Posted on 05/07/2006 5:19:26 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
Father Faces Felony Charges For Rushing To Injured Daughter's Side
POSTED: 12:22 pm EDT May 4, 2006 UPDATED: 6:27 pm EDT May 4, 2006
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. -- A panicked father who pushed past rescue workers to get to his injured daughter at the scene of a car crash now faces felony charges.
Karl Swanson of Holiday, Fla., told the St. Petersburg Times he got a call from his daughter's cell phone late Tuesday: "Listen," the caller said, "your daughter's been in a terrible accident. She's in critical condition. It doesn't look good."
Florida Highway Patrol troopers said the 48-year-old anesthesiologist drove into the accident scene, narrowly missing an emergency helicopter, then pushed past a trooper and a paramedic to get to his 18-year-old daughter's side.
Swanson was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer and battery on an emergency medical care provider. He is free on $10,000 bond.
"Basically, he made a very serious and stressful situation worse," Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Larry Coggins said. "When people just relax for a second and listen to reason, we always let them see their loved one."
Swanson's daughter, 18-year-old Krystyna, remains in serious condition at a hospital. On Wednesday, he defended his response to the crash.
"They told me my daughter was dying," he said Wednesday. "They told me to go there. So that's what I did."
"Can I see my daughter? They said she was fading fast."
"Now hold your horses, son, we got procedures around here. And it sounds like somebody's Momma didn't teach him to use the Magic Word. Do you know the Magic Word?"
Then I guess we should be thankful the incident didn't occur in Durham, NC.
temporary insanity.
I would not trust that if the FL Highway partol said it.
FL highway patrol is notorious for being egomaniac control freaks (they resent the fact they are called glorified speeding ticket patrol)
The FL highway patrol "exagerates".
*Exactly...
That was very well put. This is the flip side of the phenomenon of the unprinted headline: "Man shoots & kills home invader.
If they print THAT headline, it will be followed by the addendum that the man was elderly, or disturbed an Alzheimer's patient etc. This is why there has to be a banglist. MSM won't touch it with a 10' pole. -Or that the "intruder" may have simply wandered into the wrong house by "mistake".
What is your purpose in posting this?
Question authority.. There is no one more dangerous than a fanatic who knows he is right.
Because it is not an interesting issue. Rather, it is an exercise in rabble rousing in which you have succeeded.
don't count on that.
The prosecutors in FL tend to be hacks who pander to the police. It takes a BLATENT RECORDED scandal for them to turn on a cop and then it makes the one cop a sacrificial scapegoat.
The FL prosecutors will charge and then plea it out as an intimidation face saver.
Sadly good cops of the EXCEPTION not the rule.
"When people just relax for a second and listen to reason, we always let them see their loved one." ??????????!!!!!
That is exactly what is wrong with America at the moment. Unbelievable psychotic control freaks throwing their weight around. That father did the right thing, what every loving parent would do.
That's a pretty pompous atitude.
Or are you the arbiter of FR thread content? Is it not a free country?
It's interesting to the thread generator, and it's obviously interesting to those who have posted here.
Except you - who in spite of having holier-than-thou-thoughts concerning the thread, continues to post here.
Idea: If you don't like the thread, stay away. What an odd concept, eh?
Honey, you've got a lot to learn then.
Too bad his name isn't Patrick Kennedy.
Or Cynthia McKinney
Even if the charges are dropped or he wins in court, he will probably be on a "terrorist" watch list the rest of his life. The same statists who would throw the book at this parent are the same people who fret over the "civil rights" of real terrorists.
Same thing happened to me 20 years ago!
"When people just relax for a second and listen to reason, we always let them see their loved one."
When I told them I thought that was my daughter involved in the accident down the street, they locked me in a patrol car.
I never got the chance to see her before she died and she was only 50 yards away.
Sometimes dead wrong, especially if the government agents are in charge of regulating your firearms.
I would have done the same thing.
If it was MY daughter, she's rather have one or both parents at her side as she died rather than strangers.
Another abuse of laws WRONGLY applied. Those charging the Dad, have NO HEART.
Apparently. Some of the know it alls just expect this guy to act like a machine.
So, you let the daughter die in the road.
THEN tell the father afterwaords.
That's one assumption.
Another is that the cop on the scene arrested him before finding out who he was, and is now stretching the truth rather than admit he overreacted.
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