Hmmmm..has winkler and dean ever been photographed together?????
Posted on 3/10/2005, 1:37:17 PM by Bigturbowski
TAMPA - A Tampa man is out of jail after a possible road rage incident that gives new meaning to the term "driving left of center."
Nathan Winkler, 31, was arrested overnight and charged with aggravated stalking for allegedly terrorizing a mother and her two children.
According to police, Winkler pulled up alongside Michelle Fernandez as she was headed south on Armenia and began beeping his horn and flailing his arms, pointing at her. Fernandez, meanwhile, could not see Winkler's face because of a handmade sign in his window that read, "Never forget Bush's illegal oil war murdered thousands in Iraq."
"Apparently, this starts over political views or bumper stickers. She had a Bush/Cheney sticker on the back of her car. There's just no excuse for it to escalate to what it did," observed Tampa police spokesman Joe Durkin.
Winkler apparently grew more agitated as they continued to drive along, allegedly trying to run Fernandez's car off the road several times over the next few miles.
The 34-year-old grew increasingly concerned for herself and her two children in the car and called 911. Action News obtained recordings of those calls, in which the fear in her voice is evident.
No one would answer the door at Winkler's South Tampa home. "Look, he's trying to run me off the road," she is heard telling the 911 dispatcher. "Look at him. You [censored] idiot! Whatever, you moron! Get away from me."
"I was blowing my horn at someone because I'm running stop signs and everything to get away from him," she added later.
But investigators say even that did not stop Winkler from pulling in front of Fernandez and forcing her to stop. As he tried to run up to her car, she drove away and was headed to police district headquarters when she finally managed to lose Winkler.
Cops caught up with Winkler at his home not long afterwards, where he reportedly blamed Fernandez for starting the altercation by making an obscene gesture. He was booked into jail on a charge of aggravated stalking, but was free by morning on $2,000 bond.
Back at home Wednesday morning, Winkler declined to answer the door. From inside, a female voice told Action News that the incident was simply a "misunderstanding" with another driver.
Fernandez, meanwhile, could not be reached for comment.
He should be taken to Gitmo with all the other enemy combatants.
Take this boy to one of those hospitals with soft walls in the rooms, and have his plugs and points changed.
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Check out the comments about this on Demo Underground. They practically want to give this guy the Congressional Medal of Freedom - and hope his act of violence gets people to rub off their Bush/Cheney stickers. Ah, free speech for me, not for thee.
I wonder what his DUmmie screen name is?
Man it's getting scarier driving around Tampa lately!
Why doesn't this happen to me? I guess I'd better remove all the NRA stickers to improve my chances.
I have a Bush campaign mouse pad and mug. It's bad enough that I have to get dirty looks from the cable guy or whatever stranger in my home. What am I talking about? Dirty looks from my friends and family too.
If he doesn't yet have a DU account, he will soon. They recruit creeps like this. Just dayum.
Time to put a fresh "W" oval on my car: bring the pain, creeps.
'ain't taking my Bush stickers off - and wear my silver "W" pin everywhere - just to annoy the lily-livered-libs
I'm with you. It woul be a "Go ahead, punk. Make my day." moment if he committed attempted murder on my kids like he did with this woman and her kids. Justifiable homocide.
i totally believe this. i had something similar happen before the election, i was picking up my 16 yo daughter at the mall in suburban VA. a car pulled up along side me and some 30 somethings, husband and wife WITH A BABY IN A CARSEAT started yammering at me about Bush, doing a thumbs down etc. They had been honking etc. and i had no idea what their problem was til they started badmouthing Bush. i looked at them incredulously and said you two really need to grow up. i had my 10 yo daughter in the back seat and the 16 yo and my girls were just grinning and laughing and doing a thumbs UP for Bush! it was hysterical, it continued through several stop lights. i had never seen anything like it. I don't blame this woman, if he was being nasty, i would have called the cops too.
Hmmmm..has winkler and dean ever been photographed together?????
Yet, ANOTHER episode brought to you by the party of tolerance.
I managed to get away from them--and haven't driven since--without being armed--and ready!
LOL! Ya think the NRA sticker would dissuade them?
What a putz.
He should be in a padded dark room eating jello with his hands.
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