A man who fled an ambulance Thursday and dropped 80 feet into the Oklahoma River was captured by authorities and identified as someone wanted on a robbery charge in Colorado.
...police first responded to reports that a man had been hit by a car in the parking lot of Walmart in the 5500 block of Tinker Diagonal.
An ambulance from Midwest Regional Medical Center responded and was transporting the man to OU Medical Center when the incident at the bridge occurred.
Larry Terry, director of Midwest Regional Emergency Medical Services, said the patient assaulted a paramedic while en route.
The paramedic was not seriously injured, but in response to the disturbance the driver of the ambulance stopped in the westbound lanes of the I-40 bridge.
Paramedics and police, who were following the ambulance, then saw the patient (Eugene David Overton) exit the vehicle, lower himself from the edge of the bridge and drop 80 feet into the water.
He then swam to the shoreline and ran off.
The average depth of the Oklahoma River is 7 or 8 feet.
Jumping 80 feet and taking your chances that you are going to hit a deep spot?
Wow, that is spinning the roulette wheel with your life.
I think it is safe to say Mr. "Extreme Cannonballer" Overton now has less than nine lives.
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But he WILL have a Darwin Award nomination!
Ok was not expecting "He then swam to the shoreline and ran off" Jeez!
Doochebag.
Hi Slamdunk .. spinning the roulette wheel of life - no thank you .. if those are the choices! The thought is not too funny .. Hilary
Ya gotta wonder about some people.
He must have figured taking a chance like that was better than the alternative. Crazy!
WoW! If the man's a criminal, he's already used to being extreme. Guess he'd rather be free and dead than caught and alive. He's like Thelma and Louise. Sort of.
I guess he was not the smartest man.;) But dumb people usually survive on good luck.;)
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Wow he had the horseshoe up his behind on that one. Guess he really wanted to pull "The Fugitive" and get Tommy Lee Jones after him..haha
Fear makes you do silly things! All he was thinking about was dropping the soap in jail...I guess he figured he'd take his chances with the cannon ball!
Yikes!
What an idiot! Obviously he isn't right in the head.
He must have had three strikes, because I can't see a robbery bid being worth all this.
Hummm...I think I know him--or at least one of his relatives.
The man did not want to get caught. People in this state of mind aren't thinking things through. He just got lucky.
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Oh my - what an idiotic thing to do!
That is insane LOL! Some people's children :)
Hospital bills are outrageous enough to make people want to jump off bridges, I guess.
Holy cow. 7 feet? I don't think so. I jumped off of a bridge and the water was 12ft and I still cracked my tail bone and touched the soot river bed.
i guess being hit by a car didn't damage him that much if he was able to put up a fight, jump off a bridge and swim to safety
holy crap dude...what an idiot...i guess he got away for a bit...now they need to get him a psych eval...
Nobody thought to fire a warning shot???? Bummer. :O)
The epitome of the "Great Escape Artist",,, Hollywood script writers and trashy newspapers will have fun with this one.
joanny
Proof that adrenaline can allow someone to do things their body couldn't normally handle.
wow ..was he daring or just plain stupid?..lol
Less than nine lives and probably more than nine live years. :)
Sounds like Overton had nothing to lose.
Slamdunk:
He seems like the kind of guy that would play Russian Roulette with an AUTOMATIC, too...
(not the brightest crayon in the box).
Stay safe.
Desperate people (and fugitives) do desperate things! Crazy.
Guess that's what happens when your mind is in panic mode; one doesn't think rationally and does any and everything to not get caught. On one side I'm glad the robber made it and is okay, but on the other hand, I hope he's caught so the cops can ask, "Was it worth doing all that for?"
Wow. He must have REALLY feared being found out for his crime to take a chance like that!
Or ... maybe just not so bright.
Eight feet. Holy cow.
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