Posted on 05/09/2012 6:45:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Chippewa Falls man who repeatedly tried to block his estranged wife from driving to the polls Tuesday was hospitalized with head, neck and back injuries when she struck him with her sport utility vehicle.
Jeffrey Radle, a Gov. Scott Walker supporter, was on foot.
Amanda Radle, a recall proponent, was in a Dodge Durango.
The pair had been arguing early Tuesday afternoon over who she was going to vote for in the gubernatorial recall election primary, said Chippewa Falls Police Chief Wendy L. Stelter.
"She was planning on voting for a certain candidate, and it wasn't the candidate he wanted her to vote for," Stelter said.
When Amanda Radle, 30, attempted to pull out, Jeffrey Radle, 36, stood in front of her, according to a police department statement. She nudged him with the vehicle several times.
Each time he would "retreat and re-establish his ground," the release said. "At one point he climbed onto the hood."
When she finally attempted to drive around him, Jeffrey Radle jumped in front of the vehicle and was hit. Aman da Radle left the scene and went to the police department to report the incident, the release said.
"These crazy liberal nuts are always pulling this crap," said Radle's brother, Mike Radle, describing himself and his brother as firm supporters of Walker, the subject of the recall.
Mike Radle said his brother was in stable condition but had suffered serious injuries and was still unconscious Tuesday afternoon.
"He'll be in the hospital at least overnight," he said.
Stelter would not confirm whether Jeffrey Radle was still being treated.
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Well, mostly I guess. Except I keep getting badgered to explain myself. :)
Sorry for the confusion, but it seemed you were attaching thoughts to me that I wasn’t really having. Also acknowledge that your original post was “To” several FReepers, not just me.
Get a clue:
346.67 Duty upon striking person or attended or occupied vehicle.
(1) The operator of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person or in damage to a vehicle which is driven or attended by any person shall immediately stop such vehicle at the scene of the accident or as close thereto as possible but shall then forthwith return to and in every event shall remain at the scene of the accident until the operator has fulfilled the following requirements:
(a) The operator shall give his or her name, address and the registration number of the vehicle he or she is driving to the person struck or to the operator or occupant of or person attending any vehicle collided with; and
(b) The operator shall, upon request and if available, exhibit his or her operator’s license to the person struck or to the operator or occupant of or person attending any vehicle collided with; and
(c) The operator shall render to any person injured in such accident reasonable assistance, including the carrying, or the making of arrangements for the carrying, of such person to a physician, surgeon or hospital for medical or surgical treatment if it is apparent that such treatment is necessary or if such carrying is requested by the injured person.
(2) Any stop required under sub. (1) shall be made without obstructing traffic more than is necessary.
346.74 Penalty for violating sections 346.67 to 346.73.
(1) Any person violating s. 346.72 may be required to forfeit not less than $20 nor more than $40 for the first offense and may be required to forfeit not less than $50 nor more than $100 for the 2nd or subsequent conviction within a year.
(2) Any person violating s. 346.70 (1), (2) or (3), 346.71 or 346.73 may be required to forfeit not less than $40 nor more than $200 for the first offense and may be required to forfeit not less than $100 nor more than $500 for the 2nd or subsequent conviction within a year.
(3) Any person violating s. 346.68 or 346.69 may be required to forfeit not more than $200.
(4) Any person violating s. 346.70 (5) may be required to forfeit not less than $25 nor more than $50.
(5) Any person violating any provision of s. 346.67 (1): (a) Shall be fined not less than $300 nor more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 6 months or both if the accident did not involve death or injury to a person.
(b) May be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than 9 months or both if the accident involved injury to a person but the person did not suffer great bodily harm.
(c) Is guilty of a Class E felony if the accident involved injury to a person and the person suffered great bodily harm.
“However, it makes no sense to “assume” another set of facts based on your mistrust of the media.”
I assumed no other facts.
“She should be prosecuted to the max.”
The articles says he JUMPED in front of the car.
I am not saying he wasn’t wrong.
I am saying I don’t trust the media to report on any political issue. Perhaps the only thing it had to do about politics was it was election day, and the argument had nothing to do with politics? Who knows?
Reporters lie, especially about politics, and whenever possible.
THIS is what comes of giving women the right to (drive and) vote!
Stupid guy.
Are they color blind,look at the walls.
A la "he ran into my fist." Doesn't matter. If she hit him, she officially "lost control of the vehicle." (Which by the way she had nudged, prodded, or menaced him with, several times, before the final assault...according to the article.)
Then leaving him there injured, that's a whole other offense.
I'm astounded (maybe shouldn't be) by the comments here in her defense. She escalated to physical assault severe enough to put him in the hospital, and people are basically saying he asked for it and deserved it.
I married one masquerading as a reagan lover. He turned out to be a raging liberal.
http://www.leadertelegram.com/news/front_page/article_793750c8-724a-11e1-be16-0019bb2963f4.html
Article here offers a photo of one Amanda Radle in Chippewa area, who may or may not be the woman referenced in the SUV story, but is identified as a “social services director” for the Salvation Army.
His good looks?
LOL! I was looking at the picture thinking "how does a man that ugly father such beautiful daughters?"
So did a number of my high school friends.
We still greet each other as fellow scabs.
Yeah, the husband was out of line getting in his wife's way. But she was more out of line hitting him.
He didn't try to key the car, pound on the hood with sticks, throw bricks at the windshield or any number of other tactics union goons use on picket lines.
By the way, the company where I got my first job was decent enough to lease spaces in a patrolled public parking area near the plant and send a shuttle van to pick us up. The goons moved over because they knew the van driver was armed and licensed to carry. We heard their shouting, bitching and insults, but there was no violence. The strike petered out in about three weeks because about half the strikers came back to work. The other half believed the union and became unemployed. My friends and I got our first jobs which paid decent wages and included benefits. Our costs and efficiencies were so much better that the company laid off more union employees in their Chicago plant and moved additional production to Fargo.
Yeah, it was really scary at first. But, all-in-all, not a bad return for leasing a satellite parking lot, paying security patrols and hiring a couple of shuttle van drivers for a month.
“Amanda Radle, who left the scene and went to the Chippewa Falls Police Department to report the incident, was arrested. She appeared Wednesday morning in Chippewa County court before a bond hearing on possible charges of domestic battery and second-degree recklessly endangering safety.”
Other searches indicate the woman has a BA in sociology. (Guilty!)
Yeah, we had a fenced in parking lot, police and security at the gate. But the union goons would jump in front of a moving car, or feint jumping in front. They were total jerks. I felt bad because I knew a lot of the union guys, they were my friends and co-workers and they were losing paychecks in order to feed the goons and unproductive union bosses. The strike did no good, they came back to work for the original offer.
“A la “he ran into my fist.” Doesn’t matter. If she hit him, she officially “lost control of the vehicle.””
I don’t see how you come to that conclusion. It says she was trying to drive around him and he leapt in front of the vehicle. How you can translate action on his part which led to his injuries into her responsibility is beyond me. If I leap in front of a train, the engineer has not “lost control” of the train.
The guys who came back to work at our plant told us that the most ardent union supporters were the chronic screw ups and goof offs.
Which probably explains why productivity soared after they left and the company moved additional production to our plant.
I always thought it was rather ironic how the thuggish behavior of union goons in Fargo ended up costing the jobs of their fellow union members in Chicago.
Needless to say, not long after additional production was moved from Chicago to our plant, petitions were circulated to decertify the union. There was no love lost since most of the union guys who crossed the picket line had been suspended from the union for doing so anyway. The final vote to decertify was nearly unanimous. We all joked that the handful of negative votes must have come from the nearby cemetary.
Let's say you're driving and the car in front of you slams on the brakes, because a puppy ran into the street. The driver didn't mean to get rear-ended by you, he meant to spare the puppy's life. And he didn't make it rain, but you hit the brakes and slide over a puddle and -- wham! You know what the cop will say? You get a ticket for having lost control of your vehicle.
I can assure you, it's all very black-or-white when the cop arrives. You either did it deliberately (which in Mrs. Radle's case would be a very serious assault) or you did it accidentally, and if the latter, you "lost control of the vehicle." You were either in control or not. I believe she will heartily affirm she was not in control, given the alternative.
So, you support her running over her clown husband-what if she had pulled a Baretta 92F and double tapped him, would that be okay, too? Besides the New Black Panthers, according to news reports, kept a lot of people from voting in the ‘08 elections in Philly, and they got away with it. Good ol’ Eric Holder says he won’t prosecute black crimes.
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