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Bridge-jumping, Car-stealing Woman Was ‘Hella Drunk,’ Say Court Docs
The Truth About Cars ^ | 09/11/2015 | Aaron Cole

Posted on 09/11/2015 4:41:44 PM PDT by nascarnation

An alleged prostitute who jumped off the Bay Bridge to avoid arrest in August was “hella drunk” from splitting a fifth of Hennessy, according arrest affidavits reported by the Contra Costa Times.

According to the report, 25-year-old Erlynn Kay Sanchez-Edwards was arrested in Oakland after police searched for the woman for nearly a month after they say she crashed a car she had stolen, then jumped off the Bay Bridge to icy water nearly 70 feet below, swam and hitched a ride with a truck driver.

Sanchez-Edwards was charged with three misdemeanor counts of hit-and-run driving, evading a police officer and driving without a license. The water temperature when Sanchez-Edwards allegedly dove off the bridge was likely below 55 degrees, and survival time in the water can be 30 minutes to 1 hour. Maybe less in evening wear.

According to arrest records, Sanchez-Edwards was working as a prostitute in San Francisco’s Mission District when she offered to drive two other prostitutes to Oakland in a stolen Nissan Maxima. After she crashed the car on the Bay Bridge around 2 a.m., Sanchez-Edwards evaded police by jumping off the bridge into the icy water.

A dump-truck driver reported that he picked up the woman, in a wet black dress, near the bridge’s toll plaza and gave her a ride into San Francisco.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: bridge; drunk; jump; napl; oakland
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To: M Kehoe
That is one tough, ah, lady of the evening.

Friends of the road, buddy.

21 posted on 09/11/2015 6:13:45 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: nascarnation

Pretty impressive actually. That’s a long ways down and depending on where she was, a long ways to shore.


22 posted on 09/11/2015 6:34:02 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

I’ve been drunk, and I’ve swam in the ocean, but never combined. Sounds quite treacherous to me.


23 posted on 09/11/2015 6:35:47 PM PDT by nascarnation (C. Edmund Wright says I'm a moron)
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To: To Hell With Poverty; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
she crashed a car she had stolen, then jumped off the Bay Bridge to icy water nearly 70 feet below, swam and hitched a ride with a truck driver.

Damn, its Robo-Ho!


24 posted on 09/11/2015 8:56:12 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Yeah, I hafta agree with poster “APaGttH” at the article’s website (and I quote):

“So let me get this straight.

She crashed a car, then jumped SEVENTY-FEET into 55 degree water without breaking her limbs, concussing herself unconscious, blowing out an ear drum or collapsing a lung.

She then swam against San Francisco Bay currents to shore, flagged down a truck, escaped, and took a month to find.

Forget arresting her, give her a job in the CIA. That’s Hollywood movie grade level of escape that takes a special brand of crazy.”

We indeed must hire this woman. Unless she already works for Putin or China, in which case we ourselves are Hella Screwed. If that’s how she plays on a girls night out, I don’t even wanna be in the same zip code when she gets serious!


25 posted on 09/12/2015 2:24:30 AM PDT by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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To: Titan Magroyne

I’m sticking to the Terminator theory for now.


26 posted on 09/12/2015 2:27:47 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: Slings and Arrows

LOL, I hear ya!


27 posted on 09/12/2015 3:40:26 AM PDT by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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To: brivette

That’s racist.


28 posted on 09/12/2015 7:26:50 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

enough of the green humor?


29 posted on 09/12/2015 7:38:38 PM PDT by brivette
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To: nascarnation

That’s a trap.


30 posted on 09/12/2015 7:41:30 PM PDT by anton
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To: Titan Magroyne

Post of the year, for that site :)


31 posted on 09/12/2015 7:46:30 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: al baby; Albion Wilde; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; JRios1968; Lazamataz; ...

DANG!


32 posted on 09/12/2015 8:00:57 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

she have been in trainin drankin Panfuh Whizz!


33 posted on 09/12/2015 8:14:22 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Slings and Arrows
I’m sticking to the Terminator theory for now.

Nah. McDiver.

34 posted on 09/12/2015 8:30:50 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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