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Florida woman is accused of throwing a rubber snake at a deputy, one of several charges she now faces after a bizarre chase. “Yeah. I think one of the takeaways from this whole thing is that there’s nothing routine about a routine traffic stop,” Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said. Snyder said that routine traffic stop happened at about 10:15 a.m. Wednesday. A deputy on a motorcycle tried to pull over a pickup truck when another pickup truck hit the gas hard. So, the deputy chased that truck.

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. — Police in Martin County, Florida arrested a woman who they said threw a rubber snake at deputies following a chase and crash in which she intentionally tried to hit a department vehicle. The sheriff’s office says a driver was pulled over just outside of Indiantown on May 18, but the driver ended up taking off and trying to run down a deputy on their department-issued motorcycle. “The MCSO deputy on the motorcycle was able to jump off of the bike before being struck,” the department wrote in a Facebook post. Investigators say the driver, identified...