Local News
Teens injured after brief police chase in Strawberry Point
Posted on Aug 30, 2009 by Admin.
STRAWBERRY POINT – Two teenagers suffered minor injuries when the driver lost control of a pickup truck during a chase Saturday night with Strawberry Point police.
The driver, 16, and the 17-year-old passenger were injured when the pickup rolled several times after going into the ditch along East Mission Road, Police Chief Robert Pope said, The pair, whose names weren’t released Sunday, were released after treatment for minor injuries at Regional Medical Center in Strawberry Point.
According to Pope, the brief chase began about 9 p.m. as an officer responded to a call about a suspicious vehicle. The driver was charged with failure to maintain control and attempting to elude police.
CR64
31. Aug, 2009
I hope they learned a lesson!
MandaLeigh
31. Aug, 2009
Kids these days…no respect what so ever. They obviously were hiding something, and the truth will come out.
And I am sure the learned a lesson, they are minors and will be losing their licenses.
grannyof3
31. Aug, 2009
most not all of the kids these days, think they are above the law !!
georgejones
31. Aug, 2009
please dont waste bandwidth for dialup users by putting a picture with the article that is not of the incident. some folks cant get DSL or cable where they live.
WWJD1
31. Aug, 2009
Another "High Speed Chase!" In the pleasantly accepted periodic adventure, two young boys could have been splattered, burned, maimed etc., for life or their premature burial would have made headlines for awhile and brought out the "Great Debate" all over again. Then life would return to normal until the next time.
Venetia
31. Aug, 2009
Many of today's kids are very disrespectful. I would have been mortified if I heard my kids talk to people the way I hear some kids talk today. However, I am very relieved that they were uninjured. Hopefully, this will be a lesson to both of them.
ctiger
31. Aug, 2009
I wonder what made that vehicle suspicious? Hopefully the kids will be smarter next time if and when the police shows an interest in them.
Venetia
31. Aug, 2009
I hope there isn't a "next time" because they may not come off unscathed as they did this time. I would think this would have served as a warning against future escapades.
Jesus33
31. Aug, 2009
The Wreck Of Big Red
I have this four-wheel motor bike
that we all call Big Red.
For eight long years, he worked the land,
but now Big Red is dead.
I lent him to this hooligan
who calls himself my son
He headed bush on four wheels and
came crawling back on none.
He took two mates one weekend out
upon a camping trip.
They packed up the essentials…like…
C.D.'s, potato chips,
And Coke and swags – three scalawags,
all piled upon Red's back.
Before I could say: drive careful, they
were halfway down the track.
Jesus33
31. Aug, 2009
In all fairness, he's been ridin' on
that bike since he was six.
He uster show good common sense
when ridin' 'round the sticks.
He'd help me 'round the farm a lot –
my joyous little son.
Time slips away and rue the day
his teenage years begun.
So off he goes with his hooney mates –
I hardly could say: No.
What happened next, I'll only guess –
I guess I'll never know.
"We's mindin' our own business…Dad…
this tree…walked on the track…
Course Dad…I'm drivin' careful…but…
it sorta did attack!"
Jesus33
31. Aug, 2009
Attack!! – I'd say it did attack –
I'd say the ranges rang!!
Because my poor four-wheeler now's
bent like a boomerang!!
One headlights pointin' skywards and
the other's pointin' west –
The day he met that ironbark,
Big Red came second best.
His mates were fine, but my lout took
a gash upon his leg
And smashed his foot…his ego – it
was taken down a peg.
Now he limps 'round in bandages –
gets out o' doing' work.
He thinks it's really clever, and…
well, I'm the silly jerk -
Jesus33
31. Aug, 2009
As well as doin' my jobs now
I'm doin' all his chores,
While he's moanin' and groanin' like
a wounded from the wars
And as I have no motor bike,
I'm walkin' round the place,
While he lays there at the telly with
a smile upon his face.
His leg will heal, his foot will mend
alas for my mate Red,
It's gonna cost an arm and leg
to resurrect the dead.
And I'm just a poor bush poet with
a mortgage and a drought –
And getting' kinda cranky now
I have t' walk about.
Jesus33
31. Aug, 2009
So while he plays computer games
and lounges 'round at home.
I'm wearin' out good boot leather
everywhere I roam;
And my mate Red sits in the shed,
a sad and twisted shell,
With buckled wheels and mangled steel –
the motor bike in hell.
For show-off boys and Daddy's toys –
they just don't mix too good,
But my boy will soon be wishin' he
had driven like he should.
And he'll look back from the future, and
remember well the wreck,
'Coz once he's out of sutures, I
am gonna wring his neck!!…
Copyright; Graham Fredriksen