Posted on 12/31/2010 9:31:09 AM PST by smokingfrog
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. - A botched purse snatching started a bizarre chain of events in Clarksville on Wednesday evening. Police said the would-be victim fought off her attacker, then ran into him just hours later at the hospital.
Police arrested 27-year-old Coyama Locklear on Thursday morning and charged him with criminal attempt to commit robbery.
What Amanda Pyle and her purse went through on Wednesday evening proved that both are pretty strong.
"All it has are a few minor tears. I'd recommend this purse to anyone," laughed Pyle.
The attempted purse snatching happened at a Clarksville Kroger.
"As I was walking out, someone followed me in the parking lot and attacked me from behind," said Pyle. "I bent my arm, he pulled on his end, and I pulled on mine."
"The thing is he's six foot, six foot two and over 200 pounds and she's five foot six so there was a significant size difference," said Clarksville Police officer Jim Knoll.
"My reaction was, this is my purse. I work hard for my money and I'm not giving up like this," said Pyle.
The suspect fled when other customers heard the commotion and approached the scene. Shortly after, Amanda drove herself to Gateway Medical Center because her knee was sore. Apparently, she wasn't the only one hurt in the scuffle.
Amanda recognized the man who'd tried to rob her earlier in the day inside the ER.
"As he got closer my heart stopped I knew without a doubt in my mind, that's him," recalled Pyle.
Detectives say Coyama Locklear was walking out of the hospital just as Pyle was checking in. Locklear had his arm in a sling.
"He said his shoulder got injured some way. He indicated it was some sort of basketball injury," said Knoll.
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Coyama? Must be another Mennonite.
"He indicated it was some sort of basketball injury"
Obviously we need to provide better medical services to those Midnight Basketball sessions!
Basketball injury. Yeah some 5’ woman put his balls in a basket.
But... but... but.... she should have just let him have her purse! Nobody would have gotten hurt that way. </libtard>
In other news: it is expected that the government will force the the tax payers and other hospital patients to pay for the emergency room bill. That, unfortunately is not considered theft.
. . . Just get the rope.
he pulled on his end, and I pulled on mine.”... Oh my!! A circle jerk?
True story.
In the small community I used to work in a pregnant woman attempted to steal a car using her pregnancy as a ruse. She knocked on the door of a home in the more affluent area of town asked the woman who answered if she could use her phone. Her car had broke down and she needed to call someone to get her. The woman was the wife of a doctor in town and immediately took pity on her and let her in.
While in the house, the perp grabbed the woman’s purse, which was handy, took out her car keys, and stole her car. The doctors wife immediately call the police, who began a pursuit of the perp. She eventually crashed the car and was arrested.
Because of the crash and the pregnancy, the perp had to be taken to the ER for clearance before she could be taken to jail. Who was on call for OB that day? None other the the husband of the woman whose car was stolen! Of course he knew about the theft, and that she was the perp, so it was a bit of poetic justice. “You know that car you stole? That was my wife you stole it from”.
Many years ago, early 1980’s, I was working for a delivery service that happen to get a contract to deliver brand new IBM PCs. We must have had a thousand or more in the warehouse that came in one day and out the next. At some point we became the target of thieves who were breaking in at night and making off with five or six boxes at a time. We took steps to secure the warehouse at night and the thieves decided to hit us in broad daylight. They would simply walk up, check to see if the doors were locked, walk in and grab whatever they could and run.
One day I happen to spot this “perp” running out with a new computer and I got furious. It wasn't that these machines were going to cost me anything, it was the principal. As I yelled at him and yelled to the office to call the police I was overcome by the need to chase him. He drop the box in the back of a awaiting car that took off as soon as he realized his partner in crime was being chased. I'm not sure when it occurred to me, however I had this thought that all I needed to do is to keep him occupied until the police showed up.
As I ran up to him and threw a few punches he apparently decided to stick around and take me on. I'm not the biggest guy, but I am scrappy. We danced around the street taking turns with an attack and counter attack until I found a 2X4 that was about five or six feet long. I swung the 2X4 a few times before landing a blow to his leg. I think this must have enraged him as he found an empty bottle. As I maneuvered to avoid being hit I found myself with a car between us and as he threw the bottle I ducked and the bottle shattered on the roof of the car sending broken glass into the back of my head.
Just then the police showed up and managed to arrest him as blood was pouring through my hair and down the back of my neck.
One of my coworkers thought it best that I go to the hospital to have my head looked at, so I drove myself to the emergency room. As I was waiting to be seen, who should show up but the same prep, in handcuffs with a police escort. What really burned me up was that he got priority treatment as I sat there bleeding. His injury was a bruised leg.
Heather’s ugly sister.
Hmmmm! Based on a certain Pastor's notions, maybe it was that Rahm was in an awful hurry...
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