A brief notice in the Inky has the makings of a great car chase in a bad movie.
A 19-year-old man was impaled on a fence last night in South Philadelphia after he crashed an all-terrain vehicle into a police car and then tried to run away, police said.
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As he tried to hop over an iron fence, the man was impaled. The Fire Department had to saw off part of the fence and leave the metal in the man’s body so he could be safely transported.
I wonder if this kid did anything in particular…other than driving an ATV in the city streets, which is common, but must be illegal. They get ’em all souped up and chromed out and do wheelies down Broad street like crazy. One of these nuts almost nailed me once as I was heading to the shore some two summers past, so I’m not terribly sympathetic.
Philly is also a great place to be impaled on old, rusted iron fences. The city had quite the reputation at one point for fine ironwork. Now, some of the best examples can be found in the some of the poorest neighborhoods, or at least those that have escaped gentrification thus far. Given that these neighborhoods tend to have more crime, folks evading the police here have a greater than average chance of going out like Zoltan, Hound of Dracula.