Last night while dining at Baja Cantina (Cabo Cantina still sucks, yo! Go back to Manhattan Beach with all that!), we heard a ruckus caused by this:
We walked outside to see if we could help.
What we came across was some damn good police work.
As we would later learn, some twit in a white van (suspected of boozin’ too hard and being on heroin) had crashed into a whole bunch of cars while he tried to drive around Venice.
After smashing into the above cars he ripped across Washington at 40 mph or so and smashed into some parked cars by the canals.
When we arrived, there was a lone officer trying to appease this guy into getting out of his van, while the dimwit in the van had his foot on the gas and was burning rubber with his back tires while trying to escape.
In all seriousness, this one officer gives us all kinds of new respect for the L.A.P.D. While the van driver was trying to bash his way forward through cars in his feeble attempt at escape, the officer was calmly and methodically trying to get him out of the van. We looked at each other and said “should we help the cop”? but we figured the officer knew what he was doing and we didn’t feel like getting shot at last night.
Within a minute or two some more cops came and helped the original cop get the guy out of the van finally. The driver of the van was a real jerk and besides his trying to bash into cars, he was fighting with the police until they tasered his dumb ass. We are 100% not into violence around Yo! Venice!, but this guy needed a jolt of reality to be subdued.
Anyway, there are lots of reports on this in the news today, which you can read here here here and here.
As the first civilians on the scene, we can assure you that the first officer on scene, Sergeant Franklin, is a great guy to have around Venice protecting us. He was calm and collected in the face of a situation that was brutal to say the least. After the “perp” was in cuffs, the officer was amiable and modest to his fellow cops and to us.
Sergeant Franklin, thanks for having Venice as your beat and keeping all of us safe.
yeah that was nuts! Yo Venice! was first on the scene! We’ve got “exclusive photos”. Nice.
That’s crazy and you are right – Cabo Cantina does suck
Yo Venice! Excellent Coverage! I saw the car carnage on Strongs and it was ugly. Eight totalled mangled smashed cars! One compact car was pushed up under another car like an accordian. He was out of his mind bouncing off of cars on both sides of the street. Then he crossed Washington to the other side where he hit more cars, before coming to a crashing stop. The only damage was to the front of his white panel van. Eight black and whites responded with 16 Cops. Three Helicopters. Numerous news agencies. Paramedics. And the guy just got a cut on his forehead, and was in the paramedic wagon for 20 minutes before it took off with no sirens. Its amazing he did not injure or kill somebody. And when he was wrestled to the ground by three cops he had the nerve to stick them with his dirty needle! This loser cost the city and some innocent people a lot of money and grief. Hope those whose cars were hit were fully insured. Book Him, Dano!
apparently the jackass pricked the cop with a hypodermic needle while resisting arrest.
my source is venicesurfreport.com who posted an article by the way.
yeah when we were there, we saw the one cop pouring antiseptic on his hand, about 12 cops were helping. One of them mentioned something about confiscating the needle.
it was just a bad scene.
All the white people who says yo! bro! belong to Orange County.
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