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"SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — A Southern Pines man was recovering from a strained back Saturday after a fender bender led to a wild ride through Moore County on the hood of a suspected hit-and-run driver's car. "All I really remember is a little kid looking out the window with (his) mouth hanging open, like, 'Momma, there's a guy on the hood of that car," said David Francis, adding that he held on to the windshield wipers of the other driver's car for about two miles. "I wasn't going to get off until the guy stopped because I didn't know if the guy would run over me or not," Francis said. A Southern Pines police officer saw Francis on the hood of the car and pulled Dowdle over on South Bennett Road. "When he did that, I just let go and rolled off," Francis said. But Dowdle hit the gas again, Francis said, leading police on a chase that involved the Moore County Sheriff's Office and the state Highway Patrol. Dowdle crashed on Midland Road in Southern Pines, near the entrance to Midland Country Club."

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/9933173/

That sounds absolutely terrifying

8/1/2011 12:45:23 PM

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"WRECK TURNED DEATH"

8/1/2011 12:58:43 PM

"My heart was pounding and all that good stuff," he said

8/1/2011 1:04:02 PM

I assumed it was just a slow speed ride until that last line in the article:

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""I'll be 60 next week, and it was not my plan to ride two miles up the highway on the front of (a) car at highway speed," he said."

[Edited on August 1, 2011 at 1:04 PM. Reason : dammit]

8/1/2011 1:04:08 PM

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"Driver charged in Aberdeen wreck turned death-defying ride"

In case anyone else was confused by the thread title

8/1/2011 1:26:20 PM

Yeah the whole thing wouldn't fit and I was too lazy to reword

8/2/2011 8:07:09 AM

lol,

i was kinda confused about the title

8/2/2011 8:11:30 AM

Haha, yeah at first I was all

"Hmm, so I guess there was a wreck and the guy who caused it later got charged with someone's death"

Then I was all

"Oh no a kid died during some flying car action shit " (kid in the window)

Then

"So I guess the guy on the windshield died a few days later"

then

"So I guess the guy driving the car with the guy on the windshield died at the end of the chase"

then

"wat"

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""When he hit me in the shins, I fell forward and just grabbed (on)," he said. "That's how I rode to Southern Pines.""

That doesn't make sense. Also lol at the cop who got hit in the shins too

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"But Dowdle hit the gas again, police said, striking the officer in the leg and leading police on a chase that involved the Moore County Sheriff's Office and the state Highway Patrol."

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"Francis said he recently retired from a 28-year career with the National Guard, during which he served a tour of duty in Iraq. "

Must've been all that training

[Edited on August 2, 2011 at 8:33 AM. Reason : lkj]

8/2/2011 8:29:55 AM

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""I'll be 60 next week, and it was not my plan to ride two miles up the highway on the front of (a) car at highway speed," he said.""

Oh GOD, I was in tears laughing over this....LOOOOOL

8/2/2011 8:57:41 AM

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"Just minutes after renting a car from Rent-A-Wreck in Aberdeen, Francis, 59, said he was rear-ended at the intersection of U.S. Highway 1 and Poplar Street."

Rent-A-Wreck? That's a hell of a name.

8/2/2011 12:09:55 PM

Thread title is misleading, suspend.

8/2/2011 12:26:39 PM

They'll rent to you even if you're under 25 so that's pretty sweet!

8/2/2011 12:28:07 PM

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"Rent-A-Wreck? That's a hell of a name."

i drove past this place last week and said the same thing.. why would anybody rent a car from them?

8/2/2011 12:32:02 PM