Genius sighting at Worth boat ramp...
09-23-2008, 07:57 AM
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Genius sighting at Worth boat ramp...
SUV pulled from Cal-Sag Channel
September 16, 2008 at 9:55 PM | Comments (11)
It was the SUV that got away.
A 30-year-old man dipped the rear tires of his BMW X5 into the Cal-Sag Channel Tuesday night to see if there was a leak. Moments later the vehicle was up to its roof in water, Worth police said.
Firefighters from at least seven departments showed up at the boat ramp near 115th Street and Harlem Avenue to find the SUV submerged about 10 feet off the end of a boat ramp, its headlights still shining up through the water's surface.
The man, driving alone, backed his vehicle down to the ramp at about 7 p.m., thinking he could see if a tire was leaking, said a friend who arrived on the scene later to bring him dry clothes.
As he stood by the vehicle looking for bubbles, the SUV suddenly rolled backward into the water. The man tried to get in the driver's side and step on the brake, but only ended up getting soaked, the friend said.
Mike Nilles, 15, lives a short distance from the boat ramp and saw the man running around a nearby parking lot in a panic.
"It looked worse," he said, "from the way the guy was running."
By 8:30 p.m. the parking lot was filled with fire trucks and other emergency vehicles. The response was so great because initial reports didn't indicate there was no one in the submerged vehicle, police said.
At about 9 p.m., firefighters pulled the vehicle from the channel. The driver was unhurt. He declined to speak with reporters and neither he nor his friend wanted to provide their names
"He feels very stupid," the friend said.
Andrew L. Wang, Chicago Tribune
Wendy E. Normandy
September 16, 2008 at 9:55 PM | Comments (11)
It was the SUV that got away.
A 30-year-old man dipped the rear tires of his BMW X5 into the Cal-Sag Channel Tuesday night to see if there was a leak. Moments later the vehicle was up to its roof in water, Worth police said.
Firefighters from at least seven departments showed up at the boat ramp near 115th Street and Harlem Avenue to find the SUV submerged about 10 feet off the end of a boat ramp, its headlights still shining up through the water's surface.
The man, driving alone, backed his vehicle down to the ramp at about 7 p.m., thinking he could see if a tire was leaking, said a friend who arrived on the scene later to bring him dry clothes.
As he stood by the vehicle looking for bubbles, the SUV suddenly rolled backward into the water. The man tried to get in the driver's side and step on the brake, but only ended up getting soaked, the friend said.
Mike Nilles, 15, lives a short distance from the boat ramp and saw the man running around a nearby parking lot in a panic.
"It looked worse," he said, "from the way the guy was running."
By 8:30 p.m. the parking lot was filled with fire trucks and other emergency vehicles. The response was so great because initial reports didn't indicate there was no one in the submerged vehicle, police said.
At about 9 p.m., firefighters pulled the vehicle from the channel. The driver was unhurt. He declined to speak with reporters and neither he nor his friend wanted to provide their names
"He feels very stupid," the friend said.
Andrew L. Wang, Chicago Tribune
Wendy E. Normandy
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09-23-2008, 10:00 AM
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SUV pulled from Cal-Sag Channel
September 16, 2008 at 9:55 PM | Comments (11)
It was the SUV that got away.
A 30-year-old man dipped the rear tires of his BMW X5 into the Cal-Sag Channel Tuesday night to see if there was a leak. Moments later the vehicle was up to its roof in water, Worth police said.
Firefighters from at least seven departments showed up at the boat ramp near 115th Street and Harlem Avenue to find the SUV submerged about 10 feet off the end of a boat ramp, its headlights still shining up through the water's surface.
The man, driving alone, backed his vehicle down to the ramp at about 7 p.m., thinking he could see if a tire was leaking, said a friend who arrived on the scene later to bring him dry clothes.
As he stood by the vehicle looking for bubbles, the SUV suddenly rolled backward into the water. The man tried to get in the driver's side and step on the brake, but only ended up getting soaked, the friend said.
Mike Nilles, 15, lives a short distance from the boat ramp and saw the man running around a nearby parking lot in a panic.
"It looked worse," he said, "from the way the guy was running."
By 8:30 p.m. the parking lot was filled with fire trucks and other emergency vehicles. The response was so great because initial reports didn't indicate there was no one in the submerged vehicle, police said.
At about 9 p.m., firefighters pulled the vehicle from the channel. The driver was unhurt. He declined to speak with reporters and neither he nor his friend wanted to provide their names
"He feels very stupid," the friend said.
Andrew L. Wang, Chicago Tribune
Wendy E. Normandy
September 16, 2008 at 9:55 PM | Comments (11)
It was the SUV that got away.
A 30-year-old man dipped the rear tires of his BMW X5 into the Cal-Sag Channel Tuesday night to see if there was a leak. Moments later the vehicle was up to its roof in water, Worth police said.
Firefighters from at least seven departments showed up at the boat ramp near 115th Street and Harlem Avenue to find the SUV submerged about 10 feet off the end of a boat ramp, its headlights still shining up through the water's surface.
The man, driving alone, backed his vehicle down to the ramp at about 7 p.m., thinking he could see if a tire was leaking, said a friend who arrived on the scene later to bring him dry clothes.
As he stood by the vehicle looking for bubbles, the SUV suddenly rolled backward into the water. The man tried to get in the driver's side and step on the brake, but only ended up getting soaked, the friend said.
Mike Nilles, 15, lives a short distance from the boat ramp and saw the man running around a nearby parking lot in a panic.
"It looked worse," he said, "from the way the guy was running."
By 8:30 p.m. the parking lot was filled with fire trucks and other emergency vehicles. The response was so great because initial reports didn't indicate there was no one in the submerged vehicle, police said.
At about 9 p.m., firefighters pulled the vehicle from the channel. The driver was unhurt. He declined to speak with reporters and neither he nor his friend wanted to provide their names
"He feels very stupid," the friend said.
Andrew L. Wang, Chicago Tribune
Wendy E. Normandy
Your tax dollars hard at work on that one Bro
09-24-2008, 10:35 AM
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BUT, did he find the leak in his tire?????? Nobody ever mentioned that. 
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