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May 22, 2009 - Where's The Fire?

I bet the police hear some doozies when it comes to people trying to get out of tickets. From MercuryNews.com we may have a candidate for one of the worst choices ever for trying to evade the long arm of the law.

ELKO, Nev.—Authorities arrested a 27-year-old Elko man after a high-speed chase and a bomb hoax that shut down Interstate 80 for several hours in northern Nevada.

Elko County Undersheriff Doug Gailey says Matthew Hellaby took off after he was pulled over Wednesday by a trooper east of Elko. With officers in pursuit, Gailey says Matthews phoned police dispatch and threatened to blow up ammonium nitrate in his trunk unless they backed off.

Gailey says after troopers spiked his tires near Wells, Hellaby turned around and drove at officers. One sheriff's deputy fired his gun at the approaching car but missed.

Gailey says Hellaby was eventually stopped and arrested after he dodged a road block and his flattened tires bogged down in soft dirt off the highway.

No explosives were found.

Good choice. Flee and threaten that you're going to blow up a bomb to escape a traffic ticket. It must free up so much time when you're not thinking.

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