Man (Drunk) Steals Fire Truck - Gets Stuck In Mud, Calls Tow Truck, Arrest

[matcom]

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When Claud Gipson-Reynolds got his fire truck stuck in the mud along a rural Sonoma County road Friday, he did what anyone would naturally do: He called for a tow truck on the engine's radio.

The problem was, the intoxicated Gipson-Reynolds had just stolen the fire truck, crashing through the fire station door, to try to push his car out of the same mud.

Instead of a tow truck, dispatchers sent the California Highway Patrol to lock him up.

"I could probably get on that show, 'World's Dumbest Criminals,' " a chastened and sober Gipson-Reynolds, 36, said Saturday from his Santa Rosa home after bailing out of the Sonoma County jail on charges of vehicle theft and drunken driving. "I was pretty intoxicated at the time. My thinking was not the best."

Gipson-Reynolds said he had been on a two-day drinking binge following a fight with his wife when the clutch of his 1983 Chevrolet gave out. He ended up stuck in the mud on Cavedale Road, a windy, one-lane street about eight miles from Glen Ellen on the ridge between Sonoma and Napa counties.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/07/BAGVH9NFEC1.DTL

[matcom]

1. kick

:kick:

[kick-ass-bob]

2. What is there to say?

:shrug:

[jimbo fett]

3. Is this transcript of Bush's DUI bust?

[underpants]

4. Thems firetrucks tend to stick out in a crowd

Stole a firetruck?