HPD: Man Dies While Trying To Steal Boat

click2houston.com ^ | 8 April, 2009 | NA

[marktwain]

HOUSTON -- One person was killed when a group of men tried to steal a boat while driving down a freeway, KPRC Local 2 reported.

Houston police said three men in a car tried to steal a boat that a man was hauling with his pickup truck on Interstate 45 at about 1 a.m.

Investigators said the men in the car opened fire on the man in the pickup truck. The man in the pickup truck returned fire, officials said.

One of the men inside the car was killed. The driver of the car stopped at a gas station on North Shepherd Drive for help.

The driver of the pickup truck lost control and ended up a field. There were fish in the boat because the man was returning from a fishing trip at Lake Conroe.

[Tony O]

Maybe they were “Red Herrings”!!

[TribalPrincess2U]

It’s Houston journalism at it’s finest.

[radiohead]

Y’all must have some real enterprising thieves in Texas. Do I understand this right - they were trying to steal the boat while the owner was hauling it, on a highway???

Just when you think you’ve heard it all...

[pillut48]

Who’s for taking up a collection to send the driver of the pickup truck over to rescue Captain Phillips?!?

Because HolyO has absolutely NO intention of rescuing an American citizen, might hurt his Islamic ‘friends’ (they aren’t pirates, they’re just misunderstood fishermen!) feelings! Plus I think he’s waiting for his Imam’s permission to act!

[School of Rational Thought]

Land pirates AAARRRGGGHHH

[DirtyHarryY2K]

Do I understand this right - they were trying to steal the boat while the owner was hauling it, on a highway???

Obama voters no doubt....

[2001convSVT]

“Don’t mess with Texas.” That’s right, in Texas it is best to treat every one on the road as if they are carrying a firearm, because I have found out most do.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Land piracy, properly managed.

[Liberty Valance]

Thanks. Makes sense now.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

!

[20yearvet]

It was a militant PETA group trying to rescue the Fish!

[Eaker]

Texas Somalis not clear on the concept.

Think it was Squantos and gunner?

[MARTIAL MONK]

Terrible lack of detail.

What kind of fish?

How big?

What was he using for bait?

They left out the important stuff.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I always pictured them as Zulus.

[Osage Orange]

Why does it appear that the back of that car...is all messed up?

Much more than just bullet holes.

Or am I seeing things....?

[blam]

"Why does it appear that the back of that car...is all messed up? "

I don't know...I thought the same. Maybe the truck rammed it?

[Squantos]

.....anyone know the ballistic coefficient of a truck towing a boat at highway speed ?

[PAR35]

I didn't know they were biting at Conroe.

My guess is coming back up from the Gulf.

It's been my experience that the pickup drivers around Conroe are some of the worst drivers in the state.