Police Chase Tractor-Trailer Into Virginia

NBC 4 Washington, DC ^ | 12/9/2008 | Matthew Stabley

[VanShuyten]

Virginia State Police troopers have joined the pursuit of a tractor-trailer that started in Germantown, Md.

The chase started on Interstate 270 after an incident with police. The driver of the Western Express truck refused to stop.

Stop sticks have been used to deflate the tires, but the truck has continued into Virginia and is at Tysons Corner.

Montgomery County police and Maryland State Police also are involved in the pursuit.

No injuries have been reported.

[VanShuyten]

I have no idea, but the chase started about 15 miles north of DC and ended on the Beltway west of DC.

[DanielRedfoot]

We got a long way to go, and a short time to get there- just sit back and watch ol bandit run........

[ConorMacNessa]

A little rush hour enhancer.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[petro45acp]

Elwood: It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses.

Jake : Hit it.

Hoping it is not some nefarious deed!

[Sybeck1]

Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C’mon

Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure
By golly it’s clean clear to Flag-Town, C’mon

Uh, yeah, that’s a big 10-4 Pig-Pen,
Yeah, we definitely got us the front door good buddy,
Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy

Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth, pullin’ logs
Cabover Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin’ hogs
We ‘as headin’ fer bear on I-One-Oh
‘Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town
I sez Pig-Pen, this here’s the Rubber Duck
An’ I’m about to put the hammer on down

Cause we gotta little ol’ convoy, rockin’ through the night
Yeah we gotta little ol’ convoy, ain’t she a beautiful sight?
Come on an’ join our convoy, ain’t nothin’ gonna git in our way
We’re gonna roll this truckin’ convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here’s The Duck
Uh, you wanna back off them hogs
10-4, ‘bout five mile or so, 10-roger
Them hogs is gittin’ in-tense up here

By the time we got into Tulsa-Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But they’s a road block up on the clover leaf
An’ them bears ‘as wall to wall
Yeah them smokies ‘as thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear-in-the-air
I sez callin’ all trucks, this here’s The Duck
We about to go a huntin’ bear

Cause we gotta great big convoy, rockin’ through the night
Yeah we gotta great big convoy, ain’t she a beautiful sight?
Come on an’ join our convoy, ain’t nothin’ gonna git in our way
We’re gonna roll this truckin’ convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that Pig-Pen?
Uh, negatory Pig-Pen, yer still too close
Yeah, them hogs is startin’ close up my sinuses
Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten

Well we rolled up interstate fourty-four
Like a rocket sled on rails
We tore up all a our swindle sheets
An’ left ‘em settin’ on the scales
By the time we hit that Chi-Town
Them bears was a gittin’ smart
They’d brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard
There ‘as armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps
An’ rigs of every size
Yeah them chicken coops ‘as full a bears
An’ choppers filled the skies
Well we shot the line, an’ we went for broke
With a thousand screamin’ trucks
And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus
In a chartreusse microbus

Hey Sod Buster, listen
You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey?
Yeah, he’s haulin dynamite
He needs all the help he can git

Well we laid a strip fer the Jersey Shore
An’ prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge ‘as lined with bears
But I didn’t have a doggone dime
I sez Pig-Pen, this here’s the Rubber Duck
We just ain’t a gonna pay no toll
So we crashed the gate doin’ ninety-eight
I sez, let them truckers roll, 10-4

Cause we gotta mighty convoy, rockin’ through the night
Yeah we gotta mighty convoy, ain’t she a beautiful sight?
Come on an’ join our convoy, ain’t nothin’ gonna git in our way
We’re gonna roll this truckin’ convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what’s yer 20?
Omaha?!
Well they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer sure
Well mercy sakes alive good buddy
We gonna back on outta here
So keep the bugs off yer glass
An’ the bears off yer... tail
We gonna catch ya on the flip-flop
This here’s the Rubber Duck on the side
We gone
Bye, Bye...

[al baby]

great song

[b4its2late]

I wonder what’s in the trailer?

[patton]

Hey Sod Buster, listen
You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey?
Yeah, he’s haulin dynamite
He needs all the help he can git

Always makes me laugh.

[Red Badger]

Great song, C.W. McCall, aka Mannheim Steamroller........

[KoRn]

[pjluke]

where’s Shep Smith when you need him???

[newfreep]

C.W. McCall, aka Mannheim Steamroller

Is that true?

[VanShuyten]

Video at: http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/

Photo of criminal at: http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1208/576382.html

One report says it was a hijacked semi from New Jersey.

[Red Badger]

C.W. McCall is a fictional character.
From Wiki:

In 1973, while working as a creative director for Bozell & Jacobs, an Omaha, Nebraska advertising agency, Fries created a Clio Award-winning [1974] television advertising campaign for the Metz Baking Company. The ads featured a truck driver named C.W. McCall, who was played by Dallas, Texas actor Jim Finlayson. The commercial’s success led to songs such as “Old Home Filler-Up an’ Keep on a-Truckin’ Café,” “Wolf Creek Pass,” and “Black Bear Road.” Fries sang and wrote the lyrics, and Chip Davis, later of Mannheim Steamroller, wrote the music.

Mannheim Steamroller actually began as an alias for record producer/composer Chip Davis. The name “Mannheim Steamroller” comes from an 18th-century German musical technique, Mannheim rocket or roller, an ascending arpeggio popularized by the Mannheim school of composition. Before the fame of Steamroller, Davis had been best known for creating the country music character “C. W. McCall” (of “Convoy” fame) for his friend Bill Fries. Even before Davis made McCall a star, he produced an unusual album of classical music performed entirely by Davis and musical collaborator and keyboardist Jackson Berkey, using electric bass (played by Eric Hansen) and synthesizers. Since no major label would handle its distribution, Davis founded his own music label, American Gramaphone (a play on the classical record label Deutsche Grammophon), to release the album. The result, Fresh Aire, was released in 1975 under the pseudonym Mannheim Steamroller, in the hopes of the album being a best seller. Fresh Aire II was subsequently released in 1977 and Fresh Aire III was released in 1979. The first four Fresh Aire albums constituted a “four seasons” exploration, with Fresh Aire being spring, Fresh Aire II being fall (less obviously than the others), Fresh Aire III being summer, and Fresh Aire IV being winter. All four of these albums maintained the blend of baroque classical music, light jazz, and a light sense of humor (Davis is credited as playing “more toys” on the Fresh Aire III album credits), and featuring Jackson Berkey’s virtuosic keyboard work (for more examples, listen to Berkey’s own Sunken Cathedral for master performances of classical works by Debussy, Persichetti and others). Davis and Berkey would use whatever instrument seemed appropriate to the piece, using toy piano on one piece and full pipe organ on another, with copious interleaving of piano and harpsichord. Davis then moved into exploring some other themes, with Fresh Aire V being subtitled “To the Moon,” Fresh Aire VI exploring Greek mythology, Fresh Aire 7 being based on the number 7, and Fresh Aire 8 being based on the theme of infinity. A live tour of the early albums featured a prominent light show and multimedia components, along with spoken poetry by Almeda Berkey. While the music was slightly different from the album versions, the music was played in lockstep at each show, as it had to coordinate the live musicians with recorded tracks of strings and other orchestral parts.

[sodpoodle]

Perp has been identified as Vernon Jones - wanted for murder in Baltimore.

Good catch!

Chase began when he stopped at a ‘weigh station’ and apparently was identified as a wanted fugitive.

Excellent!

[LiberConservative]

I wonder if he tried to call Rollye James.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Whoa - I never knew that. Pretty nifty.

[Red Badger]

Fact............I think they sometimes do “Convoy” as an encore.......

[newfreep]

Cool info. I bought Fresh Aire 1 back in the day as it was one of the first “audiophile quality” LP’s. Great recording and mastering accounted for its’ superior sonics...and still have it after all these years.

[Illuminatas]

Best Manhiem Steamroller song ever....