blaze
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Post by blaze on Jan 26, 2007 21:25:22 GMT -5
www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=9f73f75b-13c5-49d0-8c45-3fb9ddf95e6dCOOPERTOWN, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Florida are now seeking a fugitive who had escaped from a prisoner transport van and fled to Tennessee to see his ailing mother. Authorities in Lakeland, Florida, are searching for Christopher Daniel Gay after a man believed to be him showed up at USA International Speedway, driving country singer Crystal Gayle's tour bus, which was reported stolen last night from a shop in Nashville. Metro Nashville Police Captain Rich Foley says speedway officials didn't believe the bus driver's story that he was there to pick up NASCAR driver Tony Stewart. When police checked the license number, they found the bus belongs to Gayle. Gay is still at large this morning. He had escaped from the van during a rest room break in Hardeeville, South Carolina, on Sunday night and stole vehicles to make a run to the Coopertown area in Tennessee, northwest of Nashville. Police in Tennessee last saw him running into the woods after driving a stolen Wal-Mart tractor-trailer into a field near his family's home on Monday.
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Post by stuporfly on Jan 26, 2007 21:28:39 GMT -5
I'll ignore how poorly written that AP dispatch is only because it's so entertaining. It's got all the elements of a classic white trash opera.
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Post by RioDuranie on Jan 26, 2007 21:33:47 GMT -5
LOL what possesed him to steal a tour bus and Wal mart tractor? oh yeah you did mention white trash opera.
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Post by damdemfries on Jan 27, 2007 1:09:11 GMT -5
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Post by Dani on Jan 27, 2007 1:15:13 GMT -5
THAT is AWESOME....
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RuthsHere
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I haven't been here in a long time. you know it gets crazy when a new album comes out.
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Post by RuthsHere on Jan 27, 2007 1:20:57 GMT -5
Gay, Gayle... whatever
LOL
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Post by stuporfly on Jan 27, 2007 8:40:09 GMT -5
The AP's tapped into the whole hilbilly theme now...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- It has all the makings of a country song: an escaped prisoner, his terminally ill mother, a Wal-Mart truck, NASCAR and a Nashville singer's tour bus.
Since Christopher Daniel Gay, 32, escaped from a prisoner transport van Sunday in South Carolina, police say, he has evaded a five-state manhunt by stealing a pickup, a big rig and a bus that belongs to singer Crystal Gayle.
No one has been reported injured, and the search for him continued Friday.
Initially, police say, his motive for fleeing was simple. "I take it he was just trying to see his mom," said Michael Douglas, the police chief in Pleasant View, Tennessee, near the home where Gay's mother is dying of cancer.
Gay, who has a history of theft involving trucks and other heavy equipment, escaped during a bathroom break in Hardeeville, South Carolina, as he was being taken from Texas to face felony theft charges in Alabama. The van was taking a route allowing it to pick up prisoners in other states.
He stole a pickup truck in South Carolina and made his way more than 300 miles northwest to Manchester, Tennessee, where he stole a Wal-Mart tractor-trailer filled with $300,000 worth of merchandise, police said.
On Tuesday, Gay got to within 50 yards of his mother's house, about 25 miles northwest of Nashville, but abandoned the Wal-Mart truck and fled into some woods, authorities said.
"What he done was wrong, but he knows his mama don't have long," his mother, Anna Shull, told The Tennessean this week. Efforts to contact Gay's family were unsuccessful Friday.
Authorities don't think Gay got to see his mother.
Since then, authorities believe he stole the bus belonging to Gayle -- the younger sister of Loretta Lynn, known for her long hair and hits such as "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue."
A man believed to be Gay arrived Thursday night at USA International Speedway in Lakeland, Florida, telling the track's manager he was there with NASCAR racer Tony Stewart and asking him for help getting a new generator for the tour bus he was driving, officials said.
The Speedfest 2007 event is being held there this week, but there are no plans for Stewart to appear.
"His story just started having a lot of inconsistencies, so we asked him for some identification," said speedway President Bill Martino in a phone interview Friday. The man, who Martino said was clean-cut and dressed nicely, refused and fled.
Track officials, suspicious of the man's story, provided authorities with the license plate number of the tour bus.
Gayle didn't know the bus was missing from the Nashville garage where it was parked until speedway officials called Thursday night, police said.
Her husband and manager, Bill Gatzimos, couldn't immediately be reached for comment Friday, but he told WSMV-TV, "There's got to be a country song in having your bus stolen and taken for a joyride by a fugitive."
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sanman
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Post by sanman on Jan 27, 2007 8:59:38 GMT -5
that story is BRILLIANT!!! i f___ing love it.
it reminds me of a lovely country song whose lyrics go a little somethin' like this:
well i was drunk
the day my mom
got out of prison
and i went
to pick her up
in the rain
but before
i could get
to the station
in my pick-up truck
she got runned over
by a damned ole' train
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Post by stuporfly on Jan 27, 2007 9:02:00 GMT -5
that story is BRILLIANT!!! i f___ing love it. it reminds me of a lovely country song whose lyrics go a little somethin' like this: well i was drunk
the day my mom
got out of prison
and i went
to pick her up
in the rain
but before
i could get
to the station
in my pick-up truck
she got runned over
by a damned ole' trainIt's like that classic joke... Q: What do you get when you play a country music song backwards? A: You get your wife back, your truck back, your dog back... |
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sanman
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Post by sanman on Jan 27, 2007 9:10:22 GMT -5
that story is BRILLIANT!!! i f___ing love it. it reminds me of a lovely country song whose lyrics go a little somethin' like this: well i was drunk
the day my mom
got out of prison
and i went
to pick her up
in the rain
but before
i could get
to the station
in my pick-up truck
she got runned over
by a damned ole' trainIt's like that classic joke... Q: What do you get when you play a country music song backwards? A: You get your wife back, your truck back, your dog back... ;D exactly. i've had days where i felt like i could write a country song. i think i've actually looked up to the sky before and said "what's next?? are you gonna run over my dog, now??" this story struck me as funny, today of all days, b/c i pulled out a classic country mix i made years ago and listened to it on the way down to the beach yesterday. and, yes...crystal gayle was on the disc. |
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