Man Run Over By His Own Truck During Road Rage

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A man in Florida apparently got a dose of road rage karma when police say he was run over by his own pickup truck after getting out to bang on another driver’s window.

It happened Tuesday evening in Gainesville, Florida.

The Gainesville Sun (http://bit.ly/1rDishr) reports 48-year-old Joseph Carl had been drinking and drove into a vehicle stopped at a red light. He got out of his truck without putting it in park and began banging on the window of a woman’s car. When the frightened woman drove away, there was nothing holding his truck in place.

The truck rolled into Carl. A police report says he was taken to the hospital where he was treated for fractures in his hand and foot.

He’s charged with DUI and DUI property damage. It isn’t known whether he’s obtained a lawyer.

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Information from: The Gainesville (Fla.) Sun, http://www.gainesvillesun.com

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  1. Demonstrating once again that you can’t fix stupid. Nice guy, may the books of law hit very hard in the back of the head, vigorously and repeatedly as often as needed.

  2. Florida. Enough said.

  3. He should have been a man and opened fire on his truck under “Stand Your Ground”.

  4. Don’t forget “Hit and Dumb.”

  5. Avatar for darcy darcy says:

    I’m surprised she wasn’t “carrying”. It would have made for a perfect storm for her first legal kill! Tell the kids! And on the playground next day at school: “wow Billy, your mom is so cool”.

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