Updates by emailNEWSLETTER Subscribe to The Dreamin DemonRSS Subscribe to The Dreamin Demon

Life Sentence For Man Who Gouged Girlfriend’s Eyes Out During ArgumentTeen Charged After Trying To Rob Police Officer Inside Police StationMan Arrested Trying To Sell Stolen Laptop At Owner’s WorkplaceMom Admits Burning Infant’s Genitals With A Flat Iron Hair StraightenerMan Beats Woman With Chocolate Milk Over Minor Traffic AccidentHigh School Students Arrested After Posting Teacher Upskirt Video On YoutubeElvis Impersonator Jailed When Board Game Gets PhysicalWoman Arrested For Beating Ex With A SledgehammerDomestic Abuse Call Results in Charges of Child Pornography and BestialityParents Charged After Leaving Liquor Store With 4 Kids Strapped To Hood Of Car

Wannabe Car Surfer Becomes Roadkill

August 28, 2010 at 1:48 am by  

Anderson Twp., OH – Courtney Groeshen, 22, was driving down I-275 early Sunday morning when her passenger, 29-year-old Joseph Needels, got a bug up his butt and decided to show off his mad car surfin’ skillz. Needels shimmied out of his seat and attempted to climb out of the passenger window and make his way to the roof of the ’99 Chevy Cavalier. When Groeshen hit a rough patch on the road, Needels went flying. It was initially reported that Needels slipped off the hood of the car and met a grisly death via Kenworth, but a recently updated version claims he never even made it to the roof, just bounced out of the window. Meh…either way, he won’t be playing stunt man again any time soon. Needels lost his grip and was sent directly into the path a Kenworth semi-tractor trailer driven by 31-year-old Theodore Hooks II. After the Kenworth chewed him up and spit him out, he was hit by another vehicle – a passenger car driven by 18-year-old Adrienne Williams. Police believe Needels may have been hit by a third vehicle as well, a white pick-up truck that left the scene. Believe it or not, Needels was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the Kenworth was transported to the hospital where he was treated for minor injuries. Police believe drugs and/or alcohol may have contributed to Needels’ stupidity.

Tags: , ,
31 Comments

Comments


The views expressed in the comments are those of the comment writers and don't represent the views or opinions of D'D or its staff. Feel free to flag comments that may violate conditions outlined in our Disclaimer.

  • guillotinegirl

    Sounds like the only thing Joseph Needels now is a casket.

  • beatlechick

    That's weird something similar happened here a few weeks ago. This girl was in a parking lot and survived, though. Still it's stupidity, plain and simple. I think these kids feel an increasing need to show one another how extreme they are. The videos on YouTube of teens doing dumb things, just cements this for me.

    http://kdka.com/local/roof.surfing.accident.2.1…

  • http://www.dreamindemon.com Jaded

    I probably could have forgiven his utter stupidity if he was in his teens….but at 29, dude should'a had a clue already. One less mouth breather….

  • beatlechick

    That's a given. My bleary eyes read 19 the first time around. DUH I need to brush up on my comprehension!

  • http://www.dreamindemon.com Jaded

    :rimshot:

  • Jilleveryboysgf

    He's from Ohio, so this doesn't surprise me at all.

  • zombiephile

    Well, MALE age 29 is not the same as FEMALE age 29, in your defense, beatlechick…male 29 is more like male 19. ;-)

    I feel for the truck driver and car driver who ended up inadvertently running this moron over. That shit you just can't erase from your mind. That'll stay with them forever. And as for the third mystery driver who fled the scene, is it possible he wasn't sure just what it was he hit? Thought it was an animal, perhaps? I mean, dude got hit and scrambled by a semi…probably was just a pile of red chunks once the second and third cars came along….no excuse for leaving the scene, but unless the driver was high/drunk/had a dead body in the back of his pickup/etc., most rational people would probably have not fled the scene knowing they hit something large and possibly human.

  • EveryVillainIsLemons

    I feel bad for his family, but since he didn't have any kids, he could be nominated for a Darwin Award. I know 19-year-old males who know better than to attempt to car surf, especially not on an Interstate.

  • DastardlyDog

    Just thinnin' the herd, thinnin' the herd. Hopefully, he never reproduced.

  • Mrssteinbeck

    Those were my thoughts exactly. I feel so horrible for the drivers who hit him. I know someone who hit a man who intentionally jumped in front of his car on the freeway in order to commit suicide. The man actually did survive, but my friend is still haunted by it.

  • Tundratot

    Joe heard God calling him home. Joe was met at the Pearly Gates by St. Peter, who undoubted told him, “No, God was calling the guy behind you. He was in the nursing home a block away. Here's your sign.”

  • Athena

    Several years ago, I hit a man who, at 2:00AM, decided it was a good idea to run out in front of my car after leaving the bar drunk. There was nothing I could have done – I was traveling at 35mph (the speed limit) and he decided to do this just around a bend in the road. By the time I processed what I was seeing, he had already made contact with my hood. He then proceeded to leave skin and blood imbedded in my windshield as it shattered back at me. I immediately hit my breaks and set my hazards as I rushed out of the car and over to him. He was crumpled in an unnatural position against the curb, blood bubbling from his open mouth. I thought I had killed him (I learned I didn't, though, when the fucker tried to sue me a month or so later).

    I was a mess for days, but even now, several years later, I'm still not completely right. When driving at night, I'll occasionally break hard seemingly out of nowhere. It's because I think I see something in the road. It's embarrassing.

  • JGo555

    You mean if he were from FLORIDA it wouldn't surprise you.

  • JGo555

    God I hope you sued HIS ASS back & won.

  • JGo555

    Car surfing!? WTF is there NOTHING TO DO IN OHIO!?

  • VXIII

    You are just too dastardly, Dog…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Christian-Watkins/529874474 Christian Watkins

    Nope. There isn't… Unless you play frisbee golf. :)

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/F7IZ5A7XOSD6FY7ZINV3LBQKXM John

    Henry Kissassinger referred to such people as “useless feeders”. I guess this dude proved Henry correct. He is no longer feeding off of the rest of us. May his azz rest in pieces.

  • DarkChii

    Wow, the nutters are out in Ohio. This is only about 2hrs from the last accident on I-275 where that guy went airborne in his Firebird.

  • http://twitter.com/twinner42 Jason Steele

    Hey, I'm from Cincinnati and we're not all crazy, just most of us. The rest are just dysfunctional.

  • headonapike

    Years ago this idiot, Charles Forbes 111 jumped in the back of my pickup from a car behind me when we were driving on the Going To The Sun highway in Glacier Park. I didn't know he was back there and he jumped on my tool box and mooned the car behind us. I didn't realize he was back there until I saw him go flying out. He was a midget and we all called him Chuckie from Child's Play. I'll never forget Chuckie doing the funky chicken on the pavement with his pants around his ankles. The dumbass ended up being alright, but he sued my insurance company. Even though I was found to not be at fault, the insurance company settled for 15,000 dollars and canceled me. I couldn't believe it, I had another company jack my rates for three years over this incident, Didn't matter I was found to be not at fault. Years later I saw on the news that Chuckie was killed in an accident as a passenger of a car that was driving recklessly and wrecked. I guess he couldn't sue that guy. I just wanted to share this.

  • IntelligentVirtue

    Ha! What til you get a load of this. 2 men, 1 over forty and 1 hitting 30 egg another man-over 40-to climb out of the passenger window (which was a feat in itself that he could fit through the window) over the top of the car and climb back in through the other passenger window all while the car was barreling down the road at 45+mph. How do I know, cause I was present while the fuckery occured. Needless to say I have since changed the company I keep they from what I've been told, they chase each other around with steak knifes in post Beverly Hills restaurants:-/

  • The_Shadow_Knows

    A couple years back here in West Virginia we had a father and son team (the father was in his forties and the son was around 20) doing something similar. The son, encouraged by his father, was hanging out the passenger side window making vulgar gestures at other cars while his father drove and made obscene gestures of his own. The father miscalculated the distance to a pole and the son was decapitated. I don't know if alcohol was involved, but I'd say there's an excellent chance that it was. Then again, in this state, not necessarily.

  • WryBread

    A Bubbaku

    Needels’ needless death
    Ruined three needed vehicles
    Sorrow all around.

  • Anna

    I live on 275 in Hebron KY, and it is a big circle. 2 hours away on 275 is only 10 minutes in the opposite direction.

  • Anna

    I live on 275 in Hebron KY, and it is a big circle. 2 hours away on 275 is only 10 minutes in the opposite direction.

  • Anna

    Wow…How would you like the guilt of that for the rest of your life?

  • Anna

    Wow…How would you like the guilt of that for the rest of your life?

  • Count Rackula

    I was coming home from a friend’s house late one night, I was probably about 20 years old, it was dark, and there was no one else on the road. It was probably about midnight-2 a.m. and as I was driving, a young girl, probably about 17, maybe a little older, just jumped out in front of my car. I was going the speed limit also, which is 40 mph on the street I was on, and I know I wasn’t speeding because at night the cops are everywhere in my city. She ran out in front of me, intentionally (as far as I could tell, since if she were crossing the street she could have waited until after I drove by; like I said, there were NO other drivers on the road), and like you, I had no time to stop either. Fortunately, she made it across the front of my car without me hitting her. I think she was trying to kill herself or something. As I drove past, I thought perhaps I had hallucinated the entire thing and was in complete disbelief, but then I saw her in my rearview mirror, still running, into the apartment complex across from where she initially ran out in front of me. I was so pissed about it, and I still am. I get that some people want to kill themselves or whatever, but holy shit, why involve someone else in that shit? Why ruin a complete stranger’s life because of your own selfish bullshit?!

    I also hope you counter-sued him. What a douche.

  • Anonymous

    “Burma Shave.”

  • http://twitter.com/Fiztycuffz iko iko

    My brother was the last driver to hit this guy he was driving a black honda prelude, he pulled over after he hit him and called 911 when the 911 operator told him that this was the 4th call they’ve received and that if he was ok and unharmed and if there was no damage to his vehicle then he could leave the scene bc its a dangerous highway and that section of I-275 has two blind curves. He said he swerved a shoe on the highway and then moments later hit something that felt like a deer, but he said “I know i sounded stupid on the phone to 911 bc I stated I just hit something I thought was a deer but deer dont wear shoes and I believe what I hit had a shoe on” He was really shook up after this happend. It was like 2:30am and pitch dark no one expects to see or hit a body on the interstate his mind was in disbelief and he says even today its something he’ll never forget. He ended up knowing of the guy who died (mutual friends). He said even today you can still see the skid marks from the semi that tried to stop and dodge the guy and stained pavement from the blood. Sad story. Sometimes people dont get second chances. Have to be careful out there.