Saved me a court date that's for sure. At least for the arrest of him, but not for the arrest of the woman putting on makeup and driving with her knees who hit and killed him, had to go to court on that one.

She got convicted of involuntary manslaughter and got 4 years for it.

She was also driving on a suspended license, because she had racked up so many tickets for doing that same thing, driving with her knees while putting on makeup or eating. And she had a ton of tickets for tossing lit cigarettes out on the road, one of which started a small brush fire on an on ramp onto that same highway 17. That netted her tens of thousands of dollars in fines.

Those were all state offenses, I was a Federal Agent at the time (many folks seem to believe we cannot enforce state laws or traffic laws if we see them broken, but we can) and when I identified myself and arrested her for the hit and run of the man she killed (she only went on down the highway about half a mile before her car died) she told me I couldn't arrest her as I wasn't a sheriff and we were on a California highway, and she was a "free traveling person and a sovereign citizen", and as such the laws of the United States didn't apply to her, and only an elected sheriff could arrest her!

I asked her if the laws didn't apply to her, then why was it she said only a duly elected sheriff could arrest her? Got a stream of profanity for that one, and she quoted a bunch of "US Statutes" that she made up on the spot to back up her claim.

As I put her in cuffs in front of witnesses, she started threatening to kill me, then she took a swing at me and kicked me in the shins. So, in addition to the state charges, she was charged with a couple of federal felonies, terroristic death threats to a protected person, and battery on same, those netted her a 20 year to life sentence in the Federal Penitentiary.

She was 22 at the time, and is still in the Federal Pen, she can't seem to behave there. Not likely she will ever be released, and if she is, CA still has her for another 4 years in their prison system.


As for the gent who got launched, his tires were all full of nails, none spilled on the highway, somewhere else he ran over a bunch of roofing nails. Just took a bit of time apparently to cause the two flats. The other two would have suffered the same fate eventually, I think.