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Man fleeing wreck leaps to his death in Dallas
The Dallas Morning News ^
| May 21, 2008
| KAREN AYRES SMITH
Posted on 05/22/2008 2:59:06 PM PDT by Texican72
A Dallas man died early Wednesday morning when he accidentally jumped to his death off an overpass following a traffic accident, police said.
Chalk Hill Road and West Davis Street Richard Mauricio Jr., 19, crashed into another car at Chalk Hill Road and West Davis Street around 2:30 a.m., said Dallas police Senior Cpl. Jerry Monreal.
The other driver told police that Mr. Mauricio then got out of the car and ran west on Davis Street. He jumped over a railing and plummeted to his death.
Senior Cpl. Monreal said it’s hard to tell that there is such a drop on the other side of the railing.
“It’s like a three-story fall,” he said. “He might not have known."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: criminal; darwin; dumb; freestuff
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Darwin Award nominee?
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posted on
05/22/2008 2:59:06 PM PDT
by
Texican72
To: Texican72
Stolen car? Drugs in the car? No license, insurance? A body in the trunk? Why else would he run from the scene of an accident?
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posted on
05/22/2008 3:01:59 PM PDT
by
bcsco
(To heck with a third party. We need a second one....)
To: Texican72
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posted on
05/22/2008 3:02:33 PM PDT
by
A message
To: Texican72
Rule #1 of jumping:
Know where you're going to land.
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posted on
05/22/2008 3:02:35 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: bcsco
To: right turn at the light
he’s an illegal alien Not any more. Now he's an illegal corpse.
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posted on
05/22/2008 3:06:11 PM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(OVERPRODUCTION......... one of the top five worries for American farmers.)
To: right turn at the light
Could be, but I thought the name seemed more Italian to me.
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posted on
05/22/2008 3:06:21 PM PDT
by
bcsco
(To heck with a third party. We need a second one....)
To: Texican72
Senior Cpl. Monreal said it’s hard to tell that there is such a drop on the other side of the railing. Oh please don't give his family and some sleazy attorney any grounds to sue.
To: Texican72
lot’s of people falling these days.
Mets game, Braves game, this guy.
To: right turn at the light
Possibly, possibly not. In Texas, a Hispanic last name means nothing either way - consider that there were men with names like Abamillo, Badillo, Cruz, Espalier, Esparza, Guerrero and Jimenez on the walls of the Alamo trying to hold off the Mexican hordes.
And with a first name of “Richard” rather than “Ricardo”, that makes me think he’s most likely legal.
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posted on
05/22/2008 3:09:32 PM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Texican72
...accidentally jumped to his death off an overpass... Just how does one accidentally jump?
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posted on
05/22/2008 3:10:02 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
To: Texican72
To: Texican72
Hey, he committed a felony by leaving the scene of an accident. He just saved the state a lot of money.
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posted on
05/22/2008 3:11:44 PM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Texican72
...“He might not have known."...Ya think?
Guy here in Florida did that recently. Car broke down and he went to take a leak.
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posted on
05/22/2008 3:12:41 PM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(Me no bottom man. Me top man.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I believe it is accomplished by attempting to jump to freedom and discovering, a bit too late, that the fall was just a *bit* farther than you thought...
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posted on
05/22/2008 3:12:47 PM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: right turn at the light
My Bet too...
Looks like we got one less to deport....
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posted on
05/22/2008 3:14:30 PM PDT
by
RachelFaith
(Doing NOTHING... about the illegals already here IS Amnesty !!)
To: Texican72
Talk about jumping to a conclusion...
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posted on
05/22/2008 3:17:49 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(If you don't vote, you don't matter.)
To: Retired Greyhound
lot’s of people falling these days. Mets game, Braves game, this guy. Its not the fall thats the problem. Its the landing.
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posted on
05/22/2008 3:24:34 PM PDT
by
Go Gordon
(The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.)
To: Texican72
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posted on
05/22/2008 3:54:24 PM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(1984 was supposed to be a warning not an instruction manual!)
To: Retired Greyhound
lot’s of people falling these days.
Mets game, Braves game, this guy.
Global gravity change? Al Gore, where are you?
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posted on
05/22/2008 4:32:41 PM PDT
by
fr_freak
(So foul a sky clears not without a storm.)
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