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Residents in NY and Pennsylvania breathed a huge sigh of relief when Ralph "Bucky" Phillips surrendered to police last night. Phillips is wanted in the shootings of three state troopers - one of whom died from his injuries - during his many months on the lam after breaking out of an Eric County jail. Phillips had been added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list (the NY Times noted, "just three names down from Osama bin Laden"), but police were able to track him yesterday when they found a car they suspected he had stolen and abandoned. The bloodhounds were able to track his scent, and Phillips surrendered from the Pennsylvania woods (right at the Penn-NY border) unarmed with helicopters and SWAT teams and US Marshals starting to surround him.
People cheered on law enforcement when Phillips was taken away and thanked the police in all sorts of ways. The NY Times reports that he was found right before the manhunt was supposed to be stopped. The NY State Police's superintendent Wayne Bennett said, "The bottom line is the pressure was so great on him. The game was up and he knew it... Now this miserable creature will suffer for the rest of his life in the New York state prison system."
Photograph of Phillips in the back of a police car by David Duprey/AP
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I really have no good feelings at all for this Bucky character, but I do hate it when law enforcement officials get all self-righteous like that. He is, after all, still just a "suspect", and he did NOT kill anyone in cold blood. (he did shoot at them, but it was a shootout! They shot back!) Even if he is guilty, it's not the justice system's job to be dealing wrath to criminals - just to keep them away from the rest of us.
Always disconcerting to see this, and to think one day I might get pulled over by a cop like this for something like a broken taillight or for not wearing a seatbelt.
"Eric County" -- should be Erie County.
They even had the US Marshalls in on him. So when is the movie coming out?
P.S.
My condolences to the family of the dead officer.
OK Bucky fans, time to break out the "Fry Bucky Fry" T-shirts now.
Here's a hint, BrianVan: don't escape from jail and shoot at cops in the process of having a dead taillight and you won't a problem. Get over yourself. Until you're working a job that requires you to put on a bulletproof vest and kiss your family goodbye in the morning without knowing if you'll come home at the end of your shift, you're really not in any position to start with the copbashing.
I would proudly wear that T-shirt! If I can't find one I'll make one ;)