Heh heh. - It works that way a lot, it seems.
But sometimes, it works the other way, too.
Posted on 04/02/2009 10:43:43 AM PDT by smokinleroy
SHERMAN -- April Fool's Day started off without much laughter for a man whose car got smashed by a train at around 3 a.m. Wednesday.
Bruce Dawsey of the Sherman Police Department said dispatchers received a call seeking assistance at about that time from a man who said his car was stuck on the track and he didn't know what to do.
"I am scared and I am lost and I am stranded on a railroad track," the man could be heard telling the dispatcher on a recording of the 911 call.
"I took the wrong turn somewhere and I am so lost," he continued.
When the dispatcher asked him to look around and tell her what he could see, he said, "railroad tracks and some woods."
"Were you on a main highway at some point?" she asked.
He replied that he was and she asked him to tell her what he saw.
Then he started talking about a train.
"There is a train coming and I am gonna ... I am gonna get killed," the man said in a voice that sounded somewhere between confused and sleepy.
"She told him to get out of the car, and he did," Dawsey said.
Then the dispatcher tried to continue finding out the man's location.
"Where did you come from?" she asked.
"Dallas, Texas," he responded.
"What is your name?" she asked.
"There goes my car," he answered.
She asked if something had hit his car.
"Yep, it's gonna hit real quick ... It's gone."
A few seconds later, a loud screeching noise started and he continued to say, "Yep, it's gone."
Dawsey said the dispatchers then received a call from the train's drivers saying it had struck a car.
Officers arrived at the scene on Howe Drive, south of F.M. 1417 and west of U.S. Highway 75, and found the car carnage as well as a man they suspected might be intoxicated. The train, Dawsey said, had pushed the car several hundred feet down the track. He said officers had the man, identified as Jeff Sabold, 46, perform field sobriety test and then arrested him. He was booked into the Grayson County Jail.
Dawsey said he didn't have any information on the amount of damage to Sabold's 2000 Ferrari. The train, Dawsey said, did not derail. Dawsey said it is unclear, at this point, if the man will face any additional charges stemming from the wreck.
Sabold is listed on the company Web site as owner of Automotive Concepts, a luxury car service company in Carrollton.
How does someone this dumb wind up with a car this nice? Is there some sort of inverse law?
That’s putting it very nicely.
Must be, look at Algore.
Uhhh....All of it...
just look at Charlie Rangel...
Heh heh. - It works that way a lot, it seems.
But sometimes, it works the other way, too.
Why arrest the train driver? What we he supposed to do, swerve? Oh, wait ... nevermind.
They have many fun misadventures ...
LOL! Okay Magnum, okay.
It's conceivable it wasn't his, given what he does for a living...
http://www.kxii.com/home/headlines/42269052.html
Not really, sounds like an insurance job to me and well documented “accident”.
This may sound ridiculous but did the police officer witness or come up with a witness to place the suspect behind the wheel of the car?
Couldn’t one put the car in neutral and push it a few feet??
That’s what I’m thinking too. Guy takes the car out for a “test drive” to impress the gals at the bar.
A friend of mine has a son that is a good mechanic and went to some high-end trade school so he could work on these fancy cars. But, he got busted for pot or drinking or something and that dream is put on hold - five years I think before it will be taken off his record. Seems these Ferrari dealers don’t want some pot-smoking kid working on the cars.
I’m guessing the intoxicated arrest is going to void any insurance claims.
http://www.kxii.com/home/headlines/42269052.html
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