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.
Thanks Hot Tabasco,
I found him in Rock Hill, SC and have asked a member of Bill Glass’ team to look in on him this week.
BUZZZZ!!! Thank you for playing.
The moment someone twists that scriptural reference to mean that nobody should discern between bad behavior and good behavior, he loses.
So have I, and I have.
Whatever.
Yeah, it scared people back in the day, but that was because we didn’t have the news outlets we have today so they could see what real violence looked like. Movies didn’t get as graphic back then. About the only thing I remember about the movie was one guy burning his back tire off doing a donut and Brando strapping that trophy onto his handle bars. Been a long time since I watched it. I couldn’t believe what a fat slob Brando turned into as he got older:)
Ah.....the subliminal concession. You've never heard the term, "2%er" in the biker culture, and you know it. It flat-out doesn't exist.
No, it means that I don't consider your taking issue with it to be worth arguing about. As in, 'whatever you want to believe is fine with me'.
Think whatever you want. I don't care.
Thanks for calling that one out. I was screaming with laughter.
It went right with the rest of the misinformation and pure B.S. on this thread, like the "crank"= crankcase reference. BWHAAAAAAAA!
The majority of this thread is pure comedy gold.
Spoken like someone who's truly in tune with biker life. Not.
Face it, pal. You've been busted. Let that be a lesson to you. The Freeper community knows no bounds. It exists in every nook and cranny of society, and we can spot a wanna-be from a mile off.
My pleasure. That's one of the great things about FR. No matter what the subject, there are always a few Freepers on hand who know the facts, and most won't hesitate to put a poser in their place.
Spoken like someone who's truly in tune with biker life. Not.
You mean I have to enjoy pissing contests with Internet trolls over nothing to be a real biker? Gosh- all these years, and I had no idea.
M'kay. Good luck to you, then.
Heh.....hurts to get busted like that, don't it? Don't worry. Hardly anyone will remember this embarrassing little episode by tomorrow. I certainly won't.
Wow, you have an active imagination.
Ok, so I didn't bust you, and everyone in the biker community has heard of "2%ers".
Feel better now? If not, I can direct you to a real outlaw biker forum, and you can discuss it with them.
There is not enough money on earth to pay me to be in that driver’s shoes, right now.
Maybe he’ll get lucky and be put in protective custody before he goes to jail.
Then, time’s up.
I’m not an outlaw, and I don’t hang with them- except for one very old friend, who was old days Oakland and doesn’t ride anymore.
I’ve ridden for coming up on 30 years now, east and west coast. I’m on it every day to work these days, unless it’s snowing, pouring or my chest is giving me hell.
Once in a while I’ll turn up at an event. I’m on a Triumph these days. It’s not Japanese, so the HD guys leave me alone. It’s not an HD, so the rice rocket crowd leaves me alone. I don’t ride with a club or have territory on my leather, so the outlaws don’t have an issue with me. I’m the invisible man.
Suits me fine.
Hoping to go do Deal’s Gap this year, but it might have to wait until spring- not a good time to be applying for time off. Also hoping the Rocket III crowd that I talk to is going again down that way again in the spring. When things quiet down, I’d like to hook up with PGR, as I am within range of Arlington National Cemetery, and can help out there, if needed.
That’s about the extent of my involvement with the ‘community’. I haven’t claimed otherwise. Sorry I don’t meet the criteria of hanging out on outlaw forums on the Internet. Just not interested.
Bikers? WTH are you talking about? This guy was a criminal, a gang member, they deal drugs and murder people, among other crimes.
Bloods,Crips,Hells Angels,Mafia all scum.
Stop romanticizing scumbags because you like their rides.
I reiterate: Dead dirt-bag good riddance!
Oddly enough, the psycho bitch driving the local handicap bus pulled the same thing on us but obviously not to that extreme.
For seriously, absolutely _no good reason_.
*She* pulled away from the curb into oncoming traffic [us] and then went berserk trying to sideswipe us, because, I assume, we’d had the gall to be in the lane she considered her sole property.
[or some such crazy reason...never could figure it out]
Guess her ‘diversity’.
Guess how much trouble she got in when it was reported.
Bingo.
2. The joke, “Q: What do you do if a pit bull is humping your leg? A: Act interested.”
Good joke! I never heard it before.
Get a grip! What are you gonna tell me about how nice your local Mafioso is next?
Criminal scum dead=good.
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