- May 21, 2008
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...right here in Vancouver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwr6t-ngRng < the good part happens in the last 30 secs
Here's the full story:
Naked man steals truck, causes pursuit
Half-hour chase ends with man being hit by police SUV
Ethan Baron, The Province
Published: Monday, May 26, 2008
MAPLE RIDGE -- A crazed, naked man stole a large transport truck truck and led police on a half-hour chase through rush-hour traffic after allegedly threatening to blow up a bridge.
Just before 6:30 this morning a nude man appeared at a Pitt Meadows farm, where he stole coveralls and a white 15-ton truck.
"[People at the farm] confronted him, but he was acting so erratically that common sense prevailed and they just backed off," said RCMP traffic services spokesman Const. Dave Babineau.
A call from the farm alerted police, who pulled the truck over on 203rd Street in Pitt Meadows. When officers approached the truck, the 49-year-old driver uttered a threat, Babineau said.
"What he did say was he was going to go blow up a bridge and they'd never catch him," Babineau said.
Police backed off and followed the truck at a distance, because they didn't know if the man was armed or had explosives, Babineau said.
The man drove over several police spike belts, made three U-turns on the Lougheed Highway and finally stopped after rolling backward down a hill on Lougheed near 232nd Street.
He fled the truck and an unmarked police SUV struck the man in the road, sending him tumbling over the hood and off the windshield.
Paramedics OK'd the suspect's release at the scene, but police took him to hospital for a check, Babineau said.
Babineau acknowledged that it may appear the officer in the SUV deliberately hit the suspect, but investigation is needed to determine whether it was intentional or accidental.
The man faces possible charges of dangerous driving, possession of stolen property and failing to stop for police, Babineau said.
The man, who was born in New Westminster (police don't know his current address), remains in custody.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwr6t-ngRng < the good part happens in the last 30 secs
Here's the full story:
Naked man steals truck, causes pursuit
Half-hour chase ends with man being hit by police SUV
Ethan Baron, The Province
Published: Monday, May 26, 2008
MAPLE RIDGE -- A crazed, naked man stole a large transport truck truck and led police on a half-hour chase through rush-hour traffic after allegedly threatening to blow up a bridge.
Just before 6:30 this morning a nude man appeared at a Pitt Meadows farm, where he stole coveralls and a white 15-ton truck.
"[People at the farm] confronted him, but he was acting so erratically that common sense prevailed and they just backed off," said RCMP traffic services spokesman Const. Dave Babineau.
A call from the farm alerted police, who pulled the truck over on 203rd Street in Pitt Meadows. When officers approached the truck, the 49-year-old driver uttered a threat, Babineau said.
"What he did say was he was going to go blow up a bridge and they'd never catch him," Babineau said.
Police backed off and followed the truck at a distance, because they didn't know if the man was armed or had explosives, Babineau said.
The man drove over several police spike belts, made three U-turns on the Lougheed Highway and finally stopped after rolling backward down a hill on Lougheed near 232nd Street.
He fled the truck and an unmarked police SUV struck the man in the road, sending him tumbling over the hood and off the windshield.
Paramedics OK'd the suspect's release at the scene, but police took him to hospital for a check, Babineau said.
Babineau acknowledged that it may appear the officer in the SUV deliberately hit the suspect, but investigation is needed to determine whether it was intentional or accidental.
The man faces possible charges of dangerous driving, possession of stolen property and failing to stop for police, Babineau said.
The man, who was born in New Westminster (police don't know his current address), remains in custody.
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