On Mar 18, 10:06*am, wrote:
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:45:51 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On Mar 18, 7:59 am, wrote:
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:53:37 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski"

wrote:

"Harry K" wrote
Try again. If they prove that, then the charge will be fraud and he
would have a felony conviction on his record. Not worth 50,000 to me.

Harry K

How much then??? I'm holding out for $250k if no jail time. $1 million if
jail time.

So far, Sike's and the CHP officer's account have not been disproved -
just attacked by those with an incredibly strong motive to want to
cover this up.

Aye Karumba. * Anybody who's followed these various discussions here
over the last few weeks, knows I've been open to the possibility that
in some of these incidents, something could be going on that prevents
people from simply stopping the car if it starts to accelerate. * *But
to say this guy is being unfairly attacked is just not true. * This
case is the most highly suspicious one and stinks to high heaven.

The CHP is a fairly respected organization, who has absolutely no
motive to lie about what happened. In fact, it is their job to make
sure the facts are reported. Their account, which they are standing
by, includes input from eyewitnesses.

So far, nobody has anything factual to refute the official CHP report.
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No one is suggesting they lied about what happened. However, any
reasonable interpretation of what they reported, including the 911
call itself, would lead to the conclusiong that it's 99% certain this
guy is a liar. How about what Forbes pointed out? The guy claimed
on the 911 call at one point he wouldn't shift to neutral because he
didn't want to take his hands off the steering wheel. Yet, he also
claimed he reached down, grabbed hold of the gas pedal, and couldn't
bring it back up while driving along. Forbes tried it with an
average size person and found that they could barely touch and
UNPRESSED pedal with their finger tips and could not get at a
depressed pedal at all. Then Sikes changed his story to he was
afraid to put it into neutral because he thought the car might
"flip". He was also afraid to just turn the car off for 20+ miles.
Yet finally the car miraculously slows down to 50 and stops when the
officer is driving next to him and tells him to put on the brakes and
turn it off. The analysis of the brake pads showed no indication that
they had been used for hard braking. The onboard computer showed the
accelerator and brakes had been applied hundreds of times.

You believe this crap?

As for the police, while not lying, if they were doing their job, they
would have asked him to show them how he could have reached the gas
pedal while driving. And detained him for some serious questioning.
And asked him to take a lie detector test. They did none of that yet
if this is just an honest guy, not out for something, why did he
lawyer up?

I don't know what level of "proof" you need. You'll never have that
in a situation like this unless the guy confesses. But clearly this
one stinks to high heaven.