Wonder what that cop was rushing too?

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Brent P - 29 Aug 2007 21:10 GMT

I'm sure jaybird could spin this in favor of the cop.....

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070829/LOCAL/708290511

Cop faces firing over Ball State joy ride, crash
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"He was basically showing off for three college girls," said Winkle.
Lyons apparently met the three BSU freshmen at a Village Pantry at
University Avenue and Martin Street before 1 a.m. and one of the students
asked for a ride back to the dorm, according to statements by Lyons and
the students. Lyons was not on a call and there were no reports that he
was running lights and sirens.
Instead of going to the dorm, Lyons raced down University to Tillotson
and Bethel avenues and then to McKinley, before crashing into a light
pole in front of LaFollette.
"There is no debate that he was driving at too high a rate of speed,"
said Winkle.

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Lyons later admitted to police he had given the students a ride, saying
they were just having fun, but the police chief said the three students
said they were scared, given Lyons was driving fast enough to rock them
from one side of the car to the other.
Police uniform, traffic and internal affairs officers investigated the
crash, which did as much as $10,000 damage to a 2007 police car.

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MLOM - 30 Aug 2007 00:35 GMT

On Aug 29, 3:10 pm, tetraethylleadREMOVET...@yahoo.com (Brent P)
wrote:

> I'm sure jaybird could spin this in favor of the cop.....
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Sort of reminds me of today's local news report (KC, MO) about a cop
hitting another driver head-on. The cop was going the wrong way down
a one-way street without activating the lights, but the other driver
didn't have a valid license.

Best scnenario: all involved should spend a few hours behind bars.

Likely: the other driver will get the book thrown at him, but the cop
will barely get a slap on the pee-pee.

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necromancer - 30 Aug 2007 05:13 GMT

Brent P:

> I'm sure jaybird could spin this in favor of the cop.....

Who knows? But knowing jaybird, he'll come up with a whopper like he
usually does.....

> http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070829/LOCAL/708290511
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> Cop faces firing over Ball State joy ride, crash

I'll believe that when it happens.

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> the students. Lyons was not on a call and there were no reports that he
> was running lights and sirens.

Hmmmmmm, three dumb (and probablly horny) college girls in the cruiser?
Methinks he was rushing to the nearest Motel 6.

> Instead of going to the dorm, Lyons raced down University to Tillotson
> and Bethel avenues and then to McKinley, before crashing into a light
> pole in front of LaFollette.
> "There is no debate that he was driving at too high a rate of speed,"
> said Winkle.

Since when is there such a thing as "too high a rate of speed," (and
BTW, isn't "rate of speed," really acceleration?) for a cop, jaybird?

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> Lyons later admitted to police he had given the students a ride, saying
> they were just having fun, but the police chief said the three students
> said they were scared, given Lyons was driving fast enough to rock them
> from one side of the car to the other.

That's what they say now.....

> Police uniform, traffic and internal affairs officers investigated the
> crash, which did as much as $10,000 damage to a 2007 police car.

Take it out of his pay. But knowing typical government, the taxpayer
will be th eone footing the bill. :(

BTW, does jaybird even read this ng anymore?

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John David Galt - 30 Aug 2007 05:17 GMT

> BTW, does jaybird even read this ng anymore?

Did he ever? Every time I've seen him reply to a thread, that thread was
crossposted to alt.law-enforcement.traffic.

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