Robert_in_NY
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My neighbors behind me have a winery and every year they have a small festival with a large fireworks show. Before their festival I cut a friends field for hay and then they open the field up for parking. This year I couldn't get all the hay in before the festival started but I had half the field picked up and was going to pick the rest up the next day as rain was forecasted to come in early that afternoon. So the next day comes and I am driving the baler over to the field and there is a state trooper parked about a half mile from the field and won't let me thru. I explain to the officer that I need to get that hay picked up (another 800 bales) and it is going to rain. He tells me that the most I can do is call the dispatcher. Talk to them for a while and was told they can't allow me thru yet. This was at 9am.
So here is why I couldn't go thru. It appears that a couple guys (I went to school with one of them) were riding an ATV and a dirt bike on the road with no helmet. The state troopers stop them because of this. Just a simple traffic stop. Well, the one I went to school with jumps off the dirtbike and takes off running and gets caught in my friends front yard. The other guy on the ATV takes off down the road with the ATV. However, the troopers belt got caught on the rack of the atv and was dragged down the road for a mile. He ended up shooting the guy while he was being dragged and ended up getting untangled from the ATV in front of the field I was haying. The guy that was shot was 25 and continued on down the road and hid in a field. He called his wife who was at the guys house who owned the hay field and told her he was shot but was ok. A little while later he tells her he isn't doing so well. Finally the sheriffs find him and he gets flown to Erie, PA and dies. Why he didn't just turn himself in once he was shot is just another brillant move by this guy.
The guy who was caught was nailed for just about every possible infraction possible including having drugs on him. He will get in more trouble for running then all the other infractions combined. The other guy is dead and for what? Because he didn't want to wear a helmet and got stopped for it. I still just shake my head at the stupidity displayed by some people. Take your lumps as they come but don't make them worse by being stupid.
Now because of this, there is a widow as well as some broken up parents. The officer who shot him is being investigated (to see if he really needed to shoot) and depending what they decide might have ruined his career. So how many lives did this guy affect on a drastic level.
I had thought about removing the tag line from all of my post but this guy just reassured me that stupid people are still out there. And for the life of me I still don't understand why these guys tried to run for such a petty infraction. At most they would have got a ticket for no helmet and insurance. At the very least they would have been given a warning because of the occasion. Instead one is in jail, the other in the mourge.
I was finally allowed to go to my field at noon and was fortunate the rain kept east until we were finished.
So here is why I couldn't go thru. It appears that a couple guys (I went to school with one of them) were riding an ATV and a dirt bike on the road with no helmet. The state troopers stop them because of this. Just a simple traffic stop. Well, the one I went to school with jumps off the dirtbike and takes off running and gets caught in my friends front yard. The other guy on the ATV takes off down the road with the ATV. However, the troopers belt got caught on the rack of the atv and was dragged down the road for a mile. He ended up shooting the guy while he was being dragged and ended up getting untangled from the ATV in front of the field I was haying. The guy that was shot was 25 and continued on down the road and hid in a field. He called his wife who was at the guys house who owned the hay field and told her he was shot but was ok. A little while later he tells her he isn't doing so well. Finally the sheriffs find him and he gets flown to Erie, PA and dies. Why he didn't just turn himself in once he was shot is just another brillant move by this guy.
The guy who was caught was nailed for just about every possible infraction possible including having drugs on him. He will get in more trouble for running then all the other infractions combined. The other guy is dead and for what? Because he didn't want to wear a helmet and got stopped for it. I still just shake my head at the stupidity displayed by some people. Take your lumps as they come but don't make them worse by being stupid.
Now because of this, there is a widow as well as some broken up parents. The officer who shot him is being investigated (to see if he really needed to shoot) and depending what they decide might have ruined his career. So how many lives did this guy affect on a drastic level.
I had thought about removing the tag line from all of my post but this guy just reassured me that stupid people are still out there. And for the life of me I still don't understand why these guys tried to run for such a petty infraction. At most they would have got a ticket for no helmet and insurance. At the very least they would have been given a warning because of the occasion. Instead one is in jail, the other in the mourge.
I was finally allowed to go to my field at noon and was fortunate the rain kept east until we were finished.