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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Crime Man Hit By Car On I-5 While Fleeing From Police

Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:57 PM

I'm a few hours late on this one (it's been a busy day) but we've gotten a few emails asking why I-5 was so backed up earlier this afternoon.

Here's why:

According to Seattle Police, at about 1pm, a parking enforcement officer witnessed a car prowl and called police. Officers caught a man rifling through a car and when officers approached him, the man took off running. Police tried to Taser the man, but it didn't work.

The man ran down 6th Avenue and hopped a railing down onto I-5, and was struck by a car.

The man was taken to Harborview with life-threatening injuries. His current condition is unknown.

Like I said, helluva day.

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let's hope he dies

fuck that piece of shit

one less "human" scum in Seattle !

right on!!!!!

Posted by Go Play In Traffic, Wimp on February 4, 2009 at 5:03 PM

i'm happy i don't work at harborview today.

Posted by bopper on February 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM

maybe the taze did work.

Posted by taze_racer on February 4, 2009 at 5:10 PM

They tase someone for car prowling? Cops really are becoming judge, jury, and executioner.

Posted by Scared on February 4, 2009 at 5:32 PM

They taze someone who might injure themselves fleeing towards a highway.

Posted by Jason Petersen on February 4, 2009 at 5:40 PM

@4: He wasn't tased for prowling, he was tased for fleeing.

Posted by Aislinn on February 4, 2009 at 5:41 PM

Still extremely harsh to use a device that has about a 0.5% chance of killing its target for fleeing from a nonviolent crime. It would be about as harsh to start shooting people in the leg instead.

Posted by Scared on February 4, 2009 at 5:48 PM

@7 then don't break into people cars and steal their shit. And no, getting tazed is no where near the same as getting shot in the leg you simple minded schmuck.

Posted by Rotten666 on February 4, 2009 at 6:47 PM

I have to say, I'm with Rotten @8. I know things suck, the economy is a joke, we're all in the shit, etc, but after the fourth or fifth break-in of my car, I lost all respect for these little shits. Realize too that chances are this guy had already hit dozens of vehicles in his career of inflicting inconvenience and expense on innocent people. You only get "observed" doing it after you've probably done it many times before...the luck finally runs out.

I hope he lives and all, but I got no problem with the cops giving him a good tazin'.

Posted by schmacky on February 4, 2009 at 8:34 PM

Wow, what a doofus! He could have been booked, processed, and bailed (approx. $7,500) by now, if he'd just surrendered. If he'd actually been convicted, how much time would he have done? (Probably not more than 6 months)

This was not worth dying for.

Posted by yucca flower on February 4, 2009 at 8:53 PM

This proves that people fleeing should not be allowed on the same streets as cars. Or, this proves that an extra lane should be created for people fleeing-- I'm not sure which.

Posted by drewvsea on February 4, 2009 at 10:07 PM

Car prowlers really are the lowest of the low.

Posted by Greg on February 5, 2009 at 8:25 AM