Get this...
Andrea and I are sitting on the couch waiting for SNL to start when we heard a loud noise from outside our home. I get up and look out the blinds to see a wrecked SUV about 20 feet from my door!
I went outside to check on whoever was in the wreck as Andrea called 911 and a guy is running toward my door. I ask him if he's OK. He says "yeah" and keeps on running/stumbling past me and around the back of my condo.
I follow him to see what the deal is and watch as he hops the fence and stumbles across my neighbor's yard and collapses next to their house.
Just about then, I hear the cop cars pull up, so I ran back to the front of my place to get one of them. They're looking for someone up and down my street as I direct them behind my place. Three cops come running back toward the fence with me and find the guy I saw running earlier.
They "escort"
him back to a cruiser and as we get there his truck is now fully engulfed in flames! A lot of flames!
One of the cops grabs a fire extinguisher and starts toward the flaming wreck before realizing that a single fire extinguisher ain't gonna cut it. The fire trucks are stuck at the nearby intersection where the guy must have caused another wreck, so his trcuk continues to melt snow around us.
It turns out he ran a car through the 7-11/Citgo at 11 and Dequindre, caused 4 accidents on the way to my place (15 and Ryan), and had ~6 cop cars trying to follow him!
The saddest part of all this is that he had a Beagle with him that got out of the truck when he fled and never wanted to come back either. I guess the dog wised up... can't say I blame the dog for not wanting to hang out with the guy anymore after the chase, four wrecks, and a bonfire.
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Greg Banish
President,
Detroit Speedworks, Inc.
'93 LX Turbocharged Road Racer
'00 Bad-Ass F150