Thursday, August 25, 2005

Darwin Award Criminal of the Year Category - UPDATE

Earlier this month, I proposed a new category for the Darwin Awards - criminal of the year:
People who voluntarily weed themselves out of the gene pool by committing stupid crimes that guarantee prolonged visits to their friendly neighborhood jail. My first nominee for this year's award is Iowa's own Jessie Joe Hill.

Mr. Hill had used a flashing light on his truck to pull over another motorist for running a stop sign. He was arrested for impersonating an officer - and theft, when it turned out the truck was stolen. Well, he's baaack:
Lor heard tires squeal and spotted the Porsche near East Washington Avenue and Lay Street shortly before 6 p.m. The officer said he turned on his siren, stopped the car and got out to approach the driver, who then sped away with an unidentified boy in the car.

Lor gave chase. The Porsche ran into a pickup truck and then sped away again at speeds of 70 mph. Hill allegedly stopped briefly to drop off his passenger and sped away again.

The stolen car sped the wrong way on a one-way street and then was abandoned in the 3400 block of East Washington Street, police said. Hill was taken into custody shortly thereafter.

I'm wondering how exactly he stopped to drop off the kid in the middle of all this, there's got to be a story behind that. Is he sorry? Nope:
When the chase ended, "the suspect was laughing at us . . . that he had smoked all of us in his Porsche," Officer Doua Lor wrote in his report.

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