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Posted on 03/10/2005 8:46:22 PM PST by ambrose
March 10, 2005
Florida man charged in anti-Bush road rage incident
TAMPA, Florida (AP) - A man apparently enraged by a campaign sticker for President George W. Bush on a woman's sport utility vehicle chased her for several kilometres and tried to run her off the road while holding up an anti-Bush sign, police said.
"He told our officers that he just got mad at her, so he went after her," said police spokesman Joe Durkin. Nathan Winkler, 31, was freed on $2,000 US bail early Wednesday on a charge of aggravated stalking, which carries up to five years in prison.
No one answered the telephone Thursday at Winkler's home, but his father, John Winkler, said: "I know that he's very anti-Bush. But I don't see him doing anything like that. He's the least aggressive person I know."
Winkler told police he got upset with the woman, 35-year-old Michelle Fernandez, after she made an obscene gesture, Durkin said. Fernandez was taking her 10-year-old son and three-year-old daughter to a ball field Tuesday when the incident occurred.
"Whatever gestures I made, I made them because I was trying to figure out why he was honking at me and pointing at his sign," Fernandez said.
Police said that as Winkler chased the woman's vehicle, he held up a small sign that read: "Never forget Bush's illegal war murdered thousands in Iraq."
Fernandez found a police officer and described the car and licence number. Within an hour, police arrested Winkler at his home.
Fernandez said she is a registered Democrat who voted for Bush in 2004.
I'll say it again, this is a political hate crime.
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My god, the perp looks just like the guy that served my Mocha Grande the other day. LOL.
Not for long I bet.
True that...if the parties were reversed no doubt we'd never hear the end of it from the lamestream media.
Looks like some convict in prison will get a Bartcop contributer for a boyfriend in the near future.
50 lashes andx send him to Gizmo for 3 yrs. 10 months...
and give him a picture of John Kerry with 3 Purple hearts..
Jake
Hey, I'm a Macintosh owner! Don't get mad just because a few cracked out libbies gave the whole Apple market a bad name.
"But I don't see him doing anything like that. He's the least aggressive person I know."They are always the least aggressive people aren't they?
What's with the "kilometers" and 2000 dollars "US"? Has AP gone one world totally?
Quite possibly, but the goatee really isn't quite wispy enough for a true Macmoonie.
Typical Leftist sign, way too wordy.
He's a Democrat...he can plead Insanity.....and it would be the truth.
Mocha Grande!
ping
Me: I hate the drunken bimbokilling bastard.
Stolen from a yesterday thread.
A pair of round spectacles may do the trick.
$2,000 US?
Why doesn't AP just move all their offices to Europe and get it over with? After all, it is very obvious they are 100% anti-American.
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