"caught on camera." defiant, dangerous, and desperate. they are suspects who won't go down without a fight. whether riding down the road in a fiery truck -- >> don't even think about it. >> -- or jumping off a bridge. each in their own way, defied the rules, clashed with police, and paid the price. >> shots fired.

"caught on camera: they fought the law." a gunman goes on a deadly rampage in the heart of hollywood. >> i saw a guy on the street in his car go by. he start shooting at him. >> 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 fore warning. there was nothing to tell me that i was driving into danger. i was within half an inch of death. >> he was right there. i kind of just shrug off to the side and make myself a tiny target. hear the gunshot go off. los angeles, california. december 9th, 2011. 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 the phone call i heard a popping sound. first i dismissed it as the backfire of a car or some construction down the road. i wasn't sure. and then i heard pop, pop, a new more pops. i looked out the window and saw a man with a white tank top and a gun. started roaming the streets, randomly shooting at cars. >> johns begins recording this video with his cell phone camera and tries to warn the people below. >> he's sheeting people at will. he's shooting people. >> across vine street, john

aderbury, a movie executive and producer lies critically wounded, shot in the face and neck, why aderbury 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 john rydell is driving a red honda civic. >> in the middle of the street, i saw a young man waving. i just thought, well, it's friday morning and he's out having a good time early. so the light turned green, and i went across the intersection and just looking straight up, straight ahead. until my car became parallel with him and all of a sudden he zipped around, faced me and boom. i hear the sound. the glass on my car window shattered. >> the bullet misses rydell by a half inch, lodging in his car

do>> there's glass all over my clothes. glass had hit my cheek. >> chris godly a photo editor for the "hollywood reporter" is one car behind in a black toyota. >> saw him raise his gun and take a shot in to the car, and i saw the window explode. and then 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. i knew what was about to happen. everything slows down in that moment. >> the built goes through the truck's door and grazes godly's leg. >> had he had better aim, yeah, i could be not here right now. the bullet hit my ipad, which was sitting in the passenger's seat next to me. came in this way, this direction, and bounced off and went in to my passenger's side

door. >> from his fourth floor apartment, chris johns watches as terrified drivers swerve to avoid the gunman. >> he's shooting people. >> he is roaming the streets, mechanically and methodically shooting at anything that moved. >> security at john's building has already called 911 but with no sign of police, john opts to create a diversion using himself. >> at that point, something went off in my head that said what can i do to distract this guy? i immediately started shouting. hey you, mad man. mad man, why don't you come up here? come on up here, buddy. shoot me, i want to die. come on, 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 if he is in an altered state the maybe he would believe. when he started to come in my

direction, i saw him get closer and close and i wondered is he going to shoot me? am i going to die. >> instead the gunman has a request. >> give me ammo. >> i don't have any, i'm sorry. >> then he looks at me again. >> i'm sorry. >> call the ambulance. >> call an ambulance. >> and here i'm thinking he doesn't know what he just did. telling me to call an ambulance. >> there's a cop. >> three minutes after the first shots are fired, two detectives just blocks away when told of the shooting by eyewitnesses 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 eyewitness gregory behorquist the shooter is suicidal. >> he was out of his mind.

really out of his mind. 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 is quick 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. he kind of walked back and he stumbled to the floor. >> the professional photographer who always carries a camera captures the images of the gunman who is now holding what appears to be a knife. >> i could see by his face he was in pain. his mouth was open and he was squirming on the floor and all of these lapd officers came up from down the street. >> the shooter dies at the scene.

with the street secured, victim john atorbury is rushed to the hospital. >> he was picked up on to a gurney and wheeled in to an ambulance. i thought i hope he is going to be okay. as it turns out he wasn't okay. >> ator bury's wounds are too severe. he dies three days later. >> he was jubilant and joyful and had an effervesce sans that shines through him. it was special. >> actress jen godson stars in got's country, a film that atorbury cowrote. >> he adored his sfraufamily an friends. when god took him, it was one thing i was praying, god, why? why? it is senseless. >> the shooter is later

identified as 26-year-old tyler brown. he was apparently distraught over a break up 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 decides to have a bad day and start firing on everybody. you just never know when somebody 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 that i care about a little more seriously. >> god was looking after me that day the. i truly believe that by the grace of god i'm here today talking to you. >> coming up, danger at the wheel. a fugitive from justice takes his ex boyfriend on a terrifying ride.

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bullets fly as police chase a wanted man willing to do anything to escape. >> i knew at that point we were dealing with an extremely dangerous and violent criminal. >> he one going to stop until he crashed and either killed somebody or himself. >> fresno, california, december 16th, 2002, it's just before 11:00 p.m., and police are in hot pursuit. the man they are after, suspect von sahareth wanted for skipping bail in a narcotics case. cops in nearby clovis tried to bring him in. in the car with him his off and

on again girlfriend and the mother of his two with sons who shared her story with local television. >> i was so scared. i'm still shook up. i begged him to stop, to just let me out or just stop. he just kept going. >> by chance tony kirkpatrick a camera operator for fresno's cbs station is in the vicinity and captured this dramatic video. >> i just started rolling. i just kept rolling. as you can tell the camera is crooked because i was so nervous. >> police fear he could be high on drugs and heavily armed. as the suspect approaches a busy intersection, clovis officer joel acosta, now retired, sees an opportunity to perform a pit maneuver. >> it involves making contact with the suspect vehicle in one of the rear quarter panels and what it does is causes the vehicle to spin out and lose

control. i knew i was in a position to do that he repositioned his vehicle and we were basically going to hit head on. my concern at this point is if i collide head on what will happen to her. >> acosta opts to brake at the last suspect but not before connecting this person. >> he is laughing. his intent is to. >> the suspect keeps driving. mounting a median. mounting a median and steering the battered honda to a gas station across the street. there he's hit again but sahareth keeps moving. this time police use their guns to stop him, opening fire with a barrage of bullets.

>> i could hear bullets impacting the walls around me. i was extremely concerned because i knew there's a passenger in this car. in my mind i'm thinking she's going to get killed. >> i was ducking down. i was covering my head. just didn't know what to do. i can feel it pounding, bang, through the car. i was just waiting for bullets to come through me. i was just waiting to die. >> sahareth, his car stuck -- unable to see their target, police hold their fire. seconds later sahareth is able to maneuver the car free. officers release another round of bullets. >> you can clearly see one of the officers executing what is known as a speed load and was trying to reload his weapon and

get it back in action you can see the magazine drop quickly and he continues to refire. >> just to see all the shells flying in the air was like "matrix" or something. my kids flashed in my face. my wife flashed in my face. that's when i realized i'm in it too deep. >> the camera operator takes cover behind his news van but keeps rolling. off camera sahareth gives police the slip yet again. >> he was finally able to drive out of the parking lot. he headed northbound. went up to the next light, turned around and came directly back at the officers again. clovis officer abby pa sglent he was no longer trying to flee. he drove straight in to the back of another car sitting at the intersection. there were three or four lanes

that he could have gone through, and he directly hit that car. >> get your hands up! >> the collision finally brings the chase to an end. >> the drive was actually laying across the passenger seat in the lap of the female passenger. he's like, just hold me. get ready to die together. i was just like praying for my own life. >> officer acosta fears the worst for sahareth's passenger. >> totally expected her to be shot. was greatly relieved to find out she was not when i got to the vehicle. >> sahareth is unarmed. he has been shot four times. >> when it was all said and done, i was patting myself down to make sure i didn't get hit or if there was blood anywhere. i just started crying. >> police fire a reported 70 rounds at the suspect's vehicle.

>> i think the police went too far. they could have stopped us in a different way. >> sahareth survives and is convicted of several charges. including false imprisonment, driving under the influence, and evading police. according to toxicology reports, alcohol and methamphetamine are found his system. he's sentenced to six years and four months in prison. separate investigations by police and the da district attorney's office find the fresno police acted within department policy and their response did not break the law. >> i'm glad i'm here right 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 emptying my whole canister. it almost seemed like pepper spray aggravated him mr. when "caught on camera, they fought

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. a particularry suspect tries to escape. >> it was crazy. person gone wild. 50 some seconds of madness. >> university of akron, ohio, may 18th, 1999. campus police officer aaron burnett is preparing to fingerprint 30-year-old steven bergen, 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. >> i'm going to get your fingerprints. you understand? >> as station surveillance cameras roll, burnett senses something isn't right. nevertheless, he uncuffs the suspect, a move he will soon

regret. >> there were indicators that he was going to be confrontational. >> thomas shannon, now retired, was a campus police officer at the time. >> sometimes you overlook those things. >> stand up and get your fingerprints or not. >> 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. >> face forward. are you going to cooperate or not? >> i think there are times when the officer was trying to establish himself as the alpha dog. >> reporter: he reported on the story for the cleveland plain dealer. >> he was a young officer and there are times you need to do that but this was not one of those times because you had a suspect who was unstable. >> sit down in the chair. >> burnett, again sensing trouble, is hoping to get bergen

back on the bench and get additional assistance. >> sit down in the chair. you are going to sit down. >> i'm getting my fingerprints. >> i'm going to get my fingerprints. >> you understand? >> we're go ing to do this again. >> after a minute, officer burnett returns and uncuffs the suspect a second time. >> all right. >> just off camera is campus police officer thomas shannon. >> officer burnett asked me to come back. he was having some problems with the suspect. the suspect turned to me and asked what i was doing back

there. >> why did you come over here for. >> because i wanted to come over here. >> his reaction was almost like i was disrespecting him, as well. that what did you say to me? >> don't look at me like that. >> i will do what i want to do. >> oh, yeah. you are going to do what i tell you to do. don't disrespect me. don't disrespect me. >> put your hand down here. sit down. >> the second time he squares off, he's ready to go. blink of an eye the fight was on. >> burnett, 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 suspect. >> he ran right through it. >> burnett calls for the officers to use pepper spray.

>> i'm spraying. actually emptied my whole canister. >> officer burnett reeling from pepper spray runs from the room. >> pepper spray burns. it causes your tear ducts, your nasal cavity to open. probably nine times out of ten that's going to incapacitate someone long enough for you to apprehend them. >> but not so with this suspect. >> it almost seemed like the pepper spray aggravated him. >> bergen loses his shirt in the fray and then reaches for a chair and hurls it at officer shannon. >> in the moment of the fight, didn't even feel getting hit with the chair. >> the brawl moves off camera in front of an adjacent row of lockers. >> when you see the lockers rattling that is me hitting him

the second time. this time in the chest. it doesn't stop him. >> another officer joins the fight and the four officers are able to subdue bergen. >> get on the ground! >> we got him to the ground, and then as we're handcuffing him, he's yelling kill me. kill me. just kill me. >> kill me, kill me. >> it was over. it was done. he knew he one 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 kwount of burglary, he's convicted of aggravated assault on a police officer and attempted escape. he serves four years and seven 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 they could get their hands on and use against us. >> coming up, an excon hijacks a lumber truck. and gives new meaning to the term "hot pursuit," hell on wheels. when caught on camera, they fought the law continues. i was going to the library to do my homework.

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cents a gallon to an average of 3.35 a gallon for regular. now back to "caught on camera." an outof work excon leads police on a chase. driving a stolen lumber truck, its flat bed in flames. >> i can't believe they didn't stop this guy, man. >> it can't get much more dangerous. he was on the open road with an 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. >> we're looking for this man in the surveillance video. >> i always like to see a good story. >> on november 7th, 2001, the veteran news man, then with

kxas, then gets the chance to cover just that. >> it was really amazing. every major news organization was involved in the story. everybody went live. >> police say after 1:20 the hijacker hot wired the truck. >> it begins when an unemployed truck driver with a criminal record spots this 18 wheeler loaded with lumber outside the kfc. >> i was homeless and had nowhere to go and couldn't get any help. i thought, get this truck, two sell the lumber and get me some money. broke the window. got in, 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 brakes, locking the rear wheels. >> that driver was able to dislodge the air brakes. he made a real valiant effort to try to take control of the truck. >> 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 ha a 911 call from the truck's driver, police are on his tail. >> the individual i associated with said he wanted to buy some lumber. i was going to his house. >> he drove through yards. he drove around businesses, 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 flames set fire to the rig's flat bed a forklift, and the load of lumber. >> once it caught fire it burned

uncontrolably. you see this truck with a huge ball of fire in tow. not only the bright orange flames but the huge plume of black smoke as well. >> in spite of the flames and the sea of police behind him, wilson shows no signs of slowing down. >> i knew i have to get room to stop the truck and safely surrender before police had a chance to take sight of me. >> crowds appear as people watching the race live on tv come outside to see it for themselves. >> move! get out of the street! >> the 18 wheeler sends pedestrians 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 him from driving. they tried to shoot out tires. they tried to block roads.

he'd just veer around them. >> fearing the safety, police commander give the orders shoot to kill. >> they authorize the officers to fire and use deadly force if necessary. they deemed it necessary. >> they had no intention of me getting out of the truck alive. >> police fire on the truck from the ground and air. >> >> i knew they issued a code 100, which i knew was shoot to kill order. kill. at that point i'm trying to figure out how to get out of the truck. i never thought they would shoot as they did. i'm thinking you shoot me and kill me, who's go ing to drive the truck? you have an 80,000 pound vehicle on the streets of dallas. then somebody is fwound get hurt. >> got him. >> you got him? >> with a trail of burning tires in his wake, wilson decides to end this terrifying ride after 90 minutes, bringing the shouldering rig to a stop near the trinity river. >> when i finally did stop, i was in an area where i could pull the brakes and lay flat 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 is ultimately sentenced to 28 years behind bars. a chemical accident at the prison laundry has left him partially blind. wilson now realizes the mistake he made that day has cost him dearly. >> wish it never happened. all i can do is apologize to the owner, the driver, the city of dallas. if i hadn't have done what i did, i would have sight. so, that's part of the penalty i paid for doing what i did. >> i don't think he was planning on stealing an 18 wheeler that day. i think it you just opportunity knocking at the door and he answered. >> coming up, can police stop this stolen school bus before it

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time is running out for police desperate to stop a stolen school bus on a collision course with rush hour traffic. >> the guy's not stopping. until his truck dies. >> albuquerque, new mexico, just after dawn on friday, march 9th, 2012. police dash cameras roll as state troopers race to interstate 40. >> we have is a pursuit of an orange school bus. one tire is blown at this time. it is coming 65 miles an hour.

>> outside of the city, a white male is speeding east in a stolen school bus, straight toward the city line. >> it is kind of hanging off. >> 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. >> are there any kids in the bus. >> just the driver. >> as of now we just know it is one mael male driver. that's all we have. >> 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 designed to puncture tires. >> all units, 137th.

>> mile marker 137 is 13 miles from the albuquerque city line. at 6:27 a.m., 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. >> 148 eastbound. struck another spike belt. he's losing his front tires now. >> no front tires anymore. he is running on the rims. >> but the driver speeds on. >> we're getting near the city and this guy's not stopping until his truck dies. >> the school bus is now inside of the city line, just miles from albuquerque's most congested areas. a state police cruiser attempts to ram the bus off the road with a pit maneuver.

after three miles of 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. >> that's it. 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 non-lethal bean bag rounds. suddenly, a member of the county sheriff's office fires real bullets in to the bus, striking

the suspect three times. >> shots fired. >> immediately, a state police officer is seen shouting at the deputy sheriff. >> get over there. >> 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 criminal history includes criminal convictions for domestic violence, drug possession and assaulting a police officer. he's loaded in to an ambulance and given a police escort to an area hospital where he makes a complete recovery. a month later, shipman pleads not guilty to multiple charges, including aggravated assault on a police officer, stealing a vehicle, reckless driving, aggravated fleeing and burglary. he is currently in jail awaite waiting trial. the deputy who shot shipman is put onned a maine minute straightive leave pending an investigation. eventually he is cleared of any

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a university student becomes a menace on campus. >> do you want some of me? >> before cops take him down. >> i had noefr heard of anything like this. and i haven't really heard of anything like it since. >> western kentucky university in bowling green, kentucky. here some students say homecoming weekend means three things. parades, pigskin and partying. >> there's a lot of people that get drunk and do really stupid things. >> this student witnesses one such thing up close and personal during western kentucky's 2010 homecoming. early saturday evening, october 30th, medford stops by a subway on campus for a bite to eat. there a young man later identified as dennis wade crane is making a scene. >> the woman behind the counter told him to leave and he wouldn't. >> medford, sensing trouble, calls police and begins recording craig with his cell phone camera. that's when craig jumps over the counter and storms into the

kitchen where the manager is trying to reach campus police. >> you could see in the video that she is dialing the phone. craig followers her back there, yanks it out of the wall. >> tessa duvall covered the story for the university paper, the herald. >> you don't hear a lot about phones being yanked out of walls. soon craig reappears in the seating area. >> a couple of guys were trying to hold him still, calm him down. you hear him say it's about to get nuclear. >> it's about to get nuclear. what that means i don't know. >> craig's nuclear punch misses by a mile. instead, he's knocked to the floor. but it's not long before he's back on his feet again.

>> he was riled up and started offering money to people who could whoop him. shirt comes off. >> stay calm. >> you want some of me? do you want some of me? >> 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. but craig has little interest in calming down. >> i don't care! >> 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 just gets right up in craig's face and points the taser to his chest. >> dazed and confused, craig does not comply. this time craig stays down. craig pleads guilty to alcohol

intoxication and disorderly conduct. he's sentenced to 90 days in jail. but the judge suspends the sentence. craig is put on two years probation and pays a $250 fine. >> it's about to get nuclear. >> just what set off his nuclear meltdown remains a mystery. ethan medford's video becomes part of the official police report. he posts it on youtube where craig's antics go viral. >> it's about to get nuclear. it's about to get nuclear. it did become a bit of a saying around campus for a little while. >> do you want some of me? do you want some of me? >> when he got tazed, he screamed like a little girl. i think that's probably what made the video so successful on youtube, is that it's funny. >> i figured i was going to jail anyway. might as well get the jump in. >> this daredevil defies the law

and lands behind bars. >> now you're going to jail. >> the bigsby creek bridge, big sur, california. to most people, it's a marvel of engineering, spanning more than 700 phefeet across a coastal canyon, 280 feet above jagged rocks and pristine beach. to steve jester, 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. it makes me feel good. it's like a drug. only the fun part is coming down. >> jester is an avid base jumper. >> base jumping is the best.

>> jumping with jester! >> there's only one small problem. >> whoo! >> jumping off bridges is against the law. >> what up, baby? >> but that doesn't stop jester from driving his car to the bixby bridge to attempt his 122nd jump off the iconic structure. >> the bixby bridge is one of the most beautiful places i've actually personally base jumped. it can be a little rocky down there. >> it's the afternoon of december 8, 2010. jester will later admit he drank a couple of glasses of vodka mixed with cranberry juice that morning. >> rollover? >> rollover. i was going to free fall it, but i got scared. >> got scared. >> roll over it. >> okay. you ready? >> let's do it. >> jester enlists a friend to videotape the jump.

>> like to keep a record. we like to share our videos on facebook amongst other base jumpers. >> jester prepares to plunge. >> i was in the middle of the bridge, and the police officer showed up. >> don't even think about it. >> don't even think about it. >> back up right now. >> we're so busted. >> i think i said a four-letter word at that point. i thought for a few seconds, said, i'm going to do it anyways. >> i'm going to do it anyways. >> really? >> yeah. >> the officer approaches jester. >> i'll be down there waiting for you. >> i'm under arrest anyway. >> i was just going to send you down the road. >> i doubt he would have let me go. i figured i was going to jail. i have been to jail a few times for base jumping over 25 years. may as well get a jump in. >> jester tries a peace offering.

>> you won't shake my hand? you're pissed off? he wanted to see it as much as i wanted to jump. if he wanted to stop me, he could have yanked me off the ledge. he made no effort. >> here we go. >> jester jumps. 15 seconds later he makes a perfect landing on the beach. >> you did that, buddy. now you're going to jail. >> when i got on the beach, i could see the police officer racing to the other side of the bridge. figured they would give me a ticket and send me down the road, but that wasn't the case. as soon as i got up, they slapped the cuffs on me before i was out of my gear. >> jester goes to trial and is convicted of disobeying that police officer and driving under the influence among other charges. he could have faced up to three years in jail

but his sentence to 120 days and served 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 of the jump online, and jester becomes an internet sensation. >> it went viral pretty quick. it ended up everywhere. i had friends calling me from all around the world, brazil, norway, england. oh, man, we saw you on the news here! it was kind of shocking. >> whoo! >> armed with just a parachute and some chutzpah. >> for everything i've been through, it wasn't really worth it. i ended up sitting in jail for 69 days, that was no fun. would i do it again? probably. >> you did good, buddy. now you're going to jail.

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