Posted on 08/10/2005 1:18:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A man who left an accident scene was tracked down with the help of some cheerleaders who witnessed the crash and turned his license plate number into a cheer, police said.
Members of the Lincoln High School varsity cheerleading squad from neighboring Ypsilanti were in Ann Arbor for a Universal Cheerleaders Association’s camp when they saw the wreck near the University of Michigan campus.
“I knew I was going to not remember it because there was too much going on,” coach Patricia Clark said Monday on NBC’s “Today.” “So, when I ran down the street and got the plate number, I yelled to the girls: ’Remember this!”’
The cheerleaders put their skills to work, chanting the license number.
“The coach just said it and we were saying it over and over, and then it just turned into a big chant since we kept repeating it,” said Kimmie Ostrowski, a senior captain for the team who also appeared on “Today.”
According to police reports, a truck hit a car stopped at a traffic light Wednesday, and the impact forced that car into another vehicle, which then hit another one.
The truck driver, found at his home, told officers he didn’t think the damage was severe enough to stop, police Lt. Mike Logghe told The Ann Arbor News.
The man wasn’t arrested and his name wasn’t released, but police said he could face a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of an accident.
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Good for them, though.
Texas watermelon!
Cadillac car!
We're not as dumb
As you think we is!
This story has already come and gone at least once.
When I was 17, my best friend and I saw a really awesome looking guy driving this convertible 'vette and we started "cheering" his license plate number. 25 years later, I STILL remember it - E-2-oh oh oh -2!
They could have just used a pen and paper but what the hay...
Because I'm a blonde
I don't have to think
I talk like a baby and I never pay for drinks
Don't have to worry about gettin' a man
If I keep this blonde and I keep these tan.
'Cause I'm a blonde, B-L-... I dunno!
---Julie Brown
..and our next group cheer is entitled "Locker combos and social security numbers!"
I just would love to see them cheering a criminal's getaway car's lisence plate numbers.
PICTURES
I’ll never think about Corvettes and license plates without thinking about that dopey “Beverly Hills 90210” show.
Ian Ziering pulls up in his Corvette and the license plate is “I8A 4RE” Lol.
I was thinking the same thing, but then I remembered they are cheerleaders, and what good would a pen and paper have done them?
Did you hear about the cheerleader who got a book on philosophy for Christmas?
It really gave her something to chew on.
Using chant to remember license number, cheerleaders help police find driver after crash
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