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*I kid you not*: Road Rage turns into drive-by crossbow shooting (only in AR)
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ^ | 17 OCT 06 | dcbryan1

Posted on 10/17/2006 8:20:16 AM PDT by DCBryan1

Road rage builds on I-630 until arrow hits Camaro

Road rage took a decidedly medieval turn Sunday when a Little Rock man was arrested after police said he attempted to settle a traffic dispute with a crossbow.

Police said Wayne Allen Dierks Jr., 26, of 300 Walnut St. in Little Rock fired a crossbow at a motorist who had made an obscene gesture at him. Dierks was charged with committing a terroristic act, possession of an instrument of crime, driving while intoxicated and driving on a suspended driver’s license.

“It was a drive-by crossbow shooting,” said Steve Gilgenbach, a University of Arkansas Little Rock student who was driving the Camaro police said Dierks shot at. “I’ve never been shot at by a crossbow before.”

Gilgenbach, a pitcher on the UALR baseball team, said he was on his way to his west Little Rock apartment after practice and was pulling onto Interstate 630 at Fair Park Boulevard when the trouble began.

“I was merging on the highway and I had to get in, so I cut the guy off,” Gilgenbach admitted. “He started following me, cursing at me and yelling for me to pull over.”

According to a police report, Gilgenbach admitted he had made an obscene gesture at Dierks, who was driving a Ford Explorer. On Monday, though, Gilgenbach said he couldn’t remember gesturing at Dierks.

The pursuit continued for several miles to the end of Interstate 630 and onto Financial Centre Parkway. “We stopped at several stoplights and he was trying to get me to stop because he wanted to fight me,” Gilgenbach said.

As the two drivers neared the Bowman Road intersection, Dierks made the next move.

(Excerpt) Read more at arkansasonline.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: crime; crossbow; driveby; medevial; wayne
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To: ansel12

snowballs, acorns, rocks, dirt clods, various toys, articles of clothing, green apples, tomatoes, hangers, leg weights, BB gun, pellet rifle, various sporting balls (tennis, baseball, etc), dodge balls, 1 bullet (freeway incident)...

That's all I can think of. I guess a list isn't out of the ordinare - more so for some than others.


61 posted on 10/17/2006 11:46:55 AM PDT by Frapster (Don't mind me - I'm distracted by the pretty lights.)
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To: ReignOfError
Or it IS language unflation cause by a coincidental what you said ...

Thanks for the eddication. I did't know it was legal.

As for a new coinage, how about "Really really bad terrorism with knobs on" or, alternatively "Some KIND o' terr'ism I tell yew WHUT!"

Wow, I'm a new Blackstone, or blackwatch or whatever ....

62 posted on 10/17/2006 2:56:33 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Now we are all Massoud)
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To: DCBryan1
possession of an instrument of crime

Wuzzat......
63 posted on 10/17/2006 7:59:08 PM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: lapsus calami

I have a pistol crossbow, 50-lb. pull. The bow proper is metal, the stock plastic, yer basic cheap made in China jobbie. You can find 'em all over the 'Net for about $10. It's pretty accurate within 10 or 20 yards, and fun to shoot. Plus, it's silent, so it won't wake the neighbors.

I've actually thought about putting some bolts into a drill press and running a hole down the middle in case I feel the need to rapidly deflate a tire at a distance.


64 posted on 10/18/2006 2:13:18 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: IncPen

ping


65 posted on 10/18/2006 2:34:48 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: CharlesWayneCT
I don't think obscene gestures qualify as an effort to terrorize. It's more of an effort to humiliate someone.

Shooting or brandishing a crossbow at someone clearly is an effort to make them fear you, and if you're actually trying to kill them- even if too drunk to hit them- then it's attempted murder.

66 posted on 10/18/2006 2:40:16 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: Charles Martel
Ah, but since Mr. Failure To Yield was the "victim" of road rage, he probably didn't get a ticket - or even a stern warning.

If he was merging onto the highway it was Mr. Crossbow who failed to yield if there was no yield sign on the on ramp, which there probably wasn't. I don't think Arkansas is like southern Alabama where the yield sign or even a stop sign is on the ramp... I've only seen one or two of those wacko intersections there. Odds are this was a cloverleaf type system and Crossbow guy in the right lane should have slowed down and permitted the guy on the ramp to speed up and merge into traffic. Instead the guys in the right lane were probably all tailgating one another to prevent the merge.

In Alabama folks who stop on an on ramp instead of speed up are taking their life into their hands - they always stop even if it says yield. They are constantly getting rear-ended by midwesterners who are used to cloverleaf intesections where onramp traffic has the right of way.

67 posted on 10/18/2006 2:53:12 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: AnalogReigns

Is Camaro season here already?


68 posted on 10/18/2006 2:54:10 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: Syntyr
In order to go truly medieval mount a trebuchet on your car!!!!

I think that's one of the new options for the 2007 Lexus.

69 posted on 10/18/2006 2:55:18 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/10/17/angry-driver-allegedly-fires-crossbow/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.msn.com%2Fid%2F15302476%2Ffrom%2FRS.5%2F&frame=true

". . . Archery-crossbow hunting seasons for deer, bear and turkey began Oct. 1 so it is not extraordinary that someone might be carrying a crossbow in their vehicle this time of year. . ."


70 posted on 10/18/2006 3:17:47 AM PDT by sig226 (There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who do not.)
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To: festus

It's a catchall so if a person uses a common object as a weapon, they can be charged with using a weapon in a crime. If a person uses a beer bottle, screwdriver, baseball bat, etc., they can be charged with a more serious offense. I also like it because when the state admits that some other object can be used as a dangerous weapon, they set the stage to justify the use of deadly force as a defense against such an attack.


71 posted on 10/18/2006 3:36:32 AM PDT by sig226 (There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who do not.)
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To: piasa
Shooting or brandishing a crossbow at someone clearly is an effort to make them fear you, and if you're actually trying to kill them- even if too drunk to hit them- then it's attempted murder.

This is what's known as stacking charges. If you say "I'm gonna shoot you," that's terroristic threats. Possibly menacing, harassment, or stalking, if you do it more than once. If you then point a gun, that's assault. If you then fire, that's assault with intent, possibly attempted murder, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. If your shot hits, that's felony battery. If the victim dies, it's felony murder.

Prosecutors routinely charge all of the above in such cases, so if they can't prove one to a jury's satisfaction, they have others to fall back on.

72 posted on 10/18/2006 4:02:50 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: Syntyr
In order to go truly medieval mount a trebuchet on your car!!!!

I'd go with the ballista. It's easier to aim in traffic.

73 posted on 10/18/2006 4:05:09 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: DCBryan1

I wonder if Tonto ever suffered from road rage?


74 posted on 10/18/2006 4:07:54 AM PDT by Silly
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To: CharlesWayneCT

I understand your concern, but I believe it is merely a legal term that found it's way into laws before the present "High Profile" meaning the term has.

Teaxas and other states have similarly titled laws. The one in TX deals with acts against both and individuals and entities. I don't remember the date it wsa enacted off hand.


75 posted on 10/18/2006 4:08:50 AM PDT by 5Madman2 (There is no such thing as an experienced suicide bomber)
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To: Silly
I wonder if Tonto ever suffered from road rage?

Probably. "Kemo Sabe" is Apache for "paleface idiot in mask who never stops to ask for directions."

76 posted on 10/18/2006 4:14:58 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: DCBryan1
"As the two drivers neared the Bowman Road intersection, Dierks made the next move."


It seems only natural that a crossbow would be used at this intersection.

The driver who was shot at should be glad it wasn't Grenademan intersection.
77 posted on 10/18/2006 4:18:56 AM PDT by Preachin' (Enoch's testimony was that he pleased God: Why are we still here?)
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To: MineralMan; Tax-chick

I'll sometimes wave like I've just seen an old friend, if someone honks at me. People love that.


78 posted on 10/18/2006 4:46:21 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: FreedomPoster

LOL!


79 posted on 10/18/2006 5:03:33 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("And now ... let the Wild Rumpus start!")
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