100-Miles-Per-Hour on the Highway With Wife on the Hood
Things weren't going particularly well for 36-year-old Christopher Michael Carroll. Last week, police got a call from witnesses who said he'd climbed into a trash bin and was threatening to drown himself in five inches of water that had collected at the bottom...
Not only was it the most chickenshit suicide attempt recorded in the history of chickenshit suicide attempts, but police also say our hero was higher than a kite on an unknown controlled substance.
He was busted for being under the influence and released the next day.
This couldn't have made his unnamed wife happy.
So over the weekend, they got into an argument at their Manteca, California home. Carroll decided he would bolt the scene in the family's trusty minivan. That's when Mrs. Carroll thought it would be a good idea to attach herself to the hood to keep her husband from leaving.
She never thought he would take off with his wife clinging to the wiper blades. But that's exactly what he did.
In fact, Carroll got onto the freeway, where he decided to gun it up to 100 mph, driving 35 miles to Pleasanton. Witnesses saw the desperate woman clinging to the hood and called 911.
It was below freezing that night, and Carroll didn't slow down to allow his wife to roll off until he reached Pleasanton. A witness following the van stopped to help her. She was taken to a hospital for hypothermia.
Carroll, meanwhile, decided to drive back home, where he was nabbed by police. He's now being held without bail on charges of attempted murder, kidnapping and domestic assault. His wife is hopefully launching a new search for an upgrade in husbands - truecrimereport