No charges for woman who fatally shot I-5 driver during road-rage incident, prosecutors say

Tacoma News Tribune ^ | 3/17/18 | Alexis Krell

[deweyfrank]

I guess you have Brown or Pelosi barriers out there.

[sparklite2]

It would have been deadly for sure
if the guy had been shot in the fracas.

[Steven Scharf]

A Jersey barrier, or Jersey wall, is a modular concrete or plastic barrier employed to separate lanes of traffic. It is designed to minimize vehicle damage in cases of incidental contact while still preventing the crossover case of a head-on collision. Jersey barriers are also used to reroute traffic and protect pedestrians and workers during highway construction, as well as temporary and semi-permanent protections against landborne attack such as suicide vehicle bombs. A Jersey barrier is also known in the western United States as K-rail, or K-wall, a term borrowed from the California Department of Transportation specification for temporary concrete traffic barriers, or colloquially as a Jersey bump. Plastic water-filled barriers of the same general shape are also now commonly called Jersey barriers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_barrier

Created in New Jersey hence the name. Don’t know where you live but they may have a local name.

[sparklite2]

A guy that trys to beat up a woman he does not know,

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As opposed to? Heh.

I’m reminded of the two cops who roll up onto a crime scene where a woman is battered, ribs broken, and her face smashed in.

One cop asks the other, “I wonder what she said to deserve that?”

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Wow I thought most shoulder wounds were survivable?

That's what the old TV Westerns would have you believe. And even if they miss a major vessel, you stand to be seriously crippled.

[Enchante]

Makes me think of Trayvon Martin
...

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I’ve never heard this term before, jersey barrier.

They put them up all along the border, to keep people from escaping.

[suthener]

Nope, she definitely shot him on the shoulder.

[Fast Moving Angel]

Created in New Jersey hence the name.

So in New Jersey, do they call them "joisey barriers" ??

[chris37]

But did he look black? Because if he did, she would be charged with murder, right?

[TigersEye]

It’s much worse getting shot in the median!

[goldstategop]

If she’s hot, I vote not guilty.

They found her not guilty, so... ;-)

[Nifster]

Big brave man thought he could beat on a woman....found out different

[Kartographer]

If FR was a freeway this would happen every day or two.

[Navy Patriot]

It’s much worse getting shot in the median!

Well, I don't have the experience to compare, I've only been shot in the buttress.

[BobL]

“Jones then slammed the woman’s head into a Jersey barrier”

Why not use a barrier in Washington State? Why go across the country to find something to slam her head on?

[editor-surveyor]

.
Concrete wall between the two sides of the highway.

[waterhill]

I wonder what the deceased’s obit read like.

[waterhill]

Nevermind....

[River_Wrangler]

she shot him in the chest

I read a report about a woman that had been shot Saturday night and had the bullet in her yet. Still have not found out where her yet is located.