Doctor who treated injured kayaker accused in road rage beating [weapon is a Thermos]

The News Tribune ^ | March 3 2009 | BRIAN EVERSTINE

[Daffynition]

A Gig Harbor neurosurgeon accused of beating a man with a thermos in an alleged road rage attack told investigators he was upset because he’d been treating a teenage kayaker critically injured Sunday on American Lake.

Dennis J. Geyer, a Madigan Army Medical Center neurosurgeon, was arraigned Tuesday in connection with the incident Monday. He pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree assault with a deadly weapon.

Court documents gave this account:

A van cut off Geyer, 37, while he was driving west over the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Geyer followed the van for about 10 minutes to East Bay Drive Northwest and Wollochet Drive Northwest.

He got out of his car and knocked on the van’s window. The 60-year-old van driver later told deputies that he tried to apologize to Geyer, but said the doctor pulled him from the van and began hitting him.

A witness said Geyer hit the other man in the face with Geyer’s thermos.

Geyer later denied using the thermos as a weapon, but the 13-inch-tall steel container was found at the scene with several dents in it.

Deputies arrived to find the van driver still at the scene. He had several cuts and chipped teeth and was taken to a local hospital.

Witnesses got the license plate number for Geyer’s Mini Cooper, and he was found and arrested at his Gig Harbor house.

Geyer told officers that the van driver and he had argued before he threw one punch. After the fight, Geyer told deputies that he panicked and left the scene.

He said he’d been upset after treating the young kayaker, according to deputies, a county prosecutor and Geyer’s attorney.

The 14-year-old boy was critically injured when his kayak was hit by a powerboat whose driverleft the boy face-down in the water. David Kenny Ross was rescuedby fisherman and taken to Madigan.

Ross, who suffered broken ribs and a large gash in his head, went through five surgeries Sunday. His ruptured spleen had to be removed, and doctors cut away part of his skull to relieve swelling of his brain. More surgery was planned.

Lakewood police were still looking for the boater Tuesday.

Geyer’s attorney, Wayne Fricke, said there was more to the story than what the court documents allege. He said Geyer wasn’t the aggressor in the incident, but that he regrets being involved in it.

[tlb]

Eskimo canoes cause a lot of frustration mainly because they are so cold. People never seem to learn you can’t have your kayak, and heat it too.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“He said Geyer wasn’t the aggressor in the incident, but that he regrets being involved in it.”
Sorry, but no. When you follow another vehicle for 10 minutes, get out and knock on the window, you're the aggressor. We've all been upset before, sometimes we've been upset by another driver. But when you follow someone for ten minutes you've crossed the line into mental illness.

[6SJ7]

I’m upset as all get out that Obama won the election and is rapidly destroying the country, but I don’t go around beating the cr*p out of drivers who cut me off. I suspect this neurosurgeon has been writing his own prescriptions.

[SIDENET]

Geyer later denied using the thermos as a weapon, but the 13-inch-tall steel container was found at the scene with several dents in it.

LOL.

[proud2beconservativeinNJ]

Guilty. Very guilty. Without prejudice. No picture needed.

[cajungirl]

I laughed at the dents too,,there must be a johny cockran rhyme for that.

[I Buried My Guns]

A concern of mine, more than a pet peeve, is the irresponsible driving style that is common on our roads nowadays. People cut off other vehicles and force their way into spaces too small too accomodate them, all at high speed, with the attitude of "as long as I don't actually hit the guy, he can f^$% off!"

I see it every day on my commute in Houston. Ghetto folks are the worst as far as overt hostility, but everyone around me seems generally clueless, without regard to socioeconomic status. They act like having a cell phone to their ear means they are not responsible to the people around them. Frankly, some of them deserve a good beating!

[I Buried My Guns]

Also, drivers of Mini Coopers tend to need a good Come To Jesus “corrective reading” also.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

Frankly, some of them deserve a good beating!
Not arguing that they don’t deserve it, but it’s like coming home and finding the dog knocked the trash can over. Getting mad, yelling and smacking the dog hours after he did something bad might make you feel better, but the dog still thinks your an idiot and has no idea why you’re yelling at him. Same with the Doc in the story, he’s in a rage for 10 minutes, he likely almost killed others while fixating on the guy that cut him off. It’s best to yell, scream, give the guy the finger if you have to, and get over it. Now it’s likely the idiot that cut him off is going to own him in court.

[Daffynition]

DING-DING-DING .... we have a W-I-N-N-E-R!

[mickey finn]

I’m upset as all get out that Obama won the election and is rapidly destroying the country, but I don’t go around beating the cr*p out of drivers who cut me off. I suspect this neurosurgeon has been writing his own prescriptions.”

While I don't beat them, I do have episodes of Obama induced Turrets when I see a vehicles with Obama stickers on them. Every time Obama opens his yap, my condition gets worse.