Posted on 05/05/2026 8:33:15 AM PDT by DFG
Video shows the moment an alleged drunk driver mounts the sidewalk and chases a child riding a dirt bike in a shocking incident in a leafy Washington state neighborhood.
Wendy Clemente, 56, was arrested for allegedly trying to mow down the child in her vehicle while under the influence, the Spokesman-Review reported.
Horrifying cellphone footage taken by a neighbor shows the car turning toward the boy riding his dirt bike while Clemente honks her horn repeatedly on a street in the upscale Pacific Northwest town of Cheney, Washington.
“This woman is crazy,” the neighbor is heard saying as the silver Ford Focus swerves at the child, before reversing and aiming straight at him, video shared Monday by the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office shows.
Clemente yells something at the child, who looks back and appears to respond before riding away, at which point the car accelerates toward him along the sidewalk.
Clemente yells something at the child, who looks back and appears to respond before riding away, at which point the car accelerates toward him along the sidewalk, narrowly missing a fire hydrant and bushes.
“She’s trying to run this … Oh my God … You’re kidding, oh my God,” the person filming is heard yelling.
Deputies were initially called over reports of a burglary about a mile away from the incident, after a caller, who wasn’t home, said they had seen someone trying to open doors on live security cam footage.
When officers arrived at the caller’s home, they found Clemente and the silver Ford Focus.
During her arrest, Clemente attempted to kick a patrol deputy, according to a police report from the April 28 incident.
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Mutation? No. This is the human condition. What's changed is that people have been left to their own devices and they're showing the world just who they are.
"My feelings would best be expressed in a monologue... From the made-for-tv movie portrait of a teenage centerfold, starring Miss Lori Singer from 'Footloose'... It excites me, daddy. Don't you see ? I like it when the men look at me. You try to keep me trapped here in this small town...Like a little animal. But I am bustin' out, daddy. I'm gonna see the world, and the world is gonna see me. They're gonna see all of me, daddy. - All of me !" - Molly Shannon as Mary Katherine Gallagher in 'Superstar'
I don’t believe it’s just ‘the human condition’. These people are not even showing a basic common sense of self-preservation.
It does bring to mind the old bumper stickers that say: “If you don’t like my driving, get off the sidewalk”!
I know this is off topic because we are talking about motorized bikes, but I recently had this little discussion in a bar. I don’t know how it even came up, but I actually sympathize with cyclists (specially kids) who would rather ride on the sidewalk rather than the street. The streets a friggin dangerous, particularly these days with people burying their face in their cell phones (which is illegal in many places but people still do it).
When I was a kid, we rode our bikes anywhere any everywhere. Streets, sidewalks, off road, across peoples yards. Occasionally you might get someone shouting and shaking their fist at you, but for the most part, people weren’t uptight about kids on bikes.
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