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Handcuffed fugitive in Alaska found dead
AP on Bakersfield Californian ^
| 8/15/05
| AP
Posted on 08/15/2005 5:10:25 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A man who kicked out a window to escape from a state trooper's patrol car was found dead in a lake less than a mile away.
The body of Nicholas A. Hill, 20, was discovered Sunday at Nancy Lake, his hands still cuffed behind his back, said Trooper spokesman Greg Wilkinson.
Hill flagged down a trooper late Tuesday after he had car problems. The trooper arrested him after he ran his ID and discovered Hill was wanted for allegedly missing a court date on an underage drinking charge.
The officer later stopped at an accident scene. When he returned he found that Hill had kicked out a window from the back seat and wriggled out.
Troopers said they had not determined if Hill intentionally or accidentally entered the lake. An autopsy was planned.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; dead; found; fugitive; handcuffed
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
08/15/2005 5:14:31 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(Rich's Undeniable Truth of the Day: It's hard to swim when your hands are cuffed behind you.)
To: NormsRevenge
Darwin anyone??
3
posted on
08/15/2005 5:15:11 PM PDT
by
ThreePuttinDude
(Allah, is not... Akbar)
To: ThreePuttinDude
To: NormsRevenge
Troopers said they had not determined if Hill intentionally or accidentally entered the lake."I'd say yes but there is a third alternative.
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posted on
08/15/2005 5:18:25 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: BurbankKarl
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posted on
08/15/2005 5:19:00 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
To: NormsRevenge
Handcuffs make terrible water-wings.
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posted on
08/15/2005 5:19:53 PM PDT
by
South40
(Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
To: NormsRevenge
To: NormsRevenge
Another alcohol-related death.
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posted on
08/15/2005 5:21:22 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(As darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of good; innocence is blind.)
To: NormsRevenge
His thought process reconstructed:
"I'm handcuffed. It's dark. I'm in Alaska. If I were to escape and wander out into the wasteland, I could get into real trouble. Lost on some frozen lake, I could easily die. But, hey, it's August! There's no frozen lake out there! If there was ever a time to kick out the window and escape, this is it! What could go wrong?"
To: ClearCase_guy
So, some twenty-yo kidd dies...
When I was 20, the age of drinking was 18.
Now, I admit, this kid died in some sort of darwin scenario...
But would it have been so hard to leave him alone?
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posted on
08/15/2005 5:30:58 PM PDT
by
patton
("Hard Drive Cemetary" - forthcoming best seller)
To: NormsRevenge
Houdini had trouble swimming with his hands handcuffed, too.
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posted on
08/15/2005 5:41:06 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
To: South40
To: NormsRevenge
... Hill was wanted for allegedly missing a court date on an underage drinking charge.I assume the former charge is now forgiven?
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posted on
08/15/2005 5:52:06 PM PDT
by
fuquadukie
(If you can't hang with the big dogs, then don't jump off the porch.)
To: NormsRevenge
Jack LaLaine, he ain't...or wasn't. Whatever.
(If anyone doesn't know the reference, Jack swam handcuffed from Alcatraz to San Francisco; and also, IIRC, swam the Golden Gate in cuffs.)
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posted on
08/15/2005 6:02:32 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(The Marching Morons are coming...and they're breeding more Democrats beyond all reason!)
To: ClearCase_guy
"I'm handcuffed. It's dark. I'm in Alaska. ... we're out of gas, and we're wearing sunglasses."
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posted on
08/15/2005 6:26:32 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: ApplegateRanch
The guy was a marvel that's for sure! Couldn't stand his comercials though!
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posted on
08/15/2005 6:55:29 PM PDT
by
calex59
(If you have to take me apart to get me there, then I don't want to go!)
To: patton
Ditto. Pretty soon anyone with a pop-top from a Budweiser in their car will be a felon.
The nanny nazis are out of control and the gov loves the extra money. In the meantime, we are habituated to despotism.
To: Ken H
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posted on
08/15/2005 7:06:08 PM PDT
by
SunTzuWu
To: NormsRevenge
Local TV have it that a large hornets nest is in the area where the kid took a dive.
Speculation has it he was beating feet down the railroad tracks and ran smack into a hornets nest, stung (and possible blind) he turned away from the attack and landed in the lake.
Troopers looking to recover the body was stung, and finally had to go recover from lakeside.
Don't understand why he had not wiggled the cuffs up front.
Bummer for the family, but he make his choices, and in this case, he got to pay the price.
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posted on
08/15/2005 8:45:58 PM PDT
by
ASOC
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