Larry Patterson Forgot Something
February 14, 2008 by impqueen

OrlandoOrlando reviews
, FL - Larry Patterson, 19, is a forgetful kinda guy.  He’s also kind of a bad driver. Neither of these things is normally a huge problem, except that Wednesday night he was driving a car that matched the description of a stolen car, and he was driving it badly. With his five-month-old daughter bouncing around unrestrained in the back seat.
When police tried to pull the car over, Larry Patterson took off and led the cops on a chase. Before long, Larry crashed the white Ford Taurus into another vehicle. Forgetful to a fault, Patterson, jumped out of the car and ran off, leaving his infant daughter in the car.  The baby girl was found on the rear deck of the backseat up against the back window in the wrecked vehicle.  Fortunately, her injuries were non-life-threatening and she was taken to a hospital for treatment.
“If you’re involved in a crash, I don’t care if you’ve got a driver’s license, I don’t care if you’ve got a warrant for murder, if you’ve got an infant child, especially if that child is related to you, you have an obligation to stop and make sure that child is okay,” said Rich Ring of the Orlando Police Department.
Police caught Patterson less than an hour later. Turns out he was on probation for drug charges, which explains a lot.  Patterson is being charged with fleeing and eluding, driving on suspended license as well as child abuse.


1:29 pm on February 14th, 2008
Rich Ring, I love the way you think!!!
1:55 pm on February 14th, 2008
Yes, and I would add that if you’ve got a warrant out on you, it would be best to refrain from driving children around at all — think ahead — don’t have kids in the car — you may be in a high speed chase and the screaming from the backseat is just going to distract you.
2:36 pm on February 14th, 2008
He really does look like Tracy Chapman.
3:44 pm on February 14th, 2008
LOL!!
Seriously, what with the sirens and avoiding traffic, last thing you need is some brat in the back seat crying about “where’s the seatbe…oww my head!…it won’t buckl…oww my leg!…ohh look daddy police ca…oww my arm!…” That’s just annoying
3:56 pm on February 14th, 2008
Which is why it only really works if you use a pre-verbal infant as a distraction for the cops, to give you a head start.
5:09 pm on February 14th, 2008
HAHA! He does!
Now I can’t get the song ‘Fast Car’ out of my head… heh.
Thank goodness the baby is alive. I Hope her injuries aren’t too severe, and does not leave any permanent damage. Having to grow up knowing that your father is a total dumb-ass who could have killed you is bad enough… poor little girl.
8:36 pm on February 14th, 2008
Right, and even then your best bet is to dump the infant by the side of the road so the police slow down to rescue it. Many Baby Daddies have gotten away by using this ploy.
3:59 pm on February 15th, 2008
Good Lord, don’t give the nut jobs any ideas, Wry. I hope potential offenders didn’t read that.
But are you serious? Have you actually heard or read of stories where the perp actually did throw their child out – so the cops would stop?
4:17 pm on February 15th, 2008
Yeah he does.
http://home.zonnet.nl/cozijn24/Tracy%20Chapman%20-%20Tracy%20Chapman%20-%20Front.jpg
“He got a fast car
He wants a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere ”
Living the lyrics too!
4:52 pm on February 15th, 2008
No, I haven’t — and in case any nutjob offenders are reading this, I meant you PLACE the baby by the side of the road and then speed away. I didn’t say throw, I said dump. But you’re right. If potential offenders are skimming DD for ideas, they might not think carefully about how to have it work out for the best. Sorry, Hippie!
4:58 pm on February 15th, 2008
I wasn’t attacking you – I meant it sarcastically – about “don’t give the nut jobs any ideas”. I did mis-type, though. I was asking if you have actually heard of a “dump” to escape. I see that you have not – and, thankfully.
5:06 pm on February 15th, 2008
Hippie! That’s so funny! I thought you were serious! And once I read your post, I thought, “Uh oh! She’s got a point!”
5:18 pm on February 15th, 2008
Not being mean – but it’s thepooh.
5:25 pm on February 15th, 2008
Oops! ThePooh — ! Sorry!
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