Highway Robbery

[tim52]

This fine upstanding member of the infamous 18th Street LA gang decided one day that he would try to car-jack a semi truck at gun point .

The gangster jumped up on the driver side, while the truck was in motion, and stuck a gun in the drivers face.

The only problem was that the truck driver opene d up the door and knocked the attempted thief off. He lost his balance and fell under the wheels of the truck, at which time the driver slammed on his brakes, resting on top of him and decided that this was the perfect time to whip out his Fuji Disposable camera...


Didn't look real until you see the third picture.


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Darn, hate to waste a good beer!



Now That HAD to hurt!!!


Score one for the good guys!



The driver was just 'detaining' him until the police arrived

[bonehead]

Wow. A car jacker AND an gang member. That truck driver gets three cheers and a drink on me. IMO the truck driver stopped multiple crimes as there was a reason a gang member went after a semi.

[gunnut]

That's a pretty good 1st impression left by the driver.

[jame$thegreat]

It still looks a little bit fake and the lack of link makes it seem less credible. I don't mean that you are intentionally misleading us tim, I am just a bit skeptical is all.

[tim52]

It still looks a little bit fake and the lack of link makes it seem less credible. I don't mean that you are intentionally misleading us tim, I am just a bit skeptical is all.

Jim you are correct. I did some checking after I saw your post and found this on Snopes.com. I posted it as I received it without comment.

Origins: The images displayed above are genuine photographs taken by a police officer at the scene, but contrary to the account accompanying them, they do not depict the aftermath of a failed carjacking attempt.

The incident pictured above occurred at the Pilot Travel Center truck stop in Palm Springs in December 2001. The deceased, 26-year-old Christopher Flaro of Lakewood, California, had been acting irrationally at that location (either due to psychological problems or drug use), panhandling money from visitors, yelling and threatening other customers, and committing a battery against a store clerk. He then tried to flee by running through the truck stop to the area where the big rigs pull up to fuel pumps, dashing between and crawling under several trucks (some of which were moving) before climbing onto a tractor-trailer.

Coincidentally, the rig Flaro mounted was one manned by a driver who had given him a dollar earlier that day. Flaro demanded money from the driver and attempted to pull open the door on the driver's side, but he had no weapon, he was not attempting to steal the vehicle, and the driver did not open the door. Flaro then jumped or fell from the truck and tried to stop it from moving by placing his shoulder against its rear tires; the rig backed over him, crushing him to death beneath its wheels.

Palm Springs police, summoned to the truck stop after Flaro's altercation with the clerk and customers in the store, arrived just moments after the fatal accident; one of them recorded the scene with a digital camera, producing the photographs shown here.

Last updated: 12 July 2005
The URL for this page is ttp://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/carjack.asp
Urban Legends Reference Pages © 1995-2007

[jame$thegreat]

Jim you are correct. I did some checking after I saw your post and found this on Snopes.com. I posted it as I received it without comment.

Origins: The images displayed above are genuine photographs taken by a police officer at the scene, but contrary to the account accompanying them, they do not depict the aftermath of a failed carjacking attempt.

The incident pictured above occurred at the Pilot Travel Center truck stop in Palm Springs in December 2001. The deceased, 26-year-old Christopher Flaro of Lakewood, California, had been acting irrationally at that location (either due to psychological problems or drug use), panhandling money from visitors, yelling and threatening other customers, and committing a battery against a store clerk. He then tried to flee by running through the truck stop to the area where the big rigs pull up to fuel pumps, dashing between and crawling under several trucks (some of which were moving) before climbing onto a tractor-trailer.

Coincidentally, the rig Flaro mounted was one manned by a driver who had given him a dollar earlier that day. Flaro demanded money from the driver and attempted to pull open the door on the driver's side, but he had no weapon, he was not attempting to steal the vehicle, and the driver did not open the door. Flaro then jumped or fell from the truck and tried to stop it from moving by placing his shoulder against its rear tires; the rig backed over him, crushing him to death beneath its wheels.

Palm Springs police, summoned to the truck stop after Flaro's altercation with the clerk and customers in the store, arrived just moments after the fatal accident; one of them recorded the scene with a digital camera, producing the photographs shown here.

Last updated: 12 July 2005
The URL for this page is ttp://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/carjack.asp
Urban Legends Reference Pages © 1995-2007

Good research. I thought the pictures were fakes but I have been proven wrong. Well done Tim.

[ChrisF202]

Ouch, thats one way I DO NOT plan on leaving this world


While Snopes has proven the original story to be false and more the act of an irrational person, I can say that truck hold ups are very common; especially around this time of year with the holidays and all ... another very common one is train hold ups, a family friend of mine worked for one of the railroad police departments out in California and it was a pretty frequent occurance ... I believe it was the Union Pacific Railroad Police Department.

[glyn]

Surely the pictures alone are powerful enough without anybody weaving fiction around them. What is wrong with people?