DJfire and his mother chased by The Dragonater. RIP.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Slayerhater fails to countersteer, sends Vette and sportbiker to hospital
Triumph rider with 2 weeks total experience on bike fails to countersteer, whacks Corvette, causes sportbiker to nearly die. Forest rangers to cut down red trees as a distraction to wobbly riders. US129photos.com gets best video proof yet of failure to countersteer.
US129photos.com - Crash on The Dragon Oct. 16th, 2012 Tuesday
ETR - Rider down - Severe injuries to sportbiker after towing company illegally fails to clean up oil on road from earlier crash by cruiser/Vette.
ETR - Cause & Effect - No mention of the obvious failure to countersteer. USDOT reports that 90% of riders are too stupid to know that riding a bike requires steering in the opposite direction of every turn.
Max fee for nonconsentual towing (police-ordered tow after crash) is set by THP or county towing contract (usually zero dollars to $25 max), not by a towing company charging $500 to $1,500.
THP and TDOT publish report to ban all photojournalists on the Dragon at Deals Gap
4th death on the Dragon in 2012 due to failure to countersteer
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Anybody heard anything about how the rider is faring? Our understanding is that he was taken down by some fluids from an earlier wreck on the Gap. He left in an ambulance this afternoon, but we haven't heard anything since.
do know is that it was at 4.2 and he went quite a ways off the mountain after losing it in the fluids from the earlier Harley/Vette wreck. He was conscious and in pain, and his helmet took a hard hit and he had some confusion. I believe he was flown to UT.
prayers sent. saw the harley/vette crash around 1, came back through around 3:30ish just after he went off... saw and smelled the oil everywhere. had no idea someone crashed at the time, just saw a few riders in that pulloff standing around. once the ambulances and fire trucks started rolling by the overlook, figured it mustve been bad
Here it is:
Broken back
Fractured skull
Broken neck
Both lungs collapsed
Lacerated Liver
On a ventilator at the moment
Able to move legs,toes,fingers
Outlook prognosis Good
Is he known as usedtobefast on here?
Yes.
My question is this. Back when i worked for a tow company, we had the city contract. We had to clean up ANY AND ALL reminants of a wreck. No matter how much oil dry we had to use. We were told several times by the thp that if something happened in the spot where we did not clean up that we would be held liable. How come the idiot drivers in tow trucks that frequent up there dont clean the road any better!?
Same here Drop. I worked for AAA for 5yrs. back in Cali. and we were required when called out on a 180 (accident call) to clean up any, and all debris on the seen (less human haz-mat). This included; any vehicle fluids, parts, glass and such alike. Although I have seen several sloppy cleanup scenes since moving out here, so I'm not surprised. The first thing that popped in my head was the 'cause and effect' here. This chain of events started with a rider taking his attention away from the road to wave at a camera man. Is it possible to say that photogs on the side of such a road is too much of a deterrent from ones attention to the road itself? This is a sincere question, not a rhetorical one. It is very hard as a seasoned rider myself to hear of such an incident. Godspeed to Jeff at such a hard time. I really do hope everything turns out okay man.
My experiences with the tow.companies up there are to charge 500-1500to winch a bike up, screw whats in the road. As long as they can rape the riders they are fine. Hence ive never used ANY of their services and never will.
I'm the Corvette driver from the Triuph/Vette accident earlier that day. I witnessed the oil spill cleanup after the motorcycle was put onto the wrecker truck. Lots of talk about the fluid spill causing the later, much more serious accident in the same spot. I'm gonna post what I saw of the cleanup process in a separate post.
McDonalds and other companies do occassionally hire costumed characters to get your attention which takes away from your concentration on the road. Same thing.
I'm NolaVette from New Orleans (Gretna) Louisiana. I'm the guy driving the red Vette that collided with the Triumph cruiser on Tuesday the 16th at about noon. I heard about the discussions on this forum concerning the accident your friend, Jeff Had in the same spot as my incident. First of all I hope he's eventually OK. This is chain of events immediately after the collision between me (Corvette) and Ron (Triumph cruiser). The photographer who shot the photos asked a passing motorist to call the troopers and also wreckers for the vehicles. There is no cell phone service up on the mountain. About an hour later the trooper arrived and began his investigation. He listened to our verbal accounts and also looked at the same photos you've all seen. A single wrecker arrived from Blount Wrecker Services to retrieve the motorcycle only, which meant there was no wrecker for my Vette. Trooper called on his radio to have another one sent up from a different company. Once the 2 guys from Blount had the motorcycle tied down on their truck they proceeded to clean up the oil spill. They used a shovel to dig dirt from the roadcut to spread onto the oil on the road. They took a fairly long time to do this whil I waited for my wrecker to arrive. After about 10-15 minutes working the dirt into the oils pill the trooper walked over to them and talked with thema bit and then they wrapped up the cleaning and left the scene. I did not see them use anything other than dirt and I have no idea if this is standard procedure. Before the first truck arrived I was very worried about motorcycles driving over that oil spot and we were trying to get them to slow down as they passed over it because I knew it had to very slippery. I wanted let everyone know what I saw and also to let everyone know that the wrecker service that picked up my Vette had not even arrived until after the oil cleaning process had taken place and the trooper spoke with the Blount truck crew. I don't even want to name the Wrecker service that picked up my car to avoid any confusion which happens easily on these forums. I hope that helps. I had a couple of feet to spare on the right side. I was watching him the whole time wondering when he was gonna finally whip the damn thing back onto his side of the road. Then the airbag popped me in the face.
Your account of the clean up process is typical. I don't like to wear tinfoil hats, but I wouldn't put it past Butler's (I am aware they weren't the crew in this instance) to do a half assed job and if, by accident, some more business is drummed up, win. A killboy tip: using the shale stones that are common along the highway up there to write "OIL" in the road as a warning is an effective measure. It washes away once it rains....along with the oil. Thanks for the 1st hand account. It's cool to hear from someone who was involved.
You can see the point when the rider target fixates, he stands the bike straight up and gives up trying to avoid the crash. Even though he runs wide at first, he still has it leaned over trying to bring it back into his lane. Once he sees the 'vette, the bike stands straight up. That's a natural response to a panic situation that you have to learn to break. I've done it myself, and it is hard to change.
I cleaned up all the pieces from the Triumph/Vette wreck and hauled them out on Thursday. So the debris is now removed. There is gray sand embedded into the trees that Jeff hit so I assumed that they put down EZ Dry (cat litter). It must be just grinded pavement then.
And no, dirt is not the standard for cleaning any fluids from a vehicle. We were always required (if on 180 rotation) to carry absorbent (kitty litter) on our rigs for accident response. It's sad to hear they used dirt.
How many wrecks occur in non-photographer-set-up corners? What's the ratio? I'm not up there a huge amount, by any means, but of the five or six accidents that have happened while I've been up there haven't been in any of the photog corners... (that number doesn't included slayin'er down in the parking lot trying to pull out either) Beyond that... if the photos hadn't been posted of the first wreck, would this thread even exist? or would there only be a "Get Well Soon, Jeff" thread that would have a mention of a previous wreck in the same corner, earlier in the day. I'd say this particular incident is getting sensationalized. But that's just me...
Yes, some people do tend to show off for the camera and that gets them in trouble, but there is also another side to this. When I first started riding the Gap I always rode much more careful in front of the photographers because I did not want to appear on the interwebs as an example of a Ohio clown. So by that token it is also possible that they have reduced accidents.
I have a tidbit to add here, as a friend of mine was in the Deals Gap area at the time of this incident ... and recognized the bike in the Vette collision as one that he and a few others had helped pick out of a ditch on NC 28 earlier on the SAME DAY! In doing so, he obviously had an opportunity to speak with the rider. Three weeks of riding experience. THREE WEEKS. Deals Gap is not the place to learn how to ride ... particularly on a bike that is probably a bit on the heavy and cumbersome side.
PJFZ1 WINS THE PRIZE: "I'd bet that the Rider in the pic sequence that started this thread was missing at least one of the needed skills, and most likely more of them.. I wonder if he knew how to brake while leaned over and tightening his line? Did he have any idea of how much traction was available? If he ever practiced countersteering to snap the bike around a hazard?"
I think this is one of the more interesting threads in recent ETR history. There is nothing wrong with a spirited debate. Lots of great points to consider and draw your own conclusions (and perhaps help someone avoid/prevent future trouble).
Used2befast photo by The Dragonater
Looks like that sportbiker's camera caused that crash, since it was visible in the slayerhater's mirror.
Friday, October 19, 2012
Dragonater interviews presidential candidate
Congressman Virgil Goode at the historic Blountville Courthouse, photo by The Dragonater, newspaper article by TriCities.com
Full 1-hour exclusive interview by The Dragonater on Pirate News TV plus Rep Goode's campaign stop in Blountville Tennessee, home of the Bristol NASCAR race, discussing Operation Northwoods:
Listen to the interview of Rep Virgil Goode on the Pirate News Radio Show broadcast by WBCR 1470 in October 2012:
The Honorable Virgil Goode will be speaking at the Constitution Party campaign rally at 6pm Friday 19 October in Blountville TN.
Constitution Party nominee for president, Congressman Virgil Goode, spoke at the Blountville TN courthouse, that was previously bombed and burned down (along with the entire town) by the Federal govt in the Battle of Blountville. His platform requires elimination of the IRS, elimination of the income tax, and elimination of the private foreign "Federal" Reserve Bank that counterfeits all so-called "dollar bills" out of thin air then loans them at interest to the fed govt, then steals 100% of fed income tax to pay back the $1-billion/day interest. Goode was not so happy when asked about Operation Northwoods, which he said he'd "never heard of" as a Congressman from 1997 -2009. Obama ordered Homeland Security to buy 1.5-billion hollow-point bullets that cannot be uesed for war, hunting or target practice...
The Battle of Athens Tennessee in 1946 - Actually the voter shot was only trying to vote and did not have a gun, and he was a BLACK veteran (psyop alert!). Malingering Sheriff Cantrell snuck out of the jail in an ambulance using a false identity, never to be seen again.
An American Story by Halmark: The Battle of Athens Tennessee in 1946 DVD
OPERATION NORTHWOODS 9/11
"America's top military leaders drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for war. Code named Operation NORTHWOODS, the plans included assassination, sinking boats on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war."
—David Ruppe, ABC News, Friendly Fire - U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba, May 1, 2001
"We could blow up a drone (unmannded) vessel anywhere in the Cuban waters. The presense of Cuban planes or ships merely investigating the intent of the vessel could be fairly compelling evidence that the ship was taken under attack. The US could follow with an air/sea rescue operation covered by US fighters to "evacuate" remaining members of the non-existant crew. Casualty lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation. We could develop a Communist Cuba terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Flordia cities and even in Washington. The terror campaign could be pointed at Cuban refugees seeking haven in the United States. Use of MIG-type aircraft by US pilots could provide additional provocation. Harassment of civil air, attacks on surface shipping, and destruction of US military drone aircraft by MIG type palnes would be useful. An F-86 properly painted would convince air passengers that they saw a Cuban MIG, especially if the pilot of the transport were to announce that fact. Hijacking attampts against US civil air and surface craft should be encouraged. It is possible to create an incident which would demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered civilian airliner from the United States. An aircraft at Eglin AFB would be painted and numbered as an exact duplicate for a civil registered aircraft belonging to a CIA proprietary organization in the Miami area. At a designated time the duplicate would be subsituted for the actual civil aircraft and the passengers, all boarded under carefully prepared aliases. The actual registered aircraft would be converted to a drone. Take off times of the drone aircraft and the actual aircraft will be scheduled to allow a rondevous. From the rondevous point the passenger-carrying aircraft will descend to minimum altitude and go directly to an auxiliary airfield at Eglin AFB where arrangements will have been made to evacuate the passengers and return the aircraft to its original status. Meanwhile the drone aircraft will continue to fly the filed flight plan. The drone will be transmitting on the international distress frequency "MAY DAY" message stating it is under attack by Cuban MIG aircraft. The transmission will be interrupted by the destruction of aircraft which will be triggered by radio signal. This will allow IACO radio stations to tell the US what has happened to the aircraft instead of the US trying to "sell" the incident. It is possible to create an incident that will make it appear that Communist Cuban MIGs have destroyed a USAF aircraft over international waters in an unprovoked attack. On one such flight, a pre-briefed pilot would fly Tail-end Charlie. While near the Cuban island this pilot would broadcast that he had been jumped by MIGs and was going down. This pilot would then fly at extremely low altitude and land at a secure base, an Eglin auxiliary. The aircraft would be met by the proper people, quickly stored and given a new tail number. The pilot who performed the mission under an alias would resume his proper identity. The pilot and aircraft would then have disappeared. A submarine or small craft would distribute F-101 parts, parachute, etc. The pilots retuning to Homestead would have a true story as far as they knew. Search ships and aircraft could be dispatched and parts of aircraft found."
—Jewish Zionist General Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff at Pentagon, Memo to Secretary of War Robert McNamara - Subject: Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba - Operation NORTHWOODS, March 13, 1962 (declassifed 2000, now a public record at US National Security Archives at George Washington University in Washington DC)
VIDEO DOWNLOAD: Jewish Fox TV's Lone Gunmen pilot episode - Broadcast in March 2001, re Jewish General LL Limnitzer's Operation Northwoods plot by Pentagon, CIA and Jewish Ike/LBJ White House to hijack a US airliner by remote control and crash it into the Jewish Rockefeller's World Trade Center, declassified in 2000
Monday, October 15, 2012
Killgirls
Keywords: Lori Cannon, Leighann Word, Knoxville Zombie Walk, Walk with a Zombie, Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, Walking Dead, Undead, naked zombies, nude zombie strippers, gatlingburg, deals gap, dragon, us129, halloween, fright night, fearfest,
Friday, October 12, 2012
Stuntbiker eaten by Great White Wall
Zombie Apocalypse? No, just stuntbiker David Boyd bit by a Great White Wall.
David Boyd whacks his nuts off in Knoxville
King of the South in Knoxville -- full length movie with David Boyd by The Dragonater
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Failure to countersteer kills supermoto soldier on Dragon
Photo by MARK A. LARGE. Rural/Metro ambulance service personnel, Blount County firefighters and Blount County Sheriff’s Office deputies hoist a motorcyclist up an embankment Friday morning following a crash on “The Dragon.” The man, a lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, was pronounced dead on arrival at University of Tennessee Medical Center. ETR Police State forum is so dead there's no comment on this sudden death.
U.S. Marine killed in crash on ‘The Dragon’
By Wes Wade
Daily Times
MARYVILLE, TENN. -- Officials worked two accidents on Calderwood Highway Friday, one of which occurred on the section known as “The Dragon” and resulted in the death of a North Carolina man.
Sean R. McMillin, 24, of Cherry Point, N.C., was pronounced dead on arrival at University of Tennessee Medical Center after a motorcycle wreck near Mile Marker 7 on “The Dragon.” McMillin was a lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was stationed in North Carolina.
McMillin was traveling south on The Dragon when he lost control of his 2005 KTM 525 motorcycle in a curve and went off an embankment at around 11:45 a.m., according to a Blount County Sheriff’s Office report.
McMillin fell about 75 feet down the embankment. The Blount County Fire Department ropes team carried McMillin up the embankment. He was taken via Rural/Metro Ambulance Service to UT Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, the report states.
It was the 15th traffic fatality in Blount County this year. The Sheriff’s Office Traffic Safety Unit worked the accident.
Four-hour rescue time kills bikers on the Dragon:
Two-vehicle wreck
Blount County deputies also responded to a two-vehicle accident on Calderwood Highway at around 3:45 p.m. Friday. Margaret Williams, 64, of Stable Crossing, Maryville, was traveling south on Calderwood Highway near Baumgardner Road when her Ford Taurus crossed the double yellow line and struck a pickup truck driven by Judson Pinkerton Jr., 29, of U.S. 411 South in Maryville.
Pinkerton’s truck flipped onto its top and skidded about 100 feet. Both drivers were trapped inside their vehicles and had to be extricated by Blount County firefighters.
Williams and Pinkerton were both taken via Rural/Metro Ambulance Service to UT Medical Center. Hospital staff said they did not have Williams listed as a patient. Pinkerton was still being treated in the emergency room Friday night and his condition was not immediately known.
Williams was wearing a seat belt and air bags deployed in her vehicle, the report states. Pinkerton was not wearing a seat belt, according to the report.
There were no passengers in either vehicle and no citations have yet been issued in connection with the crash, police said.
Blount grand jury declares open season to murder bikers and cops on the Dragon
Photo by SCOTT KELLER. Family and friends of Dwight Woodard, killed in a collision with a tractor-trailer last August on the Dragon, have mounted a campaign to ban trucks longer than 30 feet from traveling this section of U.S. Highway 129. A request on this cross, placed in Woodard’s memory near the crash site on the Tail of the Dragon, requests support for that campaign.
Mother looks to make Dragon safer
By Wes Wade
Daily Times
MARYVILLE, TENN. -- The past year hasn’t been easy on Pat Thompson. It didn’t get any easier in August, a year after her son, Dwight Woodard, was killed in a traffic accident on “The Dragon.”
The state had presented a charge of vehicular homicide to a Blount County grand jury against the driver of the tractor-trailer that struck Woodard as he was riding his motorcycle Aug. 3, 2011.
On Aug. 5, 2012, the grand jury returned a “No Bill” against the driver, Bobby Frank Coleman, and the charge was dismissed. “I was not happy about it and am still not happy about it,” Thompson, a Wartrace resident, said.
According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol report, Coleman was coming around a curve and was in Woodard’s lane when the accident happened. Woodard died while en route to the hospital.
While Thompson didn’t agree with the grand jury’s findings, she said she’s focusing on trying to make roads like the Dragon a safer place for riders and drivers alike.
No traffic ticket nor arrest for trucker who murdered Ike Woodard, despite ban on all trucks on US129 at Deals Gap in NC
A safer dragon
Something she and her son, Kevin Woodard, who is a truck driver for Nabisco, have already done is attempt to persuade the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) to ban tractor-trailers longer than 30 feet length from using the Dragon. Citing a detrimental economic impact on commerce if a ban was placed, TDOT Commissioner John Schroer said in a letter to U.S. Rep. John Duncan Jr. dated Oct. 19 that the department would not do so.
Thompson said she plans to continue to push for Tennessee to place signs warning truck drivers that using the roadway could be dangerous. She said North Carolina already has signs up warning trucks of the dangerous curves and hopes Tennessee will follow.
Thompson said she’d also like for map makers such as Atlas to mark these roadways to warn truck drivers that roads like the Dragon are especially dangerous for tractor-trailer usage.
Thompson said if the highway was deemed a historic route, that trucks could be banned. She explained that she recently learned it was used heavily by Native Americans for trading purposes and that a historic designation might lead to a tractor-trailer ban.
“That’s what we’re hoping we can do,” Thompson said. “There’s several historic roads in Tennessee that trucks aren’t allowed to be on.”
Suit still pending
An engineering forensics group out of Knoxville that Thompson hired recently completed a reconstruction of the crash that killed her son. She said its findings in the crash closely mirrored that of state investigators, but was more detailed and showed proof that Coleman was taking up both lanes of travel. She has asked Blount County Assistant District Attorney Ryan Desmond to present it as new evidence in another grand jury indictment against Coleman. Yet since its findings essentially paralleled that of state investigators, she was told it likely could not be used, but has not yet heard back on a final decision.
Thompson has also spent the last year preparing for a lawsuit she and other family members of Dwight Woodard, including two daughters he left behind, have filed against Coleman and his employer, the Blackshear, Ga.-based Thom’s Transport Company, Inc. She said a hearing has been scheduled for April.
One aspect of comfort for Thompson during the last year has been two witnesses at the scene of her son’s crash that provided police with their account of what happened — specifically, that Coleman was taking up both lanes of the roadway.
“We all feel God sent them as Dwight’s Guardian Angels,” Thompson wrote in a letter to the Daily Times. “They talked with Dwight and comforted him until the ambulance arrived ... I feel we would have never known what really happened to Dwight and the truck had they not been there at the time of the accident.”
While her son can’t be brought back, Thompson said she hopes a similar tragedy can be avoided in the future.
“There’s a huge importance there (roadway safety),” she said. “We just can’t figure out what we need to do to get it done.”
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Trucker murders another biker on the Dragon
$14-Million Lawsuit Filed Against Killer Trucker on the Dragon
Jury says 'Not Guilty' in murder of Blount biker, no charge for trucker who murdered biker on Dragon
Blount sheriff on trial for murder of unarmed cop shot 5 times in the back
Man shot by bear hunters on the Dragon rips grand jury decision
By J.J. KINDRED
Daily Times
MARYVILLE, TENN. -- Ronnie Summey is disappointed in the Blount County judicial system.
After learning Sept. 10 that a Blount County grand jury had cleared a father and son who allegedly shot him in a hunting accident on Dec. 3 last year by returning two no bills, Summey was speechless.
Donnie Ray Radford, 60, Allegheny Loop Road, Maryville, and his son, Derek Ray Radford, 33, Old Railroad Bed Road, Maryville, were charged with reckless endangerment on Dec. 12 last year after the accident.
Arrest warrants said the Radfords shot at a black bear that was treed by dogs during a bear hunt near Calderwood Reservoir. Calderwood Highway was directly behind the tree that the bear was in. Summey and other hunters were standing along the highway.
Summey, 59, a former Maryville High School track coach and former Sequoyah High School head football coach, was reportedly hit in the groin area by one of the slugs from either Donnie Redford’s 12-gauge shotgun or Derek Radford’s .44-caliber Magnum rifle, which were fired toward the highway, according to the warrants.
Law enforcement located shell casings believed to be from the shotgun and rifle in the area.
The reckless endangerment charges were “an E felony that can result in prison time of one to two years,” according to the Blount County District Attorney’s office.
“Basically, I’m very, very frustrated,” Summey said during a recent interview with The Daily Times, expressing his displeasure with the grand jury results.
“I was bear hunting on Dec. 3 on a Saturday morning and a friend brought me back in my truck. We were out there on ‘the Dragon’ around the curve and there’s some commotion going on like it was in a car wreck. We stopped and we were standing in the road and were there for about 10-15 minutes, and these people were shooting at a bear, and the next thing I realized, I was shot in the groin area.
“My friend got me off the mountain to a country store, and the ambulance took me to the UT Medical Center,” he said.
Didn’t want plea
Summey said he was in the hospital for a few days and needed surgery and was recuperating. The first hearing was held on Jan. 27 in Blount County General Sessions Court in front of Judge Michael Gallegos, with the charges being addressed and another hearing scheduled for the Radfords to appoint attorneys.
Another hearing was held on April 13, where Summey retained Blount County Assistant District Attorney Shari Tayloe.
“I was the victim,” Summey said. “I wanted to pursue this in the courts. After they retained counsel, and after two to three hearings, Judge Gallegos heard these cases and the debate. The defense lawyers wanted to go through the TBI and see if they were eligible for judicial diversion. Their lawyers came to her and wanted to make a plea. The plea was put on the table, and they agreed to one year of revocation of their hunting license, and they agreed to pay out-of-pocket medical expenses at $3,000, and it could be more than that.
“I didn’t want the plea because I kept coming back saying I was the victim, and I didn’t want these characters spanked on the hand,” Summey continued. “So, they offered the plea, and I was encouraged to take it and refused. I stood by my position.”
Summey said that he told Blount County District Attorney Mike Flynn that he wanted to pursue the matter in court.
Roll of the dice
“I want these guys to pay for what they did and their reckless behavior,” he said. “(Flynn and Tayloe) did advise me about the possible scenarios if I didn’t accept the plea deal. They explained to me it’s a roll of the dice.
“I had the mind-set that was I wanted these people to pay. I was willing to put my faith in the Blount County judicial system and the grand jury. Apparently my decision to pursue this through the judicial system and the grand jury was a grave mistake.”
Summey explained that during the grand jury’s decision on Sept. 10, most of the evidence was presented by Clint Smith, an officer with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA). Smith declined to comment on the case when contacted by The Daily Times.
“Common sense tells me coming off a plea deal that they were willing to step up to the plate and take responsibility, and admit guilt for their carelessness,” Summey said. “But apparently the grand jury said, ‘No, you guys just live your lives and we’ll just move on to the next case.’
“This ruling, in my opinion, sends a terrible message to the agents of the TWRA, as well as law enforcement,” Summey continued. “These people give hunters a bad name and put them in a false light. At this point in time, I will absorb my out-of-pocket money and deal with the long-term effects of this injury, while these two individuals are free to hunt and go about their daily lives with absolutely no punishment from the Blount County judicial system.”
May file suit
Summey said he is heavily leaning toward filing a civil suit.
“Only time will tell,” he said. “This thought came to my mind. If there was a VIP that suffered the same kind of injury that I did, would the grand jury have come up with the same ruling? I think not.
“For those people who might say, wrong place wrong time, I would ask for them to look at it from my point of view. There are people who couldn’t care less about what happened, but if they were in my shoes they would have similar feelings like I do. I want these guys to be held accountable.”
Flynn said Wednesday that he has had discussions with Summey to get a better understanding of why the grand jury made its decision.
“He didn’t understand what a grand jury does,” Flynn said. “The officer presents testimony, and the defendants and the attorney weren’t there and judge wasn’t there. The officer presented the evidence, answered questions and the grand jury deliberates and votes. They are not allowed to tell, but it takes 12 votes to return an indictment, and apparently there weren’t 12 votes.
“My guess would be legally the Radfords were charged with reckless endangerment, but if they acted recklessly, it was a question of whether they were reckless or negligent,” Flynn continued. “If they were negligent, it’s not a criminal case. The grand jury would have to find they acted recklessly. They obviously didn’t.”
Several phone calls to the Radfords for comment went unreturned. In the meantime, Summey said as the result of his injuries he has some disability, but it hasn’t halted him in his everyday life.
“I am walking and I am hunting again,” he said. “There could be some long-term damage, I don’t know. But the bottom line is there’s no accountability. I have a major problem with that and I am disappointed in the judicial system.”
Tennessee Police Officer Charged In Motorcyclist's Death
Motorcycle NewsWire
A Tennessee police officer has been charged with vehicular homicide for allegedly killing a motorcyclist by running him off the road with his patrol car. The police car reportedly swerved into the path of the approaching motorcycle. If convicted, the officer could face three-to-six years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. September 3, 2001
Rockford, TN - A police officer in Tennessee has been charged with vehicular homicide for allegedly killing a motorcyclist by running him off the road with his patrol car, the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) reports.
A grand jury in Blount County, Tennessee, on August 29, 2001 indicted Rockford Police Sgt. James Ray Johnson on the criminal charge. If convicted, the officer could face three-to-six years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
Johnson is free on a $25,000 bond pending a September 10 court appearance when a trial date will be set.
On March 10, Johnson was patrolling old Knoxville Highway in the Rockford area just south of Knoxville when he got a report from a Blount County deputy sheriff that a speeding motorcyclist was coming up behind him. Johnson told investigators he turned on his emergency lights when he saw the motorcycle approaching, hoping to get the rider to slow down. Instead, Johnson said, the rider lost control of his machine, hit a guard rail and then slid into the police cruiser.
The motorcyclist, Philip Laton, 27, a father of three and a corrections officer at the Juvenile Detention Center in Knoxville, was killed instantly.
Later, a witness came forward to say that the police car had swerved into the path of the approaching motorcycle, killing Laton. The investigation by the Tennessee Highway Patrol included a review of videotape from a camera mounted on Johnson's cruiser, which, investigators said, confirmed the witness' account.
Johnson has been on paid administrative leave since the crash. Meanwhile, a $3 million wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against the Blount County Sheriff's Department and the Rockford Police Department.
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"The Knoxville News Sentinel reported March 14th that Rockford Tennessee police officer Sgt. James R. Johnson has been suspended indefinitely with pay following an incident which claimed the life of a 27 year old motorcyclist identified as Phillip Layton [who was a police officer riding his sportbike to work at the Juvenile Jail in Knoxville]. The initial investigation into the accident by Tennessee State Trooper Ron McDonald reported that Layton struck the rear of Johnson's patrol car. Later however, witnesses reported that it appeared the police cruiser swerved into the motorcycle which sent it into the guardrail. Trooper McDonald said in a press release that 'after reviewing police video from the Rockford car, it appears the witnesses' account is true.' McDonald has since turned over the investigation to the Highway Patrol's Criminal Investigation Division and the Blount County District Attorney General. According to the News-Sentinel, a source close to the investigation and who has seen the police video says that Johnson received a radio call from a Blount Co. Deputy who told him that a motorcycle was approaching him at a high rate of speed. Johnson had just finished a traffic stop and turned off his blue lights which turned off his video camera. When the motorcyclist appeared, Johnson turned on his blue lights thereby reactivating the camera. As the motorcyclist approached the cruiser and attempted to pass in the left lane, Johnson allegedly moved his cruiser into the left lane. Moments later the tape shows the motorcycle going down the highway without the operator. Johnson first reported that the bike struck the rear of his patrol car, later when investigators arrived, Johnson said the motorcycle hit the guardrail and bounced into the side of his car. The officer had 2 prior suspensions and one involved failing to notify his superior officer that he was involved in a high speed chase. Family members of the victim have filed a $3 million dollar wrongful death suit. Rockford City attorney David Black refused to comment on the suit because the investigation by the Tennessee State Patrol is still incomplete. Black called the incident 'tragic' and confirmed that there is a grand jury investigation currently underway. Sgt. Johnson is a former deputy with the Blount County Sheriff's department. Blount County is home to at least part of the famous run known as 'The Dragon.' Deals Gap is known to motorcycle enthusiasts the world over as a thrilling road to ride. Many sportbike riders use the twisting, turning road to test the limits of their machines as well as their nerve and abilities. As a Blount County Deputy, Sgt. Johnson routinely patrolled this stretch of highway. A source who refused to be identified told Dixie Rider that Johnson may have had a grudge against motorcyclists after an incident in which he chased one particular rider down The Gap and was unable to catch him. Another deputy was waiting at the bottom of The Gap and stopped the individual. The source goes on to say that the motorcycle operator was a doctor ['Doc'] who had received an emergency page and was en-route to the hospital. After confirming the doctor's excuse, Johnson was forced to release him and this is the basis for the grudge. However, this incident could not be confirmed. Several motorcycle rights organizations, such as ABATE and the AMA (American Motorcyclist Assoc.) are conducting independent investigations into this incident."
—DixieRider.com, "Police Officer Kills Motorcyclist While Attempting Traffic Stop," May 2001 [The doctor - Doc Wooten - was later RADARed at an alleged 172mph, was arrested by Blount County Sheriff's deputies, and then tortured in the back seat of the patrol car - by leaving his full leathers on, turning the heater on high, and rolling up the windows on a hot sunny summer day. This might have murdered him by stroke or heart attack. The doctor was also responding to a page for surgery in the Emergency Room of Blount Memorial Hospital. It is not known if that was the same police officer who murdered police officer Micky Laton.]
"A Rockford police officer has been charged with a vehicular homicide in the death of a Knoxville [police officer] killed in a motorcycle crash on March 10, 2001. The charge against Sgt. James Ray 'J.R.' Johnson, 33, of Maryville, came in an indictment returned Aug. 28 by a Blount County Grand Jury sitting in special session. Laton was employed as a Corrections Officer at the Knox County Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Knoxville. Laton was divorced, but he had full custody of his three minor children. Soon after being notified of the indictment and the warrant for his arrest, Johnson surrendered to authorities at the Blount County Justice Center. Escorted by fellow Rockford police officer Bill Allen, Johnson entered the Justice Center through the sally port where people in custody are turned over to corrections officers. The accident report made at the scene by Tennessee Highway Patrol Officer Ronald McDonald, stated that Laton lost control of his 1997 Honda CR900 as he tried to pass Johnson's cruiser, hit the guardrail and skidded into Johnson's patrol car. McDonald said that two witnesses came forward two days after the accident and said Johnson swerxred his cruiser into tile path of the motorcycle, sending it careening into tile guardrail. Thc witnesses are reportedly Tennessee state highway troopers. Since the accident, Johnson's friends claim he has been labeled as a 'motorcyclist hater,' although Johnson owns a motorcycle and has ridden for over a decade. In addition to the criminal charges, he is named as a defendant in a $3 million lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by Laton's ex-wife on behalf of her three minor children, ages 7, 8 and 9. Named in the same lawsuit are Rockford Police Chief Robert Simerly, City of Rockford, Blount County Sheriff James L. Berrong and Blount County. Johnson was released after posting a $25,000 surety bond. He awaits a 9 a.m., Sept. 10 appearance in Blount County Circuit Court."
—Teresa Helton-Garrett, Knoxville Journal, "Rockford police officer charged with vehicular homicide," September 6, 2001 [Note: the Rockford Police Department was terminated as a result of this homicide]
Super Streetbike Mag sells Police State propaganda, Killboy bans Dragonater on Facebook
This week Super Streetbike magazine posted a story about the Dragon, written by Darryl "Killboy" Cannon. Despite having the facts of law at his fingertips, and hearing the facts of law personally from the Dragonater, Killboy chose to lie to SSB's gentle readers. I wonder why? $$$$$$, threats or Slick Willie?
THE THREATS
Last month the Dragonater personally provided copies to Killboy and TOTD, of the TDOT report ordering THP to (illegally) arrest all photographers on the Dragon to put them out of business. That TDOT report featured a photo of Ron Johnson and the Dragonater making life-saving recommendations that were implemented at a cost of nearly $1-million. This report was personally requested by Ron Johnson, and was personally handed to an employee of Ron Johnson at TOTD store. This Top Secret report was obtained by the Dragonater under a TN Open Records Act request to the attorneys of TDOT HQ at Strawberry Plains. This illegal threat against Killboy from THP and TDOT is 5 years old, which is why it is only "enforced" by massive attack on all riders on the Dragon, not against the photojournalists and the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
"The speed limit along the entire 11-miles is a very boring 30 MPH. Prior to 1992 the speed limit was 55, but it was lowered in 1993 to 40 and again in 2002 to 30—possibly a move to collect more traffic tickets if not to curb crashes. there is no passing along the entire route. The LEOs (law enforcement officers) are known to patrol the entire Dragon but usually sit at the ends of the tail or shoot radar hidden within the short straights. For most of the year, except two cops patrolling during daylight hours on weekends and one during the week. Come the holidays, the cops come out in numbers. Fourth of July weekend can see as many as 10-50 officers lurking the route."
-Darryl Cannon, Super Streetbike mag, Deals Gap Revealed | Tail of the Dragon
The actual speed limit on the Dragon is 65 mph, according to TN Code, TN Dept of Transportation, TN Supreme Court, USDOT, Blount County General Sessions Court judges, Blount County district attorneys general, Blount County Public Defenders Office and The Dragonater. The posted "speed limit" is for sheeple and suckers too lazy to read The Law as posted by The Govt in law books and online.
At the time of the article, Super Streetbike TV star Killboy suddenly banned the Dragonater from his Facebook account.
Not so long ago, Killboy personally begged to pay the Dragonater to go undercover to expose Police State crimes against photographers and bikers on the Dragon. Just last month, Ron Johnson of TailOfTheDragon.com personally begged the Dragonator to investigate the federal Police State jailing bikers with long prison sentences for routine speeding tickets on Foothills Parkway in Blount County.
Chasin the Dragon 2012
While riding back from the Chasin The Dragon Hillclimb this Sunday at 6 pm, 3 little piggies with $100,000 salaries were harassing bikers on the Dragon with their bogus 30 mph "speed limit". 95% of the riders were not sportbikes, and 90% were ignoring the 77 pulls offs while crossing the centerline on a regular basis in blind curves.
If it was fear that motivated Killboy to lie by omission, beware that We The Sheeple will get exactly the government we deserve (and tolerate).
"I’ll burn your house down, set your dog on fire and there won’t be a member of your family left, do you understand me? I won’t hire it done, I will do it myself! Do you understand me?”
-Blount County Dragon sheriff James Berrong firing his secretary in the Blount County Justice Center, United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, Nuchols v. Berrong, No. 04-5645, July 11, 2005
Bill Clinton poses with porn stars Tasha Reign and Brooklyn Lee while Hillary was busy with her lesbian Arab lover Huma Abadain
THE MASTERS OF CHAOS ON THE DRAGON
Or was Killboy's original story censored by SSB's new masters, which have a long history of censoring all reporters in its publicans, and recently filed for bankruptcy and received billions of taxdollars in government welfare bailouts?
Disbarred impeached CIA president Bill Clinton, a/k/a William Blythe III, bastard son of a hooker and trillionaire jewish Arkansas governor Wintrhop Rockefeller, previously ran the board of the owner of Super Streetbike mag, with a salary of over $15-million.
Otherwise, Killboy's is a typical fluff story to promote tourism and the Police State, as if written by WBIR TV, the Maryville Daily Times or the Knoxville News Sentinel. Also typical is censorship of countersteering -- the lack thereof being the official cause of 95% of fatal motorcycle crashes according to USDOT, which is obviously the main problem with cruiser riders on the Dragon. SSB was also owned by billionaire bagboy manwhore Ronald Burkle, who ran Al "Sexpoodle" Gore's oil company and gave millions of dollars in kickbacks to Billary Clinton -- perhaps another CIA front laundering drug money for Iran Contra and Obama's Operation Fast & Furious.
Nothing to fear here -- move along -- or the NC National Guard will knock your entire house down in a no-knock drug raid, even if you live in Texas...according to govt workers at the 2012 Chasin The Dragon hillclimb who participated in the Police State raids in 2012 -- but are never allowed to deport the 50-million illegal aliens nor stop them from crossing the unguarded borders.
Chasin the Dragon 2012
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