Case of the Crazies

So me, Daniel, Laurie, and Rachel are headin' up to the 'Stros game on I-59 when we start following behind this cop car - no big deal right. Well we notice there's a guy in the back seat and he turns around and cuts us this go to hell look or basically a look that any mentally unstable person would give sane people. The next thing we know we see his hands sticking out the very top of the window of where's he's sitting in the car. Somehow this guy manages to shove his arms through this and reach down and grab the door handle to open the car door. Keep in mind we are DIRECTLY behind this car following like 3 feet behind (rush hour traffic). I'm really not believing what I'm seeing as this guy jumps out of the car and proceeds to run in front of this semi and then disappears from our view. The two girls were pretty much screaming and there were lots of WTF's being thrown around, and rightfully so..it's not everyday you see something like this - luckily I had my new digital camera in possession.

The cop slams on his breaks in the middle of the overpass and we're forced to do the same as is the semi right next to us. Daniel starts inching up to where we could see what was going on and here ya go:


Insanity

We all truthfully thought the guy had jumped over the bridge to his imminent death but that wasn't the case. In the meantime we make sure the doors are all locked and are kind of just sitting there like what the hell are we supposed to do. Apparently the cop was in worse shape than we were. He just kept running around panicking and looking like he was the one who jumped out of the car. Although he might as well have jumped off the bridge with the crazy man b/c I guarentee he won't have a job or reputation left after it was all said and done. There are now MILES AND MILES of traffic behind us and for us there was no way around this since it was on a very narrow overpass. Within 5 minutes Deputy dumbass calls for backup and about 10 cop cars show up along with even more right below the ledge this guy was standing on. This guy was a serious headcase - Daniel rolled down the window a little bit so we could hear what was going on:
Cop: Come down now you don't want to do this to me or to your mother (why the guy would care about doing this to HIM I still haven't figured out yet)
Crazy Man: Man, you don't understand.. I got too many problems, this is the only way... (all the while drool is just pouring out of his mouth *vomit*)


Don't Jump!

The crazy man then went off into this tyrade about how crazy the world was and something about stealing a purse and the cop kept throwing out his textbook BS that didn't seem to be working with this guy. We sat there watching all of this for a good 15 minutes and traffic was probably backed up all the way to Brookshire by this point. Finally, the cops cleared out a path for the cars and we were forced to leave which was cool b/c we finally go to head to the game (which was badass btw 3-2 'Stros bottom of the ninth walk off single!!) however we didn't get to see the fate of a madman. Guess I'll have to check the news & in the future I will think twice when following directly behind a cop car - you should to.