OmniGroup employee carjacked!

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
No joke, just saw it on the Seattle news. Tom Bunch, one of the OmniGroup folk, was carjacked at 95th NE and Roosevelt in Seattle, and the perp took off down I-5 until police slammed him into a concrete wall.



Tom's fine, police were fine, carjacker wasn't even injured.



But his Subaru is totalled. :/

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    Time to get a real car. <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[surprised]" />



    Only reason to get a Subaru is for the engine heater...and Seattle's not THAT cold.
  • Reply 2 of 5
    amorphamorph Posts: 7,112member
    At least he's OK.



    Insurance should cover the Soob.
  • Reply 3 of 5
    [quote]Originally posted by Eugene:

    <strong>Time to get a real car. <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[surprised]" />



    Only reason to get a Subaru is for the engine heater...and Seattle's not THAT cold.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Well, if you buy the 2000 Impreza 2.5RS and do about 10000 dollars of work to it you have something that's about as close to a rally car as you can get.
  • Reply 4 of 5
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    Eugene has just taken himself out of the running for the Mr. Sensitivity award this year.



    Glad he's OK. Was it a jealous MS employee? You know, someone who wishes he could create software like Omni can? (Well, that was my one lame attempt at humor for the evening.)
  • Reply 5 of 5
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    Heh. Nope, some '50-ish white male' approached Tom's car and motioned for him to roll down the window. Tom thought he needed help, and then the guy acted like he had a gun in his pocket, and told Tom to get out. Went down I-5 until the police ran him into a concrete wall (not head-on), where he jumped out and pointed something obviously metal at the cops like it was a gun. (Turns out it was a Leatherman he was trying to make look like a gun barrel.) The police at this point showed what I thought was *remarkable* restraint, and gang-tackled him.



    The current speculation here is that this was attempted suicide by cop.



    The entire chase and arrest were caught on tape by news helicopters.
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