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Police Kill NorCal Woman In Stolen Ambulance
CBS5.com ^ | 3/29/10 | AP

Posted on 03/29/2010 9:32:28 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

PLACERVILLE (CBS 5 / AP) ― Police shot and killed a woman who stole an ambulance and led them on a chase before ramming three patrol cars.

Placerville Police Chief George Nielsen says she was posing a danger to officers because she was using the ambulance as a weapon.

He says it began Sunday when the woman, who was about 40 and wearing hospital gown, left Marshall Hospital through an emergency room entrance and drove away in an ambulance.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbs5.com ...


TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: ambulance; norcal; police; stolen
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1 posted on 03/29/2010 9:32:28 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Police are out of control in this country....


2 posted on 03/29/2010 9:34:38 AM PDT by FoxPro (I love bacon.)
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To: FoxPro

I don’t follow you.


3 posted on 03/29/2010 9:35:35 AM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: NormsRevenge

Maybe others will LEARN from this and stop stealing vehicles. I have no problem with cops getting tough on criminals. A car, a plane, a truck can ALL be used as weapons. One less lunatic isn’t a bad thing.


4 posted on 03/29/2010 9:37:05 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: FoxPro

Actually, the woman was wrong and out of control.


5 posted on 03/29/2010 9:37:12 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: FoxPro

And you make this statement based on what?

Certainly nothing you could have read in this article.


6 posted on 03/29/2010 9:37:18 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: NormsRevenge
she eventually put the ambulance into reverse and smashed into the patrol cars with a lot of force.

Not a good career move.

She may have seen this video.

7 posted on 03/29/2010 9:38:59 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: FoxPro

The story on CBS news about this is pretty scarce on details.

Without knowing more, I wouldn’t say the police over-reacted. The article says they were chasing her through city streets, and that at one point she put the ambulance in reverse and smashed into the squads behind her, at that point an officer fired a shot at her.

I don’t think the officer over-reacted. If she hadn’t gone in reverse and rammed the officers, I’d say they might have over-reacted.


8 posted on 03/29/2010 9:40:23 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: FoxPro
Police are out of control in this country....

She attacks a patrol car with an ambulance and you say the POLICE are out of control?

9 posted on 03/29/2010 9:40:25 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: FoxPro

The use of deadly force on someone ‘using the car as a weapon’ always made me a bit uneasy, too. Although I need to hear more about this incident to draw any conclusions.


10 posted on 03/29/2010 9:40:39 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: NormsRevenge

Death by cop. I wonder if she was terminal


11 posted on 03/29/2010 9:40:41 AM PDT by Jagman (End income inequality: cut gov worker pay!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Well, that’s one more psychiatric patient we’ll never have to take care of on the public dime...


12 posted on 03/29/2010 9:41:58 AM PDT by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: Izzy Dunne

I think Fox was being sarcastic


13 posted on 03/29/2010 9:42:24 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Jagman

more detail from sacbee

http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/29/2639851/placerville-woman-shot-dead-by.html


14 posted on 03/29/2010 9:42:47 AM PDT by placerville
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To: FoxPro

Have you or someone close to you ever been in the system?


15 posted on 03/29/2010 9:43:18 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative
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pics from the local paper..u can see the pics but u cant read the article unless u pay.

http://www.mtdemocrat.com/multi_media.php?id=101.1&pt=photo


16 posted on 03/29/2010 9:45:15 AM PDT by placerville
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To: NormsRevenge

She was probably sick of seeing Obama on the TV all the time.


17 posted on 03/29/2010 9:49:32 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: NormsRevenge

didn’t Raquel Welch do this in “Mother, Jugs, and Speed”?


18 posted on 03/29/2010 9:54:14 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: NormsRevenge
The first early results of Obamacare. She must have really not cared for the treatment.
19 posted on 03/29/2010 10:01:31 AM PDT by builder (I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
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To: NormsRevenge

and John Edwards following, a close second


20 posted on 03/29/2010 10:34:34 AM PDT by bunkerhill7
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