Post by Evan on May 16, 2020 14:39:01 GMT -8
www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/11/hayward-man-arrested-after-guzzling-wine-from-moving-tanker/
A Hayward man was arrested in Turlock for allegedly jumping onto a wine tanker on Highway 99 and, as it drove along the freeway, opening a valve and guzzling the wine.
Gabriel Moreno. (Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office)
Gabriel Moreno, 39, was booked on suspicion of felony vandalism and misdemeanor driving on a suspended license after Tuesday’s odd incident.
It began when he pulled his car alongside a Cherokee Freight Lines tanker truck and signaled the driver to the side of the road, California Highway Patrol officer Tom Olsen told Sacramento TV station KOVR.
Believing the other man had seen a problem with his truck, the tanker driver pulled over.
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Moreno got out of his car, barefoot and clad only in underpants and a facemask, and ran toward the back of the rig. The suspicious tanker driver decided not to engage with him and pulled back into the northbound lanes of Highway 99.
As the truck picked up speed, though, Moreno was able to jump onto it. Video recorded by the truck’s camera shows him clinging to the ladder on the side of the tank — and then crawling underneath it.
The driver was already calling the California Highway Patrol when he noticed a gauge showing the tank was losing its contents — red wine.
When the driver pulled over after a mile, his stowaway initially declined to flee. “He was lying on the ground and doing snow angels, basically, as the wine was pouring down on him,” Olsen said.
Then the CHP officers on the way to the scene started getting other reports — of a running man covered in blood. That, of course, would be the wine.
He didn’t get far, and he cooperated with the arresting officers.
The escapade — which left about 1,000 gallons of wine on the road, according to Cherokee Freight — earned Moreno a stay in the Stanislaus County jail in Modesto.
But wait. There’s more.
The following day, a ruckus in the parking lot outside that jail caught the attention of law enforcement officers.
Moreno had just been released on the state’s zero-bail order, and he was not happy about it. In particular, he was upset at not getting a sandwich while in jail, said an account on the Stanislaus County sheriff’s office Facebook page.
A Hayward man was arrested in Turlock for allegedly jumping onto a wine tanker on Highway 99 and, as it drove along the freeway, opening a valve and guzzling the wine.
Gabriel Moreno. (Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office)
Gabriel Moreno, 39, was booked on suspicion of felony vandalism and misdemeanor driving on a suspended license after Tuesday’s odd incident.
It began when he pulled his car alongside a Cherokee Freight Lines tanker truck and signaled the driver to the side of the road, California Highway Patrol officer Tom Olsen told Sacramento TV station KOVR.
Believing the other man had seen a problem with his truck, the tanker driver pulled over.
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Moreno got out of his car, barefoot and clad only in underpants and a facemask, and ran toward the back of the rig. The suspicious tanker driver decided not to engage with him and pulled back into the northbound lanes of Highway 99.
As the truck picked up speed, though, Moreno was able to jump onto it. Video recorded by the truck’s camera shows him clinging to the ladder on the side of the tank — and then crawling underneath it.
The driver was already calling the California Highway Patrol when he noticed a gauge showing the tank was losing its contents — red wine.
When the driver pulled over after a mile, his stowaway initially declined to flee. “He was lying on the ground and doing snow angels, basically, as the wine was pouring down on him,” Olsen said.
Then the CHP officers on the way to the scene started getting other reports — of a running man covered in blood. That, of course, would be the wine.
He didn’t get far, and he cooperated with the arresting officers.
The escapade — which left about 1,000 gallons of wine on the road, according to Cherokee Freight — earned Moreno a stay in the Stanislaus County jail in Modesto.
But wait. There’s more.
The following day, a ruckus in the parking lot outside that jail caught the attention of law enforcement officers.
Moreno had just been released on the state’s zero-bail order, and he was not happy about it. In particular, he was upset at not getting a sandwich while in jail, said an account on the Stanislaus County sheriff’s office Facebook page.
