Posted on 07/09/2012 12:10:05 PM PDT by kevcol
A convicted sex offender suspected of molesting a 4-year-old Sausalito boy led police on a wild car chase yesterday morning, zigzagging through oncoming traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge before stopping his car and leaping over the bridge railing.
The incident, which was caught on police videotape, is believed to be only the second time a fleeing suspect has deliberately jumped off the famous span to avoid capture. The first, in 1984, was a suspect in a savings and loan robbery.
The body of Brian Alexander Ward, 39, of San Francisco had not been located yesterday afternoon despite an intensive search in the choppy waters near the bridge, but he is presumed to be dead.
Ward, whose criminal record includes a conviction for assault and several peeping charges, allegedly molested the 4-year-old repeatedly over the past 1 1/2 years while working as a gardener for a Sausalito family.
Sausalito Police Chief Stephen Willis said the boy had told his parents on April 20 that Ward had been touching his "private parts." A subsequent investigation determined that Ward had forced the boy to perform oral sex in the backyard while Ward was doing yard work.
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Heck, they should place diving platforms every 50 feet.
You want to jump? Go ahead climb out there.
NOTICE, Door only opens in one direction.
Will not open when weight is on platform.
Hopefully this pervert starts a movement for other fellow pervs.
Go to the golden bridge and JUMP.
After about a half hour of laughing my @ss off.
To quote Hal Holbrook in Magnum Force, “Well, Callahan, looks like somebody saved the taxpayers of California a lot of money”.
Someone here recently posted an interesting article on the bridge, including interviews with people who survived. The jump itself lasts about 4 seconds. One survivor who leaped over the rail said that the moment he was in the air he decided that every problem that he previously thought was unsolvable could be solved after all, except the one problem he was currently in. A female jumper said that time did indeed seem to stand still and she had 3 or 4 chances to reflect on what she had done to herself before she hit.
If I get a bit of extra time I'll look for that article and post a link.
Freepers are Creative .
Freepers are Creative .
Congratulations on having been completely conditioned by the Christ-hating media. How does it feel to be reduced to a pavlovian exhibit?
A child molester in San francisco? I just cant believe that. /s
What on earth are you talking about? I said now that they cant hide as priests they are easier to catch. That’s good for the church and society. Only an idiot would claim the church didn’t help hide pedophiles in the past.
You might as well say the school board or the family — but you don’t, because you’re either a useful idiot or else a bigot. What’s certain is that you’re easily taught to parrot your lines. It’s so cute that you really seem to believe you thought them up yourself.
What on earth are you talking about? Have you had your head in the sand for the past decade? Everyone knows of the Catholic Church scandal with pedophile priests. They were shuffling them around to keep the issue secret.
Did you know Jerry Sandusky wanted to be a priest, but when he heard how young the alter boys were—he passed—they were too young for his taste.
What I’m talking about is your evident obsessive hatred for the Catholic Church, so that you idiotically shoe-horn gratuitous smears into a thread about some other subject entirely.
Are you attacking the guy in post 3 that said something similar about boy scouts?
Oh if not, I think you’re the one with the bias issue. I’m just calling out the facts. You’re attacking the messenger not the facts that are there to deal with.
Just because the catholic church hid pedophile priests doesn’t mean the entire church is corrupt today.
BTW: I didn’t shoe-horn anything. Look at who I responded to? I was just extending the sarcasm.
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