slacker Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Irregular News for 01.24.07 Fort Lauderdale, FL -- What started out as a minor crash Tuesday morning, ended up with a broken bike, a bit driver, an attempted carjacking, and a suspect trying to hide in a tree, the Broward Sheriff's Office said. Here's what BSO spokesman Hugh Graf said happened just before 8 a.m. on Tuesday: Frank Henry John, 41, was driving a 2005 Cadillac west on Riverland Road. When he reached State Road 7, he ignored a red light, crossed into the northbound lanes of S.R. 7, and struck a bicyclist, 46-year-old Randy Jones, of Lauderdale Lakes. Jones wasn't injured, but his bike was damaged. Jones confronted John about the crash and soon the two men were fighting each other. When a witness, Chad Hodder, 34, of Fort Lauderdale, got out of his pickup to intervene, Graf said John tried to steal the truck. Hodder grabbed John and pulled him from the pickup, but John bit Hodder's arm and managed to get loose. With Hodder in pursuit, John ran and climbed into a tree in the 2500 block of Whale Harbor Lane and refused to come down. Deputies and Fort Lauderdale police tried for more than an hour to coax the suspect from the tree before a deputy finally used a Taser to gain control of him. Even after John was restrained on an ambulance gurney, he continued to fight with deputies and officers, Graf said. John, who lives in Miramar, was finally sedated and taken to a nearby hospital. Also hospitalized was Hodder. He was taken to Plantation General Hospital for treatment of the bite wounds. John's bizarre and aggressive behavior may have been caused by illegal drugs, said Graf in a prepared release. source Quote Link to comment
AR Husker Fan Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 ***SNIP*** John's bizarre and aggressive behavior may have been caused by illegal drugs, said Graf in a prepared release. ***SNIP*** Ya think? Quote Link to comment
Drowning_in_the_Sea_of_Red Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 He could be Half Gorrilla Quote Link to comment
gamecocks Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Ok, so after they tasered him, did he just fall to the ground? Quote Link to comment
Drowning_in_the_Sea_of_Red Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Ok, so after they tasered him, did he just fall to the ground? Heh heh.....That made me think of that video with the bear in the tree and they shoot a tranquilizer at it and it falls...bounces off a trampoline...and smashes into the ground.....funny Quote Link to comment
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