Oldsmar man arrested after crashing into parked car, store, fence, then tree

[thundley4]

OLDSMAR - It began with a parked car. Then the front window of a business. Then a fence. And, finally, a tree.

But when it was all over, police booked 42-year-old Scott Lane Crowther of Oldsmar into the Pinellas County Jail, charging him with leaving the scene of an accident with property damage -- three times.

Police say the incident started at about 7:40 p.m. Tuesday, when Crowther walked out of Hennessey's Food and Spirits, 127 Forest Lakes Blvd. He got into his 1996 Chevy Lumina, put it in reverse, and crashed into a 1995 Dodge truck.

The front window of Hennessey's, the store he'd just came out of, was next to be shattered.

Then, deputies say, Crowther drove through a fence and into the parking lot of a neighboring business. The falling fence ended up damaging as many as five other parked cars at Tampa Bay Wholesale Tires, 175 Forest Lakes Blvd.

Guess the state?

I think there may have been alcohol involved. 

[djones520]

I kinda wish my dad hadn't moved from St. Pete.  Always something fun going on whenever I visited him.

[bijou]

Guess the state?

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[franksolich]

Well, damn it, and I've complained about this before, but much more so that the primitives on Skins's island do it.

It's courteous to give the reader an idea of from where a story emanates.

I had never heard of "Oldsmar," and my first thought was that this happened in Norway, Sweden, or Denmark.

Then I read the story further on, and spying "Pinellas," I think it's Texas.

It's like the primitives posting a story from "Medford," leaving one hanging.  Where the Hell's Medford?  Out in California?  Over in Wyoming?  Down in Louisiana?

[thundley4]

Well, damn it, and I've complained about this before, but much more so that the primitives on Skins's island do it.

It's courteous to give the reader an idea of from where a story emanates.

I had never heard of "Oldsmar," and my first thought was that this happened in Norway, Sweden, or Denmark.

Then I read the story further on, and spying "Pinellas," I think it's Texas.

It's like the primitives posting a story from "Medford," leaving one hanging.  Where the Hell's Medford?  Out in California?  Over in Wyoming?  Down in Louisiana?

90%  99% of the time these stories emanate from the Not-So-Great state of Florida. 

[franksolich]

90%  99% of the time these stories emanate from the Not-So-Great state of Florida. 

I finally guessed that, and my ill temper wasn't directed at you, sir.

It's like the time Crazy Horse here talked about "Cherry Point," as if everybody and his uncle knows where "Cherry Point" is.  At first, I reasonably assumed it was a small city in New Jersey.  No, that didn't seem right, so then I reasonably assumed it was a shopping mall in Denver, Colorado.  No, that didn't seem right, so then I reasonably assumed it was a housing development out in Oregon.

I finally had to send Crazy Horse a personal message, asking him where the Hell this "Cherry Point" was at.....and it turned out North Carolina, which would've been one of the last places I would've thought, people in North Carolina having better taste in naming things, than people in most other places.

For the record, I omit "Nebraska" when posting something from Omaha or Offutt Air Force Base, reasonably assuming most people know Omaha and Offutt Air Force Base.  But all other places in Nebraska, including the state capital, Lincoln (population 225,000), I include "Nebraska" because most people have never heard of places in Nebraska (other than Omaha and Offutt Air Force Base).

It's just one of my petty irritants, and it was by no means directed specifically to you, sir.