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Slackerous Maximus
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Columbus, OH
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"Don't take a guy's Ford pickup again,"
Jan. 20th
LAKE STEVENS, Wash. - A good Samaritan who stopped to help a car accident victim was nearly punished for his good deed when that accident victim tried to run off with his truck. But it turned out, the car thief had picked the wrong guy. Clint Lucas of Lake Stevens was driving in Bothell when he saw a car spin out of control and crash into a ditch. He stopped to see if everyone was OK. But that's when the driver got out and jumped in Clint's new $40,000 Ford truck. In an instant, Lucas decided no one was going to steal his truck. "You know I work really hard for the stuff I have," he said. "And I wasn't going to stand by and watch my brand new truck get stolen for no reason. I was trying to help the guy and that's how he repaid me." So he ran after it and jumped in the back bed. "And I didn't know how to get him to stop. So my reaction was to kick in the back window," he said. Lucas, a construction project manager, used his steel-toed boots to break the window while the runaway driver swerved back and forth to try and knock him out of the truck. "I had some construction plans in the back and I tried to get him to stop by hitting him with them through the back window," he said. As speeds reached 70 miles per hour, Lucas grabbed a trowel from a bucket of cement and started clubbing the truck thief. "I think that scared him more than anything, so he stopped the truck at that point," Lucas said. The frightened driver started running on foot with Lucas right on his heels. "I ran over and I tackled him to the ground and made sure I had him subdued, while a couple other gentlemen helped me get some zip ties on him," he said. Lucas and two witnesses zip-tied the suspect and held him until cops arrived. The truck is now in the shop and Lucas has a message for the man who tried to steal it. "Don't take a guy's Ford pickup again," he said, "you don't know what's going to happen." It turns out the runaway driver was wanted on arrested warrants and parole violations. He is in police custody.
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01-20-2007, 08:16 PM
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+1 for the good guys!
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01-20-2007, 08:24 PM
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"made sure I had him subdued" == "beat the ever-loving **** out of him".
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01-20-2007, 10:20 PM
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I'm a sucker for a happy ending!
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thats just against the rules.
****er got what he deserved.
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01-20-2007, 10:37 PM
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+2, great story, thanks.
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So rare to read an inspiring story like this, Thanks!
I hope that he had a steel-toe boot lodged in his ass when the cops arrived. 
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01-21-2007, 07:42 AM
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 Glad that turned out right, but it could have gone tragic if the Contractor had been thrown out of that truck bed at 70mph or if the thief had rolled it or something. Goes to show that EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE, right prevails.
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01-21-2007, 07:53 AM
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As a Ford truck owner , it brings tears to my eyes!
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01-21-2007, 08:14 AM
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Inspiring. 2 thumbs up!
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01-21-2007, 08:31 AM
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Who would want a Ford truck that bad anyway?
Just kidding. My hat is off to our construction project manager. I know what I would have done with those steel toes...
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01-21-2007, 09:39 AM
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Quote:
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01-21-2007, 11:10 AM
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Why wasn't the drivers dog in the truck?
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1984 Porsche Carrera
Eagle Talon TSi AWD
Chrysler 300 AWD Hemi
1987 Porsche 944 2.5
1974 Porsche 911s
