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[UPDATE BELOW] Life is so unpredictable: One minute you're pulling out of a New Jersey gas station, the next minute you're diving off the George Washington Bridge to escape police after a high-speed chase. An unidentified man presumably fell to his death yesterday morning after trying to escape from cops who pulled him over for a "routine stop" while driving his 2005 Pontiac Grand Prix through Fort Lee. Police say the man was pulled over around 9:30 a.m. for failing to yield, and the vehicle "had law enforcement equipment inside." But within minutes he sped away toward the bridge, with the fuzz in hot pursuit.
Most people would give up after coming to a crashing halt on the upper level of the GW, but after slamming into another car, the fugitive dashed to the edge of the bridge and leaped into the Hudson. As of last night, his body had not been found, but as one jumper demonstrated earlier this month, it is possible to survive the plunge.
UPDATE: Website CLIFFVIEWPILOT.COM, your "first and best news source for Bergen, Hudson and beyond," scored "ANOTHER EXCLUSIVE" today, getting a quote from the driver whose car was clipped by the fugitive. Motorist Andy Rosenberg says the guy "just hopped out of his car and made a beeline. He never even paused. He got over that little guardrail, put his foot on the railing [for the bridge] and jumped. It happened so fast, the police had no chance to get to him." CLIFFVIEWPILOT.COM also reports that the man is a New York state corrections officer from Middletown, N.Y. who had argued with his wife earlier that morning. (Which might explain why he didn't hesitate to jump off the bridge.)
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tommy lee jones will get him, don't worry.
Not if it was Jason Bourne.
Whoever he was, he had some horrible secret he did not want discovered. Was there anything in his trunk?
Don't look in the trunk
I've wanted to do this.
Not die though. Just stop my car, jump off a bridge into the water. That's the definition of freedom.
The dying part not so much.
He's partying with DB Cooper right now.
Bourne!
Just wondering: did he bother to pay the toll?
many, many more should die for "failure to yield"
Cop Land.
damn thats a hell of a fall just to avoid getting arrested
No dramatic music?
"Dun Dun Dun!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Kyi0WNg40
"2005 Pontiac Grand Prix" - the weak link in the chain of cool.
Not dead til you find the body.
"This is one time you don't want to use that joke: You should have seen the other guy," Rosenberg said, seriously.
You just used it, dude.