Posted on 10/23/2011 6:25:04 AM PDT by csvset
A paratransit bus driver intentionally rammed a Hells Angels biker on Interstate 580, and then dragged him about a mile, killing him, a CHP spokesman said.
The biker, who has not been identified, was traveling eastbound on I-580 in San Leandro near Grand Avenue with a small group of Hells Angels members before 4 p.m. when an altercation began, said CHP Sgt. Trent Cross. After being hit, the motorcyclist and his bike were dragged for about a mile, said San Leandro police Lt. Greg Lemmon. Eventually, the biker was released from under the East Bay Paratransit bus, but the driver kept dragging the motorcycle, which was wedged underneath the front grill, until the vehicle stopped on the shoulder just east of the 150th Avenue onramp.
The Hells Angels biker was flown to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, where he was pronounced dead, Lemmon said.
The bus driver has been arrested, Lemmon said. Police are interviewing four witnesses who saw the incident.
"The preliminary information they are providing was that it wasn't an accident, it was an intentional ramming," Lemmon said.
All eastbound lanes were closed from Grand Avenue to 150th Avenue so police could conduct a homicide investigation over a large swath of freeway, Cross said. The lanes were expected to remain closed until 10 or 11 p.m., he said, and there were significant traffic delays in the area.
An East Bay Paratransit manager referred calls to First Transit, a contract agency that operates the bus. The First Transit representative did not return calls.
No passengers were on board the bus during the collision, said San Leandro police Sgt. Doug Calcagno. The paratransit bus provides door-to-door service for people unable to ride regular public transit because of disabilities.
It has been a tragic autumn for the Hells Angels motorcycle club.
San Jose chapter President Jeffrey "Jethro" Pettigrew was killed outside a Nevada casino last month. At his packed funeral Oct. 15, Steve Tausan, a 52-year-old Hells Angels enforcer and friend of Pettigrew's, was shot dead.
Also on Saturday, San Jose police served a search warrant at a Stockton house for 38-year-old Steven Ruiz, whom they say killed Tausan. After a lengthy standoff, police determined he was not in the house.
I see a paid killing in this one, and the guy may not go to a prison where they have any other Angels.
Have you ever drift dived Santa Rosa Wall in Cozumel? Awesome.
There was another one we did at night, Macaibo reef? Gorgeous
Babarism is growing here, as well, I fear. I guess we are lucky the bus driver did not post a video of the murder and put the body in a meat locker.
The movie is “The Wild One” and is based on an incident that happened in Hollister CA in 1947, and involved the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club. HA were founded in 1948 or 1953 depending on whose story you believe.
“strikes me as odd that a guy driving a bus for people in wheelchairs would get into it with the hells angels. doesnt that seem odd?
and why would hells angels pick a fight with a wheelchair bus?
more to this methinks.”
Could be simple road rage. The biker cut him off or something..
HaHaHaHa, so did LEO think the house was gonna explode? What a bunch of rubes!
HaHaHaHa, so did LEO think the house was gonna explode? What a bunch of rubes!
The open mouth greeting is to show that neither party is concealing an AK-47 under their tongue or lodged behind their tonsils or strapped to that little thing that dangles in their throat. You can't be too careful where not all bikers are part of the 'nicest people.' Or maybe they were just sharing their food like birds do.
I ride my bike with lots of normal people. I know lots of people who also ride bikes. We're not thugs, but the HA are criminals period. Did you know that outlaw bike gangs run half of the whores in this country. Until ten years ago, they sold most of the 'crank' BTW, the reason speed is called crank is because bikers often carried speed inside the cover of their bikes engine. Get it?
The bus driver ran down (and murdered) a biker on purpose?? Now I seen ricers in packs pulling wheelies and such which isn't safe for them or the traffic around them and tends to PO the drivers around them. It doesn't say the murderer's gender but unless they get the death penalty, their life in prison will be short and terror filled. Hell, even if they're on death row, the driver will get taken care of.
But HAs? They just cruise, sometimes in packs but they don't pull the ricer stuff and for the record I like ricers but if I was going to by a bike it would be a Harley, much safer for the way I ride.
What's with the hostility towards HA's on this thread? The ones I've know were great people and if you ever needed backup, they were nice to know.
P.S. I never needed backup since I'm just a mechanical and computer geek but they were one phone call away and all I did for them was work on some of their bikes when they were at a friend's house away from their regular mechanic.
Actually they treed Angels Camp also, maybe the movie was based on Hollister but the locals here think it was based on Angels Camp, and some old timers, who were kids them, still remember it. And I know the movie was “The Wild One”, the s just slipped in there as a typo. Still wish I had one of those Triumph 500CC twins. Can’t buy them any more.
Glad to have helped...
Did you ever see the movie ‘The Godfather’? Did you catch yourself halfway through the movie rooting for these killers? Many people did. As I’m sure it did for many people, it spurred a thought process within me - and one of the main conclusions was that such people were guaranteed to exist - a world far away from the comfort I thought of as reality - and that I preferred that at least these people had a set of morals, were human, and ultimately the people who they ended up hurting knew exactly what they were getting into, and most likely in at least some sense deserved thair fate.
Only right at the end of the film does that fact change, when a woman in bed with a gangster is (presumably) killed. Has even she made a bad choice about joining a world of easy money in exchange for a risk she knew existed?
It’s just a movie of course. Is life really like that in any sense? Is there a valid point there?
Certainly the end of the movie is all about that point, especially with Michael in the religious environment while everyone is being killed, with a face we haven’t seen before, I feel like the director really was laughing at his audience, saying “haha, I got you to support the devil”. But up until that point, he wasn’t the devil, so it was a bait and switch..
I didn’t know the McDonald’s assault-clerk was out on bail already?
Is there a difference between bikers and hells angels?
Yes
Wouldn’t killing a Hell’s Angel be considered an act of self defense and a public service? < /sarc >
But Hell's angels ARE!
Great people huh? Do you know what you have to do to even be a member? This is the scum of the scum. I have known a few that got out and became decent but they were murderous thugs if the gang. Go talk to all the people and families addicted to drugs or who's daughters are working the streets as property of these 'great' guys as you put it. Or the loved ones of the many many people they have murdered to be what they call themselves "from hell" and they are satan's thugs and they know it... they know who they work for. I know very well who they are and what they do. They don't even trust each other.
Read for context. It will keep you from looking like a fool.
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