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Road Rage Incident Leads To Charge Of Attempted Kidnapping Of Toddler

January 4, 2012 at 1:50 am by kniption

Langhorne, PA – Police have charged John Hardy, 45, of suburban Philadelphia after he allegedly attempted to snatch a 3-year-old out of the back of the car of a woman whom he did not know. This after an apparent road rage incident. …and before he reportedly got naked. If you are near a dry erase board, uncap a marker and try to keep up…

According to a probable cause affidavit, a Pennsylvania mother-of-three told police she was driving with her children – ages 3, 8 and 15 – when a white pickup truck cut her off several times. The woman reported that she drove into a shopping center where she maneuvered her car behind the pickup in an effort get a photo of the truck’s license plate using her cell phone.

According to court documents, when the driver of the pickup truck – Hardy – saw her take the picture, he ‘became agitated’ and blocked her car behind a vacant store. Hardy then reportedly got out of his truck and screamed profanities and threats while approaching her car. Hardy then allegedly opened her driver’s side rear door and tried to remove the woman’s 3-year-old daughter’s child safety seat to pull the child out of the car.

According to court records, after Hardy successfully unlatched one of the safety belts that held the child in her seat, the mother accelerated her car causing the rear door to closed. The woman said that she stopped her car after a short distance thinking that she was on a dead end and had nowhere to go.

Court documents say that Hardy then backed his pickup toward the woman’s car, got out, pulled down his pants and exposed his genitals. Hardy then allegedly opened the driver’s door on the woman’s car and threw a punch at her.

Because the day was clearly going far too well for him so far, Hardy then allegedly yelled: “Yes, I tried to take your child. What are you going to do about it?”

Errr… file a police report?!

Hardy reportedly drove off. After the woman called 911 and reported the incident, police located Hardy at a nearby shopping center and arrested him.

Hardy is charged with attempted kidnapping, simple assault, indecent exposure and some additional ‘related offenses’ and was held in lieu of $250,000 bail.

Police reported that the woman and child were uninjured in the incident. It sounds like they were damn lucky to be uninjured, too.

Tags: attempted kidnapping, Indecent Exposure, John Hardy, Pennsylvania, Road Rage, simple assault

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Tundratot

He’s a big old grizzly ape. Acts like one, needs to be caged like one in a zoo. Let him do his penis display and throw his shit around for the visitors.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6830042 Kalen Buckley

Clearly this man is delusional and deranged, but why on earth didn’t the mother lock the doors at any point during this mess? I feel like after he got out of his truck the first time and approached my car, that would be the first thing I would do. But, who knows…maybe I wouldn’t under distress?
http://twitter.com/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

Who the hell keeps their car doors unlocked? Don’t most cars lock when you drive them on their own?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_O3GASQPR24R35PUNHTSJYABKYQ msfl

the newer car doors usually do. Mine doesn’t – but it’s an old POS.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1565762781 Catherine Lavallee

Maybe they were broken? I always have a few weapons on me. If anyone did that to me the story would read: “Mother beats man nearly to death after he attempts to kidnap child.”
Dirk

Two words, lady: power lock.
EveryVillainIsLemons

I don’t care how big and bad he thinks he is–the minute he tried to take my baby is the minute I would be out of my car and beating him to death.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Shannon-Bennett/1803988499 Shannon Bennett

This guy looks like his computer needs to be checked!
http://infowars.com Domino

DOOR LOCKS??? ok so you panic the first time and don’t get your door locked, but the SECOND time he comes at you and opens your door, lady come on! right now i really feel like i’m in a movie screaming to the victim not to run upstairs.

i really hope she was driving a jalopy and there were no locks to have been used.
http://truecrimereport.com iLLusionS

I have a permit to carry, sadly I have to admit that I don’t always carry..Otherwise I would have been watching this guy dance….In this case, I guess a car is the best weapon she had left. I always carry pepper spray though, that would have gave his balls a nice spicy ring a ling for his ding a ling.
Anonymous

The road rage, attempted kidnapping, and assault weren’t enough? He just had to drop his pants as well?
LeaveMeBe

This is what I was thinking. Why were the doors unlocked at all? Especially after he’d already gotten the back door open once. Of course, I also wondered why she would follow him to get a picture of his license plate with her three children in the car? I’ve done some questionable/stupid/dangerous things in moments of frustration and anger to wreak vengeance on someone else, but never with my children in tow. I am controlled bat-shit crazy.
LeaveMeBe

Go big or go home.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Rebecca-Garcia/100000746322144 Rebecca Garcia

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exposed his genitals. Hardy then allegedly opened the driver’s door on the woman’s car and threw a punch at her.”}

and that would call for a good shot to the nuts and commence beating of a lifetime for touchin my kid.
NY_Mommy

I wanted to yell out door locks but all the previous posters already did. Plus, most cars automatically lock when the car is in drive, especially the rear doors with the child safety locks. Odd.
Anonymous

Our truck locks automaticly, but if we had a car that you had to do it manually I would have done so,plus this lady had a 15 yearold that could have made an attempt to lock the doors, cripes sake! Why wait till this guy is upon you to take off in your car.
Eddie Sparks

you can still buy brand new cars today that have manual locks, and many cars on the road don’t automatically lock. But regardless, even if he was cutting me off, I would have called the police and gave them a description, or waited till he was in the store to snag a pic. It’s a stupid move to take your kids anywhere near a situation like that. It’s purposely putting them in danger. Sometimes you have to give up being pissed off and think about what the hell you are doing. If that man was driving like a moron, who is to say he wasn’t drunk? As a almost normal mother of one child, I would NEVER willingly pull in behind a truck with a potentially drunk person inside. Use your heads people.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=736546181 Michael Heldman

I was thinking the exact same thoughts, why not lock the doors? Why pursue someone with children in your car? Why not lock the door before he opened it up to take a swing at you? Why not just run him over? Then I saw this was in Pennsylvania, that explains everything. Banjoos might have been playing too loudly to think.
Anonymous

Exactly, she damn lucky to be alive. This guy could have been carrying a gun and just shot her right in front of her children. I can’t imagine a mother being this careless.
reapre

My old car was a 2003 ford focus, manual everything. Same as my sisters 2005 Chevy aveo. So I can see her not being able to lock the doors by pressing a button. The focus was kinda difficult to lock the doors from the front seat. It was possible with my car empty, not sure with it being full, however.
Anonymous

I don’t lock my doors. And I live in a pretty rough town. The only time I lock them is if I’m sitting waiting in a dark lot.
Anonymous

That was my thought, too. The second he put his hands on a kid in my car is the second I would be out that door and beating him to death with my bare hands. Wouldn’t even have to be my kid. WTF was he thinking?!
Anonymous

Hmm, kinda doubt this guy was going big…
Anonymous

Getting the license plate # I understand. Leaving a populated parking lot to pull in behind a vacant store into a dead end with a crazy dude after you makes no sense. I’m guessing mom panicked. Frankly, she doesn’t sound like the sharpest crayon in the box.
Anonymous

Um, yes I’ll take Cut Off, Almost Assaulted, Attempted Kidnapping, Indicent Exposure & such for 500, Alex.
Anonymous

If your vehicle is in Park (at least mine does) as soon as I put it in P, the locks open whether I want them to or not.
Anonymous

What’s a party without a dick in sight?!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Richtofen/100002131970646 Edward Richtofen

she instigated the whole event. So what he cut you off. So you re going to show him eh? Take his picture? Put your children in danger so you can get him back for cutting you off. Stupid woman
LeaveMeBe

I have a friend that keeps her doors unlocked too and she says it’s because if she’s in an accident she wants help to be able to get to her quickly if she’s unconcious. Me, on the other hand, I am a fanatic about keeping my doors locked simply because I am a control freak.
Anonymous

You’re totally right. When someone takes my picture without my permission I always strip down to nothing, attempt to abduct their children or pets, punch them then scream “Yeah! What!? What do you think you can do about it?” I of course follow this with maniacal laughter as I replace my clothes and they flee. And as this is of course the standard response for unwanted snapshot taking I’ve not gotten in trouble with the law even once. The cops in her town must be bored.
Anonymous

damn Kniption, it’s hard enough trying to read the demon while driving down the interstate-NOW I have to set up my dry erase board in my front seat and map all this shit out? I’m blaming you for any road rage that results because of your instructions and me weaving all over the road.
Anonymous

This is one of those stories that always has me yelling at the computer screen, “WTH? ARE YA FLIPPIN’ NUTS? WHAT WAS THE 15 YEAR OLD DOING? PLAYIN’ TIDDLEY WINKS?” Then I get the urged to reach out and touch someone.

I f I was her Guardian Angel, I’d ask for a transfer.
Anonymous

I just don’t consider it necessary. Although I do always keep tabs on my surroundings, whether I’m in the car or not. I know where other cars are, how long they’ve been behind me, how many pedestrians are on the street…

If things seemed weird around me, I would lock them, but even in the roughest neighborhoods I’ve never felt the need. My car’s decent, but not exactly jack-worthy. In road rage instances I drive to the police station, I don’t stop next to the psycho. Not sure who else on the road I’m supposed to be afraid of. Except other drivers of course, who terrify me. Especially the women. And the Asians. And the Asian women…
Anonymous

(twiddles her thumbs, bashfully looking at everyone screaming ‘doorlocks’, as her ’69 Spitfire is (a) convertible, (b) rickity, and (c) lacks doorlocks. All the way around. Both doors.) But that’s why I carry.

Makes me glad the state I’m choosing to retire in not only lets you open carry in your car without a license, it also has ‘duty to defend’ rather than ‘duty to retreat’ – you’re not just allowed, but expected to shoot crazy buggers like this to defend yourself and those around you from perceived great bodily harm or death. This guy wouldn’t have had a ding-a-ling to waggle at me after he tried to lay his hand on my child.
Anonymous

Right? its like he asked himself what else could be possibily do to get himself in more trouble. Bet he littered, for good measure, as well before leaving but, that minor detail was over looked
http://www.facebook.com/people/LayDi-Cleopatra/690588748 Lay’Di Cleopatra

This whole story is confusing to me. Why didn’t she lock the doors after the man tried to get her child out . What was she doing behind a vacant store. She went into a parking area according to the story.
alexandra wolf

she is so stupid.
NEVER stop for a car thats hunting you down.
alexandra wolf

the only part of PA thats like that is the middle. this is near philadelphia. i dont hear any banjos here