Teen 'eggs' cruiser, flees at 100 mph

Lancasteronline.com ^ | 7/17/09 | Ryan Robinson

[Born Conservative]

An 18-year-old Willow Street man found out early Thursday that throwing an egg at a police cruiser — especially while the officer is in it — is not such a good idea.

Nor is driving over 100 mph to try to get away from the officer.

The incident began about 1 a.m. in the square of Strasburg Borough, police said.

A state policeman driving south on Route 896 was passed by a northbound car when he heard something strike the door on the driver's side of his car, police said.

He turned around and pursued the car, but the driver, later identified as Daniel Scott Barr of 343 Nolt Ave., Willow Street, sped away and refused to pull over, police said.

Barr drove above 100 mph during the pursuit, police said. He went north on Route 896 and turned onto Bachmantown Road in East Lampeter Township.

After an 1.8-mile chase, police were able to get Barr to stop his car along Bachmantown Road, police said.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Egghead.

[pnh102]

This guy deserves the Rodney King treatment just on principle.

[P-Marlowe]

Is this kid a congressman?

[mt tom]

if al franken can be a senator this kid is a show in for a congressman

[Birdsbane]

Institutional Vandalism?

[razorback-bert]

I think Daniel needs glasses or to do less drugs, if he can’t tell a cop car from an ordinary car.

[VRWCmember]

The incident began about 1 a.m. in the square of Strasburg Borough,

Nothing that begins at 1 AM ever ends well.

[101voodoo]

Punishment should be for this fool to wash and wax every single police cruiser within a 50 mile radius of where he threw this egg.

[jiggyboy]

This moron should try egging a buggy next time instead.

[101voodoo]

"Nothing that begins at 1 AM ever ends well."

I remember meeting women after 1 a.m. (long, long ago) in my favorite hangout. These ended up quite nicely.

[theFIRMbss]

>Nothing that begins at 1 AM ever ends well

You're supposed to wait
till the cop is parked, then chain
the cop's back axle

to a post before
egging him and driving off.
I think Mythbusters

said it doesn't work
but it would be kind of cool
if, by chance, it worked . . .

[halfright]

The dipstick tossed an egg at a oncoming car. I would venture the PSP car was an unmarked unit. Surprise!

As was mentioned...nothing good ever happens on the street or in the bars at 1 am.

[DCBurgess58]

The egg that hit the police car chipped its paint, police said.

Yeah... Right... It probably also dented the door and the cop smashed his head against the driver side window as the cruiser rocked under the massive impact. All of this obviously required a 100 MPH chase. The good citizens must realise that the potential fatal car crashes that they were subjected to, were justified. We cannot, as a society, allow punks to be running around with this kind of heavy artillery.

Heavy weaponry notwithstanding, we must realise that when a policeman is insulted or mocked, an angel dies somewhere. The fact that innocent civillians might have died in a flaming hell of twisted metal is insignificant , as long as the result is a car full of teens in handcuffs, having to call their parents.

Jeez... this cop was such an assclown, he should be patroling the station from a desk from now on.

[VRWCmember]

You could also try the bananan in the tailpipe. It worked for Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop.

[ErnBatavia]

Nothing that begins at 1 AM ever ends well.

That's as true as "Never look for lodging on a city's Martin Luther King Blvd."

[Born Conservative]

I doubt that there are many buggies travelling the highway at 1am...

[C210N]

This is a nice diversion with a decent ending (guy caught). Back to the eggheads throwing eggs at the constitution, health care, auto industry, banking industry, energy industry,... well, basically all of America as we know it. I hope all that juvenile egg tossing will have a similar epilogue!

[jessduntno]

Hey, if you can hit a flee at 100 MPH, good for you!

[NavyCanDo]

Between age 15 and 20, something happens to a boys brain that can make them do some of the dumbest stuff. I think most of us can list a few stupid acts we performed back then. I would be embarrassed to go into confession myself right here, so won't. If you were like most boys, it was just a moronic moment of stupidity, and you didn't end up on an episode of COPS. A small percentage of those same boys though, don't wise up, and these moronic moments will continue into their adult lives, if they don't end up dead or behind bars. For the rest they become Democrats.