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He deliberately swerved into a motorcyclist on the road. Now he’s going to jail. Article Link BY TOM UHLER uhler@star-telegram.com GRANBURY, TEXAS A man who intentionally swerved into a couple on a motorcyclists in Texas, causing them to crash and injure themselves in 2015, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday, his attorney confirmed. William Sam Crum, 69, was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in a jury trial in the 355th District Court in Hood County, Texas. Crum had been in jail since his arrest on Oct. 19, 2015, said his attorney, Lukas Lawrence. He was accused of purposely swerving into a Kawasaki motorcycle on Tin Top Highway the previous Saturday, causing motorcyclist Eric Sanders, 37, to crash. A video of the incident taken by a fellow motorcyclist with a camera attached to his helmet went viral soon after its release, attracting millions of views. It shows the motorcycle from behind speeding up to pass Crum’s Mercury on the two-lane road and Crum suddenly swerving across the painted dividing lines and clipping the bike, causing it and the bikers to fall and slide along the pavement. On the video, Sanders is seen getting up almost immediately and limping toward the road with what turned out to be minor injuries. His passenger, Debra Simpson, 38, lies motionless on her back on the side of the road with a broken arm and scrapes and bruises that landed her in the intensive care unit of Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth. “I don’t care,” Crum says in the video when confronted after the crash. In a jailhouse interview the day after his arrest, Crum showed his leg where he claimed that a spider had bitten him, causing him to momentarily lose control of his vehicle before the wreck. And he said that if Sanders hadn’t been “breaking the law” by trying to pass in a no-pass zone the crash would never have happened. His jury trial on one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon causing bodily injury lasted two days, his attorney said. Crum, no stranger to legal trouble, will remain in the Hood County jail until he is transferred to a unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. ------------------------------------------------------ Though we choose between reality and madness It's either sadness or euphoria | ||
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I remember that video and his "I don't care" statement. I guess he does care now. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance | |||
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Crum is going to have some hard jail time ahead of him, when words gets out what he did. Prisons house some hard core Bikers. ********* "Some people are alive today because it's against the law to kill them". | |||
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If he serves his full term, he will be 84 when he gets out. He will have 15 years to consider if his moment of anger was worth the price he will pay. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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A Grateful American |
 "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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And, think about what triggered his anger. What the hell did it matter if a biker passed him in a no passing zone? Was it jealousy? What an idiot. I found what you said riveting. | |||
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Poor decision making skills. The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC The Dhimocrats love America like ticks love a hound. | |||
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Hell of a way to spend your "golden years." | |||
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| Bodhisattva |
I hope he gets raped every day. | |||
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delicately calloused |
Well I'll only be 82!  You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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I remember this now after watching the video again. I've had people swerve at me before. Some people just had sportbikes and hate even more getting passed by them. In their head we shouldn't be on the road. I even had a semi try to take me out on one occasion, multiple attempts swerving his whole rig at me to prevent me from passing him. Road construction had caused 4 lanes into two. I intended to pass him, get off on the next exit and take a back way. It took a few attempts and some trickery to get by him, and my first few attempts failed. I remember seeing his right front wheel coming at me hard as I finally got by. I went left, he swerved left, then I flicked it right and punched it in first gear. Narrowly got by, exited, and was home 30 minutes later. No I wouldn't do it again, I was young. But it taught me some will attempt vehicular manslaughter if you try to get by them. Trick is to downshift so you are sitting at the upper end of the tach, then wfo.  What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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You must be a biker...harsh. Risk the consequences of honesty... | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
Some bikers do some strange stuff while riding, however I think they are in the minority. Having said that, anyone who would intentionally drive into a biker, or another car, has some serious anger management problems. I remember the incident, and thought at the time that the asshole needs to do some serious time. I rode for a couple years back in the first phony oil crises. Enjoyed it. Would probably be riding now except it would most likely involve a divorce. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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The guy tried to murder two people. Yeah, he deserves harsh. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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Told cops where to go for over 29 years… |
I remembered the video and read the article that he was sentenced. article I read linked to some of his previous legal run ins and it seems this wasn't the first time he has tried to run people down. History of rage and court ordered anger management classes. Glad to see the judge took it seriously and hammered his ass instead of going soft due to his age. Put me in the continued frequent ass hammering while in prison camp... What part of "...Shall not be infringed" don't you understand???  | |||
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| Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. |
At 70 years old already I'm not so sure he'll even get prison sex. | |||
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Wait, what? |
Congrats- enjoy dying in prison, idiot. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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Master-at-Arms |
My thoughts exactly. Seems to me being an asshole for all those years finally caught up to him. Its a karma thing. Foster's, Australian for Bud | |||
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| Bodhisattva |
"I don't care." | |||
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