Man Faces 23rd DUI CHARGE

[matcom]

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Raymond J. Sherman has said he wouldn't give up two things in life:

"I ain't gonna quit drinking … and I sure ain't gonna give up driving," Sherman told a reporter in 2001.

During his 22nd drunken driving arrest, Sherman told a State Patrol trooper in July 2002 that the next time somebody tried to arrest him, he would flee.

Authorities called Sherman a man of his word Thursday, saying he fled troopers before being arrested in connection with drunken driving for the 23rd time in Minnesota.

A trooper stopped Sherman, 41, at 2:59 a.m. on eastbound Minnesota 62 in Richfield. The trooper said she left her car and walked toward the vehicle ahead of her. That driver sped away in a 1993 Jeep Cherokee registered to a used-car dealership in Apple Valley, said Capt. Jay Swanson, head of the East Metro State Patrol.

When the vehicle fled, a second trooper joined the pursuit. The driver braked repeatedly during the pursuit, nearly causing collisions with the troopers. Sherman made it to Minnesota 77 in Eagan before stop sticks flattened two of his tires and troopers arrested him.

Sherman refused to have his blood alcohol level measured but he smelled of alcohol, had bloodshot eyes, and the Jeep contained empty beer cans and a cold, open beer, according to the criminal complaint filed Thursday.

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/local/9006505.htm?1c

[GOPisEvil]

1. Bastard...I hope your stupidity and stubbornness doesn't kill someone.

[mzmolly]

3. What's equally interesting is the high speed pursuit of a drunkard

by the MPD.

I think it's time to send this fool up the riva!

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Put that SOB in jail!!

That's ridiculous! 23 times? Why wasn't he locked up after the 3rd one?

Why isn't that man being forced into rehab?

OUTRAGEOUS!!

[WI_DEM]

4. it's time for this menace to finally pay the price

lock him up--it's a miracle he hasn't killed anyone...yet.

[carpetbagger]

5. Why do I have a feeling this man is a GOP officeholder?

Is it just me, or does he sound like one.

[jmowreader]

6. How to solve this problem

Take Mr. Sherman and his car to New Hampshire International Speedway. Put about a dozen beers into him, stick a cold 40-ounce in his hand, and send him out on the track with a brick on the gas pedal. NHIS is NASCAR's most lethal track--everyone who got killed in a stock car in 1990 died at NHIS--so it shouldn't take long for him to wrap his car around the end of the pit wall.

The sumbitch is going to off himself in a car one of these days. Taking him to NHIS means no innocent bystander gets killed at the same time.

[MikeG]

7. Boy I'm thirsty. Anyone feel like a drink?