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Title: Man jumps off Spaghetti Bowl Note Found to Obama
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URL Source: http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_10861445
Published: Nov 1, 2008
Author: Adriana Chavez
Post Date: 2008-11-01 10:29:14 by christine
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Views: 353
Comments: 12
EL PASO -- A man who jumped 60 feet to his death from the Spaghetti Bowl on Thursday left a note with a message for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama. A note to "Obama" was found in the man's car, which was parked on the top ramp of the Spaghetti Bowl. Officials offered no further explanation nor interpreted the note's meaning. About 7:45 a.m., police responded to a report that the 52-year-old El Paso man had jumped off the uppermost ramp of the Spaghetti Bowl. His body was found on I-10 west just before the Copia Street exit. His name was not released. Police spokesman Darrel Petry said Crimes Against Persons investigators were investigating the death as a suicide. Two notes on large pieces of paper were found on the dashboard and another part of the car, police said. The investigation into the death caused traffic to back up near Hawkins Boulevard for at least an hour as the man's body lay in the far right lane of the interstate. His white tennis shoes, which had fallen off during or after the fall, lay just a few feet from his body. Police were also seen on Ramp F, the top ramp of the Spaghetti Bowl, next to the white four-door sedan, which was parked unattended. The ramp connects I-10 west to the Bridge of the Americas and Paisano Drive. Police confirmed that the man left behind a note that read, "Obama take care of my family." Petry said that the incident was a public safety matter because of its location, and that it required the services of three police units, specialized crime-scene units and detectives. At least three Texas Department of Transportation workers were there, as were members of the El Paso County Medical Examiner's Office. "Three units were tied up for three hours (and) four lanes of I-10 were turned into two lanes during rush hour," Petry said. "When something like that happens in that location, we have to ensure the public's safety so they can continue to navigate the roads safely." The previous time a person apparently committed suicide by leaping from the Spaghetti Bowl, according to El Paso Times archives, was in February 2007. Texas Transportation Department spokeswoman Blanca Del Valle said there were no plans to install fencing along any of the Spaghetti Bowl ramps because the ramps weren't meant to accommodate pedestrians. "There's funding issues involved, and it may mean replacing what we have now," Del Valle said. "There are tubes in the barriers along the ramps, and studies would have to be done to determine if the tubes could hold the fencing." Del Valle said department engineers would also have to consider whether the numbers of suicides and apparent suicides merited more barriers.
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#1. To: christine (#0)
Here's a guy that REALLY FELL FOR OBAMA's PROMISES !
Where's your birth certificate Barack ?
Paging the Obamessiah ! Resurrection alert ! *** You seriously couldn't try all day every week and not make this stuff up. It's a Section 8 country.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
That's laughable since obama won't even take care of his beloved (illegal immigrant) "Auntie" who lives in a Boston slum and is a welfare cheat. I've got a dollar that says she's registered to vote too. It's the second mouse that gets the cheese
These tragedies prove the need for a universal ban on spaghetti bowls!
I shall not vote for evil, lesser or otherwise. That would be interesting.
Doesn't a hand written note to BO count as 10 votes? I pray they're correctly tallied.
Yes it would, and it'd be the final nail in his political coffin. I'm sure both parties are in scramble mode to get to the evidence first.
It's the second mouse that gets the cheese
McKooK nor Obummer have shown slightest interest as to the millions of illegals in this country. Parasites.
Parasites. They need their votes ... they all have ten names and SSN's !!!
Where's your birth certificate Barack ?
Wouldn't it be great if everyone that groveled at the dais of the State did this?
Ahmadinejad in 2008! We'd immediately lose about 200M nitwits.
Cancer is both an internal and external condition.
Ahmadinejad in 2008!
#2. To: Christine (#0)
Police confirmed that the man left behind a note that read, "Obama take care of my family."
#3. To: christine (#0)
Police confirmed that the man left behind a note that read, "Obama take care of my family."
#4. To: christine (#0)
The previous time a person apparently committed suicide by leaping from the Spaghetti Bowl, according to El Paso Times archives, was in February 2007.
Body Art Cobleskill, NY
#5. To: Flintlock (#3)
I've got a dollar that says she's registered to vote too.
#6. To: Count those votes MOFO (#0)
#7. To: Cynicom (#5)
That would be interesting.
#8. To: Flintlock (#7)
#9. To: Cynicom (#8)
McKooK nor Obummer have shown slightest interest as to the millions of illegals in this country.
#10. To: christine (#0)
Everyone agrees that unanimity is hard to find.
#11. To: bluegrass. all (#10)
#12. To: lodwick (#11)
Everyone agrees that unanimity is hard to find.
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