Results tagged “crownvictoria”

A bizarre scene that involved a car accident, an SUV atop a Cadillac and gunfire reportedly brought traffic to a standstill along the Southwest Freeway in front of Memorial Hermann Southwest hospital yesterday morning — but thanks to TV news, it's hard to know exactly what happened.

We're not sure how we missed yesterday's news of the Harris County arson investigator's car that got torched in his driveway over the weekend — that's the kind of twist of fate that usually catches our eye immediately. It happened at the inspector's house in the 3200 block of Barkers Forest early Sunday morning. The arsonists reportedly broke into the 2005 Ford Crown Victoria and stole several things, including the investigator's badge, a county-owned handheld...

Seriously, what would yesterday's flooding story have been without a woman going into labor while stuck in her car? That honor went to 33-year-old Matilda Ruewacaba, who delivered a healthy baby girl in the back seat of a Crown Victoria off the Gulf Freeway. Ruewacaba, her husband and their four kids were on their way to the hospital Monday morning when they hit high water, so they pulled over into a parking lot near Monroe lucked out: Nearby was a group of firefighters in training who were also stranded.

If you didn't understand why police were so worried about the guy who was pretending to be a cop earlier this year, consider the story of a pair of fake policemen who tried to kidnap a Best Buy assistant manager in Pasadena on Sunday.

Attention all you smug receptionists, sitting behind your desks listening to Sunny and playing solitaire: You may not be as safe as you thought. Just ask the woman working the reception desk at an H&R Block at Ella and 18th, who was pinned behind her desk when a car crashed through the front of the office this morning.