What I woulda done.. only around here I would have chosen a tree or phone
pole, his side first of course.

On Sun, 08 May 2005 18:41:17 -0700, Scott en Aztlán
> wrote:

>What a brilliant solution to being carjacked - crash into some
>innocent victim's car and break some innocent person's leg! They
>mention the charges that had been against the carjacker, but what
>about the carjacked driver? I know if I deliberately crashed my car
>into someone else's and injured a pedestrian, I'd be in jail...
>
>http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/metro/74149.php
>
>Carjacked woman crashes to get help
>
>By Alexis Huicochea
>ARIZONA DAILY STAR
>
>A woman carjacked at gunpoint deliberately crashed into another car at
>an East Side Circle K on Saturday to attract attention and get help,
>Tucson police said.
>
>At about 2 p.m., the 18-year-old woman drove into the parking lot in
>the 9500 block of East Golf Links Road at high speed and struck a
>parked car, pushing it into two of the store's front windows, said
>Sgt. Carlos Valdez, a Tucson police spokesman.
>
>Eric Necoechea, 23, carjacked the woman and she was trying to draw
>attention to herself by hitting the car, he said.
>
>She was stopped at a service station at East 22nd Street and South
>Craycroft Road when Necoechea approached her with a gun, Valdez said.
>
>He forced the woman to drive around town, and he also assaulted her,
>Valdez said.
>
>After she hit the parked car Necoechea tried to run away, but people
>in the area detained him until police arrived, Valdez said.
>
>No one was inside the parked car, he said. But an employee who was
>outside the store was pinned between the car and an ice machine.
>
>The employee was taken to a hospital to be treated for a broken leg,
>Valdez said.
>
>Necoechea was booked into jail on charges of armed robbery,
>kidnapping, assault and criminal damage. No bond had been set late
>Saturday.