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Hells Angel biker rammed intentionally, dragged a mile by East Bay Paratransit bus in San Leandro
Oakland Tribune ^ | 10/22/2011 | Matthias Gafni, Gary Peterson and Alan Lopez

Posted on 10/23/2011 6:25:04 AM PDT by csvset

A paratransit bus driver intentionally rammed a Hells Angels biker on Interstate 580, and then dragged him about a mile, killing him, a CHP spokesman said.

The biker, who has not been identified, was traveling eastbound on I-580 in San Leandro near Grand Avenue with a small group of Hells Angels members before 4 p.m. when an altercation began, said CHP Sgt. Trent Cross. After being hit, the motorcyclist and his bike were dragged for about a mile, said San Leandro police Lt. Greg Lemmon. Eventually, the biker was released from under the East Bay Paratransit bus, but the driver kept dragging the motorcycle, which was wedged underneath the front grill, until the vehicle stopped on the shoulder just east of the 150th Avenue onramp.

The Hells Angels biker was flown to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, where he was pronounced dead, Lemmon said.

The bus driver has been arrested, Lemmon said. Police are interviewing four witnesses who saw the incident.

"The preliminary information they are providing was that it wasn't an accident, it was an intentional ramming," Lemmon said.

All eastbound lanes were closed from Grand Avenue to 150th Avenue so police could conduct a homicide investigation over a large swath of freeway, Cross said. The lanes were expected to remain closed until 10 or 11 p.m., he said, and there were significant traffic delays in the area.

An East Bay Paratransit manager referred calls to First Transit, a contract agency that operates the bus. The First Transit representative did not return calls.

No passengers were on board the bus during the collision, said San Leandro police Sgt. Doug Calcagno. The paratransit bus provides door-to-door service for people unable to ride regular public transit because of disabilities.

It has been a tragic autumn for the Hells Angels motorcycle club.

San Jose chapter President Jeffrey "Jethro" Pettigrew was killed outside a Nevada casino last month. At his packed funeral Oct. 15, Steve Tausan, a 52-year-old Hells Angels enforcer and friend of Pettigrew's, was shot dead.

Also on Saturday, San Jose police served a search warrant at a Stockton house for 38-year-old Steven Ruiz, whom they say killed Tausan. After a lengthy standoff, police determined he was not in the house.


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 1lessthug; bayarea; california; hellsangels; jerrybrownsfault; paratransit
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Wow, running the guy down on purpose.

It has been a tragic autumn for the Hells Angels motorcycle club.

Couple of shooting deaths, now this.

1 posted on 10/23/2011 6:25:07 AM PDT by csvset
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To: csvset

The bus driver is living on borrowed time.


2 posted on 10/23/2011 6:28:06 AM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: csvset

Racial motivations likely. It would never be reported that way of course. Unless the roles were reversed, in which case it would be a 6-month-long national story...


3 posted on 10/23/2011 6:30:27 AM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: csvset

Murder, plain and simple.

I’m not for Hell or her angels, but I’m against what motorists do to motorcyclists (and bicyclists). There’s too much four-wheeled manslaughter and murder on our roads. The law needs to crack down.


4 posted on 10/23/2011 6:30:52 AM PDT by RoadTest (For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.)
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To: csvset
People who live by the sword, die by the sword.
BTW, I noticed that word "paratransit" is capitalized in this article and sometimes not.
Sloppy journalism?
5 posted on 10/23/2011 6:31:21 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: csvset

The best thing the bus driver could hope for is a fast conviction and a life sentence in solitary confinement...


6 posted on 10/23/2011 6:32:00 AM PDT by zwerni (this isn't gonna be good for business)
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To: csvset

“paratransit bus provides door-to-door service for people unable to ride regular public transit because of disabilities”

Those buses are always empty. I see more of those buses around here than normal buses


7 posted on 10/23/2011 6:35:12 AM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: csvset

He won’t last an hour in prison. In fact I give him less than twenty minutes in the population.


8 posted on 10/23/2011 6:37:12 AM PDT by BigCinBigD
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To: cripplecreek
Back in the early 70s the Angels came to Charleston SC (they were running crank and needed an office near the coast and off I-26) and one of them was killed by some redneck.

They killed the redneck in a public place and one of them (won't say his name—may still be alive) went to prison for manslaughter because everyone knew he pulled the trigger but there was not enough evidence for a murder charge.
When he got out after four years he immediatly murdered his girlfriend for fooling around while he was locked up.
And THIS guy was one of the nice ones!
Dead driver.

9 posted on 10/23/2011 6:40:45 AM PDT by Happy Rain ( "Many of the most useful idiots of the Left are on the Right.")
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To: csvset

Another dirtbag thug down! Good news!


10 posted on 10/23/2011 6:43:59 AM PDT by free me (heartless)
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To: csvset

The bus driver has now become a “1 percenter” himself.

Course that’s his survival percentage.


11 posted on 10/23/2011 6:45:00 AM PDT by Molon Labbie ("It's free, swipe your EBT!")
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To: BigCinBigD
He won’t last an hour in prison. In fact I give him less than twenty minutes in the population.

That would depend on which group protects him in prison. What is one of the two largest (and growing) cults in US prisons ?

12 posted on 10/23/2011 6:48:28 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began,)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass
“paratransit bus provides door-to-door service for people unable to ride regular public transit because of disabilities”

Those buses are always empty. I see more of those buses around here than normal buses


Perhaps the driver was simply trying to recruit new business.
13 posted on 10/23/2011 6:52:15 AM PDT by Krankor (Electrical banana Is gonna be a sudden craze Electrical banana Is bound to be the very next phase)
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To: Krankor

hehehe


14 posted on 10/23/2011 6:55:21 AM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: free me

Bikers aren’t all thugs. Try seeing some of the world before commenting on it from your blinkered armchair.


15 posted on 10/23/2011 6:56:50 AM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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Seriesly, if these EB Paratransit drivers drive anything like those in Santa Clara County, they're maniacs.

16 posted on 10/23/2011 6:59:28 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass; free me

“Bikers aren’t all thugs”

Hells Angels are.


17 posted on 10/23/2011 7:01:43 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: csvset

strikes me as odd that a guy driving a bus for people in wheelchairs would get into it with the hells angels. doesnt that seem odd?

and why would hells angels pick a fight with a wheelchair bus?

more to this methinks.


18 posted on 10/23/2011 7:02:19 AM PDT by beebuster2000
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Bikers aren’t all thugs.

There are outlaw gangs that make a living off organized crime and there are those who live nice quiet lives and simply like to ride.

My wedding reception was at a biker/sportsman's club. In fact they accepted a lot of non riders as members. My wife and I used to got to the club for Sunday morning breakfasts on a regular basis.
19 posted on 10/23/2011 7:05:10 AM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: driftdiver
How many do you know?

"Personally", I mean?

20 posted on 10/23/2011 7:05:45 AM PDT by PalmettoMason ("The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.")
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