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Saturday, September 29, 2007

Shoplifter leads Dallas police on chase, slams car, carjacks two women in line at Whataburger

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Tom Cruise films tend to give viewers unrealistic expectations about what is reasonable and even achievable behavior.

Tom Cruise films tend to give viewers unrealistic expectations about what is reasonable and even achievable behavior.

DALLAS — Bobby F. Eldridge, 50, went on a nutbag spree early Thursday that started when he was caught shoplifting at a Wal-Mart in the 4800 block of South Buckner Boulevard near Interstate 30 in very East/southeast Dallas.

A Dallas police officer in a Chevy Tahoe boxed him in, so he rammed the Tahoe, drove into a fence, fled on foot, ran to a Whataburger, tried to open a bunch of cars in line, reached one with two women, punched one of them, got them out, drove off, spun, hit a curb and damaged the tires sufficiently that it could no longer drive. Then he surrendered.

You gotta wonder, why surrender then? Why not jump on a horse and run through a pasture? Or hop aboard a moving train and run across the top of the train, and when it comes to a bridge, grab the bridge and pull yourself up and then jump on a skateboard and attach yourself to the back of an 18-wheeler? Or maybe scale a high-rise and leap from building top to building top? I think he totally wimped out.

He faces charges of robbery/carjacking and aggravated assault on a public servant with a vehicle.

Posted by T.G.

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eastside Anonymous

Bravo, he only made it about four hundred yards. hmm.. I wonder what was on his shopping list.

Walmart Shopping list

  1. Lunch Bags (brown)
  2. Spray paint gold, or silver
  3. What's Up, Tiger Lily? DVD
  4. Running Shoes
  5. Nyquil (cherry flavor)
  6. Architectural Digest

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Rawlins Gilliland

Rawlins Gilliland Verified

Not to be the Mapsco Monitor here, but this is on S.Buckner, which means south of I-30 which by definition then become Southeast Dallas (south of East Dallas) and specifically, Buckner Terrace neighborhood. That said, this guy must have been a crackhead fancying himself as a crackerjack heistmaster. Wrong.

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Teresa Gubbins

Teresa Gubbins Staff

amended accordingly, oh master of the mapsco. i actually did look this up on MapQuest and figured since it was "near I-30" that "East" would cover it. but i love getting this stuff fine-tuned, many thanks to RG

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