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CLIFFS: Drunk driver wrecked and hit my house, I had slight altercation with driver, driver fled on foot with me in chase, driver reported car stolen an hour later, cops went to investigate and subsequently arrested driver.
I had a long week last week and when I went to bed Friday night I was downright exhausted and ready for a full nights sleep. Unfortunately that didn't happen. I was woken from a dead sleep with what sounded like an explosion. The entire house shook more than any earthquake I have been in in my entire life.
As I jump out of bed I hear an engine revving and tires spinning in the mud from the rain. I look out my window quickly and can see headlights reflecting off my mom's car in the driveway. I instantly knew a car had just hit the house. As I run down the stairs I hear my mom ask what the fuck happened and I yell over my shoulder call the cops someone just hit the house.
I don't even grab any shoes as I try to make my way outside. I open the front door and just see wood everywhere from the porch basically exploding and I see the driver frantically trying to rock the car out from its spot. I literally walked across the roof of the car, as I had no other easy way off the porch, and stomped on his roof telling him to stop. I jump off the roof to the ground and he kinda looks at me like I am not there. I yell again telling him, "You're done, just stop." He completely ignores me and is still trying to rock the car free, but it isn't going anywhere anyway. I try to reach in the car to grab the keys and he finally acknowledges me slaps my hand away and just says, "Don't touch me." I reach in again and he turns and has a look that told me he's going to run.
He kinda pushes me back and attempts to run. I grabbed his arm but slipped off and lost my footing and fell to the ground due to the pouring rain. I jumped back up, grabbed the back of his shirt and spun him around, but his shirt ripped and he broke free again. He took off running and I was chasing him down the road, in the rain, in my bare feet, at 230 in the morning. I was right on his heels when he dipped behind a house and kept running. At that point my sense got the better part of me and I stopped my pursuit and made my way back to the house.
While all of that was going on my mom was on the phone with 911 and between telling them what happened she was pleading with me to just let the guy go because she was worried for my safety.
A police SUV showed up and asked me for a description of the subject and direction of travel. They took off looking for him and another cruiser showed up to take on the investigation. I gave the trooper all the information I could and he began his report and called in a tow to get the car.
He went out to his car and a few minutes later called me out to look at a picture on the computer. He told me "If you don't know for sure say I don't know" and showed me what I believe to be the driver's license photo they pull up when they run owners info from license plates. I told the officer "I want to say yes, that's him, but I honestly can't be 100% sure and I don't want to falsely ID someone, so I am going to say, I don't know"
Anyway a few minutes later they ask the fireman on the scene to wait for the tow truck and leave, because the car was just reported "stolen." Tow truck shows up and gets the car out. I thank them, thank the fireman for responding and remaining on the scene and go back inside to try to clear my head. A longtime friend of mine had seen my mom's Facebook post and called me since he was up and working.
I spent some time BSing with him on the phone when the officer called me. He told me they arrested the driver and he has been charged with DUI. He said the guy was HIGHLY intoxicated. After (I'm assuming) they told the guy I had already IDed him he admitted to everything. Said he lost control, hit the mailbox, slid into the porch, tried to get away, got into an altercation with me, and ran on foot. The officer asked me to take some daytime photos and that he would be calling me the next night.
Now for the photos.
This is what I saw as I opened my front door
After the tow trucks showed up and lit the place up I took this pic
Right after they drug the car out
I finally fell back asleep around 630 but was back up at 830 and went out to get some daytime photos
Landlord came out and did what he could to sure up the roof so it didn't rip off the side of the house until insurance can come out and assess the damage.
I went to my brother's for dinner this evening and when coming home I noticed the color variation in the road surface showing the direction of travel and thought I should document those as well
So that was my Friday night/Saturday morning. The officer called me around midnight last night and told me not only was the driver drunk, but it appears he was under the influence of drugs as well. He said it will be about 10 days to get toxicology results back. He said he will be back in contact with me to let me know where to send all my documentation/photos of the incident.
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Originally Posted by DocWalt
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