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to, you can achieve whatever you want. you just don't give up. defiant, dangerous and desperate. they are suspects who won't go down without a fight. whether riding down the road in a fiery truck or jumping off a bridge. each in their own way defied the rules. clashed with police. and paid the price.
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caught on camera -- they fought the law. a gunman goes on a deadly ram page in the heart of hollywood. >> i saw a guy come in the middle of the street and as cars go by, he starts shooting at them. >> i figured he had blanks. i thought it couldn't be real. it became real when i heard a window shatter. >> i hadn't heard any gunshots. there was no forewarning. there was nothing to tell me that i was driving into danger. i was within a half inch of death. >> he was right there. i kind of just shrug off to the side and make myself a tiny target and hear the gunshot go
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off. >> los angeles, california, december 9, 2011. it's 10:19 friday morning and chris johns is working out of his home office four stories above the hollywood intersection of sunset and vine. >> i was on the phone and during that phone call i heard a popping sound. and first i dismissed it as a backfire of a car or some, some construction down the road. i wasn't sure. and then i heard pop, pop, a few more pops. i rushed over to the window and looked out the window and immediately saw a man, the white tank top, with a gun. started kind of roving the street, randomly shooting at cars. >> johns begins recording this video with his cell phone camera and tries to warn the people below. >> he's shooting people at will. he's shooting people. >> across vine street, john ator
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berry, a music producer lays critically wounded, shot in the face and neck, while ator berry fights for his life, the gunman calmly strolls up, a now deserted vine street. >> i was driving on vine street, heading south and stopped at the intersection of sunset and vine. >> movie producer don riedel is driving a red honda civic. >> i saw a young man waving. i just thought it's friday morning and he's out having a good time early. so the light turned green, and i went across the intersection. he was just looking straight up, straight ahead, until my car became parallel at with him. and all of a sudden he zipped around, faced me, boom, i hear the sound. the glass on my car window shatters. >> the bullet misses riedel by
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half an inch, lodging in his car door. >> there's glass all over my clothes, glass had hit my cheek. >> chris gladly, a reporter is one car behind in the black toyota. >> i saw him raise his gun and take a shot into the car. and i saw the window explode. he saw me coming. the barrel of his gun is now raising up towards me. i had no real choice but to drive straight through the intersection. i saw the gun start to come around in my direction, and i knew what was about to happen. everything slows down in that moment. >> the bullet goes through the truck's door and grazes godly's leg. >> if he had better aim, i could be not here right now. the bullet hit my ipad which was sitting in the passenger seat next to me. came in this way, bounced off
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and went into my passenger side door. >> from his fourth floor apartment, chris johns watches as terrified drivers swerve to avoid the gunman. >> he's roving the streets, kind of methodically shooting at anything that moved. >> security at john's building has already called 911. but with no sign yet of police, johns opts to create a diversion using himself. >> and at that point, something went off in my head where i said what can i do to distract this guy. so i immediately started shouting, hey, you mad man. >> madman, why don't you come up here. come on up here, bud eye. >> shoot me. i want to die. come shoot me. i'm ready to die. >> kill me, i want to die. please, kill me. >> i thought it would get his attention, something that sounds crazy. and he's in an altered state.
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maybe he would brief when he started coming in my direction, i saw him get closer and closer and i wondered at this point is he going to shoot? am i going to die? >> instead, the gunman has a request. >> i don't have any, man. >> he's like oh, i'm out of ammo. then he looks up at my again. >> i'm so sorry. >> says call an ambulance. and here i am thinking he doesn't even know what he just did. you know. he's telling me to call an ambulance. >> three minutes after the first shots are fired three detectives pull up and run south, down vine under the tree line. a third officer off duty and working a nearby movie set joins up with them. they attempt to engage the gunman, but according to an eyewitness, the shooter is suicidal. >> he was out of his mind.
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he was really out of his mind. he was. he goes i want to die. i want to die. all of a sudden, the suspect makes this move like he's going to go for a gun like he's a quick draw or something. >> the gun flies from his hand. from under the trees, two of the officers fire at the suspect. >> he put his hand on his side and he kind of walked back, and he stumbled to the floor. >> a professional photographer who always carries a camera captures these dramatic images of the gunman who is now holding what i a peers to police to be a knife. >> i can see in his face that he was just in pain. his mouth was open, and he was squirming on the floor, and all these other l.a.p.d. officers came up from down the street. >> the shooter dies at the scene.
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with the street secured, victim john atorberry is rushed to the er. >> he was laying on the pavement, and then he was picked up and put on a gurney and wheeled away into an ambulance, and i just thought i hope he's going to be okay. and as it turns out, he wasn't okay. >> he dies three days later. >> he was jubilant and joyful and just had this everer ves ens that shined through him. >> this actress stars in a film at atorberry was producing when he died. >> he just cared so much for people. when god took him, it was one thing i was just pray, i'm like god, why? why? it's senseless. >> the shooter is later
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identified as 26 year old tyler brehm. he was apparently distraught over a breakup with his long time girlfriend just days before. toxicology reports reveal marijuana and traces of methamphetamine in his system. >> we can't control somebody who decide does have a bad day and start firing on everybody. you just never know when something like that can happen. >> for the two survivors, every day is a gift. neither chris nor don will soon forget how close they came to losing their lives. >> i think i take relationships with people i care about a little more karenfully. >> i'm here by the grace of god talking to you. coming up, danger at the wheel, a fugitive from justice takes his ex-girlfriend on a terrifying ride. >> i see this person who's just
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bullets fly as police chase a wanted man, willing to do anything to escape. >> i knew at that point that we were dealing with an extremely dangerous and violent criminal. >> he wasn't going to stop until he crashed and either killed somebody or killed himself. >> fresno, california, december 16, 2002. it's just before 11:00. and police are in hot pursuit. the man they're after, suspect who is wanted for skipping bail in a narcotics case. 15 minutes earlier, the suspect had taken off when cops in nearby clovis had tried to bring
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him in. in the car with him, the on again/off again girlfriend and the mother of his child scared her story with local television. >> i was just scare. and i'm still shook up. i begged him to stop, to just let me out or just stop. and he just kept on going. >> by chance, tony kirkpatrick, a camera operator for fresno's cbs station is in the vicinity and captures this dramatic video. >> i just started rolling. i kept rolling. as you can tell, the camera was like crooked because i was so nervous. >> police fear the suspect could be high on drugs and heavily armed. a clovis officer now sees an opportunity to perform a pitman ufr. >> it involves making contact with the suspect vehicle in one of the rear quarter panels. and what it does is cause the
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vehicle to spin out and lose control. as i move in position to do that he repo significanced his vehicle and we were basically going to hit head on. >> he opts to break at the last send but not before locking eyes with the suspect. >> i see this person who is just laughing. his eyes are open. he's enjoying himself. it's obvious to me, anyway, that his intent is to get' way or die trying. >> moments later, his car is rammed by another police vehicle. the suspect keeps driving, mounting a median and steering the battered honda to a gas station across the street. there he's hit again but he keeps moving. this time, police use their guns to stop him. opening fire with a barragef of
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bulle bullets. >> i can hear bullets impact the wall behind me. i was concerned. i knew there was a passenger in this car. in my mind, i'm thinking she's going to get killed. >> i was ducking down, covering my head, just didn't know what to do. i could feel it pounding, bang, through the car. forcing through there. i was just waiting for bullets to like come through me. i was just waiting to die. >> the suspect, his car stuck on a raised planter guns the motor, smoke from the spinning wheels surrounds the honda, unable to see their target, police hold their fire. seconds later, the suspect is able to maneuver the car free, officers unleash another round of bullets. >> you could clearly see one of the officers executing what's known as a speed load where he's trying to reload his weapon
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quickly, you see the magazine drop away as his new magazine goes in and he continues to fire. >> just so see all theshires flying up in the air was almost like matrix or something. my kids flash in my face and my wife flashed in my face. that's when i realized, you know what, i'm in it too deep. >> the camera operator takes cover behind his news van but keeps rolling. off camera, the suspect gives police the slip again. >> he was able to drive out of the parking lot. he headed northbound, went up to the next light, turned rnd an and came back directly at officers again. >> clovis officer abbey. >> he was no longer trying to flee. he drove straight into the back of another car sitting at the intersection. there were three or four lanes
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dhee have gone through, but he directly hit that car. >> the collision finally brings the chase to an end. >> the driver was actually laying across the passenger seat in the lab of the female passenger. >> he just like hold me. just take me in your arm and get ready to die together. i was just like pray for my own life. >> officer accosta fears the worst for the passenger. >> greatly expected her to be shot. was greatly relieved to find that she was not when i got to the vehicle. >> the suspect is unarmed. he has been shot four times. >> when it was all said and done, i was like patting myself down to make sure that i didn't get hit or if there was any blood anywhere. i just started crying. >> police fire a reported 70
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rounds at the suspect's vehicle. >> i think the police went too far. they could have stopped us in a different way. >> the suspect survives and is convicted of several charges, including false imprisonment, driving under the influbs and evading police. according to toxicology reports, alcohol and methamphetamine are found in his system. he's sentenced to six years and four months in prison. separate investigations by police and the district attorney's office find the fresno police act within department policy, and their response did not break the law. >> i'm grlad that i'm here righ now, from what i saw on the tv. i'm just glad. coming up, an enraged suspect takes on three officers at once. >> i'm spraying, actually emptied my whole canister. it almost seemed like the pepper
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a vicious fight breaks out in a campus police station. when a burglary suspect tries to escape. >> it was crazy. person gone wild. 50 some seconds of madness. >> university of akron, ohio, may 18, 1999. campus police officer erin burnett is preparing to fingerprint a local resident who does not attend the school. he's been arrested for stealing a stereo, more than 30 cds and several bags of milky ways from a fraternity house on campus. as station surveillance cameras roll, burnett senses something isn't right. nevertheless, he uncuffs the suspect, a move he will soon
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regrate. >> there were indicators that he was going to be confrontational. >> thomas shannon, now retired, was a campus police officer at the time. >> you know, sometimes you just overlook those things. >> reluctantly, the suspect gets up. but instead of facing the table, the 6'2" bergen stares down the much smaller burnett. the rookie officer tries to assert his authority. >> are you going to cooperate or not? >> i think there were times when the officer was trying to establish himself as the alpha dog in the situation. >> stewart warner reported on the story. >> he was a young officer. and there are times when you need to do that, but this is not one of those times because you had a suspect who was unstable. >> burnett, again sensing
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trouble is hoping to get bergen back on the bench and get some additional assistance. >> sit down in the chair. you're going to sit down. you don't square off with me, you understand? we're going to do this again. >>s after a minute, officer burnette returns and uncuffs the suspect a second time. just off camera is campus police officer thomas shannon. >> officer burnette asked me to come back. he was having some problems with the suspect.
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the suspect turned to me and asked what i was doing there. his reaction was almost like i was disrespecting him as well, that, you know, what did you say to me? >> don't disrespect me. >> put your hand down. sit down. >> the second time he squares off, he's ready to go. in the blink of an eye, the fight was on. >> burnette who was unarmed goes for his pepper spray, but bergen knocks him back with a blow to the neck. officer shannon uses his baton, but it has little effect on the
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suspect. burnette calls for the officers to use pepper spray. >> i'm spraying, actually emptied my whole canister. >> officer burnette reeling from pepper spray runs from the room. >> pepper spray burns. it causes your tire ducts, your nasal cavity to open. probably nine times out of ten that's going to incapacitate someone long enough for to you apprehend them. >> but not so with this suspect. >> it almost seemed like the pepper spray aggravated him. >> bergen loses his shirt in the fray but then reaches for a chair and hurls it at officer shannon. >> in the moment of the fight i didn't even feel getting hit with the chair. >> the brawl moves off adjacent to lockers.
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>> when you see the lockers moving that's me hitting him, this time in the chest. doesn't stop him. >> another officer joins the fight and the four officers are able to subdue bergen. >> we got him to the ground, and then as we're handcuffing him, he's yelling kill me. kill me, just kill me. it was over. it was done. he knew he wasn't going any further. >> the pepper spray makes its way through the station's ventilation system, ultimately sending seven officers and a radio dispatcher to the hospital for treatment. steven bergen, originally detained for stealing a stereo and a few bags of snacks ends up in far deeper trouble. in addition to one count of burglary, he's convicted of aggravated assault on a police officer and attempted escape. he serves four years and seven
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months in prison. after the incident, a lot of things change at the campus police station. >> our booking area became more secure. it was moved to a whole different building. no loose chairs in there. no things that they could get their hands on and use against us. >> coming up an ex-con hijacks a lumber truck and gives new meaning to the term hot pursuit, hot on wheels. when caught on camera continues. hey kevin...still eating chalk for heartburn?
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gas pump. the average price of gas has dropped just over a penny to $3.59 a gallon. now back to caught on camera. an out of work ex-con leads police on a wild ride, driving a stolen lumber truck, its flatbed in flames. >> it can't get much more dangerous. he was on an open road with a 18 wheeler that was on fire. it was a true wild west chase and shootout. >> dallas, texas, nbc news correspondent jay gray is always on the lookout for the next big scoop. >> i'm a news guy. i always like to see a good story. >> on november 7, 2001, the
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veteran newsman, then with local station kxas gets a chance to cover just that. >> every major news organization was involved in the story. everybody went live with this. >> police say just after 1:20 this afternoon, the hijacker hot wired the truck. >> the drama againis when ber nis wilson spots this 18 wheeler loaded with lumber outside a kfc. >> i thought i could get this truck, get the lumber, sell it and get me some money. i got in and drove off. >> unbeknownst to wilson, the truck's driver jumps on the back of the rig as he's driving away and disconnects the air hoses to the rear brake, locking the rear wheels. >> that driver made a real val
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anteffort to try and take control of the truck before it pulled away. >> the truck driver ends up jumping from the truck. in spite of the locked rear wheels, wilson can still operate the big rig. he pulls out, but within minutes, thanks to a 911 call from the truck's driver, police are on wilson's tail. >> the individual i was associated with said he wanted to buy some lumber. i was going to his house. >> he dwroef through yards, across medians. he crossed highways. he got on the wrong side of the highway and drove against the flow of traffic. >> soon, the friction from the truck's locked rear wheels ignites the rubber tires. those set fire to the flatbed, the forklift and a load of lumber. >> once it caught fire, it burned uncontrollably. you see this truck with a huge
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ball of fire in tow. you see the hume plume of black smoke from the truck as well. >> in spite of the flames and the huge sea of police behind him, wilson shows no sign of slowing down. >> i knew i had to find a place to safely stop the truck before i could surrender. >> crowds appear as people watching the chase live on tv come outside to see it for themselves. the 18 wheeler sends pedestrian running for their lives. and motorists swerving off the road as it barrels through residential neighborhoods. >> police were doing everything they could to try to stop bernis from moving. they tried to shoot out tires. they tried to block roads.
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he'd just drive around them. >> fearing for the public's safety, the commander gives the order to shoot to kill. >> they give the officers the ability to use deadly force if necessary. >> they had no intention of letting me get out alive. >> police fire on the truck from the ground and the air. >> i now the police issued a code 100 which is a shoot to kill. at that time i was trying to figure out how to get out of the truck. i never thought they'd start shooting like they did. i thought if you shoot my, who's going to drive the truck? >> with a trail of burning tires in his wake, wilson decides to end his terrifying ride after 90 minutes, bringing the smoldering rig to a stop near the trinity river. >> when i finally did stop, i was in an area where i could
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pull the brakes and jump out and lay on the ground. >> wilson is arrested without further incident and carted off to jail. after a brief trial, he's convicted of felony robbery, evading arrest and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. he's ultimately sentenced to 28 years behind bars. a chemical accident at the prison laundry has left him partially blind. he now realizes the mistake he made that day has cost him dearly. >> i wish it never happened. all i can do is apologize to the owner, the driver, the city of dallas. if i hadn't did what i did, i would have sight, so that's part of the penalty that i'm paying for doing what i did. >> i don't think he was planning on stealing the 18 wheeler that day. i think it was just opportunity knocking at the door, and he answered. coming up, can police stop
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time. going at least 65 miles per hour. >> outside the city, a white male is speeding east in a stolen school bus, straight toward the city line. the bus is stolen from this albuquerque bus yard. the suspect drives 80 miles west on i-40 to the city of grant, before turning around and heading back to albuquerque. now state, city, and county law enforcement are in hot pursuit, determined to stop the empty bus before it reaches albuquerque's early morning rush hour. the plan, stop the vehicle with spike belts, also known as stop sticks, strips of metal barbs
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designed to pupgs tour tires. mile marker 137 is 13 miles from the albuquerque city line. at 6:27, the bus appears. the bus barrels over the spike belt but does not slow down. police deploy more spike sticks over the next several miles. sgre as no front tires anymore. >> but the driver speeds on. the school bus is now inside the city line, just miles from albuquerque's most congested areas. a state police cruiser attempts
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to ram the bus off the road with a pit maneuver. but after three miles, a vehicle to vehicle contact the cruiser's front end is heavily damaged. hoping a bigger vehicle has a better chance, a police suv takes the lead. the pit maneuver is successful. police immediately surround the bus. inside, the driver revs the engine as if trying to escape. officers respond with a volley of nonlethal beanbag rounds, suddenly a member of the
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sheriff's office fires real bullets into the bus, striking the suspect three times. immediately, a state police officer is seen shouting at the deputy sheriff. the suspect, meanwhile, is pulled from the bus, covered in blood and wearing only boxers. he is identified as 27 year old nathaniel shipman. his history includes domestic violence, drug possession and assaulting a police officer. he's loaded into an ambulance and given a police escort to an area hospital where he makes a complete recovery. a month later, he pleads not guilty to multiple charges, including aggravated assault on a police officer, stealing a vehicle, reckless driving, aggravating fleeing and burglary. he is currently in jail awaiting trial. the deputy who shotshipman is
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put on administrative leave, eventually he is cleared of wrong doing and returned to duty. shipman gives no explanation for his wild ride which snarls traffic for seven hours. coming up, a drunk and disorderly diner puts mayhem on the menu at this subway. and a base jumper on the edge. find out if he lands behind bars. when caught on camera -- they fought the law -- continues. ka r fruit chews. they work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i'm feeling better already. [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer fruits chews. enjoy the relief! [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer fruits chews. help the gulf recover, andnt to learn from what happenedg goals: so we could be a better, safer energy company.
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a university student becomes a menace on campus before cops
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take him down. >> i had never heard of anything like this. and i vant really heard of anything like it since. >> western kentucky university in bowling green, kentucky. here some students say homecoming weekend means parades, pigskin and partying. this student witnesses one such thing up close and personal during western kentucky's 2010 homecoming. ery saturday evening, october 30th, he stops by a subway on campus for a bite to eat. there, a young man later identified as dennis wayne craig, is making a scene. >> he's being round eye. he's being too loud. and the woman behind the counter told him to leave, and he wouldn't. >> meferd, sensing trouble calls
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police. >> he storms over-the-counter toward the manager who is trying to reach campus police. >> you can see in the video where she is starting to dial the phone. craig follows her back there, yanks it out of the wall. >> tessan is a university reporter. >> you don't really hear a lot about phones being yanked out of walls. >> soon craig reappears in the seating area. >> there were a couple guys waiting for him. they were trying to hold him down and you hear craig say it's about to get nuclear. >> that that means, i don't know. >> craig's nuclear punch misses by a mile. instead, he's knocked to the floor.
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but it's not long before he's back on his feet again. >> he was riled up. he started offering money to people who could whoop him. >> shirt comes off. >> it's an offer everyone can refuse and does. a friend of craig's in the black shirt attempts to talk some sense into him. >> craig's friend is trying to get him to calm down. but craig has little interest in calming down. >> in a matter of seconds, there are blue uniformed cops all around him. he doesn't really move. it's like he's a deer in headlights. >> one officer gets right up into craig's face and is pointing the taser in his face. >> dazed and confused, craig does not comply. this time, craig stays down
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craig pleads guilty to alcohol intoxication and disorderly conduct. he's sentenced to 90 days in jail, but the judge suspends the sentence, he is put on two years probation and pays a $250 fine. just what set off his nuclear meltdown remains a mystery. this video is placed on youtube where it goes nuclear. >>. >> when he got tased, he scream like a little girl. i think that's probably what maid the video so successful on youtube is that it's funny. caught in the act. >> i figured i was going to jail
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anyways, might as well get the jump in. >> this daredevil defies the law and lands behind bars. >> big sur, california. to most people, the bridge is a marvel of engineering. 280 feet above jagged rocks and pristine beach. to some, it's something cool to jump off of. when the skydiving instructor isn't jumping out of planes, he's hurling himself off things. >> some people do drugs. i jump off of stuff. makes me feel good. it's like a drug, only the fun part's coming down. >> jester is an avid base jumper. >> base jumping is building
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antenna span and e for earth. >> there's only one small problem. jumping off bridges is against the law. >> what up, baby? >> but that doesn't stop jester from driving his car to the bridge to attempt his 122nd jump off the structure. >> it's probably one of the most beautiful places that i've actually base jumped. it's a little rocky down there. >> it's the afternoon of december 8, 2010. he will later admit he drank a couple of glasses of vodka mixed with krcranberry juice that morning. >> i was going to free fall it, but i got scared. roll over it. >> okay. let's do it. >> jester enlists a friend to
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videotape the jump. >> got a facebook page. we like to share our videos on facebook and amongst other base jumpers. >> he prepares to plunge. >> i was in the middle of the bridge, and the police officer pulled up. >> don't even think about it. i think i said a four-letter word at that point and i thought for a few seconds, and i said i'm going to do it anyways. >> the over approaches jester. >> i doubt he would have let me do it anyway. i figured i was going to send me
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to jail. i've been to jail a couple times for base jumping. >> jester tries a peace offering. >> i think he wanted to see it as much as i wanted to jump. if he really wanted to stop me he could have yanked me off the leblg. he made no effort. >> jester jumps. 15 seconds later he make as perfect landing on the beach. >> you did that, bud eye, nowdb you're going to jail. >> i could see the police officer racing down the other end of the bridge. i figured they'd send me a ticket and they hauled me to jail. >> jester goes to trial and is convicted of disobeying a police
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officer and driving under the influence among other charges. he could have faced up to three years in jail, but is sentenced to 120 days and serves 69 before he's released for good behavior. he's placed on three years probation and ordered to enter an alcohol rehab program. his friend posts the video online and he becomes an internet sensation. >> it went viral. i had friends call me from all around the world, brazil, norway, england, said yo, man, we saw you on the news here. it was kind of shocking. >> armed with just a parachute he fought the law, and the law won.
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sfwli e >> i ended up sitting in jail for 60 days. what i do it again? probably. on the streets of detroit, someone is hunting and killing women, two at a time. >> a serial pattern is developing. >> the first set of women were found dead in the trunk of a car on promenade street. >> i'm tired of us losing our children. >> lurking in the online ads for sex and luring the unsuspecting to a

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