Posted on 01/12/2005 11:23:57 AM PST by gubamyster
By David R. Guarino
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
When a snowplow driver allegedly flashed a Dunkin' Donuts worker early yesterday, police figured they'd take the usual path toward tracking him down: witness statements, descriptions, surveillance video.
But the West Bridgewater cops got help from above - way above.
After witnesses said the man fled in a large snowplow truck, police called the state Highway Department for help. Highway officials said they were able to use Global Positioning System technology, now mandatory in all highway trucks, to find the suspect.
By day's end, 32-year-old snowplow contractor Jason Wordell of Somerset was being arraigned on charges of indecent exposure and disorderly conduct.
``Thank God for GPS,'' said Michelle Depontbriand, the store manager.
``Without that, we would have never got the guy,'' West Bridgewater police Sgt. Kenneth Bryant said.
Police and the store manager said Wordell walked into the Dunkin' Donuts at the intersection of Routes 24 and 106 about 4:15 a.m. The middle-age female clerk said she noticed the man was fully exposed.
``Luckily, due to the GPS they have, they were able to pinpoint the exact same truck in the area at the time of the incident,'' Bryant said.
Jon Carlisle, a Highway Department spokesman, said, ``It was certainly not the intent of the GPS technology we have recently embraced to keep an eye on snow and ice contractors, but it was certainly good to help this law enforcement effort.''
A woman who answered the phone at Wordell's home said the contractor wouldn't speak to a reporter.
Shrinkage ping!
and they didnt even need to call in Columbo...
Ok, Honey......let me explain.......
Maybe the guy was ordering two cups of coffee and needed somewhere to hang the donut.
There seems to be a flash, I mean rash - of indecent exposure arrests in and around the Boston Area. Yesterday it was the Boston Globe Editor Guy. Now this...
Why do men in Boston have the need to show their stuff?
I think it has something to do with Hockey Withdrawal!
IMHO!
Maybe the guy was ordering two cups of coffee and needed somewhere to hang the donut.
Donut? One? Poor guy.
My, oh my. Bet that was breezy.
Glad my truck doesn't have a GPS tracker on it!
If they used a camera phone, I bet the contractor would have had a message to flash.
Which reminds me--Drudge said Sunday that we were going to have a Global Warming 40 above this week. Perhaps he missed the minus sign.
Damn! You beat me to it.
Curse you!!!!
It was just a GPS signal, but he can still claim his privates were viewable from space!! ROFL!! :-)
Yes indeed!! Think of the children!!! See? you too could be saved from hideous crimes and all you need to do hold still for the injection.
ps thank goodness they got him, he could've had a gun tucked somewhere...
Gives a whole new meaning to the term "baker's dozen".
If he was all bundled up in a lot of clothes, it could happen.
You go to the head, take off your gloves, unbutton and unzip five layers of pants, do your business, grab your gloves and forget to zip back up.
I don't think it's that far-fetched.
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