We are proud to name as this week’s Rick and Cutter Show Weenie of the Week…a still unidentified 40-year-old man from Hatley who, on Wednesday, led Fond du lac County Sheriff’s department on a nearly 23-mile chase. Here are some of the highlights…
-Police received a report a reckless driver on I-41 traveling from the ditch to the median, covering both lanes of traffic, and speeding.
-A deputy attempted to stop the vehicle, in the Town of Eldorado. The suspect vehicle increased its speed, fleeing from the Deputy.
-Another Deputy was assisting a citizen with a disabled vehicle a short distance north of the pursuit on I-41. This disabled vehicle created a small traffic backup. As the pursuit approached the disabled vehicle and backup, the suspect attempted to pass vehicles on the right shoulder. In doing so it struck one of the vehicles, which was occupied by 4 people including 2 children.
-The Deputy at that location was able to successfully deploy a tire deflation device, causing the suspect vehicle’s front passenger tire to go flat and eventually come off the rim. The suspect continued to travel at high speeds with three tires on snow covered roads.
The suspect exited I-41 and began to travel south on Algoma Boulevard towards the City of Oshkosh. The suspect then turned off his headlights and drove into oncoming lanes of traffic , driving the wrong way on a one way road as well as traveling through red traffic lights and stop signs without yielding until he approached the terminus of the road at Lake Winnebago, he exited the moving vehicle and began to run on foot until two Fond du Lac County K9 Deputies convinced him to stop.
-Oh, and the driver was suspected of being under the influence of heroin, marijuana, and ‘possibly other illegal substances’ while engaged in the pursuit.
So,
For getting police to follow him for nearly 23-miles…without even dangling a bag of donuts out the window.
For driving recklessly through Fond du Lac disregarding the risks of sliding on the city streets notorious frozen puddles of urine. (You’ve heard of the dangers of black ice. Nothing compared to the dangers of yellow ice!)
For speeding through Fond du Lac County on I-41instead of highway 26 where he would have at least made every Rosendale traffic cop’s ultimate wet dream come true.
we are proud to name the unidentified heroin hopped up funky junky of Fond du Lac county as this week‘s Rick and Cutter Show…WEENIE OF THE WEEK!
