George Zimmerman Emerged From Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue (not a joke)

[Cooley Hurd]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/george-zimmerman-emerged-hiding-truck-crash-rescue/story?id=19735432

George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue someone who was trapped in an overturned truck, police said today.

Sanford Police Department Capt. Jim McAuliffe told ABC News that Zimmerman "pulled an individual from a truck that had rolled over" at the intersection of a Florida highway last week. Florida Highway Patrol is now handling the case, McAuliffe said.

The crash occurred at the intersection of I-4 and route 417, police said.

It's the first known sighting of Zimmerman since he left the courtroom following his acquittal last week on murder charges for the death of Martin. Zimmerman, 29, shot and killed Martin, 17, in Sanford, Fla., on Feb. 26, 2012. The jury determined that Zimmerman shot Martin in self-defense.
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[datasuspect]

1. i guess hollywood will give him a reality show too

maybe him and steven segal can drive police tanks to break up cockfights on A&E

[hrmjustin]

2. This is PR BULL!

Lets see if the Zimmerman trolls believe this.

[malaise]

3. Ding ding we have a winner

[hrmjustin]

4. I can't wait to see if our resident Zimmerman trolls believe this.

[Jenoch]

39. Do you believe ABC is in on it?

I'm no fan of Zimmerman, but there are several news sources that seem to have the story.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/george-zimmerman-emerged-hiding-truck-crash-rescue/story?id=19735432

[sofa king]

69. ABC does not have reliable fact checkers.

It was ABC that "confirmed" and subsequently reported the spurious names of the Asiana Air pilots who crashed in San Francisco.

http://americablog.com/2013/07/local-tv-news-reports-as-real-fake-joke-names-for-asiana-crash-pilots.html

And then there is this, which requires no comment:

[Incitatus]

91. I believe ABC was not there.

And apparently no one with a camera was there. Funny since most people have a camera/camera phone with them these days. It would also be pretty stupid for Zimmerman to be driving around Sanford just 3 days after the verdict. But then again, I don't think he tends to make intelligent decisions so who knows.

[Jenoch]

94. It is my impression

that no media outlet was at the scene. It is being reported on all kinds of news sources, but there is not much information about it. What I have read is that there was a roll-over with no injuries. The driver said Zimmerman pulled him out of the vehicle. After the cops got there, Zimmerman left. I am guessing that the driver told enough people that rumors started to spread around town until some media outlet broke the story. I'm no Zimmerman supporter, but it seems legitimate to me. It's not really that big of a deal.

[spin]

12. I will wait for further details. ...

It is possible that the story is true. It is also hard to believe that such an incident would happen at this point in Zimmerman's life.

Still it is largely irrelevant to what happened when the Zimmerman/Martin incident went down.

[hrmjustin]

15. I am sorry but I just feel it is a Murdock PR move.

[spin]

21. That is quite possible. (n/t)

[Pelican]

44. What if Murdock hired a stunt man to go out and flip his truck...

... and coordinated w/ O'Mara to have Zimmerman be conveniently "driving by?" All with a support staff and EMT standing by in the bushes maybe?

[hrmjustin]

46. You believe this BULL?

[hrmjustin]

52. It looks like this happened by his house so it was not impossible to stage.

[raccoon]

86. +1000. nt

[valerief]

16. Agreed! nt

[AsahinaKimi]

19. Ya think there might be a comic book?

The Adventures of Zimmer MAN!

GAWD..I hope not.

[hrmjustin]

22. Fox would publish it.

[AsahinaKimi]

23. Or produce it as a TV SERIES...

its about their speed.

[hrmjustin]

26. Or a reality show.

[AsahinaKimi]

41. Followed by a giant Hollywood type movie...

[anneboleyn]

35. Yeah, it is rather a coincidence isn't it. Georgie Porgy is a HERO so soon after the trial?

He certainly seems to have good timing (sarcasm)

[FarPoint]

101. If true.....

He probably is carrying an emergency radio for police and fire.

This dude needs some serious medication and group therapy.

[targetpractice]

5. He probably caused the accident...

...just to be the hero.

[bravenak]

6. Yep.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

[City Lights]

8. Haha, that was my first thought.

Guess I've watched too many episodes of Criminal Minds.

[CatWoman]

11. LOL

http://video.data.bg/349/35840

[justiceischeap]

7. He just can't seem to help himself, can he?

First, he acts as a cop wannabe to gun down Martin and then he steps out of hiding to rescue someone. He's definitely got a hero complex.

[grasswire]

9. B.S.

And the Sanford PD is helping to rehabilitate him?

[avaistheone1]

51. What a coinkydink! Notice they waited a week to inform the media...

[anneboleyn]

66. Yeah. Long after any witnesses could talk? I'd love to hear from the "rescued" gentleman

as to what happened exactly and when...and why was this reported so much later than the incident? Rather odd given Georgy's high profile.

[libodem]

10. He could rescue a bus load of girl scouts

With kittens on their laps and he would still never deserve redemption.


MURDERER!

[RandiFan1290]

13. I-4 and route 417

Disney World

Probably driving around with a cop buddy looking for his rehabilitation moment.

[Control-Z]

14. Did they neglect to mention

that he had caused the crash? Not saying he did. Just asking.

[onehandle]

17. Setup. The NRA needs to clean him up a bit before he becomes their spokesperson. nt

[avaistheone1]

18. WAIT A MINUTE!!! The defense said Zimmerman was not physically fit at all so....

how did Zimmerman manage to pull the body of another man from a truck?

Gee was the defense witness lying about Zimmerman's physical fitness? Something is very wrong with this picture.

[unapatriciated]

25. that was my first thought too.

[avaistheone1]

48. Plus+++ Zimmerman managed to move this man's body last week... given Zimmerman must have gained

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least 120 pounds in the last year, Zimmerman is even in less physically fit condition today then he was at the time he killed Trayvon.

So I have no problem believing that Zimmerman could have pulled or pushed Trayvon to the ground, and that he sat on top of Trayvon the night of the murder.

[madaboutharry]

30. ^^^this^^^

[madashelltoo]

53. Ding! Ding! Ding!

I was wondering the same thing. In court he looked like he would stroke out if he exerted himself and now he's pulling grown men from car wrecks. Right.

[avaistheone1]

61. Mind-blowing. What a feat especially after Zimmerman gained 120 lbs of pure flab in the past

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year!!



Zimmerman at the time he murdered Trayvon Martin







Zimmerman at trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin

[Control-Z]

76. I think it was more like 100 lbs, wasn't it?

And I believe it was intentional. Something his twisted defense team made him do so they could use the dough boy defense.

[avaistheone1]

77. omg Zimmerman gained 120lbs!!

Thank you. I'm going to update the estimate I made.

How in the world did George Zimmerman gain 120 pounds in 16 months?
http://healthblog.dallasnews.com/2013/06/how-in-the-world-did-george-zimmerman-gain-120-pounds-in-16-months.html/

btw What you are saying about the defense team would not surprise me at all.

[Control-Z]

79. Exactly!!

How did he gain 120 lbs in 16 months?? He did it intentionally. That's how. (I believe this with ever fiber in me.)

[Zoeisright]

59. Plus one billion.

Yet another lie from the murderer.

[Dawson Leery]

73. A poorly planned PR move.

[southernyankeebelle]

20. Oh goody. He took a life and now he saved a life. Guess he thinks it makes it ok.

[okieinpain]

24. oh bs, what a crock of crap. n/t.

[HoosierRadical]

27. Eerily reminicient of scenes from the film "Crash"

[anneboleyn]

63. Which scenes? Haven't seen that film.

[HoosierRadical]

99. The entire film ...

I strongly recommend you watch it, I would be interested to know your opinion afterwards.

[Blue_Tires]

97. and about the same level of plausibility...

[appleannie1]

28. What are we supposed to do, compare notches in his belt? Or is this supposed to make his tally even

[unapatriciated]

29. It happened less than a mile from his home.

Z was probably listening to a police scanner and just can't help himself. He soooo wants to be a cop, guess he is in better shape than his defence team thinks.

[HipChick]

32. So how is he in hiding, if his address is well known

[unapatriciated]

38. I should of said less than a mile from the shooting.

He does have a home there and is probably still in it. You can be hiding out in your own home, many do.

[Generic Other]

90. Now that I believe!

Imagine crashing at an intersection and having his face be the one who opens the door. I'd be like "Hey, don't shoot me, bro!" with my hands up in the air. And backing very slowly away. No fast moves. Uh yeah.

[alsame]

31. And I'm sure the distressed

driver was a young black man.

[Lee-Lee]

33. If true, unless the truck was on fire he screwed up

It says he pulled him out, so I am assuming that means the guy was unconscious.

That is a very bad move. After an accident like that you never move an unconscious patient out, or even a conscious one who is complaining of neck pain, until you have their c-spine immobilized and stabilized to the fullest extent possible. Otherwise you risk doing debilitating spinal damage if there is a spinal injury.

The only time you moved someone before stabilizing c-spine was if the truck wa son fire or there was other imminent danger that was greater than the risk form moving them.

It had been a while since my first responder class, so if this has changed anyone more current in the field correct me, but this is who I remember it.

[hrmjustin]

36. If this is true he could have done serious damage to that person but I have a hard time believing

it. It is a PR stunt.

[NoGOPZone]

40. My first thoughts were similar to yours nt

[louis-t]

62. Oh, but he's a EMT wannabe, too!

Any witnesses? When will the guy he 'rescued' be on the Today show with Georgie sitting next to him?

[jazzimov]

72. True! I remember my former DIL

who was in a crash. She was up and walking around and appeared fine, but the Responders asked her if she wanted to be taken to an emergency room just to be checked out. Knowing that symptoms many times show up later, I helped talk her into it. As soon as she agreed, they immobilized her.

He could have caused MAJOR damage by moving the driver.

[NoOneMan]

34. Gets weak ass kicked by 16 year old, but pulls body from truck?

[cigsandcoffee]

37. I believe Trayvon was 17. Accuracy counts. n/t

[noiretextatique]

56. he turned 17 about three weeks before he was murdered eom

[RC]

70. Eleven days

Trayvon Benjamin Martin
February 5, 1995 - February 26, 2012
Age 17 years, 11 days

[noiretextatique]

96. thanks

11 days...i will remember that for the zimmerman trolls who claim he was a grown man.

[uponit7771]

67. Yes, the racist in America really care about the 22 days he was 17 while people who are ...

... seeing their own child in TM could care less about the piddly amount of days he was 17

[avaistheone1]

49. That's what I am talking about!

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10023313801#post18

The defense witness must have lied.

Anyone know if the trial can be reopened when a defense witness lies?

[cigsandcoffee]

75. Sorry, just don't like things that are inaccurate. Nothing personal. n/t

[Rex]

81. No, he can never be tried again for the same crime.

I know...he got away with murder. Fucking assholes always do!

[anneboleyn]

60. Apparently. He was weak and helpless then, SUPERMAN now...

Yeah, according to his defense team he could barely lift five-pound weights (or something like that since Georgy Porgy was such an utterly weak and helpless adult male compared to the unbelievably powerful teenager Martin, who weighed fifty pounds less than Georgy Porgy at the time of the shooting) (sarcasm in case anyone is wondering) So now Zimmy is pulling adult men out of overturned vehicles (which as another poster pointed out is quite dangerous if said person has any kind of spinal injury)?

This story sounds like such total B.S. PR -- right after the trial and right after President Obama's remarks? Wow. What luck Zimmy. What a good little helper he is!

[NoOneMan]

64. Yeah, the timing is quite remarkable and coincidental

My whole life I've never had that opportunity, and just after acquittal he gets the chance. Of course, I've never called 911 over 50 times either. Extraordinary George Zimmerman

[pintobean]

42. Maybe he thought it was Rush's Hummer. nt

[Recursion]

43. Never pull people from a wreck unless there is a fire or you can smell gasoline

Just a friendly public service announcement there

[TorchTheWitch]

84. that's actually the first thing I thought of

Pulling anyone out of a car wreck is very dangerous to them. Unless it's imperative they be removed from a wrecked vehicle to save their life from an imminent fire or explosion, it's always best to leave these things to EMT's who are trained to recognize possible dangerous physical injuries that make extricating someone a specific way imperative.

I learned that from my own car accident years ago. When I went to get out of the car the police officer that was there warned me not to and why (which scared the shit out of me) and EMS put this big hard plastic neck collar on me while I was still in the car, carried me out of the car, put me on a hard board on a stretcher and actually taped my head in place to the board with duct tape. I would have just gotten out of the car myself and walked to the stretcher and got on it all on my own, but even I couldn't have known if I had a serious neck or back injury that doing that could have caused serious and permanent damage. At the time I thought they were being ridiculous, but after I was able to look back on it I'm damn glad they did the right thing even though I didn't think anything was wrong with me. I still have neck, shoulder and back problems from that accident, but I'm always grateful that the police officer didn't let me get out of the car and EMS took such pains to make sure they got me out and trussed up and boarded into the ambulance as carefully as they did. I'm still not happy about that duct tape though. Surely there's a better way to secure someone's head to a board than that. I thought I'd had half my scalp ripped off when they pulled it off after the x-rays. You could have made a decent wig out of all my hair that got torn out. OUCH! Ugh, my scalp throbbed for days afterward.

That was the first thing I thought of though even before I thought that the whole Zimmerman hero wannabe car wreck story is rubbish. If there is any truth to it I hope they gave him a good dressing down about not just willy nilly pulling anyone out of a car wreck unless it's imperative because of the danger of the car catching fire or exploding. That needs to be left to the learned EMT's.

[Mz Pip]

45. Sean Hannity

just had an orgasm. He'll be covering this for the next week.

[defacto7]

47. Setup n/t

[CatWoman]

50. has anyone noticed this "supposedly" happened last week?

wonder what took so long to report/publish this?

[avaistheone1]

74. First needed to be pasteurized by Stanford PD and Zimmerman PR team?

[kestrel91316]

54. The driver should be glad Zimmy didn't profile and shoot him.

[Politicalboi]

55. Maybe next,

The police can chase a bad guy into the direction of GZ's house, and he can go outside and shoot the suspect as he runs by.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

57. He's just your friendly neighborhood bigot. nt

[Zoeisright]

58. Uh huh.

I don't give a flying fuck if that murderer brings a dead infant back to life. He murdered an unarmed kid. I just wish there was a hell so that pig would burn in it.

[KansDem]

65. Video?

It seems to me a video should have been taken. A truck accident should get some cell-phone cameras going and we'd have a video of it.

Let's see if one surfaces...

[uponit7771]

68. +1, IN that video Z is 195lbs and "fit" and throws the guy over his shoulder

[sofa king]

71. Did it bring a murdered juvenile back from the grave?

Then fuck that guy. He could cure cancer and still never wash the blood from his hands.

[Spazito]

78. According to this story, there were TWO men, Zimmerman and another....

yet the Sanford police only informed ABC about Zimmerman. Why would the Sanford police be issuing a statement about Zimmerman at all, no bias there, nope.

[CakeGrrl]

88. Sanford PD is desperately

polishing their turd, not wanting to look as guilty as they are of aiding and abetting a murderer.

IMO, they did everything they could to let him walk when he first murdered Trayvon, now there have been too many eyes on what happened.

If they think people will forget what he did, it's not gonna happen.

[Spazito]

89. Yep, I totally agree...

This smells as badly as Zimmerman's version of the night he stalked, confronted, shot and killed Trayvon. The reputation of the Sanford police was already in the toilet and this just adds another turd to it, imo.

[Rex]

80. Sanford Police will no doubt want to give him a medal now.

[UglyGreed]

82. I'd

like to hear from the other person who was at the scene and exactly who did what and when.

[CakeGrrl]

83. PR bullshit - damage control after a bad verdict

Zimmy and his MSM would-be interview bookers are scared of all the support for the kid he murdered.

Disgusting.

He can go back in hiding now, before someone starts talking up the molestation and domestic abuse allegations.

[Bettie]

85. Well, it would fit in with his "George Zimmerman Defender of the Universe" theme

He's a wannabe and unhappy that he isn't considered a hero by all.

Even if this is true, it doesn't make him a decent human being.

And, it will feed into his hero complex.

[Jenoch]

87. I heard someone reading a story on the radio

that said the reason Zimmerman's name did not appear on the police report is because he did not witness the accident. He came upon it and had a fire extinguisher with him. He apparently helped to pull a family, two adults and two children from a Ford Explorer. That's all I really know.

I am not a Zimmerman supporter. I was disappointed with the verdict, but the conspiracy theories I have read in this thread have made me dizzy.

[Generic Other]

92. Am I reading this right?

He is living in a house in Sanford he rented or purchased? For the trial? He could not afford to get out of Dodge after the trial? Guess the parents don't want him at their house. Too many threats. Maybe true that the lawyers got most of the money. So is he living with the couple who bought him the clothes and teared up at Georgie's story? The PTSD Vietnam vet? I bet he is. Listening to the police scanner at his house. I bet he is. Someone upthread suggested so. It just sounds so like him. Listening now because he is more paranoid than ever. Wanting to save people still. Stung by all the criticism, the insinuation he was a weakling who couldn't punch a hole in a saltine cracker.

It is clear evidence he's on the prowl again.

Someone needs to make him a superhero costume befitting his new rank. Z-Crackerman.

[Incitatus]

93. Not much of a story even if true.

It's not like the vehicle landed in a lake and they were going to drown so he swam out to save them or it was on fire and he helped them out before they burned to death.


He isn't an EMT as far as I know. He could have done more damage than good, moving a person after a wreck.

[LucyGucy]

95. Whom did he rescue?

Whom did he rescue, Geraldo, Hannity, Limbaugh or O'Reilly?

[Jawja]

98. So now the media driven rehabilitation of

This scumbag's image is on: GEORGE ZIMMERMAN iIS A GOOD GUY

[notadmblnd]

102. this is over a year old and was gone over in depth here last year

why is it pertinent now?