Posted on 03/09/2005 4:21:07 PM PST by dukeman
South Tampa, Florida - On Tuesday evening, Michelle Fernandez was driving down Armenia in South Tampa with her two children in the car, when another driver tried to run her off the road. The man had a sign over his passenger window that said 'Never forget Bush's illegal oil war murdered thousands in Iraq.'
Fernandez has a Bush/Cheney bumper sticker on her car. Fernandez called police from her cell phone when the driver began yelling, blowing his horn, and following her.
9-1-1 Dispatch
Dispatch: Where are you on Kennedy?
Caller: Right now I'm on Kennedy and Arrawana. Look, he just pulled over next to me, he's stopping the car, it's ridiculous this man! Look he's running after my car, Oh my goodness, he's a fanatic, he's in the middle of the street!
For nine minutes Fernandez stayed on the phone with dispatchers, turning on busy streets, hoping to lose the other driver. The dispatcher heard a horn honking in the background.
Dispatch: Is that him blowing his horn at you?
Caller: No I was blowing my horn at somebody 'cause I'm running stoplights and everything else to get away from him.
Fernandez was finally able to throw the driver off her trail. She ended up going to a near-by little league ball park and waited for police to file a report. They arrested Nathan Winkler at his home. They found the sign in the car.
Joe Durkin, Tampa Police spokesperson
"When we contacted him, his indication to the officers of why he was upset, was because he says 'the victim flipped him off, and that's why I pursued her.' But this is taking political views to an extreme."
Winkler is now charged with aggravated stalking/road rage, which carries a five year sentence.
They plea a lot of stuff down.
The pitch and level of the anger is really quite disturbing, isn't it? About two weeks ago I came across a thread over on DU about their outrage over Alaska Airlines' practice of handing out a short Psalm on a card along with the in-flight meals. You could just picture them spitting on their screens as they typed their vicious comments.
I keep my B/C bumper sticker on hoping for just such an occassion. Of Course, my prominent NRA sticker may give even delusional libs second thoughts...
Odd how I don't see this story anywhere on the DUmmie boards. :)
Which one do you think this liberal coward would have understood the best, especially in Florida, one of the first CCW states?
And BTW, does anyone know where I can get a "Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than all my guns" bumper sticker? I'm not having much luck with Google. It's time to change out the "Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns" bumper sticker. Magnetized bumper stickers are the best!
you know I was just talking to my therapist about that...
I hope you don't forget to wash up aftewards :)
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I couldn't help but notice that he was a real tough guy when he was chasing down a woman with her children in the car. He needs to try this crap on another guy and see what happens.
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He'd be dead.
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He should get more than 5 years! He endangered the children's lives!
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The Pinellas County DA got an attempted murder charge through on a guy who chased his wife through red lights -- the red lights being a "golden door" escalating simple assault to assault with intent to kill.
If she has a good lawyer who knoews precedent, he could go up for most of the rest of his life.
My Tahoe still wears its' W04 stickers loud and proud. I often wonder what goes on in the (small) minds of the (very few) liberals driving cars with Kerry stickers. I suspect most of them have long since removed those stickers, but you would not believe how many pro-Bush stickers I STILL see on the roads of Phoenix.
(AP) A man apparently enraged by a Bush-Cheney sticker on a woman's sport utility vehicle chased her for miles and tried to run her off the road while holding up an anti-Bush sign, police said.
"He told our officers that he just got mad at her, so he went after her," said police spokesman Joe Durkin.
Nathan Alan Winkler, 31, was freed on $2,000 bail early Wednesday on a charge of aggravated stalking, which carries up to five years in prison.
No one answered the telephone Thursday at Winkler's home, but his father, John Winkler, said: "I know that he's very anti-Bush. But I don't see him doing anything like that. He's the least aggressive person I know."
Winkler told police he got upset with the woman, 35-year-old Michelle Fernandez, after she made an obscene gesture, Durkin said. Fernandez was taking her 10-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter to a ball field Tuesday when the incident occurred.
"Whatever gestures I made, I made them because I was trying to figure out why he was honking at me and pointing at his sign," Fernandez said.
Police said that as Winkler chased the woman's vehicle, he held up a small sign that read: "Never Forget Bush's Illegal War Murdered Thousands in Iraq."
Fernandez found a police officer and described the car and license number. Within an hour, police arrested Winkler at his home.
Fernandez said she is a registered Democrat who voted for President Bush in 2004.
I might have shot the man, and ask questions latter. After reading the 9-1-1 call, it is clear that the family was in danger. Fearing for their lives, they ran red lights. This man is lucky he didn't get killed.
Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com
Idiot or Insane alert!!!!
Oh ,she had guys throwing their drinks on her?
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