Hmmmm..has winkler and dean ever been photographed together?????
Posted on 03/10/2005 5:37:17 AM PST by Bigturbowski
TAMPA - A Tampa man is out of jail after a possible road rage incident that gives new meaning to the term "driving left of center."
Nathan Winkler, 31, was arrested overnight and charged with aggravated stalking for allegedly terrorizing a mother and her two children.
According to police, Winkler pulled up alongside Michelle Fernandez as she was headed south on Armenia and began beeping his horn and flailing his arms, pointing at her. Fernandez, meanwhile, could not see Winkler's face because of a handmade sign in his window that read, "Never forget Bush's illegal oil war murdered thousands in Iraq."
"Apparently, this starts over political views or bumper stickers. She had a Bush/Cheney sticker on the back of her car. There's just no excuse for it to escalate to what it did," observed Tampa police spokesman Joe Durkin.
Winkler apparently grew more agitated as they continued to drive along, allegedly trying to run Fernandez's car off the road several times over the next few miles.
The 34-year-old grew increasingly concerned for herself and her two children in the car and called 911. Action News obtained recordings of those calls, in which the fear in her voice is evident.
No one would answer the door at Winkler's South Tampa home. "Look, he's trying to run me off the road," she is heard telling the 911 dispatcher. "Look at him. You [censored] idiot! Whatever, you moron! Get away from me."
"I was blowing my horn at someone because I'm running stop signs and everything to get away from him," she added later.
But investigators say even that did not stop Winkler from pulling in front of Fernandez and forcing her to stop. As he tried to run up to her car, she drove away and was headed to police district headquarters when she finally managed to lose Winkler.
Cops caught up with Winkler at his home not long afterwards, where he reportedly blamed Fernandez for starting the altercation by making an obscene gesture. He was booked into jail on a charge of aggravated stalking, but was free by morning on $2,000 bond.
Back at home Wednesday morning, Winkler declined to answer the door. From inside, a female voice told Action News that the incident was simply a "misunderstanding" with another driver.
Fernandez, meanwhile, could not be reached for comment.
He should be taken to Gitmo with all the other enemy combatants.
Take this boy to one of those hospitals with soft walls in the rooms, and have his plugs and points changed.
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Check out the comments about this on Demo Underground. They practically want to give this guy the Congressional Medal of Freedom - and hope his act of violence gets people to rub off their Bush/Cheney stickers. Ah, free speech for me, not for thee.
I wonder what his DUmmie screen name is?
Sounds like a real he-man, picking out a woman with small children to go after. I wonder why he didn't find some 90 year old seasoned citizen to accost? But then again with a name like Nathan Winkler he probably got kicked around enough just getting through his school days.
Man it's getting scarier driving around Tampa lately!
Why doesn't this happen to me? I guess I'd better remove all the NRA stickers to improve my chances.
I have a Bush campaign mouse pad and mug. It's bad enough that I have to get dirty looks from the cable guy or whatever stranger in my home. What am I talking about? Dirty looks from my friends and family too.
If he doesn't yet have a DU account, he will soon. They recruit creeps like this. Just dayum.
Time to put a fresh "W" oval on my car: bring the pain, creeps.
'ain't taking my Bush stickers off - and wear my silver "W" pin everywhere - just to annoy the lily-livered-libs
I'm with you. It woul be a "Go ahead, punk. Make my day." moment if he committed attempted murder on my kids like he did with this woman and her kids. Justifiable homocide.
i totally believe this. i had something similar happen before the election, i was picking up my 16 yo daughter at the mall in suburban VA. a car pulled up along side me and some 30 somethings, husband and wife WITH A BABY IN A CARSEAT started yammering at me about Bush, doing a thumbs down etc. They had been honking etc. and i had no idea what their problem was til they started badmouthing Bush. i looked at them incredulously and said you two really need to grow up. i had my 10 yo daughter in the back seat and the 16 yo and my girls were just grinning and laughing and doing a thumbs UP for Bush! it was hysterical, it continued through several stop lights. i had never seen anything like it. I don't blame this woman, if he was being nasty, i would have called the cops too.
Hmmmm..has winkler and dean ever been photographed together?????
Yet, ANOTHER episode brought to you by the party of tolerance.
I managed to get away from them--and haven't driven since--without being armed--and ready!
LOL! Ya think the NRA sticker would dissuade them?
What a putz.
He should be in a padded dark room eating jello with his hands.
Well, at least now we know where they are...
Hope she or her husband have the appropriate 'home protection equipment'.
NRA, R.K.B.A. Rock on.
Looks like Florida has its left wing hate-Bush nut jobs. I would like to see this guy prosecuted to the maximum extent of all applicable laws. The lady should really research this with a good attorney and see if there's any scheme by which this third class a-hole can see some significant jail time.
BTW, did they cut back on this guy's Lithium meds or what?
Shame he didn't see my brother's vehicle. I seriously doubt he would have pursued a 6'4", 210 lb. man, though.
Guy is a little pansy coward.
My 20 year old college son drives a little old beat up car with a Bush/Cheney bumper sticker on it. He was returning to college and a left wing wacko with a Kerry sticker pulled up alongside him and gave him the finger, was shouting at him, and making a complete fool of himself. I guess this nut case thought that it was unbelievable that a young man in an old little car would support a REPUBLICAN! But you see ------- all 3 of my boys are REPUBLICANS!
I still have The Swift Vets stickers with the battle ships on my truck back window. But I removed the top part that read, "Expose Kerry's Fraud", so my truck would have a better chance to be left alone by looney lefties in a parking lot! ;-)
I'm guessing [censored] = "Leahy-ing"
I don't think he's gonna enjoy the next few years...
"Skinner"
I'm glad we have the right to protect ourselves from jerks like this. Had this lady been like my sister-in-law, that guy might've taken a couple of rounds.
www.authenticgop.com
"It's not fascism when WE do it!"-DU
I've always counseled my wife: "Dear, if the idiot gets out of his car, YOUR car becomes the weapon of choice."
This is happening in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area as well. I am one step away from considering the Democratic Party a terrorist organization.
Could you post the link, please? I can't find it.
We went there for vacation last summer. Loved the city, HATED...hated driving there.
In all but the most insane cases, there's little doubt NRA stickers do a decent job of giving pause to would-be road harrassers. But guys like Winkler could get so agitated after seeing a Bush/Cheney sticker that they might not see the (smaller) NRA sticker.
There is only one word for this fellow: A**hole. Good Lord, what a loser.
That happened to one of my friends from BC Football. He lives in North Hampton. The day after the election his car was mutilated.
And I was getting ready to remove my "Flush the Johns, Bush/Cheney 2004" sticker. Bring it on b!tches!
If he chooses the wrong person (notice the coward chose a woman with two kids in the car?) to pull this s**t with he'll receive that award posthumously.
BTW, Nathan Winkler's street address and phone in Tampa are easily accessible in the Florida White Pages, in case anyone's interested. Personally, I'm full up with turning the other cheek on these leftist bastards.
Can you hear me DU?
Seriously.
Roger that.
If some leftist maniac is trying to run me off the road, I would do the following:
I have three stickers on the back of my huge gas-guzzling Chevy Suburban: The oval W sticker, a Defend Freedom 2nd Amendment sticker and a USMC sticker. My NRA sticker got peeled off by someone. I live in Omaha though, so the most we get around here is the international symbol for bad driving.
Now I have to clean Diet Dr. Pepper off my keyboard! LOL
The media is letting the left off the hook by callign this "road rage".
This is not "road rage", this is political intimidation, plain and simple. There is no indication that she cut him off, or performed any other maneuver that set him off.
He prolly only wanted to tell her the president should 'give peace a chance'.
When I went to see what the DUmmies were saying, I discovered the following:
Right vs. Left: The Elements
3. What is the function of government?
The Right: The function of government is to protect the fundamental rights of life, liberty and property – nothing more. "Government is not the Solution." (Ronald Reagan, 1981). "Government is the most dangerous institution known to man." (John Hospers). "Who is best qualified to spend your money? You, or the government?" (George W. Bush).
The Left: Government "of, by, and for the people" is a legitimate surrogate of the people's interests and a protector of the people's rights. "To secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the government." (Declaration of Independence, 1776). Citizens must constantly be on guard against abuses of office. However, the answer to bad government is better government, not the abolition of government.
Look at how the quoted the Declaration – “deriving their just powers from the consent of the government”. Their true colors shine through.
AMEN
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