Burglar captured after losing leg

Daily Bulletin ^ | 4/10/07

[NormsRevenge]

POMONA -- A suspected burglar using a chain and pickup truck to steal an ATM from a market this morning failed to escape capture when his prosthetic leg fell off. Gregory Daniels, 48, was arrested on suspicion of burglary. A second man fled the scene and was not in custody.

The pair smashed a large glass window of the Pomona Ranch Market at 2277 N. Garey Ave. about 3 a.m., police said.

They used a chain and a truck to yank a bolted-down ATM from a concrete floor. Police came to the area and spotted the getaway car.

Officers followed the men into a residential neighborhood. The men drove onto a dead-end street and stopped. Police said one of the men escaped, but Daniels, who had tried to flee, was on the ground because his prosthetic leg fell off.

[Rennes Templar]

The guy was probably looking for an escape route and couldn’t find any - he was stumped as to what to do. I’m sure this made him hopping mad. The arresting officer was heard to say, “well now you don’t have much of a leg-I-see.”

[B4Ranch]

I had a crush on Peg for a while then she snuck off witha termite inspector. Talk about a bad case of dry rot, I was in sad shape until I got varnished by Steely.

[in the Arena]

Great partner.

Never do thievery with a partner that can run faster than you...or...has more legs than you...

[Blogatron]

[Larry Lucido]

I may be going out on a limb, but I suspect he’ll do time in the joint.

Especially if he was armed.

[B4Ranch]

I hope you aren’t speaking those words of wisdom from personal experience.

[stumpy]

About 1980 there was a labor dispute at an aggagate quarry near where I worked as a deputy sheriff. The manager was sleeping in his office when he heard noises near his dump trucks.

He went out, and confronted 3 guys cutting the air hoses on his trucks. Well, the fight began and during the scuffle, they all ended up on the ground, with one guy tugging on the manager’s leg.

The manager’s prosthesis came off, and the guy tugging on it fainted dead away. The second guy figured they’d killed the manager and fled a couple miles on foot to a gas station where he called the sheriff and said he thought they’d killed the manager by ripping his leg off.

When we got there, the manager was beating the crap out of the third guy, you guessed it, using his prosthesis as a club. We hooked up the two there, and went back to the gas station and picked up the third. After quitting the cops, I worked as a trucker out of that quarry with that manager. Semper Fi.

[Chena]

I had a one-legged boyfriend but I broke it off.

[KarlInOhio]

Maybe he can get together with the girl from Grindhouse.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

I had a crush on Peg for a while then she snuck off witha termite inspector. Talk about a bad case of dry rot, I was in sad shape until I got varnished by Steely.

Hark, something varnishes in Denmark and I wot, I wood thee knot post such pining.

O! If only Greg's livery had mighty winged Pegasus, or if he were Icarus, but I concedar waxwing.

[B4Ranch]

I’m not stumped, just going to quit for the night.

[Slings and Arrows]

Heather Mills: "Amateur!"

[in the Arena]

LOL, no, just a take on the old bear joke...

"Only hike in bear country with someone you can out run..."

[in the Arena]

stumpy

With a name like that it's even funnier coming from you...

[Chena]

And here I was waiting for the other foot to drop. ;)

[F.J. Mitchell]

the problem is you never know who can out run whom, until the bear shows up. ;-) Or is it whom can out run who? I can never remember.

[in the Arena]

That’s why I carry the camping gear and my partner carries the food...

[CounterCounterCulture]

Poor guy, didn’t have a leg to stand on.

I was once on a jury for a case that happened in West Oakland and one of the defendents had that same problem (we convicted them). I use that line any chance I get. :-)

[F.J. Mitchell]

LOL! Smart move.

[in the Arena]

Ha, take care...