Insane Scooter Jacking
A troubling story about a scooter jacking Saturday night in Columbia Heights is popping up on local message boards. I’ve contacted the police with no answer so far. Here’s the raw info from DC Scoots and WMASA (which haven’t approved my membership yet so I can’t post my contact info on the post):
One of my coworkers’ friends just bought a Buddy 125. On Saturday night, about 7PM, he stopped at an intersection in Colombia Heights and was approached by four young black men. They demanded his scooter, he said no, and one pulled a gun. He then gunned his scooter and went into the intersection, getting pistol whipped. And then he hit a car. He’s okay, the scooter is trashed, and the 4 hoodlums are nowhere to be found.
However, the police report inflames me and pisses me off. A DC Cop issued him a citation for running a red light while he was in the hospital. The report claims that he “drove into the gun”, rather than actually getting pistol-whipped. I hate crime report manipulation. I told my friend that he should definitely go to court, contest, and bring hospital room pictures of his pistol-whip wound.
UPDATE: I just spoke with the police, who are looking into this for me. The inspector I spoke with was skeptical, and I should add the caveat that third-hand news items from list-serves can suffer from the inaccuracies of the telephone game. More to come.
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12:58 pm
Man, that totally sucks on all accounts. This would be the one good reason to have a remote kill switch on your scooter though. “Here! Take it!”… aaaand *click* hold on while I call the cops to help you out. (except judging by those cops, they actually WOULD.)
5:59 pm
I’m an admin at WMASA and would like to activate your account so we can assist. What an insane story. So sorry to read this, but sadly, it’s not uncommon.
Please email me and we can get your account sorted out.
Best,
Rob
6:03 pm
Angela- just found your account. You are now activated. Please do post this story, or a link to it, in the following forum:
http://www.wmasa.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=9
11:52 am
Angela, glad to see you saw this. I’m the guy who posted the story up after one of my co-workers told me about his friend. I tried to repeat the story as exact as I had hear it.
I think that my coworker’s friend should’ve handed over the keys rather than attempt to flee, especially given the gun. Those of us in the DC scooter community remember that similiar jackings occured last year
I have submitted you contact information to my co-worker to give to his friend. I hope he contacts you