Posted on 05/01/2005 3:11:41 PM PDT by Travis McGee
Motorist Shot on San Diego Freeway in North Hills
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An 18 year-old motorist on the San Diego (405) Freeway was shot three times today by a gunman in black Honda, police said.
A no-hits shooting occurred shortly afterward on the eastbound Foothill (210) Freeway near Hubbard Street.
The victim from the 405 went to the Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, and police said his vital signs were stable, said Los Angeles police Sgt. Jeff Hart of the Devonshire Station.
The victim, whose name police refused to make public, told police he was shot on the northbound 405 between Roscoe Boulevard and Nordhoff Street, Hart said. The wounded driver pulled off the freeway and flagged down an officer at Devonshire Street and Balboa Boulevard about 1:10 a.m., he said.
Five people were in the suspect car, the victim told police.
The car-to-car shooting was latest in a recent rash.
On April 24, a 33 year-old motorist was wounded on the northbound Costa Mesa (55) Freeway near 17th Street, near where Jake Tuason, 26, of Fontana, was fatally shot March 12.
Two other people were killed recently on the Harbor (110) Freeway in South Los Angeles.
Michael Livingston, 26, of Long Beach was shot in the head near Manchester Avenue on March 29.
On April 13, James Wiggins, 47, was shot near Redondo Beach Boulevard as he and another man were headed to a Bible study.
Ricky Smith, 32, of San Bernardino was shot to death at the 62-15-91 interchange in Riverside County on April 22.
A veteran California Highway Patrol supervisor with a background in freeway shooting investigations recently told the Daily News that the CHP and other agencies repeatedly asked Caltrans to use their traffic-monitoring cameras as crime surveillance tools.
We'll need to start our own stats. The MSM won't touch it.
"What MILEAGE do they get ?"
I don't know but you can figure dramatically less.
The armored vehicles' weight is considerably more.
They're not designed for "gas mileage"; just "getting you there in one piece" LOL
Even the Dutch are making more of one than we are. I left LA right after the riots, because you can't make a stand alone, and everybody else was so bloody concerned about trying to "understand" the rioters and looters.
People in the area have "frog in the kettle" syndrome - the adage that a frog that jumps into a kettle of cold water won't jump out if the water is heated slowly enough, and will eventually boil to death.
I remember the LA Times used to print "The Weekend Toll" on Monday's, totaling up the number of gang murders over the weekend. It started out in single digits, and steadily escalated to 22, when it just stopped being news, and no longer showed up on the front page. What decent residents in LA now put up with as just "Hey...life in LA", is intolerable and untenable for a civilized society.
I understand. But after a few of these punks got DRT (dead right there) this stuff would abate.
IF we abandon California to the immivasion, is that a solution, or just appeasement of a sort, backing up inch by inch, until our backs are to the wall?
No it isn't the solution. The only solution is fighting back. The problem is that too many voters aren't fighters, they are appeasers, especially in California.
BTW, I priced a new armored MB500S a couple of years ago and if memory serves the highway mileage was in the teens... I wasn't concerned about gas mileage so I didn't pay much attention to that...but it was $50K over the standard 500S.
Good.......! We have recoprocity with florida and bama....:o)
I always tell my friends in Cali and the southwest that were I'm from (the northeast) if a violent crime occurs that is not the result of a serial killer, most folks assume the perp was black. In Cali and the SW it seems, people assume the perp was Mexican. Says alot about the state of race relations in both sections of the country.
Gee, that really narrows it down, huh?
Damn b-stards have already gotten away with it.
>>Caltrans doesnt know how to record the feeds....they do have a lot of cameras.....
I have a friend who writes software for recording video streams to hard drives and archiving them. Their market is building owned, and a large part of the reason is so that owners have vids of what really goes down in "slip and fall" situations, and such, where the building owner/management gets sued.
The point being, there are cost-effective commercial solutions for the problem.
caltrans has cameras but no means of recording what the cameras see... Easily fixed at FRY's...
>>And millions of Americans are moving out.
I chatted briefly with what looked to be an aging hippy couple while waiting around in an airport this weekend. They were going to visit California, where they were from, and had family. They had moved here (GA) because "it had gotten too crazy out there".
Didn't get into particulars, but I was sure thinking "yeah, it got crazy because of all the hippy silliness and idiocy out there in CA, working its way into how the government is run."
" Oh, these are the first shootings ever huh? Only on George's watch? Gratias Jorge, my foot. "
Jorge's " Homeland Security " should have included securing the borders by whatever means necessary and kicking out as many illegals as we could find that are already here !
No, it says a lot about cold statistics.
THANK you!!!!!!!
It is senseless shooting and my husband and I think it might be a gang initiation, too.
How long does it take to drive from Music City to the Redneck Riviera?
It's 500 miles more or less.
I can do it in an easy 8.
Really great news!
Have you figured on a specific area?
You do remember Maryland summers?
Add about 5-7 degrees.
Great water though and much more economical than where you are now.
There are still reasonable back bay areas from Weeks Bay to Appalachicola.
I know - I was a bit sarcastic... :o)
With today's gas prices - it'll be Hell to pay for the added security
My first guess would be they were members of MS-13.
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