone else's car.
3.Leaving the scene won't stick because no one can prove he was at the scene. All of the evidence is circumstancial.
4.Evasion. Maybe. It's a strech.
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1.Stolen vehicle will become unauthorized use at best.
2.DUI won't stick. Can't place him behind the wheel at the time of the accident. His attorney will say he swerved to avoid an animal and hit the pole. He then walked home and got tanked because he wrecked someone else's car.
3.Leaving the scene won't stick because no one can prove he was at the scene. All of the evidence is circumstancial.
4.Evasion. Maybe. It's a strech.
2.DUI won't stick. Can't place him behind the wheel at the time of the accident. His attorney will say he swerved to avoid an animal and hit the pole. He then walked home and got tanked because he wrecked someone else's car.
3.Leaving the scene won't stick because no one can prove he was at the scene. All of the evidence is circumstancial.
4.Evasion. Maybe. It's a strech.
. If that had been my car and it went down like that is court...Does vigilante ring a bell??
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St. Jude Donor '11,'13
"I voluntarily took 60 days off from OT"
....Sad, the car "expired" before the tags did!!!Dan
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St. Jude Donor '11,'13
"I voluntarily took 60 days off from OT"
Yup...I recall chasing a burglar one night after he broke into an alarmed drug store....Chased him for three blocks before I caught him...He was 19!!!....It was dark (I always work nights), and when I got to the jail with him I noticed I had blood all over me...I actually thought I had busted a lung chasing him (you know that feeling)...but as it turned out it was HIS blood....He cut himself climbing thru a broken window at a previous restaurant burglary that I wasnt even aware of at the time...
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1.Stolen vehicle will become unauthorized use at best.
2.DUI won't stick. Can't place him behind the wheel at the time of the accident. His attorney will say he swerved to avoid an animal and hit the pole. He then walked home and got tanked because he wrecked someone else's car.
3.Leaving the scene won't stick because no one can prove he was at the scene. All of the evidence is circumstancial.
4.Evasion. Maybe. It's a strech.
2.DUI won't stick. Can't place him behind the wheel at the time of the accident. His attorney will say he swerved to avoid an animal and hit the pole. He then walked home and got tanked because he wrecked someone else's car.
3.Leaving the scene won't stick because no one can prove he was at the scene. All of the evidence is circumstancial.
4.Evasion. Maybe. It's a strech.
But there's one little monkey wrench that could derail this defense. It depends on how much he ran his mouth after his rights were read. Most people make the mistake of saying too much. This guy doesn't sound smart enough to know better so he probably sand like a canary.